Tuesday, 5 Dimes Casino and Sportsbook released its early college football season win total prop bets for almost every FBS team. Note that all wagers are for regular season games only -- no conference title or bowl games are included.
http://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2015/5/26/8661781/college-footb...
Virginia Tech's win total is 8. Are you going over or under on the Hokies' 2015 regular season? (We will all think less of you if you push.)
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Over. With our defense as is and our offense definitely being an improvement, 9 wins should be our base. Anything less would be very dissapointing.
Ten
Was gonna ask regular season or including bowl, but that would only affect how much money I'd put down.
Over.
Over....and I'd bet the farm on it! Same reasons as stated above.... I think this years Hokies will be the talk of college football for their improvement, heart and will to win!
I think we'll finish with 9 wins including post season, I'm not sure we can get 9 wins in the regular season. I take the over, but not confidently.
Ten
Over. Sticking with my prediction of 9-3 regular season.
Ten
hundred bucks on over. Anybody near a casino that can drop off some money for me?
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Over! 15-0!
And that doesn't include post-season wins! Man we are going to be good!
Damn straight!
Over, 10-2. All we need is an average offense and we'll be back in the driver's seat in the Coastal.
Over... between the ACC CG and the bowl, we'll win at least one to get to 10 wins on the year.
would go with push, but only given over/under would take 9-4.
Ten, kwanzaabot
Over. What else should a Hokie say?
I think it is the Hokies most talented team since 2010 (and they are far better on defensive line and have more potentially effective defensive back depth.) Linebacker and safety play is a huge swing area on defense, and OL/QB play is the swing factor on offense. I think VT goes 9-3 or 8-4 is likely. Pitt, UNC, and NC State scare the hell out of me (especially NC State only 6 days after Pitt.) GT is going to be a tough out but Foster has 12 days to prepare. I still think VT is matched up really well with Ohio State, but I think we can all acknowledge that it will be a heck of a win if they can beat the defending National champs.
pretty much how I see it as well. Also still a bit concerned about DE depth, but having two all-acc bookends helps with that especially if the offense can do a better job of staying on the field this year. ECU always plays us tough, but they should be extremely green this year on offense losing their qb and best playmakers at WR. Pitts at lane and hopefully having luther back will give us more to work with and not get worn down by their power running game, but like you mentioned LB play is going to be crucial there and AM can't be giving ground every tackle. NC state is dangerous but I think they snuck up on people last year. Miami at Miami still concerns me just because of how they won last year. they lost duke and some OL but they also shut us out last year until the last minute. duke I think goes back to being a barely .500 team this year for this year at least and GT will be a dog fight like normal. Not sure on BC honestly don't know much about what they return. UNC is a question mark, but I don't think fedora is a great coach by any means. uva is uva..
Over.
I agree with you about NC State. Brissett looks like one of those QBs who will have a career day rushing against us.
Edit: Meant this to be a response to french...
I agree that NCst is scary given the short week/previous opponent, but I feel like everyone is picking them to finish top half of the Atlantic, top 5ish in the ACC and I just don't get why? What am I missing?
They were one of the best teams in the country at running the football last year and return the core of that running game, Jacoby Brissett is quite good, they have a talented young group in their back 7 (especially the secondary), and Doeren has recruited well on the DL. Also, they were playing pretty well at the end of the year.
They have questions for sure (d-line is replacing a bunch of guys, the o-line couldn't pass protect last year, and their receivers are a huge question mark) but so does the rest of the ACC. The schedule is pretty easy as well, with 4 extremely easy OOC opponents, Wake Forest and Syracuse, and getting Louisville and Clemson at home with a rebuilding Louisville team coming early in the year. They're probably getting a tad overhyped right now, but they could easily end up with or 10 wins without having to beat anyone fantastic.
Ten, frenchie
L to OSU - VT is an improved team, but OSU improved to the point they became National Champs
W over Furman - easiest game
W over Purdue - not dangerous
W over ECU - without last years QB-WR combo
W over Pitt - Pitts has given us fits, but this year we put a complete game together against them
W over NCSt - scared bout this one, but thankfully its in Lane
L to Miami - I hope the predictions that UM will suck become true, because last year they whipped us
W over Duke - Duke is solid, but not top of Coastal anymore
W over BC - always play us well, but I feel our offense is improved enough to overcome the occasional D slip
L to GT - love having week and half to prepare, but with game in Atl I fear the result
W over Chapel Hill - talk is about their offense, but the defense is terrible
W over UVA - Commonwealth Cup is safe
...that's 9-3, so Over
Of all the teams on VT's schedule, we match up worst with Pitt.
