The ACC media have picked FSU to beat Virginia Tech in the 2012 ACC Championship Game in Charlotte. VT vs. FSU in the ACCCG is a familiar refrain. Since expansion, the ACC has held seven ACC Championship Games, and the media have picked the ‘Noles and Hokies to meet in the game five times. This year makes it six out of eight.
The exceptions? 2006 (FSU-Miami was predicted) and 2008 (Clemson-VT).
In the six predicted FSU-VT games, including this year’s, the media have picked the Hokies to win three and the Seminoles to win two. (In 2005, the media picked the two teams to face off in the ACCCG, but they weren’t asked to predict a winner.)
What’s the full history of media predictions since the 2004 expansion? You’ve come to the right place.
2004:
Prediction: Overall winner: FSU; VT Prediction: #6
Champion: VT
2005
Prediction: FSU vs. VT, no champion picked
Championship: FSU 27, VT 22
2006:
Prediction: FSU vs. Miami, no champion picked (VT picked #2 in Coastal)
Championship: Wake Forest 9, Georgia Tech 6
2007:
Prediction: VT over FSU
Championship: VT 30, Boston College 16
2008
Prediction: Clemson over VT
Championship: VT 30, Boston College 12
2009:
Prediction: VT over FSU
Championship: Georgia Tech 39, Clemson 34
2010:
Prediction: VT over FSU
Championship: VT 44, FSU 33
2011:
Prediction: FSU over VT
Championship: Clemson 38, VT 10
2012:
Prediction: FSU over VT
Never let a journalist use numbers. Vowels, nouns, and modifiers is all they can handle.
Dead on. Math is the 4th language of “Journalists”. Excepting Will of course.
Just shows how meaningless the predictions are!
I don’t know … the media sure have respected the hell out of the Hokies since 2004. VT was coming off three bad seasons in a row that year (2001-2003), and were picked #6. They won the conference. Since then, the Hokies have been picked to win the Coastal seven out of eight times.
I remember writing an article one time about Big East media predictions, which followed a similar pattern. After a few years of under-rating the Hokies, the BE media, starting around 1999, consistently picked the Hokies #1 or #2 in the conference. That worked in 1999 and 2000, but 2001-2003 (combined BE record of 11-10) predictions for VT were WAY off.
Reminds me a bit of the late 80′s/early 90′s when Chris Berman of ESPN would predict the 49ers vs the Bills in every Super Bowl. While he never once got both teams right, he got half of the Super Bowl correct in 7 consecutive years.
If you just keep voting for FSU vs VT out there year after year, you would have correctly picked at least one ACCCG participant in 6 of 8 years without ever going out on a limb with your vote.