Media poll: FSU will win ACC crown
The Seminoles are the overwhelming choice by ACC media members to win the conference title, garnering 60 of 95 votes.
Virginia Tech was picked to win the Coastal Division, while Virginia was picked fourth on that side of the league. Clemson receiver Sammy Watkins is the preseason ACC Player of the Year, edging Logan Thomas by four votes and Florida State’s E.J. Manuel by six.
ACC Title (votes out of 95)
Florida State (60)
Virginia Tech (18)
Clemson (13)
Georgia Tech (3)
N.C. State (1)
Coastal (votes to win division)
Virginia Tech (83)
Georgia Tech (10)
North Carolina (2)
Virginia
Miami
Duke
July 23, 2012 - 1:20 PM
This does not surprise me at all. This mark the second year in a row that Florida State was picked, and they didn’t last year. I think it’s Clemson that should be the pick. I know, Florida State is still the darling that everyone want to ask out, but what folks forget is how ugly she truly is on the inside.
I seriously doubt Virginia will finish fourth in the division. Second place, ahead of the Bumbling Bees, and behind Virginia Tech. Just as it was last season. That’s my vote and I am sticking to it.
You never want to be picked to win it. Never.
However . . . if I were picking the divisions and winner I would be pretty close on those.
I’d flip/flop Miami/UVA, but who would have EVER, in a bazillion trillion years thought Miami would be picked to finish 5th in their ACC division? I would have expected two more Ice Ages to occur, and the return of the dinosaurs before that would have ever happened. Thank goodness for Duke, keeping them out of the cellar, and if the smart guys play a good game or two . . . . well, you just never know.
I don’t see Sammy Watkins as POY, though. WRs never do what is expected, in terms of the hype. It only takes a couple of bad games, or a good lock-down CB to make them irrelevant.
The POY award is Logan Thomas’ to lose, and only EJ Manuel’s to take away from him.
Pre-season polls are just guesses. Let the games begin.
Aaron, if you are an offensive line nerd, wouldn’t you say that Georgia Tech wins the Coastal because they are fielding their strongest line in years? How would you rank the teams in the division in predicted order of finish?
I guess that Bowl game thumping Clemson took from WVU showed too many chinks in the Tiger armor for the voters, though they were weaknesses that the Hokies sure couldn’t find last year. FSU’s defense is supposed to be lights out this season and if Emanuel will stop throwing INT’s at the worst possible times they will be tough to beat. Still love da Hokies to go BCS bowling for the ACC again though….come on Labor Day!
Trevor — Yep, winner on Labor Day will win Coastal — just as it’s been for that series the past seven years. Give Hokies edge because it’s in Blacksburg, but VT-GT are my top two on that side.
I don’t agree with the theory that the VT-GT winner plays in Charlotte.
VT could win, lose to Clemson and FSU, and GT slide home the rest of the way and pull off the championship, although it takes a big win at Clemson.
On the other hand, VT could lose, pull off a couple of big wins, against Clemson and FSU (mostly, at Clemson), GT lose at Clemson (highly likely) plus another PJ slip up, and the Hokies are touring the NASCAR HOF in December.
Too many games after the first one to say the winner in Blacksburg is Charlotte bound. The winner is ‘likely’ Charlotte bound, but I’d put the odds at less than fifty %.
Death penalty? Wasn`t feeling to well this morning so I laid out of work and watched TV hoping to recover quickly. I saw the death penalty being discussed in Indiana and Colorado. Being discussed very differently. The Penn St. victims were not consulted on its application while the families of the theater victims will have a say. I know, completely different circumstances but to hear the death penalty discussed twice in the same morning by all the news stations is probably unprecedented. The action those two men took will affect many lives for years to come. I should have gone to work. after watching that stuff i feel worse then I did this morning.
A conference championship is all the Hokes ever shoot for. Choke city from then on.
It’s interesting how the ACC has evolved. The thought nearly a decade ago was that Miami & F$U would dominate. Miami’s done virtually nothing, and F$U has hardly kept up their performance. Clemson has won their division, what, one time? UNC never has won, UMd hasn’t, NC State doesn’t do as well as UNC. The charter schools were the ones to sag to the middle of the conference, while the invitees are on top.
VT has won the ACC crown 4 years. Anyone here know of those 4 times how often the ACC media had them picked to win it?
Scott — The media have picked Tech to win the league three times: 2007, 2009 and 2010. Hokies have been picked to win the Coastal every year except ’06, when Miami was.