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Cincinnati favored over #14 Iowa St (5-0)

What am I missing?

Making some fresh salsa for the first time for the game. We have pounds and pounds and pounds of tomatoes that my wife grew in the town garden and that were given to her by other people there who also grew pounds and pounds and pounds of them. Also have some cilantro leftover from the veggie tacos I made earlier this week. Lots of toasted tomato sandwiches already eaten and I'll be making stew with more of the diced tomatoes tomorrow. Stew is also for some of the pounds and pounds of carrots she grew. Man, I'm glad she stayed with a single plot and did not get a double. We'd be buried alive in tomatoes and carrots.

Man if only someone knew RR was a bad coach AND person.

I've been going to UD games for close to two decades now. They have always struggled to find a kicker. This year is no different sadly.

My hot take is that UD will be a member of the ACC in fewer than 7 years

boy. that's a shame

Cousins shouldn't have wasted the airfare to go west. They are getting blasted by the Cougars.

Delaware kicker missed the game tying 42 yard FG as time expired. Apparently he has missed a few kicks already this year so there might be open kicker tryouts next week.

WKU and Delaware has been great so far, lots of lead changes, big plays on offense, and turnovers. 3 point game with under 4 minutes to go.

WVU at BYU is a massive culture clash. I would love to see an entire broadcast of interactions between opposing fans in the stands, that would be much more entertaining than the actual football game.

Didn't want to start a new thread for this since I didn't fully finish the analysis, but I have results of advanced stats for all FBS teams against FBS competition and it is not pretty for VT.

Link to pretty shitty imgur chart since I can't get the embed to work.

Virginia Tech has an offensive success rate of 41.64%, and an allowed rate of 48.32% on defense. They are getting explosive plays on 8.18% on offense and allowing 13.45% on defense.

Offensive success ranks 76th overall, while defense success ranks 112th. The net success of -6.68% ranks 101st out of 136 FBS teams.

The explosive rate on offense ranks 72nd overall, while the allowed defensive rank is 128th. The overall net explosive rate of -5.27% ranks 126th overall.

Obviously there are 6 quarters of the worst football that VT has probably played since the 80s or 90s that are really weighing down the results. I will try to separate out the last week against the first three, but these past few weeks have been a lot personally (I don't sleep well, and its hard to get motivated for this after work when you go straight to bed).

To look ahead at Wake Forest, they have a defense that has done well on a drive-to-drive basis against FBS opponents (they've only played Kennesaw State, NC State, and Georgia Tech - so take that for what its worth). However, their offense has struggled and ranks lower than VT in success rate (99th overall) and is one rank lower on explosive plays. Take into account lingering injuries at QB and RB, and hopefully VT can build on their performances under Coach Montgomery.

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