07-31-2024, 09:24 PM
(07-31-2024, 09:15 PM)Giants Wrote:(07-31-2024, 03:30 PM)cardcrimson Wrote:(07-31-2024, 02:52 PM)Mick Wrote: Sports Illustrated's preseason ranking of the ACC in football, with first place votes in parentheses. Doesn't bode well for us:
- Florida State (81)
- Clemson (55)
- Miami (17)
- NC State (8)
- Louisville
- Virginia Tech (5)
- SMU
- North Carolina
- Georgia Tech (1)
- Cal (2)
- Duke
- Syracuse
- Pittsburgh
- Boston College (1)
- Wake Forest
- Virginia
- Stanford
ACC football power rankings, order of finish at 2024 Media Days (si.com)
We do a little better with ESPN's computer model (win prediction in parentheses):
- Florida State (8.8)
- Clemson (8.5)
- Louisville (8.0...not a typo, it's out of order in the article)
- Miami (8.3)
- SMU (8.3)
- NC State (8.0)
- North Carolina (7.5)
- Cal (7.0)
- Virginia Tech (7.0)
- Duke (6.1)
- Pittsburgh (6.4)
- Georgia Tech (4.9)
- Boston College (5.6)
- Stanford (5)
- Syracuse (5.8)
- Wake Forest (5.3)
- Virginia (4.6)
I have little trust in anything SI puts out these days. . . .
It wasn’t SI. It was the media vote by those media members who follow the ACC.
Kudos to the two media members who gave Cal first place votes. Have to wonder what the media member who gave the first place vote to #14 overall Boston College was thinking...
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