23rd Ranked North Carolina, 9th Ranked Clemson Are Playing For Atlantic Coast Conference Championship Tonight In Charlotte At Bank Of America Stadium Home Of NFL's Carolina Panthers

23rd ranked North Carolina, 9th ranked Clemson are playing for Atlantic Coast Conference Championship at Bank Of America Stadium home of NFL’s Carolina Panthers.

Why?

Because both North Carolina, Clemson finished first in their divisions. North Carolina finished first in the Coastal Division of Atlantic Coast Conference. Clemson finished first in the Atlantic Division of Atlantic Coast Conference. North Carolina finished with a regular season overall of 9-3 6-2 in the Coastal Division of the Atlantic Coast Conference. Clemson finished with a regular season overall record of 10-2 8-0 in the Atlantic Division of the Atlantic Coast Conference

Though,

this regular season was the final time of North Carolina , Clemson playing in their divisions as the Atlantic Coast Conference became the latest conference to get rid of divisions in favor of a new scheduling format Starting in 2023, the league announced it will move to a 3-5-5 format, in which each team has three permanent rivalry games played annually, with the other 10 opponents rotating on an every-other-year basis.

The plans for a shift back to a single-division format gained steam during the league's spring meetings in May, with the ACC hoping to improve its TV inventory of marquee games and set up a league championship game that would include its two best teams annually. Interestingly, the new format would not have altered the teams playing in the ACC title game in seven of the past eight years.

“According to David M. Hale’s article on espnapp”

Kick off is set for 8:00pm from Bank Of America Stadium!

The game is going to be televised on ABC!