ACC Championship Game Lines: Virginia Tech Hokies vs. Clemson Tigers Preview

The Virginia Tech Hokies and the Clemson Tigers will face each other on Saturday at Bank of America Stadium in the ACC Championship Game, televised on ESPN.

Sometimes even the most obvious plays work – and this looks to be today’s ‘Captain Obvious Award’ winner, hands-down.

Talk about the proverbial two teams headed in opposite directions: Va Tech has played the role of runaway train lately, winning every road game this betting season while covering all three in this price range.

And Clemson? The Chad Morris-run offense that was blowing the doors off everyone in the early season has lost more than one cylinder in recent weeks, going 1-3 SU and 0-4 ATS while averaging a mere 18.6 PPG over that time span.

Not so for the Hokies, who have been hitting the 30-point mark with regularity.

Va Tech has also been counting the days to this rematch with the Tigers, who embarrassed Frank Beamer’s team at Blacksburg on October 1st, 23-3.

Beamer Ball owns a dependable 7-1 ATS mark when playing with ACC revenge and they’ve covered all three prior Conference Championship appearances.

The man himself has padded many a bank account when looking to get even for an earlier loss: Beamer stands 30-10-2 ATS with conference revenge, including an incredible 23-4- 2 ATS when not laying double digits.

Clemson comes up short, however, with a costly 3-7 ATS effort versus conference revenge and lost to Georgia Tech in its only previous trip to the ACC fi nals (2009).

Normally, we’d take a close look at the dog but Clemmie’s season-ending slide finds us taking pause (Tigers outgained 420-153 in last Saturday’s loss to South Carolina).

Sportsbooks at Vegas currently have the Hokies listed as 6½-point favorites against the Tigers, and the game's total is sitting at 52½.