Where I Come From: What Are Your Expectations for the Season?

I think anything short of a BCS bowl appearance AND victory would be disappointing, even with the lack of experience on defense. Another 10-win season is obviously an expectation, an ACC championship, and a BCS bowl victory would sit well with me. Even a BCS bowl victory as an ACC At-large might be okay with me, but I do want another ACC trophy. I think anything short of those scenarios will be a failure, especially because this will be Tyrod’s last season and undoubtedly Ryan Williams’ last season too, and we probably won’t have that level of talent in our offensive backfield for years to come. So yeah, contend for a national championship (we should be expecting this EVERY year now), win the ACC, and win a BCS bowl game. That would do it for me.

This should be an interesting season. Last year I said that was not the national championship caliber team and that this one would be. The reasoning behind that being the same offense but just a whole year better. The problem is I think the top of the ACC is also much better than they were last year (Miami, UNC, GT).

With Boise State and those 3 games right in a row late in the season, it’s a definite possibility to have 3 losses in there and IF the 3 losses do come from those games (and not in the rest of the schedule), I won’t be too surprised/disappointed.

Saying that, I still think that with a little luck that this team can go undefeated. If we get by Boise, then you have a 7 game stretch where the defense can start to gel and the past couple seasons that’s exactly what’s happened. If both sides of the ball can click through that end stretch of the season, then I’m not counting out an undefeated season.

because of one reason, I expect a Heisman finalist. I don’t think a national title bid is out of the question because I believe the big two in the SEC will be down this year. With USC out of shots the only other big teams that I think are really good bets for your money will be Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Ohio State (really Oklahoma is just something I let myself get talked into because for me they really lost to many players). I think Boise State deserves a shot if they beat us and Oregon, but its all up to the votes. For us we will win the ACC with probably two losses. I think one of them is definitely going to be in November and who knows what the other will be (Boise maybe). I do agree with VTinACC though, if we go 0-3 in November I wouldn’t be surprised or way to upset. Again though I think the most important achievement this year is RMFW being in New York for the Heisman ceremony.