Atlantic Coast Conference

Atlantic Coast Conference

Association	NCAA
Commissioner	John Swofford (since 1997)
Sports fielded	25 men's: 12 women's: 13
Division	Division I
Subdivision	FBS
Region	South South Atlantic East South Central Northeast Mid-Atlantic New England Midwest (except football) East North Central (except football)
Official website	www.theacc.com
Locations

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. The ACC sponsors competition in twenty-five sports with many of its member institutions' athletic programs held in high regard nationally.

ACC teams and athletes have claimed dozens of national championships in multiple sports throughout the conference's history. 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. Also, the conference enjoys extensive media coverage. The ACC was one of the six collegiate power conferences, which had automatic qualifying for their football champion into the Bowl Championship Series (BCS). 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.

Founded 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. The 2004 and 2013 additions extended the conference's footprint into the Northeast and Midwest. The most recent expansion in 2013 saw the additions of the University of Notre Dame, the University of Pittsburgh, and Syracuse University. In 2012, the University of Maryland's Board of Regents voted to withdraw from the ACC to join the Big Ten Conference. On November 28, 2012, the ACC's Council of Presidents voted unanimously to invite the University of Louisville as a full member, replacing Maryland.

ACC 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".

History

Locations of Atlantic Coast Conference member institutions as of July 1, 2013. Louisville joined on July 1, 2014, replacing Maryland, which left for the Big Ten Conference.

1950s–1990s

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. Previously members of the Southern Conference, they left partially due to that league's ban on post-season football play. 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. 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. 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.

In 1960, the ACC implemented a minimum SAT score for incoming student-athletes of 750, the first conference to do so. This minimum was raised to 800 in 1964, but was ultimately struck down by a federal court in 1972.

In 1971, South Carolina left the ACC to become an independent. The ACC operated with seven members until the addition of Georgia Tech from the Metro Conference on April 3, 1978. 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 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.

2000–present

The ACC added three members from the Big East Conference during the 2005 conference realignment: Miami and Virginia Tech joined on July 1, 2004, and Boston College joined on July 1, 2005, as the league's twelfth member and the first from the Northeast. The expansion was controversial, as Connecticut, Rutgers, Pittsburgh, and West Virginia (and, initially, Virginia Tech) filed lawsuits against the ACC, Miami, and Boston College for conspiring to weaken the Big East Conference.

The ACC Hall of Champions opened on March 2, 2011, next to the Greensboro Coliseum arena, making the ACC the second college sports conference to have a hall of fame after the Southern Conference (SoCon).

On September 17, 2011, Big East Conference members Syracuse University and the University of Pittsburgh both tendered formal written applications to the ACC to join its ranks. The two schools were accepted into the conference the following day, once again expanding the conference footprint like previous expansions. Because the Big East intended to hold Pitt and Syracuse to the 27-month notice period required by league bylaws, the most likely entry date into the ACC (barring negotiations) was July 1, 2014. However, on July 16, 2012, the Big East and Syracuse came to an agreement that allowed Syracuse to leave the Big East on July 1, 2013. Two days later, the Big East and Pittsburgh reached an identical agreement.

On September 12, 2012, Notre Dame agreed to join the ACC in all sports except football and hockey as the conference's first-ever member in the Midwestern United States. As part of the agreement, Notre Dame will play five football games each season against ACC teams beginning in 2014. On March 12, 2013, Notre Dame and the Big East announced they had reached a settlement allowing Notre Dame to join the ACC effective July 1, 2013.

On November 19, 2012, the University of Maryland's Board of Regents voted to withdraw from the ACC to join the Big Ten Conference effective in 2014. The following week, the Big East's University of Louisville accepted the ACC's invitation to become a full member, replacing Maryland effective July 1, 2014.

The ACC's presidents announced on April 22, 2013, that all 15 schools that will be members of the conference in 2014–15 had signed a grant of media rights, effective immediately and running through the 2026–27 school year, coinciding with the duration of the conference's current TV deal with ESPN. This move essentially prevents the ACC from being a target for other conferences seeking to expand—under the grant, if a school leaves the conference during the contract period, all revenue derived from that school's media rights for home games would belong to the ACC and not the school. The move also leaves the SEC as the only one of the so-called "Power Five" FBS conferences without a grant of rights.

Commissioners

Commissioner John Swofford

Name	Term
Jim Weaver	1954–1970
Bob James	1971–1987
Gene Corrigan	1987–1997
John Swofford	1997–present

Member schools

Current members

The ACC has fifteen members. For two of the 25 ACC-administered sports, baseball and football, schools are assigned to one of two seven-team divisions named the Atlantic Division and the Coastal Division. One member, Notre Dame, plays baseball in the Atlantic Division but does not compete in ACC football, instead competing as a football independent while playing a rotating selection of five ACC football teams per season. Syracuse does not field a varsity baseball team, but competes in the Atlantic Division for football.

Institution	Location	Founded	Joined	Type	Enrollment	Nickname	Colors	Division
Boston College	Chestnut Hill, MA	1863	2005	Private (Catholic – Jesuit)	14,100	Eagles		Atlantic
Clemson University	Clemson, SC	1889	1953	Public (Military Academy heritage)	21,957	Tigers		Atlantic
Duke University	Durham, NC	1838	1953	Private – Nonsectarian (Methodist heritage)	14,950	Blue Devils		Coastal
Florida State University	Tallahassee, FL	1851	1991	Public State University System of FL	41,773	Seminoles		Atlantic
Georgia Institute of Technology	Atlanta, GA	1885	1979	Public (University System of Georgia)	25,034	Yellow Jackets		Coastal
University of Louisville	Louisville, KY	1798	2014	Public	22,298	Cardinals		Atlantic
University of Miami	Coral Gables, FL	1925	2004	Private – Nonsectarian	16,774	Hurricanes		Coastal
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	Chapel Hill, NC	1789	1953	Public (University of North Carolina)	29,084	Tar Heels		Coastal
North Carolina State University	Raleigh, NC	1887	1953	Public (University of North Carolina)	34,015	Wolfpack		Atlantic
University of Notre Dame	Notre Dame, IN	1842	2013	Private – Catholic (Congregation of Holy Cross)	11,773	Fighting Irish		Atlantic
University of Pittsburgh	Pittsburgh, PA	1787	2013	State-related	28,617	Panthers		Coastal
Syracuse University	Syracuse, NY	1870	2013	Private – Nonsectarian (Methodist heritage)	21,789	Orange		Atlantic
University of Virginia	Charlottesville, VA	1819	1953	Public	21,985	Cavaliers		Coastal
Virginia Tech	Blacksburg, VA	1872	2004	Public, Senior Military College	30,598	Hokies		Coastal
Wake Forest University	Winston-Salem, NC	1834	1953	Private – Nonsectarian (Baptist heritage)	7,669	Demon Deacons		Atlantic

Former members

On July 1, 2014, Maryland departed for the Big Ten Conference as Louisville joined from the American Athletic Conference (formerly, the Big East Conference). In 1971, South Carolina left the ACC to become independent, later joining the Metro Conference in 1983 and moving to its current home, the Southeastern Conference, in 1991.

