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On the other hand, it covers about 1.5 years of college football now.

Saw this on Josh Pate's latest post. Also, he says the midpoint between the start of the season and the end of the season is November 14th. Most schools are just about done by that point. ** Edited by hokiedad25 at 6/7/2026, 1:26:22 PM

Should be in easily. But crazier things have happened.

We were the last team in based on my rankings yesterday morning. But we went from 45th to 54th with the loss to WF.

Everybody seems to have tournament projections now. Since I've been doing my own rankings, I thought it would be time to create my own projections. So here's mine. It's based on my current rankings as of this morning. Here are the last four teams in: San Diego State, Texas A&M, Missouri, Indiana Here are the first four teams out: Virginia Tech, New Mexico, USC, Texas

They are sitting 9th in the ACC: | Rank | School | W | L | PF | PA | Rating | SOS | | ----: | ----: | ----: | ----: | ----: | ----: | ----: | ----: | | 3 | DUKE | 23 | 2 | 2056 | 1578 | 117.031 | 109.636 | | 16 | VIRGINIA | 22 | 3 | 2035 | 1685 | 114.346 | 108.167 | | 20 | LOUISVILLE | 19 | 6 | 2172 | 1773 | 114.060 | 109.551 | | 21 | NORTH CAROLINA | 20 | 5 | 2045 | 1761 | 113.980 | 109.23 | | 28 | CLEMSON | 20 | 6 | 1945 | 1682 | 113.003 | 108.622 | | 32 | NC STATE | 18 | 8 | 2209 | 1934 | 112.478 | 109.369 | | 33 | MIAMI (FL) | 20 | 5 | 2089 | 1752 | 112.472 | 107.471 | | 34 | SMU | 17 | 8 | 2155 | 1939 | 112.254 | 109.54 | | 48 | VIRGINIA TECH | 17 | 9 | 2058 | 1943 | 111.307 | 108.898 | | 51 | CALIFORNIA | 18 | 8 | 2053 | 1897 | 111.187 | 108.183 | | 56 | STANFORD | 16 | 10 | 1961 | 1886 | 110.845 | 109.267 | | 62 | SYRACUSE | 15 | 11 | 1989 | 1876 | 110.180 | 108.521 | | 65 | WAKE FOREST | 13 | 12 | 1992 | 1925 | 110.094 | 109.567 | | 77 | FLORIDA ST. | 12 | 13 | 2009 | 1960 | 109.251 | 109.087 | | 81 | NOTRE DAME | 12 | 14 | 1941 | 1909 | 109.119 | 109.438 | | 120 | PITTSBURGH | 9 | 17 | 1818 | 1866 | 107.531 | 109.38 | | 141 | GEORGIA TECH | 11 | 15 | 1937 | 1984 | 106.748 | 107.668 | | 159 | BOSTON COLLEGE | 9 | 16 | 1686 | 1733 | 106.155 | 107.973 | Here are the median rankings of the top 5 conferences: ACC -> 49.5 Big 12 -> 46 Big East -> 74.5 Big Ten -> 38.5 SEC -> 44.5

More importantly, they are the 7th highest ranked team in the ACC. | Rank | School | W | L | PF | PA | Rating | SOS | | ----: | ----: | ----: | ----: | ----: | ----: | ----: | ----: | | 9 | LOUISVILLE | 24 | 4 | 2298 | 1689 | 119.223 | 112.175 | | 14 | DUKE | 19 | 6 | 1894 | 1467 | 118.402 | 113.697 | | 25 | NORTH CAROLINA | 21 | 6 | 2047 | 1561 | 116.934 | 111.464 | | 30 | SYRACUSE | 21 | 5 | 1957 | 1601 | 116.194 | 110.614 | | 31 | NC STATE | 17 | 8 | 1948 | 1662 | 116.135 | 113.194 | | 42 | NOTRE DAME | 16 | 9 | 1977 | 1654 | 115.439 | 112.406 | | 43 | VIRGINIA TECH | 20 | 7 | 1994 | 1623 | 114.920 | 110.227 | | 47 | VIRGINIA | 18 | 8 | 1982 | 1629 | 114.241 | 110.57 | | 53 | STANFORD | 16 | 11 | 1870 | 1675 | 113.833 | 111.935 | | 55 | CALIFORNIA | 16 | 11 | 1878 | 1723 | 113.732 | 111.959 | | 59 | CLEMSON | 18 | 9 | 1884 | 1569 | 113.556 | 110.158 | | 73 | MIAMI (FL) | 13 | 12 | 1780 | 1643 | 112.551 | 111.77 | | 95 | GEORGIA TECH | 11 | 15 | 1716 | 1736 | 111.320 | 112.164 | | 112 | FLORIDA ST. | 9 | 17 | 1905 | 2011 | 110.377 | 112.427 | | 127 | WAKE FOREST | 13 | 13 | 1723 | 1704 | 109.940 | 109.559 | | 176 | SMU | 9 | 17 | 1641 | 1911 | 108.412 | 111.108 | | 250 | PITTSBURGH | 8 | 19 | 1658 | 1928 | 105.557 | 109.051 | | 253 | BOSTON COLLEGE | 4 | 24 | 1780 | 2154 | 105.524 | 111.238 | Median ranking for the top 5 conferences: ACC -> 50 Big 10 -> 27 Big 12 -> 41.5 Big East -> 101 SEC -> 22.5

