The time has come for another Atlantic Coast Conference Championship Game, and if you plan to be there when a new ACC champion is declared, you’d best claim your ACC Championship Game tickets now.
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ACC Championship Game Tickets Information
The Atlantic Coast Conference (or ACC) is the NCAA Division 1-A college football league for the affiliated schools on the East Coast of the United States. The members of the ACC are: the Boston College Eagles, the Clemson Tigers, the Duke Blue Devils, the Florida State Seminoles, the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, the Maryland Terrapins, the Miami Hurricanes, the North Carolina Tar Heels, the NC State Wolfpack, the Virginia Cavaliers, the Virginia Tech Hokies, and the Wake Forest Demon Deacons.
At the close of every NCAA college football conference season, the best ranked team from the ACC Coastal Division battles the best ranked team from the ACC Atlantic Division for the title of ACC Conference champions for the year. The winner of the ACC Conference Championship Game goes on to represent the Atlantic Coast Conference in the Bowl Championship Series.
The ACC Championship Game is sponsored by Dr. Pepper and will be held this year at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida. For the next two years, the game will be played at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina.
The Atlantic Coast Conference Championship Game is a relatively new event, having only started in 2005, the first season that the ACC was comprised of 12 teams thanks to that year’s addition of Boston College (on the heels of the previous year’s addition of the University of Miami and Virginia Polytechnic Institute).
At that first ACC Championship Game on December 3, 2005 at what was then known as Alltel Stadium, Florida State was crowned conference champion, beating out Virginia Tech 27-22, the 12th championship captured by the Seminoles since 1992, when they started ACC league play.
The current league champions for two straight years are the Virginia Tech Hokies, having beat Boston College in the 2008 ACC Championship Game 30-12.
With only 5 years since its inception, the ACC hasn’t had a chance to develop many championship game conference records, but it has produced five MVPs (most recently Sean Glennon and Tyrod Taylor of the Hokies).
The 2009 Dr. Pepper ACC Championship Game takes place on December 5, 2009 at 1pm Eastern Time. It will be broadcast nationwide on ABC Sports and ESPN, but who wants to watch in on TV when you can see it live? Get your ACC Championship Game tickets before they’re all gone.