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Message: [QUOTE="atom58, post: 1483796, member: 5312"] Another couple of very interesting things the old map shows: (1) the teams in the Mid-Atlantic region that would form the ACC in 1953 were all members of the Southern Conference, which like the Ivy League today, had a ban on post-season play, and (2) the major West Coast conference was the Pacific Coast Conference (PCC). When the ACC formed to escape the ban on bowl games, many names were put forward, but the name Atlantic Coast Conference was the one adopted, I think owing to the fact the PCC was a pretty big deal at that time and the East Coast geography went with the ACC name: [URL]http://www.webcitation.org/65Bl9Updo[/URL] I couldn't copy and paste the names (suggested by sports fans) from the address above but many of them had a "Deep South flavor". As SWC75 mentioned, the PCC disintegrated in 1959 b/c of numerous scandals: [URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Coast_Conference[/URL] [/QUOTE]