NCAA rules also forbade a championship game due to the league having only 11 members.Ī 2005 expansion that admitted Boston College gave the ACC the required 12 members needed for divisional play and a championship game. The league did not employ tiebreaking procedures, such as head-to-head results, to determine a single champion, and thus it was not unusual for a season to end with "co-champions." With a 2004 expansion of the league to include Miami and Virginia Tech, round-robin play became impossible due to an NCAA limit on the number of games a team may play during the season and the unwillingness of the league to hold more than eight conference games per season per team. Four teams- Miami, Boston College, Syracuse, and Louisville-have never won an ACC football championship, while two schools that are no longer a member of the league hold championships: Maryland holds nine championships and South Carolina holds one championship.īetween 19, the championship was normally earned in round-robin regular-season play among all conference members, although in earlier years league teams did not typically play every possible ACC opponent. Sixteen teams have competed in the conference since that year. Clemson won 35-28 in what was one of the more competitive title games.The Atlantic Coast Conference football champions includes 11 distinct teams that have won the college football championship awarded by the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) since its creation in 1953. So I think this kind of eliminates that and you can get the two best teams.”Ĭlemson and North Carolina have met once previously in the ACC Championship Game, in 2015. “You change up the division, you start chasing that, well, as soon as you do that this side and this team gets good. You don’t ever know who’s going to become great. “Clemson at the time, we were just a solid team, it just didn’t work out that way. “I don’t know this, but when they probably put his league together in the beginning, it was like, ‘OK, let’s set this up for Florida State and Miami,’ ” said Swinney, whose team will be shooting for its seventh ACC title in eight years. The Big Ten is expected to follow in 2024 when UCLA and Southern California join that league and the SEC is expected to do the same when Texas and Oklahoma join the fold in 2025. The ACC will be joined by the Big 12, Pac-12, American and Mountain West conferences in doing away with divisional play next year. But that’s the way the structure is right now.” “You look around at some championships and the next best team’s not playing in the game. “We didn’t win the division so we didn’t get to go to Charlotte, but we were probably the second-best team. “In years past, 2012, 20, we were pretty good, but didn’t get to play for the championship because we lost to Florida State,” Clemson coach Dabo Swinney said. Given the mismatches that have unfolded in many instances over the past decade, that in itself justifies a change. There’s no guarantee that it couldn’t happen when divisions are no longer in play, but the move certainly helps ensure that the two best teams in the league will end up playing for the championship.
Normally when you have divisions that doesn’t happen.” I always thought it was a little awkward playing somebody twice (in a season). “But right now, on Saturday TCU’s going to play Kansas State for a second time. NO FLIPPING OUT: Clemson football coach Dabo Swinney still awaiting first spatula from Tennessee fans SHIP HAPPENS: Clemson football's Will Shipley heads Tigers' first-team All-ACC selections TOUGH TIMES: Clemson football: What in the world has become of 'Wide Receiver U'? “We had the same thing in the Big 12 – North and South – and then we did away with it when some teams left and I understood because we only had 10 teams. “I thought it was so cool that you can win a division championship,” Brown said. North Carolina coach Mack Brown, whose team won the Coastal crown for a second time this season, was one of the few ACC head coaches to vote against the dissolving of divisions. View Gallery: South Carolina football, Spencer Rattler beat Clemson Tigers in photosĪlthough having no divisions should enhance the competitiveness of the title game, not everyone is fully on board with the change.
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