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Want to hear something crazy?
I was writing my column last night, cautiously making a case for Tech to beat Clemson on Saturday. I was about four paragraphs in when a transformer on the power line outside my house in Richmond exploded, cutting the power and wifi and not letting me finish the article.
Basically what I'm saying is that god thinks Clemson covers.
BUT, if you want to know why there's a glimmer of hope, it's this:
Last week Tech really destroyed Syracuse offensively with a backup quarterback, two backup running backs and a gimpy left tackle. The most success the Orange had on defense was a string in the first half where Tech:
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What games are you looking forward to this week?
Tomorrow night I want to catch App State at Coastal Carolina. Almost guaranteed to be a shootout.
Georgia at Ole Miss is interesting.
No Interest in Bama at LSU though.
Can Indiana drop Michigan to 5-5?
Want to see Army extend the unbeaten streak to 9-0.
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Dabo is actually short for dad bod
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Fire Marve. Absolutely terrible coach. Fire him today.
Bowen coached himself a hell of a game and didn't deserve this result. 21-3 lead choked away by some of the worst collective defensive play that VT has seen since Bud retired.
Flat out unacceptable. Marve has to go. He's completely in over his head. A first year coaching staff abused him today.
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Inexcusably awful game and clock management week after week after week after week. We will never win close games when our coach spots the other team multiple scores a game.
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*Note from the author: despite my efforts to get one of these done every week, I'm in a very busy time in my life so I may not be able to finish out the year. I get married before the Duke game and that is consuming a lot of my time and energy. Below is an abridged version write up on the Georgia Tech game and my advanced preview of Syracuse.
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Last weekend we went through our annual Maroon Effect, and I know I have said it before, but I just can't let this go...
This should be our field design every week of the season. Maroon VT in the middle of the field, maroon wordmarks in the end zone. It just looks right. It just looks so much better, and stands out so much more against the white field markers than the white logo and wordmarks.
I'll go one step further and say we need to paint the end zones maroon with white text. It would look perfect:
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Got Jax St at Liberty and Kennesaw St at Western Kentucky tonight
Jax and Bibberty is a pretty decent game so far.
Kennesaw St coach playing scared. Had several 4th and short over midfield down multiple scores and punted each of them.
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All things considered, this is about the best possible news we could have heard today. Glad to hear both players are fine.
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Fran Brown anagrams to Fan Brr Now, which fits because it's cold in Syracuse.
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Last year a posted a week of my rankings that I have ran for about 20 years now (and correctly picked the BCS national champ in all but 1 year).
Well i went to run out this weekend and Peter Wolfe has not updated his site, which is where i got the data from.
So i spent a few hours making it work with espn (and cleaning up some code), but it's slow. I have to hit multiple pages and fo more complex finds using beautiful soup. The is very noticeably slower than the regex used to parse Peter Wolfe's site. Also parsing the teams/conference affiliations is a pain because they have the mascots attached.
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We won, but... Man, our offense was putrid. Defense and special teams played mostly well. We're fortunate gt isn't very good.
This was exactly the type of performance that Shelton wrote about. The coaches can point to the win and say we're fine but the fact is our team just isn't good.
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I thought I'd take a look at our upcoming schedule to see how our opponents stack up, defensively against Virginia Tech's ground assault. Is it going to be the proverbial clash of unstoppable forces meeting immovable objects?
I put together two sets of data. For the upcoming opponents, how did they do defending the run relative to their FBS opponents' outputs in their other games. For example, how well did GT do in stopping FSU relative to how well FSU has run against other FBS opponents? Then I averaged out all of that data.
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Holy Shit,
down goes Liberty, and thus their playoff hopes - up in... Flames.
You just hate to see it 🤷🏿♂️
Chaos off to a strong start this week. Liberty were a 20 something point favorite.
I hope our fellas keep that in mind for this weekend.
Anyhow, which games are you guys most looking forward to?
Syracuse @ Pitt on Thursday
Boise State @ UNLV
Notre Dame @ Navy ...??maybe?? Navy keeps it interesting? Vegas doesn't seem to think so
Illinois @ Oregon
Texas @ Vanderbilt. I actually think this night be a wash. I think Texas will be ready, looking to bounce back from UGA
LSU @ TAMU ... are either of these two legit?
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Liberty goes down to previously win less Kennesaw State....you just hate to see it s/
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McCall QB1 announced on Instagram that he's retiring from Football due to injuries.
He took a hit earlier this season which took off his helmet and he went to the hospital.
He took a hit last year that was a head injury.
He states a brain specialist recommended he quite while he's a head.
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