Portal:Atlantic Coast Conference
The Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) is a collegiate athletic league in the United States. Founded in 1953 in Greensboro, North Carolina, the ACC sanctions competition in twenty-five sports in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association for its twelve member universities. It also operates an academic consortium known as the Atlantic Coast Conference Inter-institutional Academic Collaborative that helps to foster inter-institutional collaborations between its member's academic and research programs. In 2011, the conference announced it was adding Syracuse and Pittsburgh to expand to fourteen members beginning in the 2013 academic year. In 2012, the ACC announced it would add Notre Dame in all sports but football and hockey. Also in 2012, the University of Maryland's Board of Regents voted to withdraw from the ACC to join the Big Ten Conference. On November 28, 2012, the ACC's Council of Presidents voted unanimously to invite the University of Louisville as a full member, replacing Maryland.[1] ACC football teams participate in the Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), the higher of two levels of Division I college football. The ACC is considered one of the current six "power conferences," and the ACC football champion receives an automatic bid to one of the Bowl Championship Series games each season. Template:/box-footerLua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Box-header/colours' not found.  Pitt has consistently placed in the top cluster of U.S. public research universities and among the overall top 25 research universities according to the Center for Measuring University Performance, is listed as one of U.S. News & World Report's top 20 public universities, and has been listed among the best colleges for the quality of life of its students. Pitt has also been named as a "best value" by various publications, and has appeared in multiple rankings of the world's top universities. Pitt is among the nation's and world's most active research institutions as evidenced by its $899 million in annual research expenditures, its receipt of the fifth largest amount of federally sponsored research funding among U.S. universities, and its election as one of the 62 North American members of the Association of American Universities. Pitt and its medical school are also closely affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, one of the nation's leading academic medical centers. Pitt is popularly recognized for, among other things, its centerpiece building, the Cathedral of Learning and for its central role in developing the first polio vaccine. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Box-header/colours' not found.  The university's athletic program is one of only five current NCAA Division 1A schools to have won multiple national championships in both football (9) and basketball (2), and the Panthers have been ranked as having among the best combinations of football and basketball programs by multiple publications over the past decade. Traditionally the most popular sport at the university is football which has been played at the school since 1889. The University has helped pioneer the sport by, among other things, helping to innovate the use of uniform numbers, being part of the first live football game radio broadcast, and desegregating the Sugar Bowl. Some of football's all-time greatest coaches and players have plied their trade at Pitt, including Pop Warner, Jock Sutherland, Mike Ditka, Tony Dorsett, Dan Marino, Larry Fitzgerald and Darrelle Revis. Among the top schools in terms of all-time wins, Pitt teams have claimed nine national championships and boast 87 players that have been chosen as first-team All-Americans. Pitt football plays its home games at Heinz Field and has practice facilities located at the UPMC Sports Performance Complex. Pitt football is coached by Paul Chryst. Pitt began playing men's basketball in 1905 and won two Helms Foundation National Championships in 1927–28 and 1929–30 when coached by Naismith Hall of Fame inductee "Doc" Carlson. Following a Final Four appearance in 1941, Pitt appeared in a handful of NCAA tournaments prior to entering the Big East Conference in 1982 after which it began to reemerge on the national statge. In the 2000s, it has achieved a level of consistent national competitiveness that has included 10 straight NCAA tournament appearances with five Sweet 16 appearances and an Elite Eight appearance in 2009. Pitt men's basketball plays its home games at the Petersen Events Center and is coached by Jamie Dixon.
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 Sutherland replaced Warner as Pitt's head football coach in 1924. At Pitt, where he also held a professorship in the School of Dentistry, Sutherland compiled a record of 111–20–12 running a double-wing formation known as the "Sutherland Scythe". Sutherland's teams at Pitt were named Eastern football champions seven times, appeared in four Rose Bowl games not including the 1938 invitation that Pitt turned down, and were named "National Champions" by various selectors for nine different seasons, five of which are recognized by the university. After years of tension with the school's administration over financial support, Sutherland resigned in 1938 when the school instituted a policy of de-emphasis for the football program. Described as "a national hero" by the Saturday Evening Post, Sutherland's career winning percentage of .812 remains one of the all-time best in college football. During World War II, Sutherland served in the United States Navy achieving the rank of Lieutenant commander. Upon his returning from the war, Sutherland became the head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers until his unexpected death from a brain tumor in 1948. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1951 and a street and residence hall on Pitt's campus are named for him.
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