![]() note Notre Dame already has annual rivalries with Pitt and Boston College as well as a dormant but historically significant rivalry with Miami. The conference also has a strong affiliation with Notre Dam the Fighting Irish agree to play five games each season against ACC teams. Many of the ACC's acquisitions came from the dissolved Big East's former powerhouses, making it an unofficial Spiritual Successor to the old conference (a reputation bolstered by many of the schools being better known for their basketball programs). The conference has since expanded to include schools from across the entire United States from as far north as Boston, as far south as Miami, and as far west as California, making the Atlantic Coast an Artifact Title as the conference now hosts two Pacific Coast teams. (Founding member South Carolina left the ACC in 1971 in part due to this disparity.) It was the second of today's Power Five to leave the SoCon, after the SEC. The Atlantic Coast Conference (or just ACC) was formed in 1953 by eight schools in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States that seceded from the now-FCS Southern Conference, with the bulk concentrated in North Carolina. ![]() All are listed in order of their careers at their schools.Ĭurrent schools: Boston College, California, Clemson, Duke, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Louisville, Miami, North Carolina, North Carolina State, Pittsburgh, SMU, Stanford, Syracuse, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Wake Forest note Notre Dame competes in the ACC in other sports, but its football program is independent Individuals who have their own pages on this wiki, such as politicians and entertainers (including pro wrestlers), also qualify. "Historic" figures include names mentioned in the program description or who have entries on the Collegiate American Football Names To Know or National Football League Names to Know pages. For independent schools and FCS conferences, see Collegiate American Football Conferences. For information on the other five FBS college conferences, check out Group of Five Conferences. We try to provide context and qualifications when possible, but this isn't The Other Wiki. Since the NCAA doesn't even officially recognize a national champion at the FBS level, teams are often inconsistent with what titles they acknowledge, sometimes leaving them unclaimed even if picked by numerous selectors and other times jumping on a title given by a random panel that no other school takes seriously. College programs (and even colleges themselves) frequently dissolve and reform, change divisions and conferences, play in games not recognized by the NCAA, have wins officially rescinded due to rule violations, and do other things that make it hard to judge schools' true performance. note Disclaimer: Listing win-loss numbers and even national championships is complicated, to say the least. Win-loss records are (mostly) accurate as of the end of the 2023 season. This page lays out the alignments of college football conferences as of the upcoming 2024 season and provides a description of their more prominent programs. The decimation of the Pac-12 in 2024 has made "Power Five" into an Artifact Title, as few expect that conference to remain nationally relevant-if it even survives. The term "Power Five" only began being used in the 2000s it wasn't long ago when there was a "Power Six" that included the now defunct Big East. There are few official differences between these five Football Bowl Subdivision conferences and the other five, but it remains widely used by sports media and fans. ![]() Currently the Power 5 consists of the Atlantic Coast Conference, the Big Ten Conference, the Big 12 Conference, the Pac-12 Conference, and the Southeastern Conference, alongside the independent program of Notre Dame note Info on the Fighting Irish is viewable HERE. ![]() These teams are also frequently featured, referenced, and parodied in other American media. On any given Saturday in the fall, most of the major broadcast and sports networks on American television will feature matchups of these schools, often littered with references to 150+ years of history and figures that the casual viewer might find confusing. The Power Five conferences of Collegiate American Football are the ones most casual fans think of when they hear the term "college football", featuring many teams with well over a century of history and absolutely rabid fanbases.
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