Institution	Location	Founded	Joined	Left	Type (affiliation)	Current Conference	Nickname
University of South Carolina	Columbia, SC	1801	1953	1971	Public (USCS)	Southeastern Conference	Gamecocks
University of Maryland	College Park, MD	1856	1953	2014	Public (University System of Maryland)	Big Ten Conference	Terrapins

Membership timeline

Full members Non-football members

NCAA team championships

The Virginia Cavaliers lead the ACC in NCAA men's titles with 16, while the North Carolina Tar Heels lead in women's titles with 29, and in overall NCAA titles with 40. Excluded from this list are all national championships earned outside the scope of NCAA competition, including Division I FBS football titles, women's AIAW championships, equestrian titles, and retroactive Helms Athletic Foundation titles.

School	Total	Men	Women	Co-ed	Nickname	Most Successful Sport (Titles)
North Carolina	40	11	29	0	Tar Heels	Women's Soccer (21)
Virginia	23	16	7	0	Cavaliers	Men's Soccer (7)
Notre Dame	16	7	5	4	Fighting Irish	Fencing (7)
Duke	16	9	7	0	Blue Devils	Women's Golf (6)
Syracuse	15	14	1	0	Orange	Men's Lacrosse (10)
Wake Forest	8	5	3	0	Demon Deacons	Field Hockey, Men's Golf (3)
Florida State	7	4	3	0	Seminoles	Men's Gymnastics, Men's Outdoor Track (2)
Boston College	5	5	0	0	Eagles	Men's Ice Hockey (4)
Miami	5	4	1	0	Hurricanes	Baseball (4)
Clemson	3	3	0	0	Tigers	Men's Soccer (2)
Louisville	3	3	0	0	Cardinals	Men's Basketball (3)
NC State	2	2	0	0	Wolfpack	Men's Basketball (2)
Georgia Tech	1	0	1	0	Yellow Jackets	Women's Tennis (1)
Pittsburgh	0	0	0	0	Panthers	N/A
Virginia Tech	0	0	0	0	Hokies	N/A

See also: List of NCAA schools with the most NCAA Division I championships and List of NCAA schools with the most Division I national championships

Capital One Cup Standings

The Capital One Cup is an award given annually to the best men's and women's Division I college athletics programs in the United States. Points are earned throughout the year based on final standings of NCAA Championships and final coaches' poll rankings. Virginia (2015) and Notre Dame (2014) have finished first in the Cup once apiece for men's sports, and North Carolina (2013) has once finished first on the women's side.

University	Men's Ranking	Women's Ranking	Nickname
Virginia	1	11	Cavaliers
Duke	6	18	Blue Devils
Notre Dame	9	18	Fighting Irish
Syracuse	21	17	Orange
North Carolina	26	7	Tar Heels
Florida State	45	4	Seminoles
Miami	45	100+	Hurricanes
Georgia Tech	49	100+	Yellow Jackets
Louisville	61	49	Cardinals
NC State	84	100+	Wolfpack
Virginia Tech	103	100+	Hokies
Boston College	107+	37	Eagles
Wake Forest	107+	79	Demon Deacons
Clemson	107+	100+	Tigers
Pittsburgh	107+	100+	Panthers

Sports

The Atlantic Coast Conference sponsors championship competition in thirteen men's and fourteen women's NCAA sanctioned sports. The most recently added sport was fencing, added for the 2014–15 school year after having been absent from the conference since 1980; Boston College, Duke, North Carolina, and Notre Dame participate in that sport.

ACC teams

Sport	Men's	Women's
Baseball	14	-
Basketball	15	15
Cross Country	15	15
Fencing	4	4
Field Hockey	-	7
Football	14	-
Golf	12	12
Lacrosse	5	8
Rowing	-	9
Soccer	12	14
Softball	-	11
Swimming & Diving	11.5*	11.5*
Tennis	13	15
Track and Field (Indoor)	15	15
Track and Field (Outdoor)	15	15
Volleyball	-	15
Wrestling	6	-

• * = Miami men and Clemson women compete only in diving

Men's sponsored sports by school

Member-by-member sponsorship of the 13 men's ACC sports for the 2015–16 academic year.

School	Baseball	Basketball	Cross Country	Fencing	Football	Golf	Lacrosse	Soccer	Swimming & Diving	Tennis	Track & Field (Indoor)	Track & Field (Outdoor)	Wrestling	Total ACC Men's Sports
Boston College			Y	Y		Y	N		Y	Y	Y	Y	N	11
Clemson			Y	N			N		N	Y			N	9
Duke			Y	Y		Y			Y		Y	Y	Y	13
Florida State			Y	N			N	N	Y	Y			N	9
Georgia Tech				N			N	N					N	9
Louisville			Y	N		Y	N		Y	Y	Y	Y	N	10
Miami			Y	N		N	N	N	Y^		Y	Y	N	7.5
North Carolina			Y	Y		Y			Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	13
North Carolina State			Y	N		Y			Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	11
Notre Dame			Y	Y	*	Y			Y	Y			N	11
Pittsburgh			Y	N		N	N		Y	N	Y	Y		9
Syracuse			Y	N		N			N	N	Y	Y	N	7
Virginia			Y	N		Y					Y	Y	Y	12
Virginia Tech			Y	N		Y	N		Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	11
Wake Forest			Y	N		Y	N		N	Y	Y	Y	N	9
Totals	14	15	15	4	14	12	5	12	11.5	13	15	15	6	151.5

* Notre Dame sponsors football as an independent. Although Notre Dame has a commitment to play five games per year against ACC football teams, it does not participate in the ACC football standings and thus is not eligible for the ACC football championship. Notre Dame does, however, have access to the ACC's bowl lineup aside from the Orange Bowl, to which it has its own arrangement for access.

^ Miami participates in diving only. For the purposes of this chart, Miami men's diving is counted as sponsoring half of the sport of men's swimming & diving.

Men's sports that are not sponsored by the ACC but are fielded as a varsity sport at ACC schools:

School	Ice Hockey	Rifle	Rowing	Sailing	Skiing
Boston College	Hockey East	no	no	NEISA	EISA
North Carolina State	no	GARC & South Eastern Air Rifle Conference +	no	no	no
Notre Dame	Hockey East	no	no	no	no
Syracuse	no	no	EARC	no	no

⁺ Coed rifle team

Women's sponsored sports by school

Member-by-member sponsorship of the 14 women's ACC sports for the 2015–16 academic year.

