2013 SCHEDULES
MIAMI
Aug. 30 (Fri.): Florida Atlantic
Sept. 7: Florida
Sept. 21: Savannah State
Sept. 28: at South Florida
Oct. 5: Georgia Tech
Oct. 12: Open
Oct. 17 (Thu.): at North Carolina*
Oct. 26: Wake Forest
Nov. 2: at Florida State
Nov. 9: Virginia Tech
Nov. 16: at Duke
Nov. 23: Virginia
Nov. 29 (Fri.): at Pittsburgh**
Dec. 7: ACC Championship Game, Charlotte, 8 p.m.*
*ESPN, **ABC, ESPN or ESPN2
FLORIDA STATE
Sept. 2 (Mon.): at Pittsburgh, 8 p.m.*
Sept. 7: Open
Sept. 14: Nevada
Sept. 21: Bethune-Cookman
Sept. 28: at Boston College
Oct. 5: Maryland
Oct. 12: Open
Oct. 19: at Clemson
Oct. 26: N.C. State
Nov. 2: Miami
Nov. 9: at Wake Forest
Nov. 16: Syracuse
Nov. 23: Idaho
Nov. 30: at Florida
Dec. 7: ACC Championship Game, Charlotte, 8 p.m.*
*ESPN
The Miami Hurricanes won’t venture far away from home often next football season.
The ACC released its 2013 football schedule Monday, and it shows that UM will leave the state only three times and not until a Thursday night game Oct. 17 in Chapel Hill against North Carolina.
FSU, the defending conference champion, will kick off its season on Labor Day night in Pittsburgh against the Panthers, who will be making their ACC debut. The Seminoles will play three of their first four conference games on the road.
UM, coming off a 7-5 campaign, opens the season with four consecutive non-conference games. That includes the first meeting between the Hurricanes and Florida Atlantic at Sun Life Stadium on Friday, Aug. 30. By starting the season on Friday instead of Saturday, UM will get an extra day to prepare to face the Florida Gators on Sept. 7 at Sun Life.
The Hurricanes play four of their first five games at home — including the ACC opener against Georgia Tech on Oct. 5 — and the one road trip in that span is to Tampa for a meeting with USF on Sept. 28.
That’s a shift over recent seasons when the Hurricanes spent more time on the road during the early part of the schedule than a traveling salesman. In 2012, UM played three of its first five games away from Sun Life, including meetings with top 10 opponents Kansas State in Manhattan, Kan., and Notre Dame at Soldier Field in Chicago.
FSU is opening the season on Labor Day for the first time since 2009 when it lost to visiting Miami 38-34. Pittsburgh, leaving the Big East for the ACC along with Syracuse, and Florida State are playing for the first time since 1983.
The Seminoles haven’t started a season on the road since 2007, and because of an open Saturday in Week 2, they won’t play at Doak Campbell Stadium until Sept. 14 when they host Nevada.
The annual showdown between Miami and FSU will take place Nov. 2 in Tallahassee. The Seminoles finish the season with a pair of non-conference games, facing Idaho at Doak Campbell on Nov. 23 and Florida in Gainesville on Nov. 30.
“Having the conference part of our season over heading into the stretch makes it easier for us to get ready for a huge rivalry game against Florida,” FSU coach Jimbo Fisher said. “It can be tough to play a game before Florida with a conference championship berth on the line.”
The Seminoles won’t play a Thursday night game for the first time since 2005.
This year’s ACC Championship Game will be held Dec. 7 at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, N.C. FSU won its first conference championship since 2005 when it beat Georgia Tech 21-15 on Dec. 1 in Charlotte.
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