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UCF at Louisville -12.5
Florida -2.5 at Mizzou
UCLA at Stanford -5.5
Auburn at Texas A&M -12.5
Washington at Arizona State -2.5
Florida State -2.5 at Clemson
I DON'T BELIEVE IN LABELS
Only one question remains... is he single?
That Hokiestone & Maroon Combo looked great on the field
PS: We get really fucking bored on bye weeks around here.
I find it hilarious that outfitting an entire team with new helmets was estimated to cost anywhere from $15,000-100,000.
the yin to our yang...turkey leg for you brother...
Now, in response to your actual post, I think there is still a place for ball-control offense. Part of what makes a team like Oregon so difficult is that they make you change your style of play to keep up with them. If they get out to a lead, you have try and score quickly or risk falling into an insurmountable hole. By limiting their number of possessions, you are trying to limit the number of times they can score. I also think it's a fallacy to assume they'll score on each of their possessions. They're still college kids, and they have to execute just like we do (or don't :). For each three-and-out they have, it's damages their psyche about how much time they'll have left when they get the ball back.
Furthermore, ball-control is a 60 minute philosophy and you are counting on having a better late game than your opponent. If I've been on offense for 25-30 minutes of the 45 minutes going into the fourth quarter, then your defense is more likely to be gassed and not able to defeat that block or keep up with the go route. It is also disheartening for the defense to constantly move the chains on them. I would think over time it would cause players to either lose their desire to play as hard or cause them to take larger risks in order to make that elusive stop. Either way it exposes holes to attack, potentially allowing for even longer drives.
I'll cede that not every team can play this way, which is why I think you see a lot of upstarts running more exotic offenses. It's also unlikely that even with a team tailor suited to this offense that we'll constantly have 8-10 minute drives ending in TDs, but it's a beautiful thing when it happens.
Pie is so awesome
that it can write a haiku
and not even give a flying fuck how many syllables per line are the rule. Because pie MAKES the rules.
I like cake, it's great.
Pie's okay for some; not me
I'm a slave to cake.
Good post and fun stuff to ponder. The chips will fall each week and that's really the fun part of CFB season seeing how it all shakes out.
My opinion is Stanford's loss last week has them out of the picture when the first BCS rankings come out.
Few other thoughts:
1 Everyone on here I think is realistic about OUR chances and destiny but it's still fun to think "what if"
2 If you don't like the "what if" scenarios and being hypothetical then don't participate
I loved his socks.
Damn you for making me laugh stupidly loud in public
Way too many things have to happen.
Look at what I wrote. That's the point of this whole darn thing.
Am I allowed to just jump in here asking for turkey legs for being a bassist, or would that just be turkey leg whoring? Know what, yes it is. But I need those turkey legs dammit!
I lay the blame for the basketball calamity COMPLETELY at the feet of one Captain James T. Weaver.
But...tohellwithit...whatever. I'll be there to watch. We love college basketball up in hurrr. I see two surprise upsets this year in a sea of ugly, ugly losses.
I've been sitting on it waiting for someone to make this post once VT was ranked again. Way too many things have to happen. Beat Duke first.
I will contribute in any way that does not require me to spend a bunch of money.
This is a good point. We don't win with style. We just win. This is another reason I think that even with one loss, an ACC championship, and wins over Miami and Clemson/FSU, a lot of other one loss teams stay ahead of us.
Now, I wouldn't say we have to "pummel" Miami and Clemson/FSU, we just need to win those. The games where we need/needed to pummel people are Marshall, ECU, BC, and UVA. But this team just isn't built to do that.
I don't think this post deserves to be down-voted. I personally don't agree with Baltimore Hokie's opinion, but I think it is worth discussing. It is also well written and respectful.
I realize posting about unnecessary down-voting happens a lot, but I think it's important to repeat it. Complacency will eventually lead to implicit acceptance that this type of post is acceptable to down-vote or is unwelcome, which I hope does not happen. I would hate TKP to become a site where everyone blindly agrees with Joe's, French's, or Mason's opinions (as right as often as they are).
Starting this week for the Green Bay Packers
Oregon is not going down. Alabama will lose before they do. At any rate, it's going to be tough for 1 loss Hokies to jump anybody. They're sitting at #19 with one loss right now.
For the Hokies to do anything, Oregon, like you said has to lose twice. And I would add that the Hokies will have to pummel Miami, and then pummel FSU/Clemson in the ACCCG.
"Pummel" doesn't apply to this team so much as "close call", "grind it out", and "nail biter" do.
Great use of that quote. You're right, this is a silly conversation to have, but it's fun. And again, my point here is actually to show how crazy it is to be thinking national title right now.
"All right, there's a thousand things that have to happen in order. We are on number eight. You're talking about number six hundred and ninety-two."- Jim Lovell, Apollo 13
Chicken pie is good.
It's the pie with meat inside.
and gravy also.