{"id":355415,"date":"2026-07-28T21:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T21:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/355415\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T21:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T21:38:11","slug":"miami-hurricanes-picked-as-overwhelming-favorite-to-win-the-acc-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/355415\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Hurricanes picked as overwhelming favorite to win the ACC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/tag\/miami-hurricanes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Miami Hurricanes<\/a> are the team to beat in the ACC.<\/p>\n<p>After reaching the national title game last season, Miami was picked as the preseason favorite by conference media members, the ACC announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Miami received 165 first-place votes. Clemson received seven first-place votes, followed by SMU with six, Louisville with four, Florida State with three and Georgia Tech with two. Stanford also received a first-place vote.<\/p>\n<p>The Hurricanes, who have been in the conference since 2004, had previously been named the preseason favorite one time, in 2006. Miami, which went 9-3 the season before, went 7-6 that season. UM was picked as the No. 2 team in the ACC last year; Clemson was voted the favorite.<\/p>\n<p>Despite getting many preseason plaudits, the Hurricanes are not buying into the hype, coach Mario Cristobal said recently.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s never been a part of anything and never will,\u201d Cristobal said on WQAM on July 15.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis talk about (being) hunted and all that B.S. Do you know what that is? Complete garbage, OK? Our coaches, our organization, are completely committed to getting the absolute best out of our players and focusing on what we do on a daily basis. Not narratives, not storylines, not predictions or none of that stuff. The \u2018Canes are ready to roll. So let\u2019s get this thing going.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Said quarterback Darian Mensah on WQAM on July 15: \u201cI don\u2019t really pay attention to the expectation. We\u2019ve got practice tomorrow, so I\u2019m just trying to be exceptional at practice. I\u2019m not really focused on what other people have to say about this team. I\u2019m really just focused on the team itself.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Miami Hurricanes are the team to beat in the ACC. After reaching the national title game last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4028,123,125,5079,124],"class_list":["post-355415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-acc","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-hurricanes","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}