Complete results of ACC preseason media poll; Hokies picked to win league
Darryl Slater
Jul 26, 2010
The ACC preseason media poll is to be taken with a grain of salt large enough to cause severe hypertension.
Since 2000, the league’s media vultures are 5-5 with picking the champion. Since expansion to 12 teams in 2005, the media has had 10 chances to pick the winner of the Atlantic and Coastal divisions. They did it correctly four times: 2005, when Florida State won the Atlantic and Virginia Tech won the Coastal; 2007, when Tech won the Coastal; and 2008, when Tech won the Coastal again. Last season, the media picked Tech to beat Florida State in the conference championship game. Georgia Tech wound up beating Clemson.
If nothing else, this makes for interesting bar-stool conversation, so here you go (first-place votes in parantheses) ...
ATLANTIC DIVISION
Florida State (78) … 565
Clemson (16) … 479
Boston College (4) … 389
N.C. State … 283
Wake Forest … 203
Maryland … 139
COASTAL DIVISION
Virginia Tech (62) … 532
Miami (20) … 444
Georgia Tech (11) … 408
North Carolina (5) … 379
Duke … 169
Virginia … 126
ACC CHAMPIONSHIP
Virginia Tech … 50
Florida State … 26
Miami … 10
Georgia Tech … 8
Boston College … 2
North Carolina … 2
CHAMPIONSHIP MATCHUPS
Virginia Tech over Florida State … 35
Virginia Tech over Clemson … 13
Florida State over Virginia Tech … 11
Florida State over Miami … 10
Miami over Florida State … 9
Georgia Tech over Florida State … 7
Florida State over North Carolina … 3
Virginia Tech over Boston College … 2
Florida State over Georgia Tech … 2
Miami over Clemson … 1
Georgia Tech over Clemson … 1
Boston College over Georgia Tech … 1
Boston College over Virginia Tech … 1
North Carolina over Florida State … 1
North Carolina over Clemson … 1
PLAYER OF THE YEAR
QB Christian Ponder, Florida State … 45
RB Ryan Williams, Virginia Tech … 16
QB Tyrod Taylor, Virginia Tech … 11
QB Russell Wilson, N.C. State … 6
DE Robert Quinn … 6
QB Joshua Nesbitt, Georgia Tech … 4
QB Kyle Parker, Clemson … 3
LB Mark Herzlich, Boston College … 2
QB Jacory Harris, Miami … 2
RB Montel Harris, Boston College … 1
RB Darren Evans, Virginia Tech … 1
LB Bruce Carter, North Carolina … 1
