The loss of South Carolina in 1971 dropped membership to seven, while the addition of Georgia Tech in 1979 for non-football sports and 1983 for football brought it back to eight, and Florida State's arrival in 1991 for non-football sports and 1992 for football increased the membership to nine. The ACC was founded on May 8, 1953, by seven universities located in the South Atlantic States, with the University of Virginia joining in early December 1953 to bring the membership to eight. With the advent of the College Football Playoff in 2014, the ACC is one of the 'Power Five' conferences with a contractual tie-in to a New Year's Six bowl game in the sport of football.

Additionally, the conference enjoys extensive media coverage.

Generally, the ACC's top athletes and teams in any particular sport in a given year are considered to be among the top collegiate competitors in the nation. Current members of the conference are Boston College, Clemson University, Duke University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Florida State University, North Carolina State University, Syracuse University, the University of Louisville, the University of Miami, the University of North Carolina, the University of Notre Dame, the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Virginia, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and Wake Forest University.ĪCC teams and athletes have claimed dozens of national championships in multiple sports throughout the conference's history. The ACC sponsors competition in twenty-five sports with many of its member institutions held in high regard nationally. ACC football teams compete in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision. Headquartered in Greensboro, North Carolina, the ACC's fifteen member universities compete in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)'s Division I. The Atlantic Coast Conference ( ACC) is a collegiate athletic conference located in the Eastern United States. It returned to Florida in 2016 when it was held at Camping World Stadium in Orlando, but moved back to Charlotte in 2017 where the championship game is slated to remain through 2030.James J. From 2010 through 2015 the game was held at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina. In 20, the championship was held at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida. ĭuring the 2005, 2006, and 2007 seasons, the championship game was held at Alltel Stadium in Jacksonville, Florida. The ACC Championship Game has been held annually since that year, featuring the regular-season winners of the Atlantic and Coastal divisions in a game to determine the conference champion. NCAA rules also forbade a championship game due to the league having only 11 members.Ī 2005 expansion that admitted Boston College gave the ACC the required 12 members needed for divisional play and a championship game. The league did not employ tiebreaking procedures, such as head-to-head results, to determine a single champion, and thus it was not unusual for a season to end with 'co-champions.' With a 2004 expansion of the league to include Miami and Virginia Tech, round-robin play became impossible due to an NCAA limit on the number of games a team may play during the season and the unwillingness of the league to hold more than eight conference games per season per team.

Four teams- Miami, Boston College, Syracuse, and Louisville-have never won an ACC football championship, while two schools that are no longer a member of the league hold championships: Maryland holds nine championships and South Carolina holds one championship.īetween 19, the championship was normally earned in round-robin regular-season play among all conference members, although in earlier years league teams did not typically play every possible ACC opponent. Sixteen teams have competed in the conference since that year. The Atlantic Coast Conference football champions includes 11 distinct teams that have won the college football championship awarded by the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) since its creation in 1953.

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