School	Basketball	Cross Country	Fencing	Field Hockey	Golf	Lacrosse	Rowing	Soccer	Softball	Swimming & Diving	Tennis	Track & Field (Indoor)	Track & Field (Outdoor)	Volleyball	Total ACC Women's Sports
Boston College		Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y		Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	14
Clemson		Y	N	N	Y	N	Y	Y	N	Y				Y	9.5
Duke		Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	N	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	13
Florida State		Y	N	N	Y	N	N	Y		Y	Y			Y	10
Georgia Tech			N	N	N	N	N	N							8
Louisville		Y	N	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y		Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	13
Miami		Y	N	N	Y	N	Y	Y	N	Y		Y	Y	Y	10
North Carolina		Y	Y		Y		Y			Y		Y	Y	Y	14
North Carolina State		Y	N	N	Y	N	N	Y		Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	10
Notre Dame		Y	Y	N	Y	Y	Y			Y	Y			Y	13
Pittsburgh		Y	N	N	N	N	N	Y		Y	Y	Y	Y		9
Syracuse		Y	N	Y	N	Y	Y	Y		N	Y	Y	Y	Y	11
Virginia		Y	N	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y				Y	Y	Y	13
Virginia Tech	Y	Y	N	N	Y	Y	N			Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	11
Wake Forest	Y	Y	N	Y	Y	N	N		N	N	Y	Y	Y	Y	9
Totals	15	15	4	7	12	8	9	14	11	12.5	15	15	15	15	167.5

Women's sports that are not sponsored by the ACC but are fielded as a varsity sport at ACC schools:

School	Beach Volleyball	Gymnastics	Ice Hockey	Rifle	Sailing	Skiing
Boston College	no	no	Hockey East	no	NEISA	EISA
Florida State	CCSA	no	no	no	no	no
North Carolina	no	EAGL	no	no	no	no
North Carolina State	no	EAGL	no	GARC & South Eastern Air Rifle Conference +	no	no
Pittsburgh	no	EAGL	no	no	no	no
Syracuse	no	no	CHA	no	no	no

⁺ Coed rifle team

Champions for current academic year

Once the first championship events for 2015–16 are held, champions from the previous academic year will be indicated in red italics.

Season	Sport	Men's champion	Women's champion
Fall 2015	Cross Country	Syracuse	Virginia
	Field Hockey	–	North Carolina
	Football	Clemson	–
	Soccer	Syracuse	Florida State
	Volleyball	–	Louisville
Winter 2015-16	Basketball	Notre Dame	Notre Dame
	Fencing	Notre Dame	Notre Dame
	Swimming & Diving	NC State	Virginia
	Track & Field (Indoor)	Virginia Tech	Clemson
	Wrestling	Virginia	–
Spring 2016	Baseball	Florida State	–
	Softball	–	Florida State
	Golf	Georgia Tech	Virginia
	Lacrosse	Syracuse	Syracuse
	Rowing	–	Virginia
	Tennis	Virginia	Virginia
	Track & Field (Outdoor)	Florida State	Clemson

Baseball

See also: Atlantic Coast Conference Baseball Tournament

The ACC has won the College World Series twice: by the Virginia Cavaliers in 2015 and by Wake Forest in 1955. However, conference schools have won six times, including four titles by Miami before joining the ACC. Member schools have appeared in the College World Series a combined total of 88 times. In 2013, the ACC was ranked as the top baseball conference by Ratings Percentage Index (RPI) and has consistently ranked among the top three conference by that measure over the past five years. In 2013, eight ACC teams, plus future ACC member Louisville, were selected to play in the 2013 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament, with North Carolina, NC State, and Louisville advancing to the College World Series.

ACC Baseball is divided into two divisions, the Atlantic Division and the Coastal Division, that parallel the divisions of ACC football except for the fact that Syracuse is the only ACC school that does not field a baseball team and Notre Dame is assigned to the Atlantic Division. Louisville replaced Maryland in the Atlantic Division beginning with the 2015 season.

Atlantic Division	Coastal Division
Boston College	Duke
Clemson	Georgia Tech
Florida State	Miami
Louisville	North Carolina
North Carolina State	Pittsburgh
Notre Dame	Virginia
Wake Forest	Virginia Tech

College World Series / NCAA Tournament History

School	College World Series Championships	College World Series Appearances	Last CWS Appearance	NCAA Tournament Appearances	Last NCAA Appearance
Miami †	2001, 1999, 1985, 1982	24	2015	44	2015
Virginia	2015	4	2015	15	2015
Wake Forest	1955	2	1955	11	2007
Florida State †		21	2012	53	2015
Clemson		12	2010	40	2015
North Carolina		10	2013	29	2014
Boston College †		4	1967	10	2009
Georgia Tech		3	2006	30	2014
Louisville †		3	2014	9	2015
Duke		3	1961	5	1961
North Carolina State		2	2013	27	2015
Notre Dame †		2	2002	22	2015
Virginia Tech		0	n/a	10	2013
Pittsburgh		0	n/a	3	1995

^ Syracuse does not currently field a baseball team but has one appearance in the NCAA baseball tournament prior to joining the conference.
† The count of College World Series appearances includes those made by the school prior to joining the ACC:

• Boston College: 4 appearances
• Florida State: 11 appearances
• Louisville: 3 appearances
• Miami: 21 appearances
• Notre Dame: 2 appearances
• Syracuse: 1 appearance

Basketball

Main article: Atlantic Coast Conference men's basketball

See also: ACC Men's Basketball Tournament, ACC Women's Basketball Tournament, List of Atlantic Coast Conference men's basketball regular season champions, and ACC–Big Ten Challenge

History

Historically, the ACC has been considered one of the most successful conferences in men's basketball. The early roots of ACC basketball began primarily thanks to two men: Everett Case and Frank McGuire.

Case had been a successful high school coach in Indiana who accepted the head coaching job at North Carolina State at a time that the school's athletic department had decided to focus on competing in football on a level with Duke, then a national power in college football. Case's North Carolina State teams dominated the early years of the ACC with a modern, fast-paced style of play. He became the fastest college basketball coach to reach many "games won" milestones.

