Clemson Leads the Way on 2015 Preseason All-ACC Team

After taking home the media's preseason vote for the conference championship and Player of the Year award, it's no surprise that Clemson has the most representation on the 2015 preseason All-ACC team.

The ACC issued a press release confirming the selections:

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Clemson leads all schools with five selections to the 2015 All-Atlantic Coast Conference Preseason Football Team announced on Thursday.

The team was selected by a vote of 163 media members who were credentialed for the ACC Football Kickoff earlier this week at Pinehurst Resort.

Clemson sophomore quarterback Deshaun Watson, who earlier this week was voted the ACC Preseason Player of the Year, is joined on the All-ACC preseason team by Tiger wide receivers Mike Williams and Artavis Scott, offensive guard Eric Mac Lain and defensive end Shaq Lawson.

Florida State and Virginia Tech each placed four student-athletes on the 2015 All-ACC preseason team, while Pitt had three selected.

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Here is the full preseason All-ACC team:

Position	Name (Year)	School
QB	Deshaun Watson (So.)	Clemson
RB	James Conner (Jr.)	Pittsburgh
RB	Shadrach Thornton (Sr.)	NC State
WR	Tyler Boyd (Jr.)	Pittsburgh
WR	Mike Williams (Jr.)	Clemson
WR	Artavis Scott (So.)	Clemson
TE	Bucky Hodges (So.)	Virginia Tech
OT	Roderick Johnson (So.)	Florida State
OT	Adam Bisnowaty (Jr.)	Pittsburgh
C	Matt Skura (Sr.)	Duke
OG	Landon Turner (Sr.)	North Carolina
OG	Eric Mac Lain (Sr.)	Clemson

Position	Name (Year)	School
DE	Dadi Lhomme Nicolas (Sr.)	Virginia Tech
DE*	Shaq Lawson (Jr.)	Clemson
DE*	Sheldon Rankins (Sr.)	Louisville
DT	Adam Gotsis (Sr.)	Georgia Tech
DT	Luther Maddy (Sr.)	Virginia Tech
LB	Terrance Smith (Sr.)	Florida State
LB	Brandon Chubb (Sr.)	Wake Forest
LB	James Burgess (Sr.)	Louisville
CB	Jalen Ramsey (Jr.)	Florida State
CB	Kendall Fuller (Jr.)	Virginia Tech
S	Jeremy Cash (Sr.)	Duke
S	Quin Blanding (So.)	Virginia

Position	Name (Year)	School
K	Roberto Aguayo (Jr.)	Florida State
P	Alex Kinal (Sr.)	Wake Forest
RET	Ryan Switzer (Jr.)	North Carolina

The first team has an extra member at defensive end due to a tie in voting between Lawson and Louisville's Sheldon Rankins. Virginia Tech's Dadi Lhomme Nicolas, who finished second in the ACC last season with 18 tackles for loss, led the position with 108 votes.

Pittsburgh had two of the top three vote-getters in the preseason team. Running back James Conner, the reigning ACC Player of the Year, garnered a team-best 148 votes, while wide receiver Tyler Boyd grabbed 137 to finish third in total votes behind Florida State kicker Roberto Aguayo (141).

Conner ran for a conference-record 26 touchdowns as a sophomore last season, while Boyd became the first player in league history to record 1,000 receiving yards in his freshman and sophomore campaigns.

Aguayo, the 2013 Groza Award winner as the nation's best kicker, has hit at least 90 percent of his field goals in his first two seasons at Florida State and is on pace to break the FBS all-time record for career field-goal percentage.

Virginia Tech cornerback Kendall Fuller, Duke safety Jeremy Cash, North Carolina kick returner Ryan Switzer and Aguayo were also named to the ACC's preseason first team in 2014, with Fuller and Aguayo later finishing the year as postseason first-teamers.

Justin Ferguson is an on-call college football writer at Bleacher Report. You can follow him on Twitter @JFergusonBR.