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The 2023 Virginia Tech Hokie Good, Bad, and Uglies after the Hoo Crush
Time for regular season wrap ups, and this good, bad, and ugly will concentrate mostly on the season, and not spend much time with the Hoos since that was amazingly GOOD. GO HOKIES!!!
Wahoos vs. Hokies: News Tidbits, Stuff, and Guesses
This is it. The last week. Or not. If the Hokies win, it’s a bowl bid, if they lose it’s home for the holidays. Which one do they want more? All will be answered by 6:30 PM. GO HOKIES!!!!
Virginia Tech Hokies vs. NC State Wolfpack: News, Tidbits, and Predictions
It’s time to cruise the football announcements and cough up our predictions. This isn’t going to be an easy game, folks. It just isn’t. Bowl eligibility, program momentum, Senior Night, Final Home Game of the season... lots on the line. GO HOKIES!!!
Virginia Tech Hokies vs. NC State Wolfpack: Preview and Poll
It’s the final home game of the 2023 Season. There is a whole lot on the line, Defending Lane, Senior Night Pride, Bowl Eligibility, and Making the Turn. A ‘W’ gets that all accomplished. GO HOKIES!!!
Virginia Tech Hokies vs. Boston College Eagles: The Good, Bad, and Ugly
Every week that we don’t photograph, there is a G, B, and U unless there is a compelling reason for an "extra". Well, this one was mostly all good things. That’s also a very good thing. NC State week starts after you finish this. GO HOKIES!!!!
Virginia Tech Hokies vs. Boston College Eagles: News, Tidbits, and Predictions
It’s Friday before a really important game on Saturday at noon in Boston. Chestnut Hill has been conquered by the Hokies before. They need to do it again to regain some momentum as the final three games of the season arrive with possibilities. GO HOKIES!!!
Virginia Tech Hokies vs. Louisville Cardinals: the Good, Bad, and Ugly of Things
One final look at the Louisville fiasco. The hoops wins were heartening, but we are still obligated to talk about the football games. Louisville is just one we really don’t want to talk about or remember for that matter. GO HOKIES!!!
Virginia Tech Hokies vs. Louisville Cardinals: News, Tidbits, and Predictions
It’s nearly showtime. What’s the football news, and what are the predictions for this one. This one is going to be difficult to predict because the head and heart are at odds with each other. GO HOKIES!!!
Virginia Tech Hokies at the Home Stretch of the 2023 Season
It’s the final four games of the regular season (Ooops, did I just say, "regular season"? - knocking wood, knocking wood) and the Hokies have 3 games on the road and 1 at home to prepare for. Louisville, Boston College, NC State, and the Hoos are the home stretch. Let’s look at the adjusted risk levels. No predictions or guesses. GO HOKIES!!!
Virginia Tech Hokies vs. Syracuse Orange: News, Tidbits, and Predictions
It’s not Friday, that’s for sure. It’s Wednesday and the evening before the big Thursday kick. It’s a big game for both teams. Both need wins. Both are on a certain trajectory. Syracuse wants to change theirs, and the Hokies want to reinforce their direction. It’s staff prediction time. AND some news to go with it. GO HOKIES!!!
Virginia Tech Hokies vs. Wake Forest Demon Deacons: Good, Bad, and Ugly - Extra
When you finish the pictures early you can think of other things to say to go along with looking at most of the game a slide at a time. There were good, bad, and ugly things in this one, there always are, win or lose. Question, though - did the Hokies make a big turn? GO HOKIES!!!
Virginia Tech Hokies vs. Wake Forest Demon Deacons: Preview
It’s Homecoming in Blacksburg. It’s also going to be a miserable wet Saturday. Maybe that bodes well for the favored by a sliver Hokies in a bid to grab one more win to start the 2nd half of the season on the right foot. GO HOKIES!!!
Virginia Tech Hokies vs. Florida State Seminoles: The Good, Bad, and Ugly
There were actually a few good things in Saturday’s loss. Maybe getting the game over with without too many disastrous bumps and bruises was the best thing, but it’s time to go through my takes on the game. Bryan and I don’t agree on everything. So let’s talk about it... GO HOKIES!!!
Virginia Tech Hokies vs. Florida State Seminoles: News Tidbits and Predictions
Well, it’s predictions time. Don’t be depressed. We are alerting you to be realistic in how you think about this one. There are many ways to "win" this even without one. GO HOKIES!!!
Virginia Tech Hokies vs. Florida State Seminoles: Preview
Well, we had to get to this weekend, and it just had to be on the road, so with a good game and some mo behind them, the Hokies have to travel to Tallahassee. Hopefully they keep up their turn to the positive. No fooling, this is going to be a tough game. GO HOKIES!!!
Re-evaluating the Virginia Tech Hokie Risk Chart After Four Games
It’s time to look at the chart for the next 8 games and get a better idea of where the Hokies might be at the end of the season. It’s not looking so hot. GO HOKIES!!!
