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TimeForGuinness wrote:It's true, and I'm a VT alumni. Great defense, great special teams, no offense...they try to bore the other team to death. If they ever make it into the BCS title game, it will be one of the most boring title games ever.

Still rooting for them though.

Forgive me for going all Grampa Simpson for a sec here and regaling everyone with tales of NCAA Football past, but Beamer pretty much borrowed from Danny Ford's program-building blueprint from his days at Clemson in the late 70's and throughout the 80's.* Clemson under Ford was a perennial top 20 team with lots of top 10 teams and even a NC, built entirely on the strength of a stout defense, a boring-ass offense, and special teams. IIRC, Beamer's even referenced Ford as the guy he was trying to emulate.


*That's not to say that Ford's the only one that's done this. Far from it.

Side note... this was the worst soda I can ever remember having:

I'd imagine a Clemson soda is good for a few months and then it just expires out of nowhere.

Bet it's the kind of soda you'd have to choke down.

Pitt
Mizzou
Colorado St
Notre Dame
Kansas St
Kentucky
BYU
Oklahoma St
Northwestern
TCU
North Carolina
Fresno St
Virginia Tech

Pitt at Utah
Mizzou-Illinois
Colorado at Colorado St
Purdue at Notre Dame
UCLA at Kansas St
Kentucky at Louisville
Washington at BYU
Washington St at Oklahoma St
Northwestern at Vanderbilt
Oregon State at TCU
LSU at North Carolina
Cincinnati at Fresno St
Boise St at Virginia Tech

Utah
Mizzou
Colorado
Notre Dame
UCLA
Louisville
Washington
Washington St
Northwestern
TCU
LSU
Fresno St
Boise St

Pitt at Utah (Thursday, September 2)-Pitt
Mizzou-Illinois (St Louis)-Missouri
Colorado vs Colorado St (Denver)-Colorado
Purdue at Notre Dame -Notre Dame
UCLA at Kansas St-Kansas State
Kentucky at Louisville-Louisville
Washington at BYU-BYU
Washington St at Oklahoma St-Oklahoma State
Northwestern at Vanderbilt-Northwestern
Oregon State at TCU (Arlington, Tx)-TCU
LSU vs North Carolina (Atlanta)-LSU
Cincinnati at Fresno St-Fresno State
Boise St at Virginia Tech (Monday) (Landover, Md)-Boise St

Pitt at Utah (Thursday, September 2)
Mizzou-Illinois (St Louis)
Colorado vs Colorado St (Denver)
Purdue at Notre Dame
UCLA at Kansas St
Kentucky at Louisville
Washington at BYU
Washington St at Oklahoma St
Northwestern at Vanderbilt
Oregon State at TCU (Arlington, Tx)
LSU vs North Carolina (Atlanta)
Cincinnati at Fresno St
Boise St at Virginia Tech (Monday) (Landover, Md) - Wow, this is a tough call, alright! Jeez. Changed my opinion like 5 times in 5 minutes.

Glancing over everyone's picks, there's a lot of near 50-50 splits for several of these games. Should be a competitive first week for us!

GO HAWKS ! GO MACLOWERY, REIGNING 2009 GRB CFTC You pick em! I made a crown out of paper-mache and sparkles.

Utah
Mizzou
Colorado
Notre Dame
UCLA
Louisville
BYU
Oklahoma St
Vandy
TCU
LSU
Cincy
Boise ST

Pitt at Utah (Thursday, September 2)
Mizzou-Illinois (St Louis)
Colorado vs Colorado St (Denver)
Purdue at Notre Dame
UCLA at Kansas St
Kentucky at Louisville
Washington at BYU
Washington St at Oklahoma St
Northwestern at Vanderbilt
Oregon State at TCU (Arlington, Tx)
LSU vs North Carolina (Atlanta)
Cincinnati at Fresno St
Boise St at Virginia Tech (Monday) (Landover, Md)

I hate taking so many away teams....

Maclowery wrote: GO HAWKS ! GO MACLOWERY, REIGNING 2009 GRB CFTC You pick em! I made a crown out of paper-mache and sparkles.

You Ryan Howarded your way to that title.