The ACC is giving Clemson a mulligan.

The final image from the 2011 ACC football season was the Tigers' wrong-side-of-the-record-book 70-33 loss to West Virginia in the Orange Bowl.

The Tigers, ACC champions a season ago, will get another shot in the national spotlight on Sept. 1 in the Chick-fil-A Kickoff in Atlanta against Auburn. N.C. State and Tennessee, on Aug. 31, will serve as the undercard to the all-Tiger match in Atlanta.

After a delay, in part caused by West Virginia's exit from the Big East, the ACC released the football schedules for its 12 teams on Monday.

The Chick-fil-A Kickoff, in its fifth year, has not been kind to the ACC. Clemson, Virginia Tech and North Carolina have lost in the national showcase, the unofficial start of the college season.

The Tar Heels will ease into the Larry Fedora Era with a home game against Elon on Sept. 1. Duke and Wake Forest will also begin the season at home that Saturday.

The highlights, and lowlights, of what could be the last ACC schedule to feature 12 teams:

• N.C. State and North Carolina still will play every year in football. The ACC hasn't changed that (yet). The Wolfpack will travel to Chapel Hill on Oct. 27.

• Florida State will likely open the season in the top 10 nationally and as the conference favorite, but little will be discerned about how good the Seminoles are in the first two weeks of the season.

Jimbo Fisher's third team will play its first two games against Murray State (Sept. 1) and Savannah State (Sept. 8).

FSU can't be blamed entirely for the feeble schedule; the Seminoles were supposed to play West Virginia on Sept. 8 but ended up with Savannah State, which went 1-10 last year, when the Mountaineers left the Big East for the Big 12 and needed to drop a nonconference game.

• Duke will host N.C. Central on Sept. 8 in a win-win for Durham. Also, for the first time in three years, the Blue Devils avoid a Heisman Trophy favorite in their games outside the ACC.

COMPOSITE SCHEDULE

Friday, Aug. 31

Chick-fil-A Kickoff

Georgia Dome, Atlanta

Tennessee vs. N.C. State

Saturday, Sept. 1

Chick-fil-A Kickoff

Georgia Dome, Atlanta

Auburn vs. Clemson

Miami at Boston College

Florida International at Duke

Murray State at Florida State

William & Mary at Maryland

Elon at North Carolina

Richmond at Virginia

Liberty at Wake Forest

Monday, Sept. 3

Georgia Tech at Virginia Tech, ESPN 8 pm

Saturday, Sept. 8

Maine at Boston College

Ball State at Clemson

Duke at Stanford

Savannah State at Florida State

Presbyterian at Georgia Tech

Maryland at Temple

Miami at Kansas State

North Carolina at Wake Forest

N.C. State at Connecticut

Penn State at Virginia

Austin Peay at Virginia Tech

Saturday, Sept. 15

Boston College at Northwestern

Furman at Clemson

N.C. Central at Duke

Wake Forest at Florida State

Virginia at Georgia Tech

Connecticut at Maryland

Bethune-Cookman at Miami

North Carolina at Louisville

South Alabama at N.C. State

Virginia Tech at Pittsburgh

Saturday, Sept. 22

Memphis at Duke

Clemson at Florida State

Miami at Georgia Tech

Maryland at West Virginia

East Carolina at North Carolina

The Citadel at N.C. State

Virginia at TCU

Bowling Green at Virginia Tech

Army at Wake Forest

Saturday, Sept. 29

Clemson at Boston College

Duke at Wake Forest

N.C. State at Miami

Florida State at South Florida

Middle Tennessee at Georgia Tech

Idaho at North Carolina

Louisiana Tech at Virginia

Virginia Tech at Cincinnati

Saturday, Oct. 6

Miami vs. Notre Dame (Soldier Field, Chicago)

Boston College at Army

Georgia Tech at Clemson

Virginia at Duke

Florida State at N.C. State

Wake Forest at Maryland

Virginia Tech at North Carolina

Saturday, Oct. 13

Boston College at Florida State

Duke at Virginia Tech

Maryland at Virginia

North Carolina at Miami

Saturday, Oct. 20

Boston College at Georgia Tech

Virginia Tech at Clemson

North Carolina at Duke

Florida State at Miami

N.C. State at Maryland

Wake Forest at Virginia

Thursday, Oct. 25

Clemson at Wake Forest, ESPN

Saturday, Oct. 27

BYU at Georgia Tech

Maryland at Boston College

Duke at Florida State

N.C. State at North Carolina

Thursday, Nov. 1

Virginia Tech at Miami, ESPN

Saturday, Nov. 3

Boston College at Wake Forest

Clemson at Duke

Georgia Tech at Maryland

Virginia at N.C. State

Thursday, Nov. 8

Florida State at Virginia Tech, ESPN

Saturday, Nov. 10

Notre Dame at Boston College

Maryland at Clemson

Georgia Tech at North Carolina

Miami at Virginia

Wake Forest at N.C. State

Thursday, Nov. 15

North Carolina at Virginia, ESPN

Saturday, Nov.17

South Florida at Miami

Virginia Tech at Boston College

N.C. State at Clemson

Duke at Georgia Tech

Florida State at Maryland

Wake Forest at Notre Dame

Saturday, Nov. 24

Boston College at N.C. State

South Carolina at Clemson

Miami at Duke

Florida at Florida State

Georgia Tech at Georgia

Maryland at North Carolina

Virginia at Virginia Tech

Vanderbilt at Wake Forest

Saturday, Dec. 1

Dr Pepper ACC Championship Game

Bank of America Stadium, Charlotte