College Football Betting: ACC Atlantic Team Win Totals

Teams have been through spring practice and are now gearing up for summer training camp. Experts have been able to look at rosters and depth charts and compare how teams appear to stack up, at least on paper. Let’s look at some of these teams, focusing here on the ACC Atlantic Division. Before the season, does an over or an under make more sense when looking at a likely win total for 2021? Let’s find out.

Clemson Tigers
Over-Under: 11.5 wins

The Tigers are still the class of the ACC, and what really helps them this year is that their ACC schedule is very cushy. North Carolina and Miami are the two best teams in the ACC Coastal Division, but Clemson does not play either team within the ACC schedule. Clemson should be able to go unbeaten in the ACC. The Tigers’ one real regular-season test comes in Week 1 against Georgia. If Clemson is able to win that game (and the Tigers are favored by three points), Clemson will easily hit the over. If Clemson loses, it can still win all its other games, including the ACC Championship Game, and still finish 12-1. This team is the class of the ACC. It has not lost more than one regular-season game in several years. It will be harder for this team to lose two games than to lose none. The over should still be trusted with head coach Dabo Swinney’s team.

Boston College Eagles
Over-Under: 7 wins

The Eagles might be the most fascinating team in the ACC, and they are certainly one of the more interesting teams in the country. Boston College has at least three, possibly four, offensive linemen who are likely to be picked in next year’s NFL draft. Up front, this team will be really good on offense. However, Boston College has deficiencies at the skill positions and has a relatively unproven defense. Can the Eagles use their offensive line to grind the clock and control the ball? If they can do that at a very high level, this team could have a breakthrough season. If opposing defenses can dare the Eagles to pass and can contain the running game, this team won’t have a good season at all. It’s very hard to make a clear-cut decision on this particular over-under total.

North Carolina State Wolfpack
Over-Under: 6 wins

The Wolfpack are being severely underrated here. Last year’s team overachieved and won eight games despite an injury to promising young quarterback Devin Leary. Assuming Leary is fully healthy for this season, he should be able to pick up where he left off and deliver lots of wins to the Wolfpack. North Carolina State makes sense as the second-place team in the ACC Atlantic behind Clemson. If this team does finish second in the division, it will easily win more than six games. This is a clear call.

Louisville Cardinals
Over-Under: 6.5 wins

The Cardinals had a terrible 2020 season. They were young, but they still fell well below expectations. Coach Scott Satterfield badly stumbled on the job, and a lot of people might not know that a Louisville recruiting coordinator just left his job this past week, after only four months on the job. This departure occurred when in-person recruiting visits are beginning again in June after a year without them due to the pandemic. It really seems that Satterfield is already losing his grip on the program. The momentum is clearly moving toward the under here. Get Louisville at under 6.5 wins while you can, because the total is probably going to move to 6 wins and might even slide to 5.5 before the season opener in two and a half months.