Our defense doesn't match up very well with UNC either. Particularly when it's firing on all cylinders. They gift wrapped 2 TDs last year. Marquise scares me, and I think this is his year.
Eh, I think UNC's offense will be great this year, but I don't think it's a particularly bad matchup for Bud's defense. Outside of garbage time, VT has shut them down for two straight years now with Marquise behind center.
Agree. The games against UNC the last two years weren't as close as the score. VT's defense is a tougher matchup for UNC than the other way around.
Ten, north cackalack
Over!!!!! No doubt in my mind!!
Like anyone can even know that!
(I agree. Put me down for 9 W's)
Ten, Ho
(KeyBird)
??? (Went over my head)
he's correcting everyone to "Ten" and since your name is keybird, he said ho...keybird so that it would be hokiebird instead...get it? No?
I'd say we win eigh...uhh... I mean, Over. Definitely over. Our one loss will be to Pitt because Virginia Tech football
we tend to lose to pitt @ pitt. This game is at home.
Ah good call I was thinking we were at Pitt. Ok well I dont truly believe we'll go undefeated. I wouldnt be surprised in the least if we beat OSU and then inexplicably dropped a game. Say to Purdue for instance.
pitt still worries me, but having the DT depth makes me feel a bit better and hopefully kendall is playing boyd as often as possible. A loss to purdue would be devastating I think they only have 2 fbs wins in the last few seasons.
Fourth game of the season may be Boyd's first game back from suspension.
didn't even know he got in trouble. you think he'll get 3 games for a DUI though?
http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2015/06/15/dunlap-tyler-boyd-should-be-su...
Underage drinking and DUI I'm expecting 2-3 games yea.
8300 and Ten
Over.
I'm also going with 9-3, and 10-2 is a definite possibility for the regular season if the team stays healthy. Should be a great year for Virginia Tech football!
9 + 1 for Bowl game = total 10
Over.... 14-0 National Champions
15*
LOLUVA didn't have enough players to field a team
9-3
I think we have 7 games that are potential losses, and we win 4 of those. Here's to hoping we win all the games we're supposed to this year.
After WF last year and until they prove me otherwise with some stompings, we have 12 games that are potential loses.
touche
FTFY. Wake game was bad, but it was an extreme case of our injury bug resulting in circumstances that statistically should simply never happen. It's not like that was a normal roster and the team just fell on their faces, Hansen didn't know what he was doing (because he wasn't ready, not really his fault) and our offense was awful because of it. All this negativity about it has really gotten out of hand.
It's just hard to get over this image seared into all our brains:
Once it's there, you're not going to forget it, at least not until we've chalked up a crazy amount of wins to help us forget.
I've definitely moved on, but I still remember how angry I felt after that game. That was a complete failure of everything on offense that day. I distinctly remember one drive where Motley came in and led us down into the redzone, only to have us put Brewer back in and have him prompty turn the ball over. I have no doubt Motley could have at least tucked it and gone in for 6. And all we needed was one score. I know there were injuries and multiple issues that compounded the problems, but no one can convince me we couldn't have scored 1 point. That was horrible, no other way around it.
Its impossible to score just 1 point in football. Convinced we couldn't have scored 1 point yet?
I know, I know.
You've never watched a CFL game, huh?
It's technically possible to score 1 point, but it's never happened. During a PAT/Conversion attempt, if a defender tackles a member a ball carrier of the opposing team who has retreated into their own endzone it's a one point safety. In order for this to happen, the defense would likely have to come into possession of the football through a blocked kick, fumble, or interception and then advance it most of the way towards the opposite endzone before fumbling. Then a player on the kicking/offensive team would have to recover the fumble and purposefully retreat into their own endzone (i.e. not carrried in by their momentum) before being tackled, running out of bounds, taking a knee etc. The result of this play in an otherwise scoreless game would be a score of 6-1 in favor of the team that was kicking the extra point/attempting a two point conversion.
while that may be technically correct, you still have 7 points scored in the whole game. I think the original comment was that it's impossible to have a 1-0 score line in football. Or, it's impossible for a game to end with only 1 point being scored altogether.
I think what you really meant to say was:
Leg for teaching me something I had no idea was a possibility.
Of course Ron Cherry was involved.
I remember when it happened in the Texas-Texas A&M game. That time it hit a lineman in the butt and I believe ricocheted into the end zone where A&M covered it.
Edit: Found it.
The point is scored by the kicking team, same as if it went through the uprights. I thought we were talking about the D scoring, so they only got 1 point total, not a conversion after a TD?
