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Atlantic Coast Conference

Established	1953
Classification	Division 1-A
National Titles	94
Commissioner	John Swofford
Members	12
Sports Fielded	23 (11 Mens, 12 Womens)
States	7 (Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia)
Headquarters	Greensboro, NC
Website	theacc.com

The Atlantic Coast Conference consists of 12 schools on the Atlantic Coast. Founded in 1953, it has certainly increased its competition with new expansion.

[edit] History

The Atlantic Coast Conference was founded on May 8, 1953, at the Sedgefield Inn near Greensboro, N.C., with seven charter members -- Clemson, Duke, Maryland, North Carolina, North Carolina State, South Carolina and Wake Forest -- drawing up the conference by-laws.

The withdrawal of seven schools from the Southern Conference came early on the morning of May 8, 1953, during the Southern Conference’s annual spring meeting. On June 14, 1953, the seven members met in Raleigh, N.C., where a set of bylaws was adopted and the name became officially the Atlantic Coast Conference.

On December 4, 1953, conference officials met again at Sedgefield and officially admitted the University of Virginia. The first, and only, withdrawal of a school from the ACC came on June 30, 1971 when the University of South Carolina tendered its resignation.

The ACC operated with seven members until April 3, 1978, when Georgia Tech was admitted. The Atlanta school withdrew from the Southeastern Conference in January of 1964. The ACC then expanded to nine members on July 1, 1991, with the addition of Florida State.
(source: TheACC.com)

[edit] ACC Expansion

The ACC gained Miami and Virginia Tech in 2004. Both schools made quick impacts as they both finished at the top in football, and definitely impacted the basketball season, which was unexpected. Miami also made a large impact in Baseball that year. With the 2005 football season coming around, Boston College was added.

With the expansion to 12 teams, the ACC schedule could no longer accommodate a home-and-away series between every pair of teams each season. In the new scheduling model, each team is assigned two permanent partners and nine rotating partners over a three-year period. Teams play their permanent partners in a home-and-away series each year. The rotating partners are split into three groups: three teams who are played in a home-and-away series, three teams who are played at home, and three teams who are played on the road. The rotating partner groups are rotated over the three-year period.