2023 ACF Nationals
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| Champion | Georgia Tech A | |
| Runner-up | Chicago A | |
| Third | Cornell A | |
| Fourth | WUSTL A | |
| High scorer | Matt Jackson | |
| Undergrad Champion | Yale | |
| Undergrad Runner-up | Brown | |
| Undergrad High scorer | Hari Parameswaran | |
| Site | MIT | |
| Field | 48 | |
| Stats | [1] | |
The 2023 ACF Nationals was hosted by ACF at MIT.
It was head-edited by Taylor Harvey, with Caroline Mao, Will Nediger, William Golden, Grant Peet, Michael Kearney, Hasna Karim, Adam Silverman, Jonathen Settle, Vivian Malouf, Sameer Apte, and Ganon Evans subject-editing.
After winning a play-in game against Cornell, Georgia Tech A, led by Matt Bollinger, won two games in a disadvantaged final against Chicago A to take the title. In doing so, they became the most recent back-to-back ACF champion, ending an eleven-year period in which no team successfully defended its ACF title (which Yale did in 2012).
In another repeat, Yale defeated Brown to take the undergraduate title. WUSTL B took the DII championship.
Trivia
- Due to unanticipated "travel hell" [2], Bollinger was unable to arrive at the tournament until Georgia Tech A had already played five rounds of prelims. The team went 6-1 in the prelims, taking a loss to Duke (which ultimately carried over into playoff standings) while Bollinger was absent.
- Chicago A and Chicago B both went undefeated in their respective prelim brackets. This is the first time a single school has fielded two teams that went undefeated in the prelims at a collegiate national championship. [citation needed]
- Cornell secured its first Top-4 finish at ACF Nationals, after it went 5-2 in the prelims and won a tiebreaker against North Carolina (also 5-2) to advance. It got to do this because North Carolina took a loss to Iowa State, then tied Chicago B in the regular game and lost on the tiebreaker tossup. If Chicago B had lost that game, they and UNC would have gone 6-1, which would have pushed Cornell into the second playoff bracket (and a maximum potential finish of 13th place).
- This was the fourth national championship to have a finals in which Matts Bollinger and Jackson played against each other (the previous three were 2012 ACF Nationals, 2013 ICT, and 2014 ICT).