
The 2022 championship game will be the last one matching the Atlantic Division winner vs. The ACC has the second most CFP appearances of any conference. The winner of the conference championship game has gone on to play in the National Championship Game or compete in the College Football Playoff in eight of the last nine seasons, including two teams in 2020. The game’s attendance record is 74,514 for the 2015 contest between Clemson and North Carolina, which also set an attendance record for Bank of America Stadium at the time. The ACC has the second-highest average attendance of any Power 5 conference championship game since 2010. Not including the 2020 game, which had limited attendance due to the pandemic, ACC Football Championship Games played at Bank of America Stadium have had an average attendance of nearly 70,000 fans. The game is played annually at Bank of America Stadium on the first Saturday in December.
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In April 2018, the ACC, Charlotte Sports Foundation and Carolina Panthers announced a 10-year agreement that will keep the ACC Football Championship Game in Charlotte through the 2030 season. Bank of America Stadium, home of the NFL’s Carolina Panthers, will serve as the host venue for the 12th time overall. The 18th annual Subway ACC Football Championship Game will be televised nationally at 8 p.m. () – Tickets for the 2022 Subway Atlantic Coast Conference Football Championship Game are now on sale via and through the ACC’s official website,. Clemson won 35-28 in what was one of the more competitive title games.GREENSBORO, N.C. 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.

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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.
