The ACC announced that it would move to a nine-game conference schedule last August. With the decision, which was agreed upon by the athletic directors of all programs, they joined the rest of the Power 4 conferences in adopting the same schedule. However, in adjusting to the new schedule, one of its programs will now be forced to pay a huge sum to Texas Tech as compensation.
NC State and Texas Tech agreed to play a home-and-home series in 2015. The first part of that matchup was played in 2022, when the Wolfpack hosted the Red Raiders. However, due to the change in the conference schedule, NC State had to let go of its return matchup at Lubbock. As a result, they will pay Joey McGuire’s team $1 million in compensation for the cancellation.
In the 2022 matchup, NC State beat Texas Tech 27-14, but given the difficulty of the schedule, the program thought it was wise to cancel this series rather than one between Kansas State, NC A&T, and Louisiana Tech. Along with this, NC State has also canceled other future home-and-home series: Florida in 2026 and 2032, South Carolina in 2030 and 2031, and the Georgia Bulldogs in 2033 and 2034…