ACC Football: Each team’s top Heisman Trophy candidate for 2020

The benefit of having a veteran team usually leads to good results. That was the case for the Virginia Cavaliers last season. Their senior-laden team led them to a nine-win season, their first since 2007, and an appearance in the Orange Bowl.

The detriment of a senior-laden team is the next season. You lose all of your talent and experience from the previous season’s team. This is the issue with the Virginia Cavaliers this season. The Wahoos return 66 percent of last season’s production. Most of which comes on defense.

The Cavaliers lost most of their offensive production to graduation and the NFL draft this offseason. Two of their three leading receivers are gone and “Mr. Do Everything” Bryce Perkins is gone as well.

If the Cavaliers make a cinderella run to the ACC title game and the College Football Playoff, first-year starting quarterback Brennan Armstrong has to be the one to lead an inexperienced offense. He’ll have to do what Perkins did and more.

This was an offense that struggled to run the ball if Perkins did not run. Armstrong has to be the dual-threat Perkins was last season. Without a dynamic playmaking option on the offense, he has to be that option.

If Armstrong comes out of nowhere and has a magic season, he’ll make a watch list or two.