Case eventually became known as The Father of ACC Basketball. Despite his success on the court, he may have been even a better promoter off-the-court. Case realized the need to sell his program and university. That is why he organized the funding and construction of Reynolds Coliseum as the new home court for his team. At the time, Reynolds Coliseum was the largest on-campus arena in the South, and it was therefore used as the host site for many Southern Conference Tournaments, ACC Tournaments, and the Dixie Classic, an annual event involving the four ACC teams from North Carolina as well as four other prominent programs from across the nation. The Dixie Classic brought in large revenues for all schools involved and soon became one of the premier sporting events in the South.

Partly to counter Case's personality, as well as the dominant success of his program, North Carolina convinced St. John's head coach Frank McGuire to come to Chapel Hill in 1952. McGuire knew that largely due to Case's influence, basketball was now the major high school athletic event of the region, unlike football in the South. He not only tapped the growing market of high school talent in North Carolina, but also brought several recruits from his home territory in New York City as well. Case and McGuire literally invented a rivalry. Both men realized the benefits created through a rivalry between them. It brought more national attention to both of their programs and increased fan support on both sides. For this reason, they often exchanged verbal jabs at each other in public, while maintaining a secret working relationship in private.

After State was slapped with crippling NCAA sanctions before the 1956-57 season, McGuire's North Carolina team stepped into the breach and delivered the ACC its first national championship. During the Tar Heels' championship run, entrepreneur from Greensboro named Castleman D. Chesley noticed the popularity that it generated. He hastily cobbled together a five-station television network to broadcast the Final Four. That network began broadcasting regular season ACC games the following season—the ancestor of today's television package from Raycom Sports. From that point on, ACC basketball gained large popularity.

The ACC has been the home of many prominent basketball coaches besides Case and McGuire, including Terry Holland and Tony Bennett of Virginia; Vic Bubas and Mike Krzyzewski of Duke; Press Maravich, Norm Sloan and Jim Valvano of North Carolina State; Dean Smith and Roy Williams of North Carolina; Bones McKinney of Wake Forest; Lefty Driesell and Gary Williams of Maryland; Bobby Cremins of Georgia Tech; Jim Boeheim of Syracuse; and Rick Pitino of Louisville.

Historically, the ACC has been dominated by the four teams from Tobacco Road in North Carolina—North Carolina, Duke, North Carolina State and Wake Forest. Between them, they have won 50 tournament titles. They have also won or shared 59 regular season titles, including all but four since 1981. However, the past several years have seen the rise of the Tony Bennett led Virginia Cavaliers, who became the first ACC team besides Duke or North Carolina to soley win back to back regular season titles since 1974, winning the regular season titles in 2014 and 2015, along with winning the ACC Tournament Championship in 2014. Tony Bennett also became the first ACC men's basketball coach to win 16 or more conference games in back to back seasons in the history of ACC men's basketball.

Tournament as championship

Possibly Case's most lasting contribution is the ACC Tournament, which was first played in 1954 and decides the winner of the ACC title. The ACC is unique in that it is the only Division I college basketball conference that does not officially recognize a regular season champion. This started when only one school per conference made the NCAA tournament. The ACC representative was determined by conference tournament rather than the regular season result. Therefore, the league eliminated the regular season title in 1961, choosing to recognize only the winner of the ACC tournament as conference champion. Fans and media do claim a regular-season title for the team that finishes first, and the NCAA recognizes a regular-season title winner in order to maintain its system of choosing NIT and NCAA tournament berths based on regular season placement. For the ACC, the unofficial crowning of a regular season champion is insignificant as a 1975 NCAA rule change allowed more than one team per conference to get a guaranteed bid to the NCAA Tournament. As a result, the team finishing atop the ACC regular-season standings has invariably been invited to the NCAA Tournament even if it did not win the ACC Tournament. Even so, any claim to a regular season "title" remains unofficial and carries no reward other than top seed in the ACC tournament.

Present-day schedule

For 53 years, the ACC employed a double round-robin schedule in the regular season, in which each team played the others twice a season. With the expansion to 12 teams by the 2005–2006 season, the ACC schedule could no longer accommodate this format. In the new scheduling format that was agreed to, each team was assigned two permanent partners and nine rotating partners over a three-year period. Teams played their permanent partners in a home-and-away series each year. The rotating partners were split into three groups: three teams played in a home-and-away series, three teams played at home, and three teams played on the road. The rotating partner groups were rotated so that a team would play each permanent partner six times, and each rotating partner four times, over a three-year period.

Since 1999, the ACC in cooperation with the Big Ten Conference has held the ACC–Big Ten Challenge each season, which is a series of regular-season games pitting ACC and Big Ten teams against each other. Each team typically plays one Challenge game each season, except for a few teams from the larger conference that are left out due to unequal conference sizes. The first ACC–Big Ten Women's Challenge was played in 2007, and has the same format as the men's Challenge.

For the 2012–13 season, the 12-team in-conference schedule expanded to 18. Originally for the 2013-14 season, the expanded 14-team, 18-game schedule was to consist of a home and away game with a "primary partner" while the remaining conference opponents would have rotated in groups of three: one year both home and away, one year at home only, and one year away only. However, when Notre Dame was also added for the 2013-14 season, the now 15-team, 18-game schedule was modified so each school played two "Partners" home and away annually, two home and away, five home, and the other five away. In 2013-14, after 1 year at 18 games, women's basketball went back to a 16-game schedule where each team only plays 2 teams twice, rotating opponents each year over seven years and has no permanent partners.

The table below lists each school's permanent men's basketball only scheduling partners after expansion in 2013 and the replacement of Maryland by Louisville in 2014.

School	Partner 1	Partner 2
Boston College	Notre Dame	Syracuse
Clemson	Florida State	Georgia Tech
Duke	North Carolina	Wake Forest
Florida State	Clemson	Miami
Georgia Tech	Clemson	Notre Dame
Louisville	Pittsburgh	Virginia
Miami	Florida State	Virginia Tech
North Carolina	Duke	North Carolina State
North Carolina State	North Carolina	Wake Forest
Notre Dame	Boston College	Georgia Tech
Pittsburgh	Louisville	Syracuse
Syracuse	Boston College	Pittsburgh
Virginia	Louisville	Virginia Tech
Virginia Tech	Miami	Virginia
Wake Forest	Duke	North Carolina State

National championships and Final Fours

Over the course of its existence, ACC schools have captured 13 NCAA men's basketball championships while members of the conference. North Carolina has won five, Duke has won five, NC State has won two, and Maryland has won one. Four more national titles were won by current ACC members while in other conferences—three by 2014 arrival Louisville and one by 2013 arrival Syracuse. Seven of the 12 pre-2013 members have advanced to the Final Four at least once while members of the ACC. Another pre-2013 member, Florida State, made the Final Four once before joining the ACC. All three schools that entered the ACC in 2013, as well as Louisville, advanced to the Final Four at least once before joining the conference. In addition North Carolina, Notre Dame, Pitt, and Syracuse were awarded Helms Athletic Foundation national championships for seasons predating the beginning of the NCAA basketball championship in 1939.

