Florida State Football Primer, Photo Edition

By: DavidWilsonsWhip on November 7, 2012, 12:54 AM | 7 comments

FLORIDA STATE. THURSDAY NIGHT. LANE STADIUM. WHO'S EXCITED?

The Seminoles march into Blacksburg ranked #10 in the nation, boasting the number three scoring offense, defense, and best total defense in the nation. STOP ME IF YOU'VE HEARD THIS BEFORE.

The 'Noles only blemish this season was a loss at NC State, where their potent offense was shut out the entire second half.

Dating back to the Hokies first season in the ACC (2004), Tech has scored 12 touchdowns against the Seminoles, approximately all by Danny Coale.

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Gut Reactions: Miami

By: Joe Lanza on November 2, 2012, 2:29 PM | 22 comments

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It's All About The U

By: Joe Lanza on November 1, 2012, 1:10 AM | 204 comments

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Miami Football Primer, Photo Edition

By: DavidWilsonsWhip on October 31, 2012, 11:31 AM | 6 comments

It has been quite an eventful two weeks, has it not? First and foremost, my thoughts go out to everyone in the Northeast dealing with Sandy. This one's for you.

Appropriately, Hokies-Canes falls the day after Halloween; this season has been scary for both teams, who each sit at 4-4. Bet I know what Kellen Winslow will be this year...

Not only is Halloween this week, but we are also reaching the climax of election season for the Presidential race. Interestingly, POTUS spoke at the University of Miami earlier this month.

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Six Pick: Week Ten

By: BeerControlOffense on October 31, 2012, 10:35 AM | 39 comments

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An ACC Halloween

By: Joe Lanza on October 31, 2012, 3:38 AM | 26 comments

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Q&A with State of the U

By: Brian Marcolini on October 30, 2012, 1:04 PM | 7 comments

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Statistics on Predictability, Part 2

By: Joel Smith on October 29, 2012, 2:00 PM | 14 comments

As a follow-up to last week's post on predictability of our offense, a couple of commenters mentioned that a better comparison might be to the best teams in the country rather than all teams (since we aspire to be one of the best and most years are). In this post we'll compare the behavior seen by VT with that of the top twenty offenses in the country as ranked at http://www.footballoutsiders.com/stats/ncaaoff.

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Statistics on Offensive Predictability

By: Joel Smith on October 25, 2012, 4:08 PM | 20 comments

Editor's Note: Bumped to the front because this is really, really well done. --Joe

Based on data available from cfbstats.com, I took a statistical look at how predictable VT’s offensive play calling has been thus far this season (note that I believe the last game is missing). The site provides basic information on every play in every game, but does not give information on specifics like formation, whether a pass was completed or not, etc. So this analysis (based on logistic regression if you’re a geek) simply looks at the most basic aspect of predictability – whether or not we rush or pass.

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Six Pick: Week Nine

By: BeerControlOffense on October 25, 2012, 8:34 AM | 34 comments

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Hokies Wrestling 2012-2013 Preview

By: pabooth on October 23, 2012, 12:53 PM | 3 comments

The Hokies wrestling team enters the 2012-2013 season as the #10 ranked team in the country. This year looks very promising for the Hokies if they can stay healthy. Nine out of the team's ten projected starters have started in the past and are ranked in the top 25.

The biggest news so far this year is that Devin Carter, last year's 133 pound wrestler, who was ranked #1 in the country for a few weeks, will take a redshirt. He will use this year grow into his new 141 pound weight class and work on improving as an all around wrestler.

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r-Sr. - #7 Jarrod Garnett

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Gut Reactions: Clemson

By: Joe Lanza on October 20, 2012, 4:06 PM | 59 comments

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