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Welcome to the new season.

 

Let's go Mountaineers!

 

The Amway Coaches poll was released today. Sorry for the formatting..is there anyway to post this better without having to do heavy editing?

 

Also..if I was a betting man..I'd expect Coach Harbaugh to have Meatchicken sniffing the top 25 by the end of the year.

 

http://sportspolls.usatoday.com/ncaa/football/polls/coaches-poll/

 

 

 

TOP 25 TEAMS, WEEK 1 RANK TEAM RECORD POINTS 1ST PLACE VOTES PREV CHANGE HI/LOW 1 Ohio State 14-1 1598 62 NR 02 TCU 12-1 1487 1 NR 03 Alabama 12-2 1452 1 NR 04 Baylor 11-2 1365 0 NR 05 Oregon 13-2 1260 0 NR 06 Michigan State 11-2 1230 0 NR 07 Auburn 8-5 1103 0 NR 08 Florida State 13-1 1057 0 NR 09 Georgia 10-3 1026 0 NR 010 USC 9-4 1014 0 NR 011 Notre Dame 8-5 883 0 NR 012 Clemson 10-3 838 0 NR 013 LSU 8-5 727 0 NR 014 UCLA 10-3 697 0 NR 015 Ole Miss 9-4 668 0 NR 016 Arizona State 10-3 577 0 NR 017 Georgia Tech 11-3 573 0 NR 018 Wisconsin 11-3 470 0 NR 019 Oklahoma 8-5 407 0 NR 020 Arkansas 7-6 377 0 NR 0 21 Stanford 8-5 365 0 NR 022 Arizona 10-4 299 0 NR 0 23 Missouri 11-3 229 0 NR 024 Boise State 12-2 190 0 NR 025 Tennessee 7-6 166 0 NR 0
*Hi/Low Rankings

 

Hi/Low = The highest and lowest ranking each team has held during the designated season. Any team that starts the season unranked and/or falls out of the top 25 during the season will reflect a "NR" (not ranked) designation as its lowest rank.

 

Others Receiving Votes

 

Mississippi State 164; Texas A&M 149; Oklahoma State 89; Virginia Tech 70; Utah 40; Kansas State 37; Louisville 27; Nebraska 27; Minnesota 25; Penn State 20; South Carolina 18; Miami (Fla.) 16; Texas 8; Illinois 7; Duke 6; Air Force 5; Louisiana Tech 5; Marshall 4; Utah State 4; West Virginia 3; North Carolina State 3; Brigham Young 3; Florida 2; Georgia Southern 2; North Carolina 2; Maryland 1; Michigan 1; Kentucky 1; Central Florida 1; Cincinnati 1; Washington 1.

 

List of Voters

 

The Amway Board of Coaches is made up of 64 head coaches at Bowl Subdivision schools. All are members of the American Football Coaches Association. The board for the 2015 season: Dino Babers, Bowling Green; David Bailiff, Rice; Frank Beamer, Virginia Tech; Craig Bohl, Wyoming; Terry Bowden, Akron; Art Briles, Baylor; Troy Calhoun, Air Force; Matt Campbell, Toledo; Rod Carey, Northern Illinois; Norm Chow, Hawaii; Paul Chryst, Wisconsin; Larry Coker, Texas-San Antonio; David Cutcliffe, Duke; Mark Dantonio, Michigan State; Tim DeRuyter, Fresno State; Bob Diaco, Connecticut; Larry Fedora, North Carolina; Jimbo Fisher, Florida State; Kyle Flood, Rutgers; Dennis Franchione, Texas State; James Franklin, Penn State; Willie Fritz, Georgia Southern; Al Golden, Miami; Todd Graham, Arizona State; Mike Gundy, Oklahoma State; Jim Harbaugh, Michigan; Mark Helfrich, Oregon; Doc Holliday, Marshall; Mark Hudspeth, Louisiana-Lafayette; Paul Johnson, Georgia Tech; Joey Jones, South Alabama; Brian Kelly, Notre Dame; Brad Lambert, Charlotte; Lance Leipold, Buffalo; Rocky Long, San Diego State; Mike MacIntyre, Colorado; Gus Malzahn, Auburn; Doug Martin, New Mexico State; Dan McCarney, North Texas; Ruffin McNeill, East Carolina; Bronco Mendenhall, Brigham Young; Urban Meyer, Ohio State; Les Miles, LSU; Phillip Montgomery, Tulsa; Jim Mora, UCLA; Ken Niumatalolo, Navy; George O'Leary, Central Florida; Gary Patterson, TCU; Chris Petersen, Washington; Paul Petrino, Idaho; Gary Pinkel, Missouri; Paul Rhoads, Iowa State; Mark Richt, Georgia; Mike Riley, Nebraska; Nick Saban, Alabama; Frank Solich, Ohio; Steve Spurrier, South Carolina; Rick Stockstill, Middle Tennessee State; Bob Stoops, Oklahoma; Kevin Sumlin, Texas A&M; Dabo Swinney, Clemson; Tommy Tuberville, Cincinnati; Matt Wells, Utah State; Kyle Whittingham, Utah

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I really want to go to Lane to see VT/OSU on Labor Day but tickets are expensive as hell. I really don't want to pay a lot to see OSU railroad us for another Beamer big game disaster but it might be worth it.

