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ACC Week 1 schedule: Peach Bowl CEO dishes on future of SEC-ACC non-conference games

It’s a huge prove-it weekend for the ACC.

Peach Bowl CEO Gary Stokan will be in the middle of it one last time. Stokan, who announced his retirement at the end of the 2025-26 college football season, helped make the Aflac Kickoff Game at Mercedes-Benz Stadium an opening-week tradition.

The ACC remains an integral part of that tradition.

"Huge SEC-ACC matchups," Stokan told The Sporting News when looking at the Aflac Kickoff doubleheader. "The ACC will be playing against two ranked teams. … It's a great opportunity for the SEC to step up and change the narrative and try to beat two ranked teams."

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