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I'll kick things off

Fire away

http://www.hokiesports.com/football/recaps/20141006aaa.html

Ekanem ACC defensive lineman of the week
Kendall Fuller ACC defensive back of the week

their awesome performances didnt go unrecognized! GO HOKIES!

These tweets are all from beat guys who cover Florida.

What I'm hearing about the Gators, if true, doesn't sound good at all— Mark Long (@APMarkLong) October 6, 2014

AP Rankings since 2002, top four teams (end of regular season, before bowl games):

According to ESPN's Adam Schefter, Jimbo Fisher was adamant throughout the pre-draft evaluation process that he didn't believe EJ Manuel had the tools to be an NFL starter and he shouldn't be any better than a third-round pick. Of course Jimbo is now denying it, but was Jimbo giving a fair evaluation of EJ or throwing him under the bus since he was done playing for FSU?
http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/11646532/jimbo-fisher-florida-state-se...

The fans demanded it and yet the game is still not sold out? I really don't get it. this game should have sold out preseason.

...That the teams we lost to are now currently ranked #19 and #22 in the country? Or that we beat the #15 in the country on the road? Or that UVA's losses came to the #17 team and an unranked team (and their "big win" which they stormed the field for is against a team that's currently unranked).

Thoughts?

Stanton goes down, Thomas comes in. Lets see how he does in his first ever real NFL action.

With the Hokies on a bye week, it's a good time to keep track of the rest of the conference race. If we want to have a chance to play in Charlotte, we need GT to start losing.

Another ACC Network game, affiliate list here: http://www.theacc.com/#!/news-detail/acc-network-affiliates-for-october-...

Looks mostly the same across Virginia and DC. It looks like the only change is that the Roanoke/Blacksburg area gets the game on Fox 21/27 instead of WDBJ. I imagine it's due to CBS airing an SEC doubleheader starting at noon.

I'm stoked on the Win, but still not impressed. Just gonna name some things that stood out to me.
The Bad:
1. The O line penalties were inexcusable, was it 5 or 6 false starts?
2. sixth year senior Wang was getting pushed back all day by sophomore DT. He's undersized to be effective.
3. We got really lucky with some Bad UNC turnovers. (Not counting Fuller pick6, that was nasty)
4. Why haven't we gone to J.Caleb more in the run game? With the injuries in the backfield this was the game to get him some carries.
5. Brewer didn't have best protection but he is missing wide open WR and continues to make bad throws leading to INT.

"I'd love to tell you that Virginia Tech is a great defense and did something spectacular," Fedora said. "But it was whatever we could do wrong, whatever could go wrong for us offensively, went wrong the entire first half."

http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/10/04/4207130_early-late-mistakes-doom-...

You mad bro?

Thursday night GB whacked Minn. Exum Vikings and Boykin GB didnt seem to have much of a role. Boykin is playing behind Jordy Nelson, whom is having a monster year so far.

Bears vs Panthers at Carolina, Sunday 1:00 PM Fox
Gotta watch this game to see the acrobatics of the best CB in the NFL right now.
Carolina PanthersChicago Bears
19 Morgan, Josh WR ACT 6'1" 220lb 7 years in NFL
23 Fuller, Kyle CB ACT 5'11" 190lb 0 years in NFL

Texans vs Cowboys at Dallas, Sunday 1:00 PM CBS
Houston Texans
#76 Brown, Duane T ACT 6'4" 303 lb 7 Years in NFL

Dallas Cowboys
Suck

http://www.roanoke.com/sports/columns_and_blogs/blogs/andy_bitter_virgin...

- It looked good early and I thought we were going to run all over UNC. It was disappointing to see UNC stop the run as easily as they did after the first couple of drives
- OL penalties. I hope Searels has them running this week. Way too many false starts
- The coaching staff wanted to control the clock and they succeeded. We had the ball for over 2/3 of the game? That's impressive.

Terrible defense.

Highlights are online now and the complete game will be online later this afternoon/evening.

Hokie Highlights

Phreak

Not being well versed in college rules. I and then fellow HOKIES I watched the game with today were surprised to see TJ Yates in his Falcons jersey on the UNC sideline with a headset on. Did anyone else notice this or have some insightful thoughts?

I've already posted versions of this in a couple of topics, but those will probably get buried.

First, for reference, the ACC tiebreakers: http://www.theacc.com/#!/page/ACC-Football-Championship-Tiebreakers

All of these scenarios assume that we win out, and end up 7-1 in conference, therefore giving every other Coastal team one loss.

There are three situations that would result in GT ending the season with a 7-1 conference record.

1.) They lose to an Atlantic team.
Everyone else in the Coastal would have at least two losses. GT wins head-to-head.

I made a visit to Hokiesports.com to take a gander at our offensive and defensive statistics through the first 6 games. Found some interesting bits.

For all of the images for team stats, the number on the left is for VT, right is opponents.

First, the team offensive stats:

Because the offense is converting 3rd downs at such a high rate (top 20 in the nation), we're killing it in time of possession, especially seen on display today vs UNC, where we held the ball for over 40 MINUTES. WHAT.

At least that's what Fedora believes....

"I'd love to tell you that Virginia Tech is a great defense and did something spectacular, but it was whatever we could do wrong, whatever could go wrong for us offensively, went wrong the entire first half," Fedora said.