In women's basketball, ACC members have won two national championships while in the conference, North Carolina in 1994 and Maryland in 2006. Notre Dame, which joined in 2013, won the national title in 2001. In 2006, Duke, Maryland, and North Carolina all advanced to the Final Four, the first time a conference placed three teams in the women's Final Four. Both finalists were from the ACC, with Maryland defeating Duke for the title.

School	Pre-NCAA Helms Championships	NCAA Men's Championships	Men's NCAA Runner-Up	Men's NCAA Final Fours	NCAA Women's Championships	Women's NCAA Runner-Up	Women's NCAA Final Fours
North Carolina	1 (1924)	5 (2009, 2005, 1993, 1982, 1957)	4 (1981, 1977, 1968, 1946)	18	1 (1994)		3 (2007, 2006, 1994)
Duke		5 (2015, 2010, 2001, 1992, 1991)	6	16		2 (2006, 1999)	4 (2006, 2003, 2002, 1999)
Louisville		3 (1980, 1986, 2013)		10		2 (2013, 2009)	2 (2013, 2009)
Syracuse	2 (1918, 1926)	1 (2003)	2 (1996, 1987)	5 (2013, 2003, 1996, 1987, 1975)
North Carolina State		2 (1983, 1974)		3 (1983, 1974, 1950)			1 (1998)
Virginia				2 (1984, 1981)		1 (1991)	3 (1992, 1991, 1990)
Georgia Tech			1 (2004)	2 (2004, 1990)
Notre Dame	2 (1927, 1936)			1 (1978)	1 (2001)	3 (2015, 2014, 2012, 2011)	6
Florida State			1 (1972)	1 (1972)
Wake Forest				1 (1962)
Pittsburgh	2 (1928, 1930)			1 (1941)

Italics denotes honors earned before the school joined the ACC. Women's national championship tournaments prior to 1982 were run by the AIAW.

Field hockey

The ACC has won 18 of the 34 NCAA Championships in field hockey. Maryland won 8 as a member of the ACC.

National Championships

School	NCAA Women's Championships
North Carolina	1989, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2007, 2009
Syracuse	2015
Wake Forest	2002, 2003, 2004

Football

See also: List of Atlantic Coast Conference football champions and ACC Championship Game

The ACC is considered to be one of the Power Five conferences, all of which receive automatic placement of their football champions into one of the six major bowl games. Seven of its members claim football national championships in their history, with two having won the now-defunct Bowl Championship Series (BCS) during its existence between 1998 and 2014. Five of its members are among the top 25 of college football's all-time winningest programs.

Divisions

In 2005, the ACC began divisional play in football. Division leaders compete in a playoff game to determine the ACC championship. The inaugural Championship Game was played on December 3, 2005, in Jacksonville, Florida, at the venue then known as Alltel Stadium, in which Florida State defeated Virginia Tech to capture its 12th championship since it joined the league in 1992. Notre Dame began playing several ACC teams each year in 2014, but is not considered a football member and is not eligible to play in the ACC Championship Game.

The ACC was the only NCAA Division I conference whose divisions were not divided geographically (North/South, East/West) until the Big Ten announced its division names as "Leaders" and "Legends" after the 2010 regular season. The Big Ten changed to geographic divisions ("East" and "West") when Maryland and Rutgers joined that conference in 2014, and the Mountain West Conference, which split into football divisions in 2013, uses "Mountain" and "West" for its division names, with all of the Mountain Division teams in the Mountain Time Zone and all of the West Division teams except football-only member Hawaii in the Pacific Time Zone, which means that the ACC is once again the only Division I conference with non-geographic divisions.

The previous division structure led to each team playing the following games:

• Five games within its division (one against each opponent)
• One game against a designated permanent rival from the other division (not necessarily the school's closest traditional rival, even within the conference); this is similar to the SEC setup
• Two rotating games (one home, one away) against teams in the other division
• Four out-of-conference games.

On February 3, 2012, the ACC announced a new regular-season scheduling format which added Syracuse to the Atlantic Division and Pittsburgh to the Coastal Division. These new teams were paired as cross-divisional rivals. This change took effect when Pitt and Syracuse joined the conference in July 2013. On October 3, 2012, it was announced that the extra in-division game would result in one fewer cross-division game.

The current division structure leads to each team playing the following games:

• Six games within its division (three home, three away, one against each opponent)
• One game against a designated permanent rival from the other division (not necessarily the school's closest traditional rival, even within the conference); this is similar to the SEC setup
• One rotating game against a team in the other division
• Four out-of-conference games. (Beginning with the 2014 season, one of the four OOC games will be against Notre Dame every two to three years, as Notre Dame will play against five ACC opponents in non-conference games each season.)

Starting with the 2017 season, ACC members will be required to play at least one non-conference game each season against a team in the "Power 5" conferences. Games against Notre Dame also meet the requirement. In January 2015, the conference announced that games against another FBS independent, BYU, would also count toward the requirement. ACC teams can also meet the requirement by scheduling one another in non-conference games; the first example of this was also announced in January 2015, when North Carolina and Wake Forest announced that they would play a home-and-home non-conference series in 2019 and 2021.

In the table below, each column represents one division. Each team's designated permanent rival is listed in the same row in the opposing column. Alignments reflect those in place since Louisville joined the ACC in 2014.

Atlantic Division	Coastal Division
Boston College	Virginia Tech
Clemson	Georgia Tech
Florida State	Miami
Louisville	Virginia
North Carolina State	North Carolina
Syracuse	Pittsburgh
Wake Forest	Duke

Rivalries

Conference

Team	Team	Rivalry Name	Trophy
Boston College	Clemson	Battle For The Leather Helmet	O'Rourke-McFadden Trophy
Boston College	Miami (FL)	—	—
Boston College	Syracuse	Boston College–Syracuse football rivalry	The Orange Eagle (not exclusive to football)
Boston College	Virginia Tech	Boston College–Virginia Tech football rivalry	—
Clemson	Florida State	Clemson–Florida State rivalry	—
Clemson	Georgia Tech	Clemson–Georgia Tech football rivalry	—
Clemson	North Carolina State	Textile Bowl	Textile Bowl Trophy
Duke	North Carolina	Carolina-Duke rivalry	Victory Bell
Duke	North Carolina State	—	—
Duke	Wake Forest	—	—
Florida State	Miami (FL)	Miami–Florida State football rivalry	—
Florida State	Virginia	—	Jefferson-Eppes Trophy
Georgia Tech	Virginia Tech	Battle of the Techs	—
Miami (FL)	Virginia Tech	Miami-Virginia Tech football rivalry	—
North Carolina	North Carolina State	North Carolina-NC State football rivalry	—
North Carolina	Virginia	South's Oldest Rivalry	—
North Carolina	Wake Forest	Carolina–Wake rivalry	—
North Carolina State	Wake Forest	—	—
Pittsburgh	Syracuse	Pittsburgh–Syracuse football rivalry	—
Virginia	Virginia Tech	Virginia-Virginia Tech rivalry	Commonwealth Cup

