CLEMSON — Like a lot of things in college football, the Textile Bowl will take a hiatus following No. 21 Clemson’s date with NC State Saturday at Memorial Stadium.

The Tigers and Wolfpack will not renew their 91-year old rivalry again until 2027, and NC State will not return to Clemson until 2028.

“I would say that is weird to me, but I did not know that,” Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney said.

The Textile Bowl, like a lot in college football, is being interrupted because of the future football schedule model the ACC announced last October for the next seven years, 2024 through 2030. With the addition of the ACC’s three new members – California (Cal), SMU and Stanford – the new football scheduling model went into effect at the start of the 2024 season.

“I have no idea who we play next year. That is not something I have looked at,” Swinney said. “It is a new world, 2024, we got seventeen teams. But I haven’t even looked at who play next year or whatever, but it is what it is.”

The Clemson-NC State series dates back to a 24-0 Clemson victory in 1899. The two played each other every year from 1971 until 2020, when the ACC did not place NC State on Clemson’s adjusted schedule amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Since 1981, the rivalry has been known as the Textile Bowl. The Tigers beat NC State, 17-7, that year on their way to winning their first of three National Championships.

“It is a big, big rivalry game that has been around for a long time,” Swinney said. “Nobody really talks about the Textile Bowl anymore, but it is still out there.

“It means a lot to a lot of people on both sides of this game.”

The winner of the Textile Bowl gets to house the Textile Bowl Trophy each year. Clemson has won 16 of the last 19 meetings in the series, but the Wolfpack has won two of the last three games, including a 24-17 win in Raleigh, N.C. last year.

The Tigers have won nine straight over NC State at home, dating back to a 26-20 win over the Wolfpack in 2004.