The voters in the ACC pre-season media poll have short memories and were not influenced by Clemson’s failure to win the league’s football championship last season. In the results of last week’s voting released Tuesday afternoon, Clemson was the strong favorite to win the championship for the seventh time in eight years. NC State was second in the voting order followed by Miami.
ACC Preseason Poll (164 total votes)
Overall Champion
Clemson – 103
NC State – 38
Miami – 8
Wake Forest – 4
Pitt – 3
Virginia – 3
Florida State – 2
North Carolina – 2
Boston College – 1
Atlantic Division (First-place votes in parenthesis)
Clemson (111) – 1,080
NC State (44) – 959
Wake Forest (6) – 783
Louisville – 591
Florida State (2) – 509
Boston College (1) – 469
Syracuse – 201
Coastal Division (First-place votes in parenthesis)
Miami (98) – 1,036
Pitt (38) – 911
North Carolina (18) – 823
Virginia (6) – 667
Virginia Tech (3) – 592
Georgia Tech (1) – 343
Duke – 220
