The SB Nation Preseason ACC Football Predictions
by furrer4heisman on Aug 18, 2010 1:20 AM EDT
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PrintI asked the 10 other ACC blogs affiliated with SB Nation and Brendan of From Old Virginia to submit their preseason ACC ballots for a different take on ACC football predictions. I wanted 12 votes, 12 blogs, 12 teams for equal representation. SBN only has affiliated blogs for 11 of the league's schools, so I asked Brendan to join the fun because he's the only Wahoo I've talked to for more than five minutes and not wanted to punch in the face.
I asked everybody to submit their predicted standings, league champion, offensive player of the year and defensive player of the year. The participants are myself (Virginia Tech), BC Interruption (Boston College), Shakin the Southland (Clemson), Duke Basketball Report (Duke), Tomahawk Nation (Florida State), From the Rumble Seat (Georgia Tech), Testudo Times (Maryland), The 7th Floor (Miami), Carolina March (North Carolina), Backing the Pack (NC State), From Old Virgina (Virginia) and Blogger So Dear (Wake Forest).
Results after the jump.
| Atlantic | Pts |
| Boston College (7) | 63 |
| Florida State (3) | 59 |
| Clemson (2) | 56 |
| NC State | 31 |
| Wake Forest | 23 |
| Maryland | 20 |
| Coastal | Pts |
| Virginia Tech (8) | 67 |
| Miami (4) | 59 |
| Georgia Tech | 49 |
| North Carolina | 39 |
| Duke | 23 |
| Virginia | 15 |
| ACC Champion | Offensive POY | Defensive POY |
| Virginia Tech - 7 | Christian Ponder - 4 | Allen Bailey - 4 |
| Miami - 3 | Ryan Williams - 2 | Robert Quinn - 4 |
| Clemson - 1 | Anthony Allen - 1 | Luke Kuechly - 2 |
| Florida State - 1 | Damien Berry - 1 | Alex Wujciak - 2 |
| Jacory Harris - 1 | ||
| Kyle Parker - 1 | ||
| Russell Wilson - 1 | ||
| Will Furrer - 1 |
So, there wasn't a huge difference between our vote and the official vote conducted at the ACC Football Kickoff. The standings in the Coastal are the same and we like Ponder and Quinn, although he shares the preseason DPOY with Bailey.
The only big difference is that in our vote, Boston College is moved up from third to first. I think our guys just have a lot more respect for BC's program than the media that gather every year for the official vote. After all, it's OUR teams that BC surprises consistently.
And I promise I didn't vote for former Virginia Tech quarterback Will Furrer. I voted for Ponder.
A huge thank you to the other 11 bloggers for making this idea possible. It couldn't have happened if we didn't get 100 percent participation and surprisingly there were hardly any that I had to poke with a cattle prod to get their vote in to me.
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I like it
Love that the ACC guys work together well on here.
I also love that SBNation hates the Hoos too
Live roughly 30 miles from the UVA campus
If the wind is right, I can smell the stench from here. :-p
If the thunder don't get ya then the lightning will!!
Robert Hunter
Seven people pick BC to win the Atlantic...
…but nobody picks them to win the ACC. NO RESPECT.
Good work guys – both division races could go a million different ways in 2010 – gonna be fun.
Brandon Rink - ACCBlogger.com/Raycom Sports
We'll you Virginia Tech...
and your little dog, too.
I write stuff From the Rumble Seat.
by BirdGT on Aug 18, 2010 10:43 AM EDT reply actions 2 recs
that made no sense
Better to have died a small boy than to drop this football - John HeismanFromTheRumbleSeat
by Winfield Featherston on Aug 18, 2010 11:20 AM EDT up reply actions
I think a word is missing . .
“We’ll get you, Va Tech, and your little dog too!”
(Picture a witch with green skin, hooked nose, big black hat and flying monkeys . . . )
But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
-Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia, 1782
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by furrer4heisman on Aug 18, 2010 12:04 PM EDT up reply actions
Question for you guys (not sure who to address this to)
Seems most people think BC wins the Atlantic.
