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ACC
Grid Picks

North Carolina's Tar Heels
were picked to capture the
Atlantic Coast Conference
football crown this Fall by 23
writers and sports casters who
completed a tour last week of
the leagues eight grid camps.

Coach Bill Dooley's club,
which tied for third place in
the ACC race a year ago with a 3-3
record and finished with a 5-5
overall mark, got the nod over
South Carolina's defending conference
champions in the pre-season
balloting. The Gamecocks won the
title last year with a perfect 6-0
league slate.

With eight points for a first
place finish, seven for second, and
so on, North Carolina received 177
points to the Gamecocks' 67. The
Tar Heels received 16 first place
votes and seven for second.

South Carolina got the remaining
seven first place votes, along
with 15 for second and one for
third. The two clubs will face each
other at Chapel Hill on Oct. 10.

Clemson, with a new head coach
in Cecil "Hootie" Ingram, received
the only second place vote not
given to North Carolina or South
Carolina. The Tigers got the nod for
third place with 125 points. Duke
was the choice for fourth place
with 110.

North Carolina State took fifth
place in the balloting with 93
points with Virginia edging Maryland,
59 points to 57, for sixth
place. Wake Forest was eighth in the
voting with 40 points.

The first conference games are
scheduled for Sept. 19.