http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/30/sports/ncaafootball/acc-orlando-football-championship-game.html 2016-09-29 19:37:20 A.C.C. Moves Football Championship Game to Orlando The game, typically played in Charlotte, was pulled from North Carolina earlier this month in response to a controversial state law. === The Atlantic Coast Conference’s football championship game, typically played in Charlotte, N.C., but As previously scheduled, the game, between the winners of the Atlantic and Coastal Divisions, will kick off the evening of Saturday, Dec. 3. Earlier this month, the A.C.C., a North Carolina-based conference that counts four universities in the state among its most prominent members, announced that it would move all of its neutral-site championship events out of the state for the coming academic year in response to a law, known as House Bill 2, that is seen to discriminate against the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. That move came several days after the N.C.A.A. made a similar announcement about its championships, and a few months after the N.B.A. pulled its 2017 All-Star Game out of Charlotte. The A.C.C. championship game is no stranger to the state of Florida, and two teams in the state, Florida State and Miami, are conference members. But this is the first time the game will be held in Orlando.