FSU football: ACC Power Rankings after week four

I had FSU football in the top half of my preseason ACC Power Rankings, and I look like I was on the right track overall.

The Noles look like they could be one of the most complete teams in the conference. We saw them dominate Boston College, who I had ranked last in my power rankings last week.

Miami embarrased themselves with Middle Tennessee State dominating them for 60 minutes in a home loss. We saw Wake Forest take Clemson to double overtime, but week five is where the pretenders will be separated from the contenders.  Clemson travels to NC State and Wake Forest travels to FSU football.

Anyways, here are my updated rankings after four weeks by division and then overall as a conference:

ACC Atlantic

• Clemson (4-0, 2-0 ACC)
• FSU (4-0, 2-0 ACC)
• Syracuse (4-0, 2-0 ACC)
• NC State (4-0, 0-0 ACC)
• Wake Forest (3-1, 0-1 ACC)
• Louisville (2-2, 0-2 ACC)
• Boston College (1-3, 1-2 ACC)

ACC Coastal

• Pittsburgh (3-1, 0-0 ACC)
• Duke (3-1, 0-0 ACC)
• North Carolina (3-1, 0-0 ACC)
• Miami (2-2, 0-0 ACC)
• Virginia (2-2, 0-1 ACC)
• Virginia Tech (2-2, 1-1 ACC)
• Georgia Tech (1-3, 0-1 ACC)

Overall Power Rankings

1. Clemson
2. FSU
3. Syracuse
4. Pittsburgh
5. NC State
6. Wake Forest
7. Louisville
8. Duke
9. North Carolina
10. Miami
11. Virginia
12. Virginia Tech
13. Georgia Tech
14. Boston College

Parting Thoughts

FSU will have a shot to secure themselves at the top of the conference over the next three weeks as they take on Wake Forest, NC State, and Clemson. I’ve seen enough to know Syracuse is a fraud program, but I couldn’t drop them since they beat Virginia and those ranked below them played non-Power Five programs and won.

I think Wake Forest would beat them, but I can’t have them leapfrog everyone when they lost, even thought it was a double overtime loss against Clemson. Louisville moves up after throttling South Florida and Miami sinks after their embarrassing loss. The bottom half of the ACC is real bad.