The NC State Wolfpack and South Carolina Gamecocks have canceled their future home-and-home football series, according to a report from The Wolfpacker.
NC State and South Carolina mutually agreed to cancel a future home-and-home, according to an open records request by @TheWolfpacker.
It was set to start in 2030 in Columbia with the return game in Raleigh in 2031.
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NC State and South Carolina were previously scheduled to begin a home-and-home series at Williams-Brice Stadium in Columbia, S.C., on Sept. 14, 2030. The series was set to conclude at Carter-Finley Stadium in Raleigh, N.C., the following season on Aug. 30, 2031.
The series was canceled following both teams’ respective leagues adopting nine-game conference football schedules beginning in 2026. Both the ACC and SEC also require each league member to play at least one power foe outside of conference play for a total of 10 each season.
South Carolina, a member of the SEC, already has an annual power foe from the ACC — Clemson — on its schedule. NC State does not have another power opponent scheduled in 2030, but is slated to visit Notre Dame in 2031.
Last month, it was revealed that South Carolina and Virginia Tech canceled their series that was scheduled for the 2034 and 2035 seasons. NC State also had series with Florida (2026 and 2032) and Georgia (2033-34) canceled.
Other high profile series that have been axed over the past year include Cal-BYU, Georgia-Louisville, Miami-South-Carolina, Alabama-West Virginia, Nebraska-Tennessee, Ole Miss-BYU, Ole Miss-USC, and Cal-Florida.
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Canceling all these games because the ACC and SEC are going to nine-game conference schedules, is very different from the era where they would cancel in order to schedule a soft FCS team instead.
It’s great to finally see them playing nine conference games. I still remember when the SEC would only play six or seven….Much better to have regional games that allow both fan bases ready access to a game. Although that really applies more to the SEC which has some geographical sensibility left. The ACC, the American Continent Conference (heh!) maybe not so much…
it just keeps getting worse
How?
It will get a lot worse wait for Georgia to start dropping games they have alot lined that would be more interesting to watch than another Georgia vs Mississippi St game
Forget Clemson at least Georgia have South Carolina.
Pardon for using word fan & as a Georgia Fan I rather see them playing every SEC opponent than playing Clemson, Ohio State & BYU & only ACC team that I care about Georgia playing is Georgia Tech.
Remember main reason SEC wanted to ditch divisions is that they can play all its opponents which is very fair.
Georgia has played Clemson 66 times, more than every SEC school except Auburn, Florida, Kentucky, South Carolina and Vanderbilt.
So the Georgia vs. Clemson game is way more important to real Georgia fans than most SEC games.
Georgia has played Georgia Tech more than every team but Auburn.
Again, a game that is way more important to Georgia fans than seeing the Dawgs face Missouri, Oklahoma, or even Texas or Oklahoma.
SEC! SEC! SEC! Should change his name to Rivalry! Rivalry! Rivalry!
If you are going to be an SEC fan, you have to put up with conference games like Georgia-Oklahoma, Missouri-Alabama & Texas A&M-Ole Miss whether you are favor or opposed to them & there not a darn thing you can do about it.
ESPN/ABC get their Big Bucks televising SEC conference games.
“So the Georgia vs. Clemson game is way more important to real Georgia fans than most SEC games.
Georgia has played Georgia Tech more than every team but Auburn.”
That ship sailed more than 30 years ago when the SEC added Arkansas and South Carolina. The downward slide began when the SEC and other conferences expanded to more than 10 teams.
I take Georgia Tech over Clemson for Georgia ACC opponents & I am blessed & happy that Georgia is in SEC where they definitely should be.
How about they start canceling the cream puff FCS teams and keep the FBS non-conference games. All of the FBS conferences should have nine conference games. If you want real conference champions, you have more conference games.
Conference games are most meaningful games in CFB.
If Texas Tech and Colorado cancelled a series, it is because they are both in the Big 12 now and play each other in conference – very different than the other cancellations.