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SMU now leading on Cal which puts them back into the ACC Championship game
And now they're up with 2:22 left
Now with the lead
Cal will need a TD in final 2:22 to win
Bama pulled ahead with a TD drive. 27-20, 3 min left, Auburn ball
Getting better. SMU down three and driving in the fourth quarter.
It apparently has to do with opponent conference winning percentage
It bodes well for us that Fumi isn't the one calling the shots behind the scenes unlike Bill B's piece.
SMU only down 3 now with 8 mins to go.
It's not a "flashy" hire like Bill B or old Mack Brown. It's a coach with a hall of fame resume who's only 53 years old
I concur with your caution. Franklin may be bringing in a lot better coaches & talent, but let's not forget that the proud, blue collar tradition that used to be Virginia Tech has been smeared over by the stench of mediocrity and complacency from top to bottom in the football program. That, in my opinion, is going to be the hardest thing to bring back when there is literally no one (that I know of) to speak to next year's players having experienced that mentality, attitude, & sense of pride. The first few years under Franklin are going to be hired mercenaries with little experience together. I am hoping & praying Franklin will be able to piece it together to start a new winning tradition, but we have seen plenty of other examples of it failing l, or failing to be sustainable.
Remember when tech fans were worried Drones was gonna transfer to LSU 😅🤣
I mean a uva vs Miami championship game would just be another tier on the shit cake of this season.
I am having a hard time understanding how in the hell Duke wins the tiebreakers in this situation. If SMU loses there are 5 ACC teams tied at 6-2 for 2nd. Duke is the lowest rank of all of them and is 0-1 with loss to GT in head to head.
They are in line to lose 18/22 Starters and clearly hit the Portal Lotto this year, had a laughable easy schedule and still won at least 3 games on luck.
Chances are very high UVa will have many, many more losses next year. They would probably be lucky just to make a bowl next year.
Donors will lose interest, and Uva Football will fade back to.where they belong: obscurity
Its top 5 ranked conference champions guaranteed a spot but its likely if Duke wins and JMU wins Sun Belt and Tulane or North Texas win the American, both those champions would be higher ranked than an 8-5 Duke.
That game would've made me borderline suicidal if I didn't exist out of spite. Or have corgi in a Hokie jersey.
^^^This.
The portal is a crap shoot.
We have rivalries with GT and Miami, but neither are ever going to consider us their arch rivals. We could claim BC for the same reason we could claim VMI. No thanks.
West Virginia are some inbred bastards we love to hate, and they hate us, but they're in the wrong damn conference.
The only archrival we have left are the stale cheese-Zima farts from up north.
We could be Penn State, Texas A&M or Texas Tech and never have a genuine arch rival. That would seem to limit our ceiling.
We could be Michigan, UCLA or Auburn and pick a big brother to arch rival against. Not the worst thing on the world, but yuck.
Or we could go the Alabama/OSU/USC route and pick a little brother to eternally torture.
We're actually eligible for option 3.
For that to happen, you'd have to agree to fund your program like an adult.
Check.
And you'd have to actually get those pretentious assholes to agree to fund their football program and take it seriously again, too.
And that would just take a damn miracle.
Auburn just tied Bama up. That could be fun if that Jordan Hare magic shows up
He's making a lot of money. A hell of a lot more than me. That's all I'll say.
Not specific to Drones, but the whole NIL deal is making a lot of these guys make "business decisions." Why try when you get paid either way? Want to get a deal and then redshirt, sit on your butt at home rather than play on Saturday? Yeah, that's happening. Because it's not "pay for play..."
I think this was a gift to a 3 year starter. Not going to pull him and have him finish his career on the bench
Maybe the half that doesn't involve sports...
A UVA/Cowboys fan is exactly what al Quada meant by "the great satan"
More proof on how shit this conference is
From everything I've heard, that sets us up for a SEC or B1G invite
This is all because I turned that game off for the Bama/Auburn game