{"id":98,"date":"2010-07-26T09:49:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-26T16:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsports.us\/?p=98"},"modified":"2010-07-26T09:49:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-26T16:49:00","slug":"va-tech-picked-to-win-acc-state-unc-each-picked-for-4th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=98","title":{"rendered":"Va. Tech picked to win ACC; State, UNC each picked for 4th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Virginia Tech is the preseason favorite in ACC football, being picked to win the league on 50 of 98 ballots by media at the ACC Football Kickoff in Greensboro.<\/p>\n<p>Florida State quarterback Christian Ponder was the ACC preseason player of the year, with 45 votes. N.C. State&#8217;s Russell Wilson and UNC&#8217;s Robert Quinn tied for fourth with six votes. <\/p>\n<p>Florida State was picked to win the Atlantic Division and received the second-highest total of votes (26) to win the league overall.<\/p>\n<p>The Triangle schools didn&#8217;t fare well. N.C. State was picked fourth in the Atlantic, with UNC picked for fourth in the Coastal and Duke fifth in the Coastal.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the totals:<\/p>\n<p><b>Atlantic Division<\/b><br \/>Fla. State&nbsp; 565<br \/>Clemson 479<br \/>Boston College 389<br \/>N.C. State&nbsp; 283<br \/>Wake 203<br \/>Maryland 139<\/p>\n<p><b>Coastal Division<\/b><br \/>Va. Tech 532<br \/>Miami 444<br \/>Ga. Tech 408<br \/>UNC 379<br \/>Duke 169<br \/>Virginia 126<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virginia Tech is the preseason favorite in ACC football, being picked to win the league on 50 of 98 ballots by media at the ACC&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}