The ACC had several teams ranked in the top 25 as the 2025 season got underway over the past week. I think we knew the top half of the ACC would be decent to good, and there’d be some middling teams, and others who would absolutely stink.
There were no major surprises, aside from FSU dominating Alabama. Georgia Tech had a solid win on the road against Colorado, and Virginia Tech was competitive with South Carolina for most of the game. NC State avoided a second consecutive loss to ECU, and Wake Forest avoided a disastrous loss against Kennesaw State. Syracuse tried to make it competitive against Tennessee before getting blown out.
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Miami squeaked by a Notre Dame team that doesn’t have a good offense right now. Clemson lost a hard-fought battle against an LSU team that looked legit.
The ACC schedule that FSU will face is what we thought, mostly teams FSU should handle after seeing what we saw on Saturday. Here are my ACC Power Rankings after week one:
- FSU (1-0)
- Miami (1-0)
- Louisville (1-0)
- Clemson (0-1)
- SMU (1-0)
- Georgia Tech (1-0)
- Duke (1-0)
- Virginia (1-0)
- NC State (1-0)
- Pittsburgh (1-0)
- Boston College (1-0)
- California (1-0)
- Syracuse (0-1)
- Virginia Tech (0-1)
- Wake Forest (1-0)
- North Carolina (0-1)
- Stanford (0-1)
Week two will be an interesting test for Duke when they host No. 11 Illinois and Virginia travels to play NC State in a non-conference game. Baylor will travel to SMU, Vanderbilt will travel to Virginia Tech, Boston College travels to Michigan State, and Stanford travels to BYU. The rest of the ACC will play mostly non-conference games against teams they should beat handedly.