Saturday, August 7, 2010

My prediction on the 2010 VT football season

So I never really write in the blog anymore but with football season almost here I again feel compelled to write something. See after football season is over I kind of reach this writer’s block. I mean seriously besides college basketball and some good Red Wings hockey I lose inspiration.

So anyway on to my thoughts about the upcoming VT football season. First thing is we are preseason #6 and that is defiantly overrated. The best I could see us right now is about #11. Yes, we have a strong offense coming back but on the defensive side of the ball there are lots of questions. The problem with preseason rankings is they don’t factor in where teams should finish. I tend to agree a lot with Phil Steele and his preseason rankings he put out this summer.

I’m going o/u 2.5 losses on the 2010 season for Virginia Tech football. See the thing with VT is we never really have what it takes to win all our games. Normally we lose a game or two we should never lose. And unlike other teams when a key player goes down during the season, we don’t just slide a new guy in and pick-up where we left off like most teams. So here are the games I think we lose and why.

Boise State: First off Kellen Moore is probably one of the best QB’s in college football this year. He can pass like a mad man, he has all his weapons back and he’s from a pass happy style offense. VT’s defense coming back is suspect right now. A suspect defense and a QB on the other side of the ball that can rip through defenses blindfolded is not good for the home team. We also never show up for big games. The pressure is too much and we don’t prepare for the hype.

UNC: They always play us close when we go down there. They have a defense that will stop our offense. See our offensive PLAYERS are good, our coordinator not so much. UNC will stop our offense and trying to find answers late in the game will not work when you’re behind. We also come off this game having played GT and then roll into Miami the next week. If we do find a way to win this game we’ll for sure lose to Miami the next week

NC State: They almost got us the last time down there. This is a very tough place to play when VT or big teams roll into town. See this game will probably be a bowl game for NC State in their eyes. They have a coach that knows our program from his BC days. He knows how to beat us and probably will.

I’m not 100% but I think we win against GT and Miami. The only reason I don’t see us losing to GT is we play them at home but this will still be a very close game. As for Miami if we beat UNC then we will lose to them. Since I see us losing to UNC on the road I think we then go down to Miami the next weekend and find a way to win. As much as I hate to say it Tyrod will not stay health all season, I would love to say he will be but reality is mobile QB’s, enough said. He’ll probably miss a game or two late in the season which could raise our losses to 3 or 4.

My best prediction is we go 10-2, worse case we go 9-3. As always though you do play to win the game and college football is all about emotion. So anything can happen but VT football is always too predictable for me. As always I hope they prove me wrong.