College Football - Atlantic Coast Conference
History - Important facts - Teams - Winners
The Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) is a collegiate athletic league in the United States. It was founded on May 8th 1953, when seven ACC charter members had formally left the Southern Conference due to the league’s ban on postseason play and wanted to create a new league.
On June 14th 1953, the seven teams, Clemson, Duke, Maryland, North Carolina, North Carolina State, South Carolina and Wake Forest met in Raleigh, N.C., where a set of bylaws was adopted and the name became officially the Atlantic Coast Conference.
On December 4th 1953 the conference officially admitted the University of Virginia. For more than fifteen years the ACC counted eight members until the University of South Carolina changed to the Southeastern Conference in1971. Between 1978 and 2005 the ACC expended to twelve members completed with Boston College.
The twelve members are divided in two groups, the Atlantic Division with Boston College, Clemson, Florida State, Maryland, NC State and Wake Forest and the Coastal Division with Virginia Tech, Georgia Tech, Miami, Virginia, North Carolina and Duke.
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