Cal receives two first place votes in ACC preseason media poll, picked 10th

The California Golden Bears contain multitudes in the Atlantic Coast Conference.

Credit: Cal Football

170 ACC media members voted in their preseason poll.

Two of them think the California Golden Bears will win the ACC.

What lords. What fortune-tellers. Build the monuments.

The plurality of the remaining media members has Cal in the soft middle of the conference.

What doubters. What haters. They can’t see the vision.

It’s hard to read much into this. It’s unlikely most of the ACC has actually ever watched a Cal game. Cal’s rival on the Farm was picked last by a vast margin, likely for similar reasons.

But we have two major fans at least!

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In a stroke of tough luck, Cal will play the 1st, 3rd and 4th projected ACC teams on their schedule. But they also play 7th, 12th, 13th, 15th and 17th.

It’s safe to say that if Cal does not finish the season with a winning ACC record, we will be spending our Thanksgiving shopping on pitchforks.

2024 ACC Preseason Poll

1. Florida State (81 1st place votes), 2708 points

2. Clemson (55), 2657 points

3. Miami (17), 2344 points

4. NC State (8), 2318

5. Louisville, 1984 points

6. Virginia Tech (5) 1968 points

7. SMU, 1798 points

8. North Carolina, 1712 points

9. Georgia Tech (1), 1539 points

10. Cal (2), 1095 points

11. Duke, 1056 points

12. Syracuse, 1035 points

13. Pitt, 1016 points

14. Boston College (1), 890 points

15. Wake Forest, 784 points

16. Virginia, 629 points

17. Stanford, 477 points

Where do you think Cal will end up ranked? Let us know in the poll and the comments.