Non-Conference

ACC Team	Opponent	Rivalry Name	Trophy
Boston College	Notre Dame	Holy War	Frank Leahy Memorial Bowl/Ireland Trophy
Boston College	UMass	Boston College–UMass football rivalry	—
Boston College	Holy Cross	Boston College–Holy Cross football rivalry	—
Clemson	Auburn	—	—
Clemson	Georgia	Clemson-Georgia football rivalry	—
Clemson	South Carolina	The Palmetto Bowl	TBA (2015 & onward) The Hardee's Trophy (retired after 2014)
Duke	Maryland	—	—
Florida State	Florida	Florida–Florida State football rivalry	The Governor's Cup
Georgia Tech	Auburn	—	—
Georgia Tech	Georgia	Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate	The Governor's Cup
Georgia Tech	Notre Dame	—	—
Louisville	Cincinnati	—	The Keg of Nails
Louisville	Kentucky	Kentucky–Louisville rivalry	Governor's Cup
Louisville	Memphis	Louisville–Memphis rivalry	—
Miami (FL)	Florida	Florida–Miami football rivalry	Seminole War Canoe Trophy[2]
Miami (FL)	Notre Dame		—
North Carolina State	East Carolina	East Carolina–NC State rivalry	The Victory Barrel
North Carolina State	South Carolina	—	—
Pittsburgh	Cincinnati	River City Rivalry	Paddlewheel Trophy
Pittsburgh	Notre Dame	Notre Dame-Pittsburgh football rivalry	—
Pittsburgh	Penn State	Penn State–Pittsburgh football rivalry	—
Pittsburgh	West Virginia	Backyard Brawl	—
Syracuse	Colgate (former)	—	—
Syracuse	Penn State	Penn State–Syracuse football rivalry	—
Syracuse	West Virginia	Battle For The Schwartzwalder Trophy	The Ben Schwartzwalder Trophy
Virginia	Maryland	Maryland–Virginia football rivalry	—
Virginia	West Virginia	—	—
Virginia Tech	West Virginia	Black Diamond Trophy	Black Diamond Trophy
Wake Forest	Vanderbilt	—	—

• Florida, Florida State, & Miami (FL) also compete in a three-way rivalry for the Florida Cup.

Bowl games

Within the College Football Playoff, the Orange Bowl serves as the home of the ACC champion against Notre Dame or another team from the SEC or Big Ten. If the conference's champion is selected for the CFP, another ACC team will be chosen in their place.

The other bowls pick ACC teams in the order set by agreements between the conference and the bowls.

Beginning in 2014, Notre Dame is eligible for selection as the ACC's representative to any of its contracted bowl games. The ACC's bowl selection will no longer be bound by the rigidity of a "one-win rule" but will have a general list of criteria to emphasize regionality and quality matchups on the field. A one-win rule does apply to Notre Dame's participation in the ACC Bowl structure. Notre Dame is now eligible for ACC Bowl selection beginning with the Citrus Bowl and continuing through the league's bowl selections. However, Notre Dame must be within one win of the ACC available team which has the best overall record, in order to be chosen. In other words, if an ACC team was 9-3, a 7-5 Notre Dame team could not be chosen in its place. Notre Dame would have to be 8-4 to be chosen over a 9-3 league team.

Order of selection for ACC bowl participants

Pick	Name	Location	Opposing Conference	Opposing Pick
1*	Orange Bowl	Miami Gardens, Florida	SEC, Big Ten or Notre Dame	-
2**	Citrus Bowl	Orlando, Florida	SEC	2
3	Russell Athletic Bowl	Orlando, Florida	Big 12	3
Tier One All have equal selection status
4/5/6/7/8	Sun Bowl	El Paso, Texas	Pac-12	5
	Belk Bowl	Charlotte, North Carolina	SEC	TBD
	Music City Bowl	Nashville, Tennessee	SEC
	TaxSlayer Bowl	Jacksonville, Florida	SEC
	Pinstripe Bowl	The Bronx, New York	Big Ten	TBD
Tier Two
9	Military Bowl	Annapolis, Maryland	The American	TBD
10	Independence Bowl	Shreveport, Louisiana	SEC	10
11	Quick Lane Bowl	Detroit, Michigan	Big Ten	TBD
12***	St. Petersburg Bowl	St. Petersburg, Florida	The American	TBD
13****	Birmingham Bowl	Birmingham, Alabama	C-USA, MAC

* If the ACC Champion is not in one of the semifinal games it will appear in the Orange Bowl, or, if the Orange Bowl is a semifinal or national championship site, one of the Playoff "host" bowls, either the Fiesta, Cotton or Chick-fil-A Peach. There is no limit on how many teams the College Football Playoff may choose from a particular conference.

** Only if the ACC opponent in the Orange Bowl, in a non-semifinal year is a team from the Big Ten, a maximum of three times in six years.

*** After the 2014 and 2016 seasons; all others as conditional selection if not filled by C-USA or The American.

**** Conditional all years if not filled by SEC or The American.

National championships

Although the NCAA does not determine an official national champion for Division I FBS football, several ACC members claim national championships awarded by various "major selectors" of national championships as recognized in the official NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision Records. Since 1936 and 1950 respectively, these include what are now the most pervasive and influential selectors, the Associated Press poll and Coaches Poll. In addition, from 1998 to 2013 the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) used a mathematical formula to match the top two teams at the end of the season. The winner of the BCS was contractually awarded the Coaches' Poll national championship and its AFCA National Championship Trophy as well as the MacArthur Trophy from the National Football Foundation. Maryland won one championship as a member of the ACC in 1953.

School	Claims of non-poll "major selectors"	Associated Press	Coaches Poll	Bowl Championship Series
Clemson		1981	1981
Florida State		1993, 1999, 2013	1993, 1999, 2013	1999, 2013
Georgia Tech	1917, 1928, 1952		1990
Miami		1983, 1987, 1989, 1991, 2001	1983, 1987, 1989, 2001	2001
Pittsburgh	7	1937, 1976	1976
Syracuse		1959	1959

• Italics denote championships won before the school joined the ACC.
• In addition, non-football member Notre Dame claims 11 national titles. Many sources, however, credit the Fighting Irish with 13. See Notre Dame Fighting Irish football national championships for more details.

