It seems no matter the year, Florida State and Virginia Tech will be favorites to compete for the ACC championship.
2012, you’re lacking some originality here.
The Seminoles and Hokies have been selected by the media to play in this year’s ACC title game once again. The media also selected FSU to beat Virginia Tech for the conference championship and Clemson receiver Sammy Watkins was selected as Preseason Player of the Year.
Here’s how the voting shook out with first place votes in parenthesis and total points on the right of the column.
| Atlantic Division | |
| 1. Florida State (72) | 543 |
| 2. Clemson (17) | 470 |
| 3. NC State (5) | 402 |
| 4. Wake Forest | 241 |
| 5. Boston College | 181 |
| 6. Maryland | 148 |
| Coastal Division | |
| 1. Virginia Tech (83) | 558 |
| 2. Georgia Tech (10) | 328 |
| 3. North Carolina (2) | 341 |
| 4. Virginia | 326 |
| 5. Miami | 245 |
| 6. Duke | 04 |