TNIAAM’s ACC football power rankings for week 1
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With the full college football season kicking off this week, let’s look at the first TNIAAM ACC Football Power Rankings of 2026. We saw a few teams in action in week 0, so let’s get right to it….
- Duke
- Are they the best team? Probably not, but the defending ACC Champs stay at the top until they play a game
- Miami
- Clear favorites to win the ACC in 2026, but we’ll start Miami in a spot they are more familiar with- not #1
- SMU
- will this be the year the Mustangs break through? They’ve been the most impressive ACC newcomer since BC joined twenty years ago
- Louisville
- a question at QB but a lot of talent on the roster. The opener with Ole Miss will be pretty big for the Cardinals and the ACC
- Virginia
- looked pretty impressive in the win over NC State. Can last year’s darlings repeat the magic?
- Clemson
- who stays in their lane on Saturday night- the most basic bitch coach in all of CFB or Dabo? Another big chance for the ACC to swing the narrative in week 1
- Pitt
- is Hentschel going to take another step forward?
- Georgia Tech
- how will the Other Mendoza do? I mean if he leads GT to a National Title then there has to be some crazy multiverse stuff happening
- Cal
- speaking of Mendozas, you have to imagine the Calgorithm was worried that JKS was going to head to Indiana in the portal
- Virginia Tech
- James Franklin wants fans to wear Orange and stay four quarters….is he willing to actually coach four quarters or nah?
- Wake Forest
- the 8-win team no one really talks about
- Syracuse
- Steve Angeli’s got us thinking the Orange could be underrated this fall
- NC State
- what a dud of an opener but never forget that the 1st loss of Stanley Cup Playoffs for Carolina came when Dave Doeren did the intro
- UNC
- Fran Brown better watch out for shenanigans when the Orange visit Chapel Bill
- Florida State
- the most exciting moment of the week for Noles fans was reading that the SEC could possibly kick LSU out
- Stanford
- survived Timmy Chang’s Gang in an opener attended by dozens of students who thought it was a freshman orientation
- Boston College
- this could be the last two months that Bill O’Brien can count on BC basketball to make him look better
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