Anyone care to give me a percentage win estimate for each of BC’s 8 conference games this year, and if you could include what you think BC’s, FSU’s, and Clemson’s record will be at the end of ACC play.
I had
BC and FSU at 6-2 and Clemson at 5-3 with BC having the tiebreaker over FSU.
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by furrer4heisman on Aug 18, 2010 1:07 PM EDT up reply actions
I don't go by percentages.
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by furrer4heisman on Aug 18, 2010 2:36 PM EDT up reply actions
Fair enough
I just think it’s a good way to account for SOS.
i.e. if you are playing 8 games in which you are matched evenly (meaning the point spread is 0) then you would be led to expect a 4-4.
My percentages have BC closer to 5-3 than 6-2.
Just wondering.
its all 50-50
either something will happen or it wont.
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by furrer4heisman on Aug 18, 2010 5:16 PM EDT up reply actions
Not trying to be a douche
But are you Bobby Bowden?…. “Half the teams lose every week”
When determining who you think is the better team, how do you personally account for SOS?
In the case of my ballot
I went through and picked every ACC game. I have BC losing to Virginia Tech and Maryland. I have FSU losing to BC and Miami.
I don’t look at is as “X will beat X, X out of 10 times.” I look at is as “I think this team will beat this team on this day, 1 out of 1 times.”
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by furrer4heisman on Aug 18, 2010 6:06 PM EDT up reply actions
We spent about 4 days debating it...
Winfield e-mailed me his thoughts and I suggested we put Duke ahead of UVA at 6th (shocker) and NCSU ahead of FSU at 3rd (bigger shocker!).
I write stuff From the Rumble Seat.
I'd love to see how you came up with NCSU at 3rd
Do you use percentages?
What were your predicted records?
line of logic
Everyone’s picking FSU, which annoys me. I’m going to slight them and put them lower than they should probably be. If I’m a right, I’m double happy. If I’m wrong, I still slighted FSU a little bit.
I also went with the Chan Gailey/Tommy Bowden theory. Whenever a coach in the ACC desperately needs to win 7-8 games to save his job, he does. Tom O’Brien is at that point.
I write stuff From the Rumble Seat.
by BirdGT on Aug 19, 2010 9:20 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Can I then ask
Who will be BC’s two losses?
VT and Clemson is who I’ll guess you’ll say.
You honestly think that Clemson beats BC 10 out of 10 times?
I think folks are finally
starting to see through the emperor’s (Jimbo’s) new clothes. Or perhaps folks, in wondering what impact all these players leaving/getting injured will have on the team, are finally digging beneath the surface and realizing that there wasn’t a whole lot there—at least defensively—to begin with.
The Atlantic will be WIDEDAFUCOPEN.
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by RiddickAndReynolds on Aug 18, 2010 2:01 PM EDT reply actions
Can I guess the 3 blogs that picked Miami?
7th Floor, Duke Basketball, and Carolina March… Those are the 3 I think picked Miami to win the ACCCG.
I write stuff From the Rumble Seat.
Bless His Heart
But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
-Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia, 1782
Boise will beat us...when have the Hokies ever won a high profile season opener?
(Yes, we would have beaten USC in 04, had the bogus Offensive PI call not been whistled)
And then we will lose 1 ACC game….
Depending on which one that is, and where it’s positioned in the schedule, we can probably still win the ACC….
I think that FSU or us will win the ACC title….if it’s them, and we come in 2nd…could be the 1st year the ACC gets two at-larges….
Or we could get disrespected again. As in ’00, when the thieving Catholics took our Fiesta Bowl bid….or like last year when there is no way Iowa with their home loss and loss to lowly NW should not have been the last at-large team taken….
Or like in the NCAA tournament 3x now…when we have finished 9-7 or better and gotten shut out of the Big Dance…
We are VT…home of never quite there….
Still looking forward to it…just wondering when Stinespring throws the first stink bomb flanker screen that gets nailed for a 4 yard loss on 1st down…..i say sometime in the early 2Q v Boise….
Prediction: 10-2, Probable ACC Champion, and yet already disapointed….this is what college football with no playoff system breeds…
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