2025 ACC Preseason Poll Analysis & Top League Contenders

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00:00Let's take a look at the ACC's preseason poll,

00:02and you tell me if we're missing something going into the season.

00:06Now, obviously, Clemson is stacked and ready to go.

00:09Miami is at number two.

00:11SMU coming off a great season number three.

00:13We have Georgia Tech at four, Louisville five, Duke six, FSU seven,

00:19the Fighting Belichicks eight from North Carolina, Pitt nine, NC State ten.

00:25I'm not going to go through the back five here

00:27because I don't think that they're going to have such great seasons.

00:29There's Vatek, Syracuse, Boston College.

00:32Of course, Cal is going to round it out, former PAC team there.

00:35So lots of entry going into the year.

00:37I mean, a lot of expectation that Clemson is back on top and dominant,

00:40which they haven't been in years.

00:42Miami's got quarterback changing with Beck coming in,

00:46and, of course, Cam Ward leaving.

00:47When you look at the schedule and you look at the teams,

00:49who do you got underrated?

00:51In terms of value to win the ACC championship,

00:56it's Clemson and then everybody else,

00:58but the three teams that you might look at

01:01as potentially having enough firepower to push the Tigers

01:04and maybe pull off an upset is Miami, Louisville, and possibly SMU

01:11because we saw how great that championship game was last year

01:13and SMU getting to the playoff.

01:15But there's really not a great value pick to win the ACC championship

01:21in terms of getting to the title game.

01:22Don't sleep on the Pitt Panthers who are picked ninth

01:26because this was a team last year that started 7-0 that brings a lot of guys back.

01:32The schedule isn't great, but in terms of a value play,

01:37just to get to an ACC championship, that might be one to keep an eye on.

01:41Wake Forest is 16th out of the 17 teams.

01:45That's a new coach in Jake Dickert,

01:46but they have the easiest schedule in all of high major football.

01:51So when you look at their over-under of four and a half wins for the year,

01:55you're going to win three of their non-conference games,

01:58maybe all four altogether.

01:59So all they'd have to do at a minimum is win their two league games

02:02to get to that over.

02:04I think with some of the talent on that roster that returns,

02:07they might be able to get over that mark.