Virginia Tech Hokies Football: Big Show and No Go - Where are the Horses?
It’s giving me a serious headache to review the game, but we need to take some stock in the situation. Bryan had his say, I guess I’d like a crack at it, too. Getting to the nature of the problem. GO HOKIES!!!
Virginia Tech Hokies vs. Marshall Thundering Herd: News, Tidbits, and Predictions
Time for the staff to tell you how they think that it’s going to go, and some news items to go along with them. GO HOKIES!!!
Virginia Tech Hokies vs. Marshall Thundering Herd: Preview
Under normal circumstances we’d be writing about a home game with Marshall in Lane... not Huntington. The times are no longer normal, and neither are the odds in this one. Big hill to climb on Saturday. GO HOKIES!!!
The Hokies vs. Scarlet Knights Fallout: Good, Bad, and Ugly
Saturday afternoon at roughly 5:00 pm, as halftime led to chili and conversation, it was obvious that the Hokies were struggling, and Rutgers wasn’t. It was just a matter of time, and the dam broke in the 4th quarter. Let’s go over the good, bad, and ugly of this one. GO HOKIES!!!
Virginia Tech Hokies vs. Rutgers Scarlet Knights: Preview
Looking at the week 3 contest and the 2nd with a B1G opponent, Rutgers. This time the Hokies travel to northern Jersey to visit in what could be weird conditions. The Hokies are wounded and the Scarlet Knights are 2-0. Take the Poll it’s going to be a tough game. GO HOKIES!!!
Virginia Tech Hokies vs. Purdue, Nature, and Inertia: Good, Bad, and Ugly Extra
With few pictures and most of the game on TV because of the storm and 5-hour delay, we churn up a Good, Bad, and Ugly Extra to review the game’s major issues not covered by Bryan’s takeaways. This one wasn’t easy. GO HOKIES!!!!
Virginia Tech Hokies 2023 Football Season Risk Analysis
It’s July and that means we open the books and look at the schedule from a risk analysis standpoint. How are the Hokies going to do. Let’s set the baseline so that we can check back after the 4th and 8th games to see how we did. Take the poll.
The CFB Merger Madness and the Virginia Tech Hokie Transition: Conclusions and Questions
Look, most folks have admitted that they really don’t know what’s going to happen. But we do have some ideas. Merger Madness will eventually cross paths with the Hokie Transition process. Let’s just look at it and do some fun speculating. GO HOKIES!!!!
Virginia Tech Hokies Football 2023 Early Evaluation of the Schedule
Let’s pull out the old shiny bowling ball (No money for crystals) and do some fuminating, ruminating, and cogitating over it a bit and see if, maybe we can divine a floor/ceiling for this year’s football schedule. GO HOKIES!!!
Where College Football is Now and the Immediate Future - Playoffs
The admonition that one should always be careful of what one wishes for is always advisable. We wished for playoffs (with most of college football fandom) we got them, and it wasn’t a nice Toyota. It was more like some hybrid world car monster with a plug and lots of money involved. GO HOKIES!!!
Virginia Tech Hokies vs. Liberty Flames: Good, Bad, and Ugly for a Dangling Participle of a Win
Well, how about that? To quote Pittsburgh Dad... 3... 2... 1... WIN! The Hokies tote a W back west on US460 and salvage just a tiny shred of some sort of dignity for the season with an ironic 1-point win over Liberty. Let’s look at some of the good, bad, and ugly stuff for this one - which might be the last game of 2022. GO HOKIES!!!
Virginia Tech vs. Liberty: Gobbler Country’s staff predictions
Another long Saturday predicted for the Hokies.
Virginia Tech vs. Duke staff predictions: Can Hokies break a six-game losing streak?
This is a battle of first-year head coaches. Both are defensive minded, but one seems to have found an offense. It’s not the Hokies’ HC, that’s plain. The staff puts out their predictions. No excessive sanguinity, either. GO HOKIES!!!
Virginia Tech Hokies vs, Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets: Gobbler Country Staff Predictions
Well, it’s time for predictions and maybe a ray of sunshine in the expected gloom for Saturday. We are unlikely to be on the field since no one wants to drown a $400 camera. We’ll see about the view from the stands with the little camera. GO HOKIES!!!
The Virginia Tech Hokies as the Final Third of 2022 Begins
As promised, it’s time to look at the risk chart and schedule ahead for the final third of the season. In the pre-season it was predicted to be the easy part of the schedule. Pre-season predictions are written on rice paper and dragged around through the rain. Tech’s got a rough road ahead. GO HOKIES!!!
Virginia Tech Hokies vs. North Carolina State Wolfpack: Good, Bad, and Ugly
Another G,B,and U where it might as well be ugly, uglier, and ugliest. The trajectory of this team is up, right? I mean that’s what we keep hearing... we’re getting better. We expected to lose this and nearly won, right? Right... sure... whatever. Let’s go over this without plowing Bryan’s ground. But that might not be possible. Let’s try. GO HOKIES!!!!