How The Preseason Magazines View the ACC

FSU and Virginia Tech are consensus favorites in the Atlantic and Coastal Divisions with the magazines released thus far as they are with bettors.

Atlantic Division
After the Seminoles, the Atlantic is very bunched from spots 2-5. Some disagreement exists as to where Clemson will finish as two magazines have them 2nd and two others 4th.  Athlon clearly thinks Mike Glennon will have no drop off from Russell Wilson picking NC State 2nd.  Wake is a consensus 6th right now and their overall standing will likely not change.

Coastal Division
Over in the Coastal, more separation exists with Miami being a fairly clear second choice behind VT followed by North Carolina.  It gets a little more interesting in the 4th spot where Georgia Tech is picked except by The Sporting News which has the Jackets finishing 5th behind UVA.  Like Wake, Duke brings up the rear by consensus. 

Rank	Team	Total Points	TSN	Lindy	Athlon	Phil Steele
Atlantic
1	Florida State	4	1	1	1	1
2	Clemson	12	4	2	4	2
3	Maryland	13	2	3	3	5
4	N.C. State	15	5	5	2	3
5	Boston College	16	3	4	5	4
6	Wake Forest	24	6	6	6	6
Coastal
1	Virginia Tech	4	1	1	1	1
2	Miami-Florida	8½	2	2	2	2½
3	North Carolina	11½	3	3	3	2½
4	Georgia Tech	17	5	4	4	4
5	Virginia	19	4	5	5	5
6	Duke	24	6	6	6	6

Go check out Team Speed Kills for a writeup on the SEC preseason magazine predictions.

If you want to see how the mags are predicting the other conferences as well as historical picks, check out Stassen.com