List of Atlantic Coast Conference football champions

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.

A 2005 expansion that admitted Boston College gave the ACC the required 12 members needed for divisional play and a championship game.

It returned to Florida in 2016 when it was held at Camping World Stadium in Orlando, but moved back to Charlotte in 2017 where the championship game is slated to remain through 2030.

[6] After South Carolina's departure, the ACC operated with seven members until April 3, 1978, when the Georgia Institute of Technology was admitted.

The Atlanta school had withdrawn from the Southeastern Conference in January 1964 and had operated as an independent before joining the ACC.

[12] Miami and Virginia Tech began official ACC play with the 2004 season,[14] but because the league was forbidden from hosting a championship game, the conference was forced to award a championship based on regular-season play (round-robin scheduling was no longer used beginning that season).

In the lowest-scoring conference championship game in Division I history, Wake defeated Georgia Tech, 9–6.

[21] The 2008 ACC Championship Game was held in Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida, on December 6, 2008.