We’ve been building towards it all week with our team preview releases, but here are our ACC preseason rankings as voted on by 14 writers on the Student Union staff.

  1. Clemson (12)
  2. Miami (2)
  3. Florida State
  4. Virginia Tech
  5. NC State
  6. Boston College
  7. Georgia Tech
  8. Louisville
  9. Pittsburgh
  10. Wake Forest
  11. Duke
  12. Syracuse
  13. North Carolina
  14. Virginia

Will these be 100% correct? Likely not, but I hope so. Surprisingly, our poll lines up very similarly to the actual ACC preseason media poll despite us completing this a week ago. Personally, I think North Carolina will be better than they are given credit for and I think Virginia Tech is the most likely team in the ACC to be a disappointment. One thing is obvious, Clemson should be the best team in the conference by a large margin and Miami likely doesn’t have any challengers in the Coastal, setting up a rematch of last year’s title game.