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Syracuse football will start 2024 season with nonconference home game

Syracuse tight end Dan Villari (89) after his touchdown catch against Clemson on Sept. 30. Syracuse starts its 2024 season with a nonconference game. Dennis Nett | dnett@syracuse.com
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Syracuse, N.Y. — It’s official: Syracuse football’s first game of the Fran Brown era will be in front of a home crowd.

The Orange will host Ohio on Saturday, Aug. 31 at the JMA Wireless Dome. Game time will be announced at a later date.

The ACC announced its entire Week 1 slate for the 2024 season Monday. Games scheduled for weeknights will be announced Tuesday, and the full schedule order for the conference will be announced Wednesday.

This is the third straight year SU will start its season at the Dome. The Orange has won each of those past two season and home openers, beating Louisville in 2022 and demolishing Colgate in 2023.

Its last season opener on the road was also its last game against Ohio. The Orange traveled to take on the Bobcats in Athens, Ohio, in 2021. Syracuse won, 29-9.

This will be the fourth game in Syracuse’s all-time series with Ohio, which dates back to a 1916 contest the Orange won 73-0. The two programs met again in 1921 resulting in another SU victory, and then didn’t meet again until the contest 100 years later.

Ohio finished its 2023 season 10-3 and 6-2 within the Mid-American Conference. It beat its only Power 5 opponent of the year, Iowa State, 10-7.

All but three of the ACC’s 17 teams after expansion start the season with a nonconference matchup.

Florida State and Georgia Tech play in Dublin, Ireland, on Aug. 24 for a Week 0 game that will also be ESPN College Gameday’s first live broadcast outside the United States.

The Seminoles then have another conference matchup in Week 1 hosting Boston College.

Five of the ACC’s Week 1 nonconference games are Power 5 matchups: North Carolina at Minnesota, (Aug. 29), Stanford vs. TCU (Aug. 30), Clemson vs. Georgia (Aug. 31), Miami at Florida (Aug. 31) and Virginia Tech at Vanderbilt (Aug. 31).

The ACC slightly re-worked its scheduling model in October for use through 2030 following the additions of SMU, Stanford and Cal during last summer’s conference realignment. There will continue to be no divisions, and the top two teams by conference win percentage will play in the ACC Championship game.

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