It's Game Week.

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For the last eight months I've been obsessively clinging to scraps; staying on top of recruiting, watching spring practice, analyzing depth charts and reading practice reports. It's game week now, and it's a relief for me to let the minutia of the offseason go and watch it fade away behind me. No sooner after it disappeared did I feverishly reach out with both hands to grab onto the season ahead. I didn't want to let it to slip on by and miss the ride.

I'm sure some of you can relate.

These next fifteen weeks are the most important fifteen weeks since the ones at the beginning of September 2010, and the fifteen weeks that will proceed September 2012. Watching, following and obsessing over our Hokies will no doubt be a frustrating, humbling, satisfying, suspenseful and entertaining trek this fall. It always is. This is a new team full of familiar faces and I'm most excited to see what kind of dynamic develops.

Our consistency during our tenure in the ACC has yielded excellence and success. It's also made for some boring Saturdays, even some of the losses became predictable. We knew how Stiney was going to call a series, we knew Tyrod would dazzle us, we knew Bud would get it done, we knew we were the team to beat in the ACC, but we'd only teased being elite.

Beamer Co.'s staff shakeups, Tyrod's graduation, an underwhelming defense and Florida State getting back on track moved the bar, and I don't know where it rests. It may end up that we've taken continuity for granted, or we're about to take that proverbial next step. Either way, I'm anxious to find out.

For those of you who are new here, welcome. If you've been looking through the glass, come on in. To the regulars, thank you for sticking around, sharing your thoughts, and making this place what it is. As a staff we've we've got a lot of good content planned for you each week. Regular features are to include:

• Monday: Mascot Mock, BlogPoll, Recap
• Tuesday: Grillin' with Wolf
• Wednesday: Film Study
• Thursday: Six Pick
• Friday: Game Preview

And we'll continue to post breaking news, free recruiting updates and columns throughout the season as required.

Hokie football is back.