The 2005 ACC Championship Game was the inaugural contest of the game held to decide the winner of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) championship in American college football. Held December 3 at Jacksonville Municipal Stadium in Jacksonville, Florida, between the Virginia Tech Hokies and the Florida State Seminoles, the game was the final contest of the regular season for the two teams. Florida State and Virginia Tech had previously played in the 2000 National Championship Game. In 2004 Virginia Tech had won the last ACC Championship to be awarded without playing a championship game at the end of the season. In the 2005 season Tech lost only one regular season conference game, to the fifth-ranked Miami Hurricanes, and won the Coastal Division title. Florida State earned a bid to the ACC Championship Game by fighting through an Atlantic Division schedule that included several nationally ranked teams. Florida State won the game 27–22.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1910:

Freda Du Faur became the first woman to climb Mount Cook, the highest peak in New Zealand. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freda_Du_Faur

1959:

The current flag of Singapore was adopted, six months after the island became self-governing within the British Empire. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Singapore

1979:

As per the results of a two-day referendum, the current Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran was adopted. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_1979_Iranian_constitutional_referendum

2009:

A suicide bombing in Mogadishu, Somalia, killed 25 people, including three ministers of the Transitional Federal Government. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Hotel_Shamo_bombing

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

confusedly: In a confused manner. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/confusedly

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more — the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort — to death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires — and expires, too soon — too soon before life itself.   --Joseph Conrad https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joseph_Conrad