ACC Miles Traveled Teams Ranked: Conference Ventures Into Europe, South America
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ACC football expands to three continents this year. Bill Belichick, Jordon Hudson and the North Carolina Tar Heels visit the Emerald Isle to kick off Week 0 and the entire college football season on Aug. 29. UNC faces Big 12 entry TCU at Aviva Stadium in Dublin, Ireland at 12 p.m. ET. Later that day, N.C. State and Virginia play the first Power Four college football game in South America at Nilton Santos Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. But even with those inter-continental journeys – none of those four teams top our ACC Miles Traveled college football breakdown.
That honor falls upon the shoulders of ACC newbie Stanford, which travels 21,807 miles this season. The Cardinal visits five teams in the Eastern Time Zone – Duke, Wake Forest, Notre Dame, Louisville, and Virginia Tech. Duke, meanwhile, travels just 3,020 miles. The fewest in conference. The Devils leave the Eastern Time Zone just once – to visit Illinois.
In all, the 17 ACC teams cover 171,053 miles.
Our ACC Miles Traveled college football breakdown also gives us both the longest and shortest road trips among all 67 Power Four conference teams in the ACC, Big Ten, Big12 and SEC.
The longest road-trip comes with Virginia’s journey to Brazil – 9.555 miles. N.C. State’s trip ranks right behind at 9,317 miles. The shortest round trip in the ACC – and across all Power Four football games – again features Duke and North Carolina. This year, UNC makes the 17.9-mile round-trip up and down Durham-Chapel Hill Boulevard to Duke.
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ACC Miles Traveled – All 17 Teams Ranked
Here the team-by-team breakdown of the miles traveled by each of the 17 ACC teams this season. The ACC Football Championship Game begins at noon on Saturday, Dec. 5 at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte.
Our computations are determined from stadium-to-stadium for each game. We measure our distance based on the coordinates of each stadium's site, as noted on Google Earth. We then use Vincenty's inverse formula, which considers the orbital shape of the Earth being flattened at its poles, to determine the one-way and round-trip distances. The calculations are performed by Claude AI.
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ACC Schedule Weighs Heavily On Week 1
The ACC aims to command the national spotlight over the Week 1. In all, 14 ACC teams compete in 12 games during the five days around Labor Day Weekend. The ACC also begins conference play in Week 1. Miami travels to Stanford on Friday, Sept. 4 and SMU visits Florida State on Labor Day night (Sept. 7).
The ACC plays the nation’s most-challenging non-conference schedule. It offers five Power Four non-conference games in Week 1 alone. Chief among them: a “Death Valley Showdown” of sorts on Saturday, Sept. 5, between LSU and Clemson at Baton Rouge.
Here’s the list of the five ACC non-conference games in Week 1.
- Thursday, September 3
Colorado at Georgia Tech – 8 p.m. ET on ESPN - Friday, September 4
Miami at Stanford – 9 p.m. ET on ESPN - Saturday, September 5
Clemson at LSU – 7:30 p.m. ET on ABC - Sunday, September 6
Louisville vs. Ole Miss (Nashville, Tennessee) – 7:30 p.m. ET on ABC - Monday, September 7
SMU at Florida State – 7:30 p.m. ET on ESPN
In all, ACC teams play 25 non-conference games against Power Four opponents and Notre Dame — the most of any conference. That includes nine games vs. the SEC, five vs. the Big Ten, five vs. the Big 12 and six vs. Notre Dame.
ACC Travel Miles: Breaking Down Odds To Win Conference
Here are the odds to win the ACC from both DraftKings and Kalshi. Miami, coming off a loss in the national championship game, checks in as a prohibitive favorite to win the ACC Championship Game.
The Hurricanes stand in a class of their own: −135 DK / 54% Kalshi. No other team Power Four conference team close to that level of market consensus. Texas Tech stands as the Big 12's heavy favorite at +100 / 47%. Ohio State leads the Big Ten at +180 / 35%. Miami is being treated like a near-lock. Defending ACC Champion Game winner Duke checks in at +600 on DraftKings and 2% on Kalshi.
Miami ranks as the only ACC team within the top 10 odds to win the national championship. Its price is a mere 7% on Kalshi and sits at +1500 on DraftKings.
The biggest DK vs. Kalshi divergences:
- California — DK +3500 (2.8% implied) vs. Kalshi 6% — the market nearly doubles the book on the Bears
- Virginia Tech — DK +2800 (3.4%) vs. Kalshi 5% — Franklin's pedigree getting respect
- Virginia — DK +1500 (6.3%) vs. Kalshi only 3% — book likes them more than the market does
Two ACC coaches – Tosh Lupoi at Cal and Tavita Pritchard of Stanford – make their college football head coaching debuts this season. Meanwhile, Belichick begins his second season leading the Tar Heels after coaching 467 regular season and 44 postseason games in the NFL.
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