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This is exactly the concern I have about hanging onto Stiney... but then again, I can't imagine anyone leaving the situation Pep is currently in, just to come into that kind of situation without clear set boundaries.

Then again, this is assuming that Pep makes the jump...

Great coaches are judged on the adjustments they make, whether it be at halftime or game to game. This just shows me how bad our offensive staff is and how good Foster and the defensive guys are. A team should be peaking at the end of the year, the defense was but the offense was terrible.

Never mind, I didn't realize Clemson-Georgia is Week 1. That's definitely where Gameday will be.

media hard-on for all things Bama and ESPN's obvious disdain for the "constantly overrated" Hokies ... not a doubt in my mind that Gameday is where the 3-peaters will be.

Thanks for the info about the student tix everyone .. How many tix can a student typically get? I don't mind paying face. I just don't want to end up on stubhub paying $200-$300 for tickets.

So is an unranked VT vs. #1 Alabama where Gameday goes next year or do they go to the LSU-TCU game?

Given our style of play, and our team's identity, 25 points should be enough to win us any game. The 47th best defense this year was Kent State, giving up an average of 25.08 pts/game. Has this program ever been satisfied with the 47th best defense.

QB 1. Vick 2. McNabb 3. Rodgers 4. Schaub 5. Tyrod 6. Weinke 7. K. Moore
RB 1. McGahee 2. Suggs 3. K Jones 4. Bush 5. Edgerrin James 6. Amos Zeroue 7. Ryan Williams 8. Portis 9. Tiki Barber 10. David Wilson
WR 1. Calvin Johnson 2. Fitzgerald 3. Andre Johnson 4. Andre Davis 5. Warrick 6. Antonio Bryant 7. Reggie Wayne 8. Sammy Watkins
OT 1. McKinnie
OG 1. Lehr
C 1. Grove
FB 1. Jarrett Ferguson 2. Duane Thomas
TE 1. Heath Miller 2. Shockey 3. Vernon Davis
DE 1. Corey Moore 2. Mario Williams 3. Cornell Brown 4. Tapp 5. Chris Long 6. Engelberger
DT 1. Suh 2. Raji 3. Pugh
CB 1. Anthony Midget 2. Macho 3. Flowers 4. Ike Charlton 5. Ronde Barber
S 1. Sean Taylor 2. Ed Reed 3. Keion Carpentar 4. Torrian Gray 5. Pierson Prioleau
LB 1. Ray Lewis 2. Xavier Adibi 3. Luke Kuechly 4. Cody Grimm 5. Ben Taylor 6. James Anderson 7. Brian Cushing
K 1. Shayne Graham 2. Janikowski 3. Nugent
Returns 1. DeAngelo Hall

Thanks! Very interesting stuff. Love to see more stuff like this.

...this means our defense lost us the Cincinatti and UNC games? Am I reading that right? I remember thinking that our defense looked horrible against Cincinatti and had a lot of missed tackles. i just remember being frustrated against UNC. They really came a long way as French pointed out in his latest French on the Bench article.

Because they're the pants we needed, but not the ones we deserved right now.

There is an "expected points" component as well that I didn't put because it's not interesting (think of it as home field advantage...regardless of who is playing you already expect one team to outscore the other by a certain amount). The offensive split plus the defensive split plus the special teams split plus the expected points equals the score difference: 3 for the Rutgers game for example.

The only caveat to that is that he uses "non garbage time" score...depending on the score difference and time left on the clock, at some point he considers it garbage time as one team could not reasonably come back. He does not include points scored during this time in the final score. That affects two of our games.

For Rutgers, the true values are:

Offense: -23.5
Defense: +25.5
Special Teams: +1.0
Expected Value: 0.0

Those add up to 3, which is how much we won by.

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