College Football - Atlantic Coast Conference
History - Important facts - Teams - Winners
The Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) was originally founded during the early 1950’s. The first members to join the conference were Clemson, North Carolina, Duke, Maryland, North Carolina State, South Carolina and Wake Forest.
Through the years some universities changed to different conferences while others remained. For the present season there is a total of twelve members which are part of the Atlantic Coast and that are:
- Boston College
- Clemson University
- Duke University
- Florida State University
- Georgia Tech
- University of Maryland
- University of Miami
- University of North
- Carolina at Chapel Hill
- North Carolina State University
- University of Virginia
- Virginia Tech
- Wake Forest University
The leading conference schools are the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with a total of 33 NCAA championships, the University of Maryland which holds 21 championships and the University of Virginia with a total of 14 titles.
Most ACC member universities compete not only in college football but in other disciplines such as: Men’s and women’s soccer, basketball, baseball, football, rowing, softball, volleyball and wresting to mention some. This is one of the most successful conferences in the country in most sports.
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