Here's how it's shaking out at this point ...
Bowl selection order for the ACC is:
#1 CFP (if ranked #1 to #4)
#2 Orange Bowl
#3 Russell Athletic Bowl
#4 Citrus Bowl (conditional, if Big Ten is selected to play in Orange Bowl)
#5-#8 Music City or Gator (Big Ten to one, ACC to other), Pinstripe, Belk, and Sun
#9-#11 Military, Independence, Detroit
#12 St. Pete (formerly Beef O'Brady's)
#13 Birmingham (conditional)
And here's how the ACC teams plus Notre Dame match up to those "seed numbers":
#1 FSU 12-0 (CFP Rank #4)
#2 Georgia Tech 10-2 (CFP Rank #11)
#3 - #5: Clemson (CFP #19), Louisville (CFP #21), Duke, all 9-3
#6 - #8: Notre Dame, Boston College, NC State, all 7-5
#9 - #12: VT, UNC, Pitt, and Miami, all 6-6
So what this shows is that VT is very clearly on the tier for the Military, Independence or Detroit Bowl.