2025-26 College Football Atlantic Coast Conference Championship Odds & Picks

Rainman M.
September 8, 2025

With your NCAAF best bets in mind, now is a great time to consider ACC future bets. Before the season, questions loomed about every team but especially about those teams that underwent significant upheaval during the offseason. Florida State, in particular, was a team that we needed to see in regular season action before assessing its potential. That being said, oddsmakers are slow to make adjustments. Because some ACC teams are performing surprisingly well or surprisingly bad, the odds seem to be pretty inaccurate right now. As bettors hunting for value, we want to exploit this inaccuracy.

2025-26 ACC Winner Odds

ACC Teams to Watch

Clemson Tigers (+160)

By a significant margin, Clemson is favored to win the ACC. This might seem reasonable in view of its season-opening win over LSU. However, one should bear in mind that LSU has never won a season opener under their head coach Brian Kelly. Other teams that victimized LSU in recent season-openers include a USC squad last year that finished the regular season 6-6. So, Clemson’s victory over LSU hardly seems spectacular.

Most recently, Clemson struggled to get past lowly Troy. The Tigers won, although they continued to show concerning weaknesses that had already contributed to their difficulties against LSU. In particular, Clemson’s offense is rather weak. Clemson lacks, for example, a reliable rush attack. Clemson had a lower YPC average against LSU than Louisiana Tech did. On the season, Clemson ranks 119^th in rush offense.

Without a strong rush attack, Clemson’s offense becomes one-dimensional and simpler for defenses to stop. This one-dimensionality places too great a burden on its quarterback and on the Clemson defense.

The odds suggest that Clemson’s season should be a cakewalk. But the odds are off. The conference this year is too competitive to justify investing in Clemson at this price.

Miami Hurricanes (+260)

Miami is a big brand school that always gets rated highly at the beginning of the year both in the polls and by the media. The Hurricanes didn’t live up to their annual hype last year, and they won’t this year, simply because their roster isn’t good enough.

They had the eventual top pick in the NFL Draft last year in Cam Ward and still failed to make the ACC Championship Game. With Ward, they had an electric playmaker at quarterback who ignited his team’s entire offense. However, their defense was atrocious: Miami ranked 70th in scoring defense, giving up over 30 points to teams like Cal and Virginia Tech.

The Hurricanes thus far do not show promise in this respect: they gave up 24 points to Notre Dame even though the Irish lost their starting quarterback to the NFL. His replacement was a freshman, who, making his first ever start, played very well. Luckily for Miami, Notre Dame doesn’t have the defense that it did last year. But the Hurricanes will run into too many opponents that can very realistically beat them, including Florida State, Louisville, and Pittsburgh. Therefore, they are a bad bet especially at this price.

Florida State (+700)

I find it absolutely wild that Florida State is priced so far behind Miami and Clemson when nothing so far indicates that those teams are even the slightest bit better than the Seminoles. These odds reflect Florida State’s terrible season last year when it had an abysmal quarterback who is now gone. In the offseason, the Seminoles made so many changes to their personnel and coaching staff. This is now a new squad that cannot be judged by what happened last year.

For its season-opener, Florida State was dogged by two touchdowns to number 8 Alabama and nevertheless won by two touchdowns. Most recently, the Seminoles beat their opponent by 74 points. When you contrast the Seminoles thus far with Clemson and its lackluster offense and with Miami and its continually fragile defense, then the takeaway becomes clear: Florida State is a great get right now at +700.

Expect the Seminoles to continue thriving with their dual-threat quarterback, who is efficient as a passer and dangerous as a runner and with their balanced offense that features ample supporting talent at the running back and wide receiver positions. Their defense held the Tide to 56 fewer points than Bama’s last opponent did.

Ready, Set, Place Your Bets

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