I don't know who the guy is, but my son does. Jimmy Donaldson, aka Mr. Beast, attended ECU in 2016 for about 2 weeks before dropping out to concentrate on his Youtube channel. Well, he's done pretty well. His media company Beast Industries is worth about $2.6 billion now. He's now floating the idea of putting $100 million into ECU football to buy a national championship. I mean, look at what Texas Tech is doing. These kids are playing for money now. No reason why kids wouldn't go to ECU if they got paid more than what Ohio State would pay them. I love that we have Franklin now and I love his philosophy, but I also wonder if it even matters in the current iteration of college football. Until it gets reigned in, maybe your best chance at winning a national championship isn't the coach, it's how invested are your school's billionaires in the program? Just imagine if someone like him could somehow pull something like this off?

Shooting 50% 2's is a lot better than 27% 3's.

Still need to beat some teams above us to move up.

Now they let them hold all the way down the field.

Tied for 6th most in country. I guess that’s the only way you score on them.

Or does ESPN get to decide when to stop play now?

The team we had in 2024 went 6-6. Probably should have been 8-4. Talent wise, I think next years team is above that team. We can beat Clemson. We can beat SMU. Not saying we will. W - VMI W - ODU ? - Maryland ? - UVA W - BC ? - Cal ? - Clemson L - Miami ? - SMU ? - GT W - Pitt W - Stanford If we win the games I think we should win and then split the ones I'm not sure about, that's 8 wins.

Need one or two upset wins to jump into top 25 I think

Slow and steady climb

Through Friday night's games.

I'd argue that a 3* HS recruit that has played two years of college football is a far better football player than a 3* or even 4* HS recruit entering his Freshman year.

While blue chip schools like Alabama, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Michigan, USC, Georgia, Texas, etc outbid each other on the 5-star high school recruits and the top guys in the portal, Indiana is showing everybody else how to build a team of very good players and coaches.

Historically, recruiting rankings pretty much told you who had a chance. But with the portal, there's a whole new paradigm to building championship caliber teams.

Did anybody really consider that the Peach Bowl last night? Or the Fiesta Bowl the other night? No.

Reminds me of our run in 99 and TCU a few years ago. Always like to see the new kids crash the party.

I hope they sue the hell out of Lane Kiffin for tampering.

"Franklin expects recruiting at the minimum should be what we delivered this year" Hadn't really thought of that, but that hits hard. His recruiting standard is much higher than what we've had, maybe even higher than what we got under the Beamer years.

He is 100% focused on getting these players out of the portal. I'm sure when he has time in the future, the relationship will develop.

Hokies are #69

Hokies are #35!

Face mask penalties get missed all the time. And they usually don't call them on the offensive player.

Miami showed it. Indiana showed it. Georgia is showing it. Is the spread offense done?

Put your NIL money there

Ohio State went 25 days between games. In the bowl era, no one cared as much. But these are playoffs. There should be no break between conference championships and the start of the playoffs. And each round should only be a week apart. But they still want to pretend the bowls matter so they schedule quarterfinal games around New Years. Second round games should have been played last weekend. ** Edited by hokiedad25 at 1/1/2026, 5:24:22 PM

College football needs a lot of fixing. 1. Start the season one week earlier 2. Screw the bowl games 3. Play the playoffs every weekend. We're past worrying about playing these "bowl" games on New Years Day. I'm looking at you Cotton, Orange, Sugar, Rose, Peach, Fiesta, etc. 4. Championship game should be played the Monday after January 1st.