Atlantic Coast Conference — Football

The Atlantic Coast Conference has had a significant impact on this year's National Football League Playoffs

Fourteen players from seven different schools will represent the Atlantic Coast Conference in the 2012 Senior Bowl.

A U.S. Under-19 National Team alum and Virginia Tech junior, Wilson announced today that he will forego his senior season with the Hokies and enter the 2009 NFL Draft.

More than 1,000 children age 5 to 14 took part in USA Football FUNdamentals clinics in Indianapolis and Charlotte, N.C., as part of the Big Ten and ACC championship weekends.

The West Virginia Mountaineers were tough to slow down, and only the Orange Bowl mascot could stop Darwin Cook.

Brendan Gibbons drilled a 37-yard field goal down the middle in overtime to lift No. 13 Michigan to a 23-20 victory over 17th-ranked Virginia Tech in the Sugar Bowl on Tuesday night.

Playing without its top quarterback and running back, Auburn used tandems at each position to set a season scoring high and down Virginia 43-24 in the Chick-fil-A Bowl on Saturday night.

Clemson's Dabo Swinney, who took the Tigers to 10 wins, including a win over Virginia Tech in the Atlantic Coast Conference championship game, has been named the Bobby Dodd Coach of the Year.

John White plowed into the end zone from 8 yards out to give Utah a 30-27 overtime victory against Georgia Tech in the Sun Bowl on Saturday.

Vick Ballard ran for a career-high 180 yards and two touchdowns to lead Mississippi State over Wake Forest 23-17 Friday night in the Music City Bowl.

Florida State rallied from a 14-point second-half deficit and used a pair of touchdown passes by E.J. Manuel and two field goals from Dustin Hopkins to slip past Notre Dame 18-14 in the Champs Sports Bowl on Thursday night.

Mike Glennon threw for 264 yards and three touchdowns and David Amerson returned an interception 65 yards for a touchdown as NC State defeated Louisville 31-24 in the Belk Bowl.

Missouri made sure its final football game as a member of the Big 12 was decided early. James Franklin ran for two touchdowns and threw for another, and the Tigers easily beat North Carolina 41-24 in the Independence Bowl on Monday night.

Boston College linebacker Luke Kuechly won the Bronko Nagurski Award given to the nation's top college defensive player.

Boston College Linebacker Luke Kuechly was named the 2011 winner of the Lott IMPACT Trophy at the annual awards banquet here Sunday night.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will hire Larry Fedora, who led Southern Miss to an 11-2 record and 2011 Conference USA championship, as the Tar Heels' next head football coach.

Clemson junior tight end Dwayne Allen was the recipient of the John Mackey Award Thursday evening at the Home Depot College Football Awards show in Orlando, FL.

Boston College linebacker Luke Kuechly has won the Lombardi Award as the nation's top collegiate lineman.

NC State cornerback David Amerson has been named the recipient of the 2011 Jack Tatum Award, which is given annually to the top defensive back in college football by The Touchdown Club of Columbus. Amerson, a first-team All-ACC performer who is also a finalist for the Jim Thorpe Award, is the FBS leader in interceptions with 11 this season, setting a new school record and tying the ACC single season mark.

For the first time in its 14 years in the Bowl Championship Series (BCS), the Atlantic Coast Conference has had two teams selected to participate in BCS Bowl games in the same year.