The 2012 ACC Championship Game was the eighth football championship game for the

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. It featured the winners of the ACCs two divisions, the Atlantic Division's

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and the Coastal Division's

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. With three teams tied for the first place in the Coastal Division, only Georgia Tech was eligible for the Championship Game. Miami self-imposed a postseason ban in a bid to lessen possible NCAA sanctions (see

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). North Carolina was serving a one-year bowl ban handed down by the NCAA as part of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill football scandal.

This was the game's third consecutive year at

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