Editing Atlantic Coast Conference (section)

====1978 and 1991 expansions====
The ACC operated with seven members until the addition of [[Georgia Institute of Technology|Georgia Tech]] from the [[Metro Conference]], announced on April 3, 1978, and taking effect on July 1, 1979, except in football, in which Tech would remain an independent until joining ACC football in 1983. The total number of member schools reached nine with the addition of [[Florida State University|Florida State]], also formerly from the Metro Conference, on July 1, 1991, in non-football sports and July 1, 1992, in football. The additions of those schools marked the first expansions of the conference footprint since 1953, though both schools were still located with the rest of the ACC schools in the South Atlantic States.