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Honestly, I'm a little scared of no-huddle offenses because we don't see them very often. I definitely think Bud can overcome, but its the time between getting beat by it and adapting that will probably influence who wins this game. That and if tech's offense can perform as well as everyone acts like they can. And tOSU has a very scary defense to test that offense on. If we can come out and execute well on offense, as long as the d adapts well to the gameplay of tOSU, I see this as being a complete toss up. If our offense has problems, the buckeyes will roll over top of us because we can't get the d off the field, which has been a huge problem the last 3 years.

For our offense to execute, we need 2 running backs to consistently put up 3-4 yds per carry to open up the passing game.

Actually, from a really good TSL Pass article today, Brewer's INT/ATT ratio over the last 8 games of the year was 0.020. That's better than the career mark for any Tech QB since 1999. For a comparison, TT had a 0.023 with a much better running game, fewer passing attempts, and better scrambling ability. Not half bad.

My favorite quote from Chris Coleman:

Over the last eight games of 2014, Michael Brewer was the best quarterback Virginia Tech has had at protecting the football since at least 1999. Go ahead and let that sentence sink in.

I think Brewer will be just fine.

Our D held up pretty well against the juggernaut offense that Clemson fielded in 2011-2012. It was more of the offensive ineptitude that put us in the hole, especially in the games where Clemson racked up the points.

Our D gave up an average of ~30 points to a team averaging 45+.

2011 Game 1: 23 (24) points (1 turnover)
2011 Game 2: 38 points (we had 3 turnovers)
2012 Game: 31 (38) points (we had 4 turnovers including an INT return TD)

Personnel wise, you're right. But with Sam Rogers being a consistent yardage back and even whenour deep backups were on the field, you can't say there weren't many opportunities to run a true power running game. I think Loeffler likes the pistol and split backfields because of the mismatch potential and the varied uses it offer better than a power run formation

Really? 4 was the most common denominator Vegas could come up with for Ohio States chances to win the championship?

Is there a science behind this (mostly in reference to the 11/4 odd) or do they just grab numbers out of a hat? /s

I'm just going to say that Vegas must cap off their ACC title odds at 200:1, because... I dunno, we could play 300 seasons of 2015 ACC football, and I don't think UVa is going to be winning in Charlotte in any of them....

Wait, Leia and the background and C3P0's left arm don't move. Why would someone spend the effort of frame by frame editing instead of just using the clip?

In fairness to Loeffler, it's not like he had the tools the last two years to establish a power run game. He was working with what he had.

I know Georgia Tech finished strong last year, but I'm not feeling it for them this year. I think they take a step back. They lose quite a bit on offense.

I am going to say not exactly. Hopefully we are going to be able to establish a running game but I don't think it will be the I formation power sets. We had some of our best luck running out of the pistol last year if I remember correctly and I expect to see that this year too. Leoffler has been about trying to create mismatches and exploit them (not always successfully though) so if our advantage is to spread them out and then run at them to force single coverage, expect to see that.

Our running game will improve when we can beat man coverage and not allow the defense to stack the box with the system we are running.

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