[82lsju]

Cal is clearly superior to Stanford this season, just to anyone who has ever watched football. They have as much chance as anyone in the conference as being in the upper third.  Tough to know after only a handful of games, but I think this year's ACC is as 'any given Saturday' as at any time I can remember. Of course - we have a thousand teams now and nothing but unbalanced schedule difficulty. How well teams will do is largely determined by the schedulers, but they have no idea ahead of time who they are screwing over since there can be radical make overs every year through the portal. If we want a real professional system, we should go back to 8 or 10 team conferences with balanced schedules feeding a national playoff.

Maybe FSU groups its poop yet and something tells me Clemson is still near the top of the league, because yes, Georgia is just that good. NC State looked awful against the Vols but that's just one game against someone good, so who knows?  VPI losing to Vandy was eye opening unless we think Vandy is upper tier SEC. More likely, that was VPI's one non-conference gack before doing well in conference. Mostly it is all close unpredictable games like Wake-UVA and Tech-Cuse. Hard to pick and lots of .500 conference records.

If Stanford is remotely competitive against Syracuse and Clemson, that's a win of sorts. Unless they can get McCord off-rhythm or he's out, there is no way I see Stanford's offense keeping up. He looked like a 5-star Ohio State QB given time in the pocket. Clemson should destroy Stanford, and while Stanford has a history of pulling off mega upsets they shouldn't, I don't see this team capable of anything like that. Checking the schedule, Stanford might run into a win or three against ACC competition, but this feels like another 3-win season at best. I wouldn't be shocked if they don't win again this year. Glacial progress. Yay! 

To answer Marty's question, the Pac-12 is only a logo on two uniforms and two fields this year. They are not an auto-qualifier to the playoff. I guess Wazoo and the Beavs are considered G5, so if one rises to the top of that heap, they can participate.

VPI.  Had to think a minute.  Virginia Polytechnic Institute.  Excellent.

Yeah, I remember them always being referred to as VPI.  I’m not sure when they started using the moniker Va. Tech.  Personally, I like VPI better.  

I guess the next school on the list of name changes is MIT.  Soon, we will be referencing them by the name Ma. Tech.

In the early 1990s, university administration authorized the official use of Virginia Tech as equivalent to the full legal name [Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University]; it has been used as the first-reference name for the school's athletic teams since the 1970s. 

[82lsju]

Cal is clearly superior to Stanford this season, just to anyone who has ever watched football. They have as much chance as anyone in the conference as being in the upper third.  Tough to know after only a handful of games, but I think this year's ACC is as 'any given Saturday' as at any time I can remember. Of course - we have a thousand teams now and nothing but unbalanced schedule difficulty. How well teams will do is largely determined by the schedulers, but they have no idea ahead of time who they are screwing over since there can be radical make overs every year through the portal. If we want a real professional system, we should go back to 8 or 10 team conferences with balanced schedules feeding a national playoff.

Maybe FSU groups its poop yet and something tells me Clemson is still near the top of the league, because yes, Georgia is just that good. NC State looked awful against the Vols but that's just one game against someone good, so who knows?  VPI losing to Vandy was eye opening unless we think Vandy is upper tier SEC. More likely, that was VPI's one non-conference gack before doing well in conference. Mostly it is all close unpredictable games like Wake-UVA and Tech-Cuse. Hard to pick and lots of .500 conference records.

If Stanford is remotely competitive against Syracuse and Clemson, that's a win of sorts. Unless they can get McCord off-rhythm or he's out, there is no way I see Stanford's offense keeping up. He looked like a 5-star Ohio State QB given time in the pocket. Clemson should destroy Stanford, and while Stanford has a history of pulling off mega upsets they shouldn't, I don't see this team capable of anything like that. Checking the schedule, Stanford might run into a win or three against ACC competition, but this feels like another 3-win season at best. I wouldn't be shocked if they don't win again this year. Glacial progress. Yay! 

To answer Marty's question, the Pac-12 is only a logo on two uniforms and two fields this year. They are not an auto-qualifier to the playoff. I guess Wazoo and the Beavs are considered G5, so if one rises to the top of that heap, they can participate.

VPI.  Had to think a minute.  Virginia Polytechnic Institute.  Excellent.

Yeah, I remember them always being referred to as VPI.  I’m not sure when they started using the moniker Va. Tech.  Personally, I like VPI better.  

I guess the next school on the list of name changes is MIT.  Soon, we will be referencing them by the name Ma. Tech.

In the early 1990s, university administration authorized the official use of Virginia Tech as equivalent to the full legal name [Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University]; it has been used as the first-reference name for the school's athletic teams since the 1970s.