Use whatever reasoning you'd like.
12. Arkansas State - SEC(-ish) SEC(-ish) (not really)
11. Marshall
10. Wake Forest - To continue to prove Grobe is not a better coach than Beamer.
9. Duke - So we have something to retort back with during basketball season.
8. East Carolina - We need to continue to pay them back for the loss in 2008.
7. Miami - Honestly, Miami without swag doesn't do it for me.
6. Georgia Tech - CPJ RAGE
5. Clemson - Fuck Clemson
4. Boston College - They value this win more than we do, so I enjoy it even more.
3. Appalachian State - Does anyone else really want to read HD reminding us all off season long that we lost to another I-AA team.
2. North Carolina - UNC is still talented and I don't want VT to be a chapter of a potential feel good story.
1. Virginia - The more UVa loses to Tech, the harder it will be for London to recruit against us.
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As you see from my screenname, I have to live with these wahoos....If we are (heaven and Bud Foster forbid) 1-11, the one win HAS to be against the hoos!
My Rankings
12. Marshall - Because they are the closest we can come to beating WVU right now, it somewhat counts.
11. Arkansas State - We can't lose to a team that has changed their mascot in the last three years.
10. Duke - Because we will have more fans at the game than they will.
9. Wake Forest - To continue to show their 2006 ACC championship was the biggest fluke in college football.
8. East Carolina - We shouldn't be traveling to play them.
7. Boston College - Just because (and its at home).
6. Miami - By the time we play them, suspensions should be dealt out. I don't want to lose to a Shapiro-less Miami team. Without the bounties I suspect they won't be playing that hard anyways...
5. Georgia Tech - I hate Paul Johnson's offense, I think using the option that much is gimmicky and Foster needs to personally bite a piece of Johnson's arm off to show him who's boss.
4. Appalachian State - I agree with Joe, the fodder would be too much if we lost.
3. Clemson - We need to continue our dominance against them.
2. North Carolina - That loss at home two years ago on Thursday night might have been the worst night of my life.... HokieGuy81 can attest to that.
1. Virginia - Mike London needs to be put in his place. I say we get the game televised on every channel in the 757 area code that day so all future recruiting targets will be forced to watch.
UNC...
F that game! I still have dreams about that UNC punk wearing the sweater vest that yelled "TJ, One, Three" in our ears. Except in the dream, I don't ask him to fight and watch him run away, I just punch him in the mouth...
UNC...
I still have dreams of you actually fighting the AARP "Fire Steinspring" crew that was sitting behind us!
Rankings
12. Marshall - I feel bad that they used to have good players. And still feel somewhat bad that I drunkingly walked through their team as they got off the bus before the game in '02.
11. Duke - little fellas are getting better but have a few years before I feel bad for whipping them
10. Wake - Unlike many ACC schools, I don't hate their coach
9. App. St. - would be higher if I could somehow paint JMU across their jerseys.
8. Ark. St. - they have a good QB so pounding them may be harder than in the past. We need to destroy them to make us feel better heading towards a tougher stretch and keep the wicked witch of the west, Heather Dinich, from pissing me off for two weeks.
7. ECU - 2008. I hold grudges..
6. Boston College - 2007. See above. And, I'm still drying out from that awful game.
5. Clemson - keep out recruiting us, we'll keep winning.
4. Miami - God I hope this is a night game! Lots of beers and easy material will make for a rowdy evening!
3. UNC - Thursday night, October 29, 2009. REVENGE!!!!
2. Ga. Tech - CPJ can lick it. No one says they "out-schemed" Beamer and more specifically Bud Foster. Last year we broke their QBs arm. Hopefully this year, Foster breaks CPJs.
1. UVA - speaks for itself but as of last week, I want Mario Nixon crying over his mistake as he leaves another voicemail begging for his scholarship offer back!
Agree with ECU/BC- '07 BC games was the only sporting event I went to and my anger while walking back to my apartment was beyond words. If only Morgan fell on the Onside Kick and Foster kept putting heat on Ryan in the two minute offense in a monsoon instead of dropping into a loose zone...oh well that was another NCG chance washed away (literally).
ECU was just simply shocking. I figured they would give us a game but to beat us with their special teams and turnovers? That was another long walk home from a bar.
A different #1...
12. Arkansas State
11. Marshall
10. Duke - I just feel sorry for them. Sucks to have more of the away team in your stadium than your own fans...
9. Wake Forest - Has been interesting at times... and by "at times" I mean for about 5 minutes
8. East Carolina - Still hate ECU fans from when we lost in Charlotte. They were total asses about it...
7. Appalachian State - Personally, I'd like to see a tight first half, and then blow them away in the second half. That's probably just me though
6. Boston College - As much as I hate BC, they're still ranked lower than most of the Coastal in my book
5. North Carolina - Please not another '09, please not another '09
4. Georgia Tech - Chop blockin' bitches... Plus it's in ATL, so it should be interesting
3. Miami - *Eye twitch* *Aneurysm*
2. UVA - Since I've been a Hokie, we've never lost to UVA. (Class of '08) It sure as shit better not happen now.
1. Clemson - I grew up 30 minutes away from Clem(p)son. And don't you dare forget that imaginary p in the name or they'll rip you a new one. I hate Tigers fans so bad, you have no idea (the home-grown hatred trumps the in-state smackdown any day). The '07 game in Death Valley was amazing... though I'm really surprised I didn't get lynched walking out of there in maroon
My Picks
1) Miami/UVA, 2) GT, 3) UNC, 4) Clemson, 5) BC, 6) Duke, 7) Wake, 8) OOC games in any order.
Miami and UVA always top the list with GT and UNC following closely behind. We need to keep giving London and UVA black eyes so people know they've been told by the real Virgina program how the Coastal goes. Miami, in my opinion, has become our biggest rival and this scandal may have an interesting affect on the continuously developing rivalry. Ever since I started hating them when I came to VT in '04 that was the ACC game that was circled on the mental calendar even more so than UVA. GT has also nicely developed and I am still pissed about UNC upsetting us in '09. Kick them and UM while they're down and repeatedly (only on field though- gotta make sure they start working their way back).
Clemson follows closely as well. Though I went to HS in Richmond I know tons of kids from my school and others who went to Clemson- didn't like most of them and love to see them over holidays and at the store when back in VA with my VT gear on-hoping for another ass kicking for the ages.
BC, for me, is tied with Clemson. Gotta give props though cause I'm getting my MA at a Catholic school with deep ties to BC. Still ever since the Monsoon in '07 and having my heart ripped out of my chest in the North End Zone I want us to take it to them and whoever is back at QB- can still see Ryan hitting Callendar, falling back, for the TD.
Duke and WF: will be tough games- mark my words.
If the OOC games don't involve an SEC/Big XII/Big East/Big Ten/Pac 12 team then I will go but will HOPEFULLY go for the enjoyment of an easy victory.
UVA for sure #1
I have to live and work with these cocky jerks and every year rubbing it in their faces that they have another year until they can get another shoy at us is the greatest. The amazing thing is every year they find a new twist and have a reason to look forward to playing us. Considering we've owned them for years its truly unbelievable. They have a cockiness about them though that is beyond me for having such a terrible team. Please Hokies embarass them so bad that the school decides to discontinue their football activites until further notice!
if you could put a 0 on that list
I really, really want to beat an undefeated FSU. If they beat Oklahoma, I can't imagine how sick I will be hearing about them the rest of fall.
Could we do a HD blog hypometer?
Oh god, yes, please, someone get on that
Win them all
We need to blow out teams we are supposed to beat and easily win the tough games. OOC games are much more important to our ranking than conference games. Conf. games are about pride.