OV dec. 9-11.
Chances?

My week 5 Power Rankings
http://nothingbeatstheeast.sportsbl...-rankings-top-25-heisman-rankings-week-5.html

An oddly large number of byes coinciding this week, but some big performances from future Hokies:

https://virginiatech.rivals.com/news/hokie-haven-friday-night-lights-week-eight

Conference ADs discussing it:

http://bit.ly/2dxz1dW

We were briefly ranked after the OSU game, but dropped out shortly after. I don't believe we were ranked going into the Bama game and if we were ranked at any point that year we were surely out before we upset Miami. Is this week the first time we've seen a game between two ranked teams since the dreaded Sugar Bowl, which saw the ridiculous fake punt with 4-6 missed calls on one play, the magical grab by Danny Coale that got overturned, and countless unlucky moments where the ball just didn't bounce our way? Hopefully games between ranked teams becomes a normal occurrence in Blacksburg again. We need a big W against UNC to kick it off.

Also for Tim, as a Michigan guy do you think Michigan deserved that win in 2011? I know it's probably been addressed but I ask all my Michigan buddies this question.

...only four games into the Fuente era and a .500 program is already back in the AP Top 25.

Congrats to the coaches and players for getting their stuff together so quickly, and I'm really looking forward to seeing how good this team can get this year!

Decommited from PSU today.
Any chance?

No. 30, and without much shakeup in the back half of the poll, no surprise they didn't move up more. Tennessee's comeback against Florida really helps in that department though - as long as the Vols look legit (jury's out on whether that will happen), the loss in Bristol won't be an anchor.

Even without playing this coming week, VT may manage to crack the poll if a few results go their way.

http://collegefootball.ap.org/poll

Who has the better game?

ACC has some great quarterbacks this season. I think Evans gets 240 yards passing and 80 yards on ground. Mitch has 2 picks and the heels lose a fumble. Hokies win by 2 scores and defense record 4 sacks.

Sure, it's been a little while since he was a Hokie, but always good to see former players doing well:

https://virginiatech.rivals.com/news/rivals-com-five-star-club-rolling-the-dice

I let this one marinate in my brain (and DVR) for a while with the bye week giving a bit more time, but I definitely saw a few things on a second watch - second close watch, at least, I had it on in the background a couple more times throughout the course of last week - that I hadn't caught live:

https://virginiatech.rivals.com/news/the-final-word-east-carolina

Odd to say, I know, but especially given that VT has a bit of extra prep time for what is suddenly a HUGE contest against North Carolina, I think it's fair:

https://virginiatech.rivals.com/new...tball-has-hokies-on-verge-of-national-spotlig

As I posted earlier this morning, I thought we had a chance to sneak in...and we did. Now, let's stay in a while...BEAT UNC!!

It'll be a bit delayed because Rayshard Ashby's team doesn't play until tonight. I'll try to have it up this evening instead of waiting until tomorrow.

As predicted earlier today. Not a huge loss for the Hokies - they would have liked to have him, but a big man is the priority with Nickeil Alexander-Walker and Wabissa Bede already in the fold.

10 of the Top 25 in last week's AP poll suffered defeat yesterday. At least 6 of those 10 will almost certainly drop out of the Top 25 when the new poll results are released today. It will be interesting to see if VT is able to gain one of the "open" Top 25 slots now up for grabs. Working against VT is the fact that they were "idle" over the weekend. Pollsters tend to be very reactionary so look for teams that had a degree of "visibility" yesterday...such as UNC, Cal, Colorado, etc to move ahead of VT and into the rankings. The old adage "out of sight, out of mind" may work against the Hokies...but there is at least a reasonable chance that VT sneaks into the rankings.

Rivals Mid-Atlantic Recruiting Analyst Adam Friedman projects a top in-stater to the Hokies:

https://virginiatech.rivals.com/new...-predictions-on-where-top-recruits-are-headed

I picked my top five, what are some of the things you'd like to see improved for next week?

https://virginiatech.rivals.com/news/virginia-tech-bye-week-improvements

Dalton Keene picked up a Michigan offer last night, and will see Ann Arbor in person. I guess turnabout's fair play for the Maize and Blue, who will see one of their commits (CB Benjamin St-Juste) make a stop in Blacksburg:

https://virginiatech.rivals.com/news/michigan-offers-dalton-keene-plans-to-visit

Eliminates Seton Hall and USC

https://virginiatech.rivals.com/news/de-vondre-perry-down-to-three