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The Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) is a collegiate athletic conference located in the United States. Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina , the ACC's eighteen member universities compete in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)'s Division I .
The Mustangs became an official member of the ACC on July 1 while the Cardinal and Golden Bears officially joined the conference on Aug. 2. SMU joined the ACC from the American Athletic Conference ...
The 2024 Atlantic Coast Conference football season, part of the 2024 NCAA Division I FBS football season, was the 72nd season of college football play for the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). This was the ACC's first season with 17 members, after the additions of California, SMU, and Stanford. The entire schedule was released on January 24 ...
Stanford and Cal arrive from the ashes of the Pac-12, while SMU spent tens of millions of dollars to facilitate its move away from the American Athletic Conference. So the ACC will have 17 teams ...
The charter members of the ACC were Clemson, Duke, Maryland, North Carolina, North Carolina State, South Carolina, and Wake Forest. [3] The seven ACC charter members had been aligned with the Southern Conference, but left due in part to the conference's ban on postseason play. [4] The ACC officially came into existence on June 14, 1953. [3]
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.
With three new teams joining the ACC in 2024, the league has revealed its new football scheduling model and the conference opponents for the next seven seasons.
The conference initially planned to resume sponsoring gymnastics once Pittsburgh joined in 2013–14, [17] but backed away from those plans once Maryland announced its 2014 departure for the Big Ten. The ACC women's gymnastics league expanded from 4 to 6 teams in 2024–25 with the arrival of California and Stanford.