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Tyler Van Dyke: Is he really the No. 4 QB in the conference, as ACC Digital Network rates him?

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Et tu, ACC Digital Network? The Miami Hurricanes, used to getting spurned by ACC media entities in the past, can now perhaps take issue with an ACC Digital Network video that ranks the top 5 QBs in the conference.

Miami’s Tyler Van Dyke, who Vegas Insider lists with the 11th best odds in the nation to win the Heisman (at +4000, tied with TreVeyon Henderson), is picked as the No. 4 best QB in the conference in the video presentation.

He trails No. 1 Sam Hartman of Wake Forest (not listed in the Vegas odds), No. 2 Brennan Armstrong of Virginia (+8000 odds) and No. 3 Devin Leary of NC State (not listed in the Vegas odds). Van Dyke’s a spot ahead of Louisville’s Malik Cunningham, who perhaps has his own gripe with +6600 Heisman odds by not getting much respect from ACC Digital Network folks.

From a Van Dyke perspective, let’s take a little closer look under the hoood of the three QBs listed ahead of him.

No. 3 Leary set a single-season school record last year with 35 passing TDs (Philip Rivers had the previous record of 34 set in 2003), and he hit on 65.7 percent of his passes with 3,433 yards.

No. 2 Armstrong? He threw for 4,449 yards and ran for 251 yards with 40 TDs (31 passing).

And No. 1 Hartman had 50 total TDs, which ranked second in conference history (one off the record). he threw for 4,228 yards, ran in 11 TDs and passed for 39 more.

As for Van Dyke, well his hype is based on the fact that unlike the above guys he began the year as a backup to D’Eriq King. And after a little bit of a slow start once he hit his groove he was one of the best QBs in the nation.

After struggling in his first two real starts against Virginia and North Carolina (combined 35-74 passing with two TDs and three INTS), over his final six starts he threw 20 touchdowns. The math on that’s simple – if he matches those six games over a 12-game season you’re at 40 TDs. And those six opponents weren’t the Bethune-Cookman’s and Southern Miss’s and Middle Tennessee State’s of the world – it was vs. Pitt, Georgia Tech, FSU, Virginia Tech and Duke.

This past season there were three Power Five QBs that hit the 40 TD passing number: Alabama’s Bryce Young (47), Ohio State’s C.J. Stroud (44) and Pitt’s Kenny Pickett (42). Plus SMU’s Tanner Mordecai and Wake Forest’s Sam Hartman came oh-so-close with 39.

So should Van Dyke really be considered the fourth-best QB in the conference? Well you’d probably be hard-pressed to find a Miami fan or coach that thinks that.

But then there’s the ACC Network.

This season will tell the tale for who is right, and who should have ranked Van Dyke a little bit higher.

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