Out of conference night game at Lane with #1 ranked defending national champ...that won't happen again for 20 years at least.

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OP 25 TEAMS, WEEK 1 RANK TEAM RECORD POINTS 1ST PLACE VOTES PREV CHANGE HI/LOW 

1 Ohio State14-1 1598 62 NR 0 – 

2 TCU 12-1 1487 1 NR 0 – 

3 Alabama 12-2 1452 1 NR 0 – 

4 Baylor 11-2 1365 0 NR 0 – 

5Oregon 13-2 1260 0 NR 0 – 

6 Michigan State 11-2 1230 0 NR 0 – 

7 Auburn 8-5 1103 0 NR 0 – 

8 Florida State13-1 1057 0 NR 0 – 

9 Georgia 10-3 1026 0 NR 0 – 

10 USC 9-4 1014 0 NR 0 – 

11 Notre Dame 8-5 883 0 NR 0 –

12 Clemson 10-3 838 0 NR 0 – 

13 LSU 8-5 727 0 NR 0 – 

14 UCLA 10-3 697 0 NR 0 – 

15 Ole Miss 9-4 668 0 NR 0 – 

16 Arizona State 10-3 577 0 NR 0 – 

17 Georgia Tech 11-3 573 0 NR 0 – 

18 Wisconsin 11-3 470 0 NR 0 –

19 Oklahoma 8-5 407 0 NR 0 – 

20 Arkansas 7-6 377 0 NR 0 – 

21 Stanford 8-5 365 0 NR 0 – 

22 Arizona 10-4 299 0 NR 0 –

 23 Missouri 11-3 229 0 NR 0 – 

24 Boise State 12-2 190 0 NR 0 – 

25 Tennessee 7-6 166 0 NR 0 –

*Hi/Low Rankings

 

Hi/Low = The highest and lowest ranking each team has held during the designated season. Any team that starts the season unranked and/or falls out of the top 25 during the season will reflect a "NR" (not ranked) designation as its lowest rank.

 

Others Receiving Votes

 

Mississippi State 164; Texas A&M 149; Oklahoma State 89; Virginia Tech 70; Utah 40; Kansas State 37; Louisville 27; Nebraska 27; Minnesota 25; Penn State 20; South Carolina 18; Miami (Fla.) 16; Texas 8; Illinois 7; Duke 6; Air Force 5; Louisiana Tech 5; Marshall 4; Utah State 4; West Virginia 3; North Carolina State 3; Brigham Young 3; Florida 2; Georgia Southern 2; North Carolina 2; Maryland 1; Michigan 1; Kentucky 1; Central Florida 1; Cincinnati 1; Washington 1.

 

There are 8 SEC teams ranked, and 3 are completely undeserving: Tennessee, Arkansas, Auburn (#7???). Georgia and LSU (who is their QB???) could be argued as well based on what they lost. 2 other SEC teams are ranked #26 & #27 (MSU and TAMU). 10 out of 14 schools are ranked in the top 27. 37% of the top 27 teams are from one conference, and 2 of them were one game over .500 with losing records in their conference games.


I really want to go to Lane to see VT/OSU on Labor Day but tickets are expensive as hell. I really don't want to pay a lot to see OSU railroad us for another Beamer big game disaster but it might be worth it.

Out of conference night game at Lane with #1 ranked defending national champ...that won't happen again for 20 years at least.

I don't think losing to the defending national champion with almost everyone back will count as a Beamer disaster. They played Bama better than anyone when they opened against them on the road (neutral site my ass). People always **** that VT doesn't play anyone and they play in a weak conference (funny how that never hurts FSU). LSU and OSU in home and homes won't even change that narrative. 

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Yeah VT has really tried to reach out and play big games OOC. They played LSU h/h, OSU h/h, played Boise when they were #3 at FedEx, played Bama twice to start the season and played the Leinart/Bush USC team at FedEx.

While there might not be any shame in losing to OSU this year, I'm sure there will be a few wtf Beamer moments but I'm really hoping we can keep it respectable and not embarrass ourselves. They will want reevenge. I just don't think we are ready for this.

It will be electric there if we can keep it close throughout. Would be the biggest win in the schools history if they somehow- nope, nevermind, won't even go down that path.