Its all a moo point. Its like a cow's opinion, it just doesn't matter. Because per my original assertion, this could never happen.
Yep the two examples above are the type of 1 point safety that has actually occured. What I described that hasn't happened is a one point safety by the team that had just given up a TD. I don't think we'll ever see one happen because the defense would obviously prefer the 2 points for running a Fumble/Interception/Blocked PAT back and the offense would likely intentionally go down before crossing the goal line if they had retreated that far or recovered a second fumble that deep in their own territory.
Sorry, but I disagree. Under no circumstance, no matter how injured a few positions we might be in, warrants a 0-0 regulation end. None whatsoever, not with the calibre team Virginia Tech is and how poor Wake Forest is. Wake Forest is one game there are 100% no excuses for, and there shouldn't be any excuses for, it's better we just learn from it and hope the memory fades away with future successes.
I agree.
The point is that we shouldn't have been lying prostrate, at Wake Forest's mercy!
i immediately thought of this
Due to a careless first reading and being over 50 y.o., this was not what I thought of first.
I'm not quite up there in age enough to be thinkin about that yet, but I definitely had to read that word twice to make sure I was reading it correctly
Ten?
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...ummmm over. I think 10-2 (OSU/GT)
Over. The only way this team wins 7 or less is if the injuries are as bad or worse than last season.
Barring a repeat of last year's injury bug, I'm pretty confident in the over. Given the talent returning and a relatively manageable schedle, I think 8 wins is the floor for this year's squad. I'm expecting 9 or 10.
I've said repeatedly that we will be 8-4 or 9-3. Since pushing isn't allowed I'll take the Over. But not confidently. I'm worried about injuries up front.
Pretty much how I feel about this season summed up.
Ditto.
I was feeling the same way. At an over/under of 8, I wouldn't touch it. If it was 7.5, I'd take the over handily, but with it being 8, we have to look at winning 9. I think 9 is possible, but I'm confident that we will win at least 8. 9 is more likely with a bowl game and 10 is also within reach. I've said before that if we are to win more than 10 games this season though, it's because the football gods smiled upon us and we got the lucky bounces that have gone against us so often the past 3 seasons.
Ten, MilleniumEdition
hah. I'll take it
No one's commented on the UVA line yet... 4.5? UNDER UNDER UNDER UNDER UNDER
Negative Ten
over.
I am on the 9-3 train for sure!
Ten, HomedawgHokie010
I'm going to go with the over on this one. I think that this season is the best chance the Hokies have had at a 10 win season in a while. The main difficulty is that these players are used to losing and its hard to win when you are used to losing. I think the most likely outcome of the regular season is 9-3 and after that nobody knows.
Not macho enough to say Ten apparently
VT 8 wins: Over
UVA 4 wins: Under
Timecop getting punted: Over
VT winning against OSU: Over
VT losing a game it shouldn't: Over
Kendal leaving for NFL: Over
VT's first 1000 Yard Receiver: Under
Lawson playing this year: Under
Weekly, if not Daily, calls for Lawson to play this year: Over
Lefty being retained end of season: Over
Losing a coach in the Offseason: Under
lolUVA making a good hire: Over
Landing a 5* DL recruit: Under
Landing any 5* recruit: Over
Me making a game: Over
I see only two ways we land a 5* this year:
- We get Dickerson, and he jumps just a hair into 5* range
- Timmy preps and reaffirms his commitment
Pass isn't a 5* anymore and isn't coming to VT. Gary isn't coming to VT. I don't think anyone else is even on the radar.
gotta take a gamble on something
Last year, I think the over/under was set at 8 games, which I thought was a really fair number. I wouldn't have put money on it, because that exactly how many games I thought we would win. Obviously, I was wrong.
This year, I'll take the over, much more confidently.
Before I read any of the other 75 comments...
Haven't we talked about this? Ten. Ten wins.
>= Ten.
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I think someone slipped something into his oats
Idk. I've read through Horse's comments and all I can do is
Over.
I feel (hope) that the OL will be improved, Brewer has had more time in the system, Ford / Phillips / Hodges should only be better, and Rogers is pushing freaking trucks! Facyson will not be as good as 2 years ago, but will be enough of a factor. Reavis will more than pull his weight. Dadi will make first team all ACC. For some reason I have a good feeling Andrew Motuapuaka will do well this year.
I don't think our ACC opponents improved significantly, so the close games (including one that didn't happen) will go our direction. Even a very small improvement in O with status quo D from last year would get us to 8 or 9 wins. I think the improvement will be moderate and enough to tip the scale.
For some reason, I have a very strong inclination to guess TEN.
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