When It's Good...

In the last two weeks, we've watched a roller coaster of Virginia Tech football games.

In one, we watched our QB throw for almost 300 yards while dominating time of possession by over 13 minutes. We frustrated them into over 100 yards in penalties. Our defense held them to only converting 5 of their 15 third downs, and made them punt more times than they have in a single game in two years.

Then in the other we saw our offense struggle, not only getting outgained but unable to break even 200 yards passing with a paltry 5.5 yard average. Worse, we could only muster 3 yards per carry on the ground and committed over 100 yards of penalties ourselves. Meanwhile the defense allowed 7.6 yards per pass and saw four different opposing receivers haul in 20+ yard receptions.

The first game was East Carolina. The second was Ohio State.

When you're good you're never as good as you think you are, and when you're bad, you're never as bad as you think you are. Take a deep breath everyone.

While all of us entertained fantasies of shocking the world and running the table this year, the overwhelming majority of us were ready to take a 2-1 start to the season and set our sights on the ACC Championship, knowing you can only take so big of a step in one season. And here we are. It may not be how we pictured it, and beating Ohio State certain made those undefeated fantasies feel a little more realistic, but we're right where most of us expected to be.

We are 2-1. We are 0-0 in the ACC. That changes Saturday. Start jumping.