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The additions of those schools marked the first expansions of the conference footprint since 1953, though both schools were still located with the rest of the ACC schools in the South Atlantic States. The total number of member schools reached nine with the addition of Florida State, also formerly from the Metro Conference, on July 1, 1991. The ACC operated with seven members until the addition of Georgia Tech from the Metro Conference on April 3, 1978. In 1971, South Carolina left the ACC to become an independent. This minimum was raised to 800 in 1964, but was ultimately struck down by a federal court in 1972. In 1960, the ACC implemented a minimum SAT score for incoming student-athletes of 750, the first conference to do so. On December 4, 1953, officials convened in Greensboro, North Carolina, and admitted Virginia, a SoCon charter member that had been independent since 1937, into the conference. The bylaws were ratified on June 14, 1953, and the ACC was created, becoming the second conference formed by schools collectively withdrawing from the SoCon, after the Southeastern Conference. After drafting a set of bylaws for the creation of a new league, the seven withdrew from the Southern Conference at the spring meeting on the morning of May 8, 1953. Previously members of the Southern Conference, they left partially due to that league's ban on post-season football play. Seven universities in the South Atlantic States were charter members of the ACC: Clemson, Duke, Maryland, North Carolina, North Carolina State, South Carolina, and Wake Forest. Louisville joined on July 1, 2014, replacing Maryland, which left for the Big Ten Conference. Locations of Atlantic Coast Conference member institutions as of July 1, 2013. ĪCC member universities represent a range of well-regarded private and public universities of various enrollment sizes, all of which participate in the Atlantic Coast Conference Academic Consortium whose purpose is to 'enrich the educational missions, especially the undergraduate student experiences, of member universities'.

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On November 28, 2012, the ACC's Council of Presidents voted unanimously to invite the University of Louisville as a full member, replacing Maryland. In 2012, the University of Maryland's Board of Regents voted to withdraw from the ACC to join the Big Ten Conference. The most recent expansion in 2013 saw the additions of the University of Notre Dame, the University of Pittsburgh, and Syracuse University. The 20 additions extended the conference's footprint into the Northeast and Midwest. With the advent of the College Football Playoff in 2014, the ACC is one of five conferences with a contractual tie-in to an 'access bowl', the successors to the BCS.įounded in 1953 in Sedgefield, North Carolina, by seven universities located in the South Atlantic States, the conference added additional members in late 1953, 1979, 1991, 2004, 2005, and 2013.

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The ACC was one of the six collegiate power conferences, which had automatic qualifying for their football champion into the Bowl Championship Series (BCS). Also, 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. The ACC sponsors competition in twenty-five sports with many of its member institutions' athletic programs held in high regard nationally.ĪCC teams and athletes have claimed dozens of national championships in multiple sports throughout the conference's history. The Atlantic Coast Conference ( ACC) is a collegiate athletic conference in the United States in which its fifteen member universities compete in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)'s Division I, with its football teams competing in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), the highest levels for athletic competition in US-based collegiate sports.

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