ACU schedules South Dakota for a 2028-29 home-and-home
The Wildcats will play their first game in South Dakota in 2028. The Coyotes come to Abilene a year later.
SchoolsAbilene Christian has agreed to a two-game football series with South Dakota, the schools announced Thursday, Oct. 29.
ACU will travel to the DakotaDome in Vermillion, S.D., on Sept. 2, 2028. It will be the first meeting between the programs and the Wildcats' first game ever played in South Dakota. South Dakota will make the return trip to Wildcat Stadium on Sept. 1, 2029.
South Dakota, of the Missouri Valley Football Conference, was ranked No. 6 in the FCS at the time of the announcement. ACU has a 2-2 record against current members of that league. Since 2024 the Wildcats have played 16 ranked opponents, six of them outside conference play.
The 2028 nonconference slate also includes a previously announced trip to Texas A&M. ACU's 2027 schedule already includes Lamar at home and road games at UTSA and Stephen F. Austin.