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I just hope for the health of some of the posters here that there isn't another one of these.

 

beamer.jpg

 

 

Also - I was looking for future schedules for VT because I couldn't remember when we started playing you guys again and I found this. Looks like you will have 1 or 2 big OOC games a year for quite awhile in the future (assuming they get played).

 

2017 is weak though OOC if the Mountaineers suck.

 

http://www.hokiesports.com/football/schedule/future/

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Yep I love the Michigan scheduling. Of course it will work out that by then Harbaugh has turned them into a football factory juggernaut again but still.

Really excited WVa is back on the schedule too.

I just hope for the health of some of the posters here that there isn't another one of these.

Honestly looking at Beamer recently has me more worried for him than anything else. He just doesn't look healthy and it's sad to see him still around trying to get that elusive NC, or even just leave VT on the upswing, not leave them in the worst era of his storied career, first few years aside.

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**** Spurrier....

you mean Superior, right? ;)

To me, it was always a terrible shame that he couldn't command the same kind of respect with the Redskins players that every Florida player gave him.  I'll never forget how super-stoked I was, and how let-down I was. 

And I forgot all about that when the Redskins acquired, yes, our current Heisman winner that will deliver the gold.   (Always the optimist, I am.)

 

On that note, Friday night, hubby wanted to know why I couldn't take my eyes off my phone during his "talk time" (code for "I'm gonna tell you every word of every conversation I had today")...

Me:  "It's the 2nd day of camp, honey, and we've already lost our beast corner.  I'll get back with you momentarily."

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Predictions

 

ACC Atlantic: Clemson 

 

BC .500, Clemson alright and has returning starter but can he stay healthy, FSU rebuilding, louisville is talented 

 

ACC Coastal: Georgia Tech followed by Virginia Tech 

 

Duke alway sin mix, Golden's and London's last year, Pitt .500 under Narduzzi (or better) 

 

American East: Cincinnati 

American West: Memphis

Big 12: TCU followed closely by Baylor

Big Ten East: Ohio State

Big Ten West: Wisconsin

Pac 12 North: Oregon 

Pac 12 South: Arizona State  - all comes together this year, and they got a mighty QB 

SEC East: Georgia, Missouri returns Mauk and might raise eyebrows. Florida rebuilding, Kentucky will be somewhat good, Tennessee hype train but it's too soon for the Vol 

SEC West: Alabama will likely not win the West as they have a serious QB quandary and Coker can't seem to put a stranglehold on the position. Auburn hype is off the charts and have a strong chance of winning this division. A&M too. Auburn by a nose

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After listening to dozens of college football podcasts for many hours at at time I have received a lot of intelligence which I would like to share. 

 

- West Virginia is out of place in the Big 12. West Virginia is projected to be just above average and HOLGO always comes out of season's gate swinging but eventually loses momentum. Holgo is a good man but the fact of the matter is that his results have not been up to par, and he is always held up to a standard to what Rich Rodriguez did there. In the old Big East Rich Rodriguez regularly barreled over nobodies in a decimated Big East (VT, BC, Miami all left leaving WVU alone with...UConn? Cincinnati?) and Holgo has never been able to carry over that success save blowing out Clemson in the Orange Bowl. The Big 12 is a lot tougher than the Big East and Holgo's continued mediocrity show that. Guy needs to step it up this year because WVU is an afterthought to other programs like Texas, OU, Baylor, and TCU 

 

- Alabama is in serious turmoil and it's only preseason, and Saban always finds a way, but this time he has no QB and no receiver to bail him out. This may be the first time we see a serious rebuilding in Alabama. They aren't going to be .500, they might lose 3 or 4 games, but don't expect much out of this team. Coker has never been able to fully grasp the position (he transferred out of FSU being billed as an elite QB but couldn't even take the job from Blake Sims) and he hasn't really been able to impress the coaches enough to be out there as the starter. 

 

- Virginia Tech is being hyped by The Audible podcast as the nation's most overlooked team. Yes, they have a full regiment of running backs healthy again. Yes, they have a young core of matured sophomores, and Brewer "impressed in spring practice". Yes this defense is stacked. But the hype and inevitable collapse is evident, hanging around this program, and despite OSU's suspensions, don't expect VT to win on Labor Day. The game may be close but OSU is too talented. OSU lost largely because their O-line couldn't defense VT. It's highly unlikely that it will happen again. 

 

- Florida State looks to rebuild after losing Jameis and while their backup is capable and filled in for Jameis against Clemson and did moderately well FSU has lost a treasure trove on defense and has a lot of rebuilding to do. I also don't buy the hype on ND, Zaire is the next big thing but we'll see what happens. ND has a lot of big games at home though and will surely impress if they can win those key matchups 

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