List of Atlantic Coast Conference football champions
This page lists winners of the football championship of the Atlantic Coast Conference since its founding in 1953.
Until 2003, the championship was normally won in round-robin regular-season play among all conference members, although in some years the round-robin was not employed. 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 the 2004 expansion to include Miami and VPI, round-robin play became impossible due to NCAA limits on the number of games a team may play during the season, but NCAA rules also forbade a championship game due to the league having only 11 members.
The 2005 expansion including Boston College gave the ACC the requisite number of members for divisional play and a championship game; from 2005 on, the conference champion will be the winner of the ACC Championship Game between the regular-season winners of the Atlantic and Coastal divisions. The site of the first title game (2005) was Alltel Stadium in Jacksonville, Florida.
Champions by Year
Championships by School
| School | Championships | Years |
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| Clemson | 13 | 1956, 1958, 1959, 1965 1966, 1967, 1978, 1981 1982, 1986, 1987, 1988 1991 |
| Florida State | 12 | 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 2000, 2002, 2003, 2005 |
| Maryland | 9 | 1953, 1955, 1974, 1975 1976, 1983, 1984, 1985 2001 |
| Duke | 7 | 1953, 1954, 1955, 1960 1961, 1962, 1989 |
| NC State | 7 | 1957, 1963, 1964, 1965 1968, 1973, 1979 |
| North Carolina | 5 | 1963, 1971, 1972, 1977 1980 |
| Virginia | 2 | 1989, 1995 |
| Georgia Tech | 2 | 1990, 1998 |
| Wake Forest | 2 | 1970, 2006 |
| South Carolina | 1 | 1969 |
| VPI | 1 | 2004 |
| Miami | 0 | |
| Boston College | 0 |
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