ACC Sticks To Eight Regular Season Football Games

The ACC football schedule will remain at eight games, the conference announced Wednesday after its league meetings in Boston.

The ACC had planned on going to a nine-game football schedule in 2013, with the addition of Syracuse and Pittsburgh, but scrapped that after the new agreement with Notre Dame, which will play five ACC games each season beginning in 2014. The league will stay at an eight-game conference season for football.

In basketball, the league will have an 18-game schedule, beginning this season, and it will remain that way when Syracuse and Pitt join next season and Notre Dame joins, likely before the 2015-16 season.