Golf

Of the current ACC members, 12 sponsor men's golf and 10 sponsor women's golf. Four team national championships in men's golf and six national titles in women's golf have been won by ACC members while in the conference, led by the Duke women's team that has won six national titles since 1999. In addition, two more team national titles, one in men's golf and one in women's golf, have been won by current ACC members before they joined the conference.

National Championships

School	Men's Team NCAA	Men's Individual NCAA	Women's Team NCAA	Women's Individual NCAA
Clemson	2003	Charles Warren 1997
Duke			2014, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2002, 1999	Candy Hannemann 2001, Virada Nirapathpongporn 2002, Anna Grzebian 2005
Georgia Tech		Watts Gunn 1927, Charles Yates 1934, Troy Matteson 2002
Miami			1984	Penny Hammel 1983
North Carolina		Harvie Ward 1949, John Inman 1984
North Carolina State		Matt Hill 2009
Virginia		Dixon Brooke 1940
Wake Forest	1986, 1975, 1974	Curtis Strange 1974, Jay Haas 1975, Gary Hallberg 1979
Notre Dame	1944

• Italics denote championships won before the school joined the ACC.

Lacrosse

Since 1971, when the first men's national champion was determined by the NCAA, the ACC has won 13 NCAA championships, more than any other conference in college lacrosse. Virginia has won seven total national championships, North Carolina has won four, and Duke has won three. Former ACC member Maryland won two national championships as an ACC member. In addition, prior to the establishment of the NCAA tournament, Maryland had won nine national championships while Virginia won two. Syracuse, which joined the ACC in 2013, won ten NCAA-sponsored national championships, the most ever by any Division I lacrosse program, before joining the conference. Many have speculated that beginning in 2014 the ACC men's lacrosse conference, with the inclusions of Syracuse and Notre Dame, may be the best conference of any NCAA sport, despite the SEC's dominance in football. As of 2014, at least one current ACC member has played in the national championship game every year since 1987.

Women's lacrosse has only awarded a national championship since 1982, and the ACC has won more titles than any other conference. In all, the ACC has won 14 women's national championships: Maryland has won eleven as an ACC member, Virginia has won three and North Carolina has won one.

National Championships & Runner-Up Finishes

University	Men's NCAA Championships	Men's NCAA Runner-Up	Pre-NCAA Men's Championships	Women's NCAA Championships	Women's NCAA Runner-Up
Virginia	2011, 2006, 2003, 1999, 1972	1996, 1994, 1986, 1980	1970, 1952	2004, 1993, 1991	2007, 2005, 2003, 1999, 1998, 1996
North Carolina	1991, 1986, 1982, 1981	1993		2013	2009
Duke	2014, 2013, 2010	2007, 2005
Syracuse	11	2013, 2001, 1999, 1992, 1985, 1984	1925, 1924, 1922, 1920		2012
Notre Dame		2010, 2014

Italics denotes championships before it was part of the ACC.
* Syracuse vacated its 1990 championship due to NCAA violations.

Soccer

In men's soccer, Virginia has won 7 NCAA titles, and more since 1990 than any other university in the country. The ACC overall has won 16 national championships, including 16 of the 31 seasons between 1984 and 2014. Seven by Virginia and the remaining nine by Maryland (3 times), Clemson (twice), North Carolina (twice), Duke, Wake Forest, and Notre Dame.

In women's soccer, North Carolina has won 21 of the 28 NCAA titles since the NCAA crowned its first champion, as well as the only Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) soccer championship in 1981. The Tar Heels have also won 18 of the 22 ACC tournaments. They lost in the final to North Carolina State in 1988 and Virginia in 2004, both times by penalty kicks. The 2010 tournament was the first in which they failed to make the championship game, falling to eventual champion Wake Forest in the semi-finals. The 2012 ACC tournament saw North Carolina's first-ever quarterfinal loss, to eventual champion Virginia; however, the Tar Heels went on to win the national title that season. In 2014, Florida State became the first school other than North Carolina to win the national championship as an ACC member. Notre Dame won three NCAA titles before it joined the ACC in 2013.

National Championships & Runner-Up Finishes

School	Men's NCAA Championships	Men's NCAA Runner-Up	Women's NCAA Championships	Women's NCAA Runner-Up	AIAW
Virginia	2014, 2009, 1994, 1993, 1992, 1991, 1989	1997		2014
North Carolina	2011, 2001	2008	21	2001, 1998, 1985	1981
Clemson	1987, 1984	1979, 2015
Notre Dame	2013		1995, 2004, 2010	1994, 1996, 1999, 2006, 2008
Wake Forest	2007
Duke	1986	1995, 1982		2011, 1992
Florida State			2014	2007, 2013
Louisville		2010
N. C. State				1988

• Italics denote championships before the school was part of the ACC.

Facilities

School	Football stadium	Cap.	Soccer stadium	Cap.	Basketball arena	Cap.	Baseball stadium	Cap.	Softball stadium	Cap.
Boston College	Alumni Stadium	44,500	Newton Campus Sports Complex	—	Conte Forum	8,606	Eddie Pellagrini Diamond at John Shea Field	1,000	Shea Field	1,000
Clemson	Memorial Stadium	81,500	Riggs Field	6,500	Littlejohn Coliseum	10,000	Doug Kingsmore Stadium	4,500+	Non-softball school
Duke	Wallace Wade Stadium	33,941	Koskinen Stadium	4,500	Cameron Indoor Stadium	9,314	Jack Coombs Field Durham Bulls Park	2,000 10,000	Will add softball in 2017-18
Florida State	Bobby Bowden Field at Doak Campbell Stadium	82,300	Seminole Soccer Complex	2,000	Donald L. Tucker Center	13,800	Mike Martin Field at Dick Howser Stadium	6,700	JoAnne Graf Field at the Seminole Softball Complex	1,000
Georgia Tech	Bobby Dodd Stadium at Historic Grant Field	55,000	Non-soccer school		Hank McCamish Pavilion	8,600	Russ Chandler Stadium	4,157	Shirley Clements Mewborn Field	1,500
Louisville	Papa John's Cardinal Stadium	55,000	Dr. Mark & Cindy Lynn Stadium	5,300	KFC Yum! Center	22,090	Jim Patterson Stadium	4,000	Ulmer Stadium	2,200
Miami	Sun Life Stadium	65,000	Cobb Stadium	500	BankUnited Center	7,972	Mark Light Field at Alex Rodriguez Park	5,000	Non-softball school
North Carolina	Kenan Memorial Stadium	63,000	Fetzer Field	5,700	Dean Smith Center (M) Carmichael Arena (W)	21,750 8,010	Boshamer Stadium	4,100+	Anderson Stadium	500
North Carolina State	Carter–Finley Stadium	57,583	Dail Soccer Field	—	PNC Arena (M) Reynolds Coliseum (W)	19,722 9,500	Doak Field	3,000	Dail Softball Stadium	—
Notre Dame	Plays football as an FBS independent		Alumni Stadium	2,500	Edmund P. Joyce Center	9,149	Frank Eck Stadium	2,500	Melissa Cook Stadium	850
Pittsburgh	Heinz Field	65,500	Ambrose Urbanic Field at Petersen Sports Complex	735	Petersen Events Center	12,508	Charles L. Cost Field at Petersen Sports Complex	900	Vartabedian Field at Petersen Sports Complex	600
Syracuse	Carrier Dome	49,262	SU Soccer Stadium	1,500	Carrier Dome	35,446	Non-baseball school		Softball Stadium at Skytop	650
Virginia	Scott Stadium	61,500	Klöckner Stadium	3,600+	John Paul Jones Arena	14,593	Davenport Field	5,074	The Park	475
Virginia Tech	Lane Stadium	65,632	Thompson Field	2,028+	Cassell Coliseum	9,847	English Field	1,033+	Tech Softball Park	1,024
Wake Forest	BB&T Field	31,500	W. Dennie Spry Soccer Stadium	3,000	Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum	14,407	Wake Forest Baseball Park	6,280	Non-softball school

