Virginia Tech picked to win the ACC
Daily Press
2:08 PM EDT, July 27, 2009
GREENSBORO, N.C. - For the second time in the last three years, Virginia Tech is the favorite to win the Atlantic Coast Conference, according to a vote at the ACC football media days event
Tech, which will be led by Hampton High graduate Tyrod Taylor, finished atop the conference in 2007 after media picked the Hokies to win. Tech will have 16 starters returning from a team that also won the conference title last season, despite the fact that Clemson was deemed the media favorite heading into the season.
Tech will open its season Sept. 5 in Atlanta against Alabama. The ACC slate opens for Tech on Sept. 26 with a home game against Miami. In addition to five Coastal Division foes, Tech plays Atlantic Division opponents Boston College, Maryland and North Carolina State this season.
ACC Football Preseason vote (87 total votes)
Atlantic Division
Florida State (56 first-place votes) 479 total points; Clemson (14) 387; N.C. State (10) 364; Wake Forest (7) 295; Maryland 157; Boston College 145
Coastal Division
Virginia Tech (78) 512; Georgia Tech (9) 415; North Carolina 350; Miami 282; Virginia 148; Duke 120
Predicted ACC championship game winner
Virginia Tech 69; FSU 7; Georgia Tech 7; Clemson 2; N.C. State 2
Preseason ACC Player of the Year
Jonathan Dwyer, Georgia Tech 39; C.J. Spiller, Clemson 28; Russell Wilson, N.C. State 16; Christian Ponder, FSU 1; Vic Hall, U.Va. 1; Tyrod Taylor, Virginia Tech 1; Riley Skinner, Wake Forest 1
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