The Atlantic Coast Conference’s new $3.6 billion television deal with ESPN includes three Friday games each year.

The N.C. High School Athletic Association has worked for years to keep the ACC from televising its football games on Friday nights, which are the traditional playing night for high schools in the state, but the tide could not be stopped.

Davis Whitfield, an associate commissioner of the Atlantic Coast Conference, was named as the next executive director of the N.C. High School Athletic Association on Thursday.