Academics

Atlantic Coast Conference Academic Consortium

Among the major NCAA athletic conferences that sponsor NCAA Division I FBS football, including the BCS "power conferences", the ACC has been regarded as having the highest academically ranked collection of members based on U.S. News & World Report and by the NCAA's Academic Progress Rate.

The members of the ACC also participate in the Atlantic Coast Conference Academic Consortium (ACCAC), a consortium that provides a vehicle for inter-institutional academic and administrative collaboration between member universities. Growing out of a conference-wide doctoral student-exchange program that was established in 1999, the ACCAC has expanded its scope into other domestic and international collaborations.

The stated mission of the ACCAC is to "leverage the athletic associations and identities among the 15 ACC universities in order to enrich the educational missions of member universities." To that end, the collaborative helps organize various academic initiatives, including fellowship and scholarship programs, global research initiatives, leadership conferences, and extensive study abroad programs. Funding for its operations, 90% of which is spent on direct student support, is derived from a portion of the income generated by the ACC Football Championship Game and by supplemental allocations by individual universities and various grants.

Major academic programs of the ACCAC include:

• An annual Meeting of the Minds (MOM) undergraduate research conference.
• An annual Student Leadership Conference.
• An annual Student President Conference.
• Creativity and Innovation Fellowship program in which each university receives $12,500 to award between two to five undergraduate students ACCAC fellowships for research or creative projects.
• Summer Research Scholars program in which every ACC university will receive $5,000 to support up to two of its undergraduate students in conducting research in residence at another ACC university during a minimum 10 week period over the summer.
• Coach for College program, primarily for student-athletes and run through Duke University with support from the ACCAC, that takes 32 ACC students to Vietnam for three weeks in the summer to coach hundreds of middle school children.
• Traveling Scholars program which allows PhD candidates from one ACC campus to access courses, laboratories, library, or other resources at any one of the other ACC member institution campuses.
• Clean Energy Grant Competition that helps coordinate geographically defined clusters of ACC universities in competition for United States Department of Energy Clean Energy Grants.
• Study Abroad Program collaborative which allows cross registration in study abroad programs enroll in programs sponsored by an ACC university other than their "home" university. A Student Study Abroad Scholarship program that awarded two to five ACCAC scholarships for study abroad was discontinued in 2013, but is targeted for renewal in 2014-15.

The ACCAC also supports periodic meetings among faculty, administration, and staff who pursue similar interests and responsibilities at the member universities either by face-to-face conferences, video conferences, or telephone conferences. ACCAC affinity groups include those for International Affairs Officers, Study Abroad Directors, Teaching-Learning Center Directors, Chief Information Officers, Chief Procurement Officers, Undergraduate Research Conference Coordinators, Student Affairs Vice Presidents, Student Leadership Conference Coordinators, and Faculty Athletic Representatives To the ACC.

Academics and Research

SchoolSe	Endowment (in billions)	Major Faculty Awards	TPR Academic Rating (scale of 60–99)	US News National Ranking	Washington Monthly National Rankings	ARWU US National Ranking	HEEACT Performance Ranking - US	Leiden Impact Ranking - US	SIR World Report Country Rank	URAP US Ranking	US News/QS World Rankings
Boston College	$2.131400	3	86	30	146	138	135	n/r	228	153	329
Clemson	$0.623262	6	81	61	158	110	144	118	138	120	601
Duke	$7.036776	26	92	8	4	28	13	25	22	14	20
Florida State	$0.624557	9	74	96	97	70	100	76	101	80	401
Georgia Tech	$1.889014	21	75	36	10	54	61	28	101	47	88
Louisville	$0.876825	6	n/r	168	61	138	102	105	128	102	n/r
Miami	$0.865435	4	83	51	217	68	60	83	70	48	231
North Carolina	$2.695663	32	82	30	26	30	18	32	30	20	57
North Carolina State	$0.885055	11	81	89	42	68	84	87	54	60	291
Notre Dame	$8.039756	11	84	18	16	86	101	66	129	94	235
Pittsburgh	$3.492839	26	80	66	111	39	19	46	15	17	98
Syracuse	$1.183244	9	76	61	31	100	139	n/r	183	146	451
Virginia	$5.945952	11	83	26	48	54	53	59	51	46	123
Virginia Tech	$0.796437	11	78	70	44	68	107	92	55	73	337
Wake Forest	$1.148026	4	92	27	103	110	81	88	119	87	317

See also

• ACC Athlete of the Year
• Atlantic Coast Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year
• List of Atlantic Coast Conference football champions
• List of Atlantic Coast Conference men's basketball regular season champions
• ACC Women's Basketball regular season
• ACC Men's Basketball Tournament
• ACC Women's Basketball Tournament
• Atlantic Coast Conference Baseball Tournament
• ACC Men's Soccer Tournament
• List of current ACC football announcers
• List of current ACC basketball announcers
• Atlantic Coast Rugby League

Further reading

• Walker, J. Samuel, ACC Basketball: The Story of the Rivalries, Traditions, and Scandals of the First Two Decades of the Atlantic Coast Conference. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2011.

External links

• Official website
• ACC Hall of Champions
• Official website of the ACCIAC