{"id":654166,"date":"2026-05-07T17:32:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T17:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/654166\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T17:32:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T17:32:18","slug":"syracuse-and-wake-forest-to-meet-for-acc-football-game-in-toronto-in-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/654166\/","title":{"rendered":"Syracuse and Wake Forest to meet for ACC football game in Toronto in 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHARLOTTE, N.C. \u2014 Syracuse and\u00a0Wake Forest\u00a0will hold their 2027 opener in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>The Atlantic Coast Conference and ESPN Events announced Thursday that\u00a0the Orange\u00a0and Demon Deacons will meet for a Week Zero game at Toronto&#8217;s BMO Field. That game would take place either Aug. 28 or 29 and would air nationally on ABC or ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>This would be the first NCAA college football game played at BMO Field, which is home to the Canadian Football League&#8217;s Toronto Argonauts, Major League Soccer&#8217;s Toronto FC and the Canadian national soccer teams. It is also a host stadium for this summer&#8217;s FIFA World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The game will count as one of Wake Forest&#8217;s home ACC games and as a league game. It will take place roughly four hours from Syracuse&#8217;s campus in New York.<\/p>\n<p>This is the latest of multiple international games played by ACC teams. Games on this fall&#8217;s schedule include North Carolina and TCU in Dublin, Ireland, as well as N.C. State facing Virginia in Rio de Janeiro.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHARLOTTE, N.C. \u2014 Syracuse and\u00a0Wake Forest\u00a0will hold their 2027 opener in Canada. The Atlantic Coast Conference and ESPN&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-654166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}