The Cavaliers received two first-place votes in the ACC Preseason media poll and finished in third place with 697 points.
Florida State took the top spot for the 13th straight season, barely edging out newcomer Miami. The Seminoles received 49 first-place votes and 925 points, while the Hurricanes accumulated 36 tallies for the top spot and 913 points overall.
Right behind Virginia was Clemson, which finished fourth with 664 points, followed by Maryland (653), Virginia Tech (511), N.C. State (509) and Georgia Tech (365). Wake Forest (273), North Carolina (184) and Duke (114) round out the last three spots.
Virginia coach Al Groh told the Richmond Times-Dispatch that if he was picking, he would have ranked Clemson ahead of his Cavaliers because of the importance of returning a starter at the quarterback position and because the Tigers "might have been playing better than anybody at the end of [last] year"
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