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Where did Virginia Tech finish in the final SP+ rankings before the 2024 season?
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Where did Virginia Tech finish in the final SP+ rankings before the 2024 season?

Virginia Tech has its season opener against Vanderbilt in just under two weeks, and it will be the start of one of the most highly anticipated seasons in recent memory for the Hokies. Virginia Tech returns a lot of production from last year’s team, including a dynamic quarterback, a strong running game, and a very good defense. Will Virginia Tech be able to live up to expectations this season and compete for an ACC title?

One of the best power rating and predictive ranking systems is ESPN college football analyst Bill Connelly’s SP+. Today, Connelly released the final SP+ rankings for the 2024 season, and Virginia Tech came in at No. 36 overall, with the No. 43 projected offense, No. 35 defense, and No. 14 special teams unit.

What exactly is SP+? This is how Connelly describes it himself:

“As always, these are based on three main factors: the performance of the returning players (final rankings are at the bottom of this article), recent recruiting, and recent history. How good have you been recently? Who have you brought back? How good are the players replacing the ones not coming back? That’s pretty much what we ask when we set expectations for a team; it’s also what these projections objectively try to do.

As always, SP+ is a tempo- and opponent-adjusted measure of college football efficiency. It is a predictive measure of the most sustainable and predictable aspects of football, not a resume ranking, and in that sense, these projections are not intended as a guess as to what the AP Top 25 will look like at the end of the year. These are simply early offseason power rankings based on the information we have been able to gather so far.”

This is the ACC ranking in SP+ at the start of the season:

1. Florida State (ranked 12th nationally)

2.Clemson (16)

3. Miami-Dade County (19)

4. SMU (27)

5. NC State (29)

6. Louisville (31)

7. Virginia Tech (36)

8. North Carolina (40)

9. Duke (51)

10. Cal (52)

11. Georgia Tech (58)

12. Pitts (66)

13. Syracuse (67)

14. Boston College (73)

15. Wake Forest (74)

16.Stanford (77)

17. Virginia (78)

Here’s how Virginia Tech’s 2024 opponents fare in the SP+ ranking

1. Clemson (16 nationally)

2. Miami-Dade County (19)

3.Rutgers (49)

4. Duke (51)

5. Georgia Tech (58)

6. Syracuse (67)

7. Boston College (73)

8.Stanford (77)

9. Virginia (78)

10. Vanderbilt (89)

11. Marshall (95)

12. Old Dominion (111)

As you can see above, Clemson and Miami are the only teams ranked ahead of Virginia Tech in their preseason schedule. If the Hokies can beat the teams they are rated higher than this year, they could make it to the ACC Championship if they can find a way to split the Miami-Clemson matchups. Don’t miss the games against Rutgers and Georgia Tech, though.

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