ACC Atlantic Division
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| Established | 1953 |
| Association | NCAA |
| Division | Division I FBS |
| Members | 15 |
| Sports fielded | 27 (men's: 13; women's: 14) |
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| Headquarters | Greensboro, North Carolina |
| Commissioner | John Swofford (since 1997) |
| Website | www |
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The Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) is a collegiate athletic conference in the United States of America 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 on May 8, 1953 in Greensboro, North Carolina at the Sedgefield Country Club, by seven universities located in the South Atlantic States, the conference added additional members in December 1953 (Virginia), 1978 (Georgia Tech), 1992 (Florida State), 2004 (Miami, Fl. & Virginia Tech), 2005 (Boston College), 2013 (Notre Dame & Syracuse) and 2014 (Louisville). The additions in recent years 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 effective July 1, 2014. On November 28, 2012, the ACC's Council of Presidents voted unanimously to invite the University of Louisville as a full member, replacing Maryland effective July 1, 2014.
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