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Is Virginia Tech considered to be a dark horse team this upcoming 2024-2025 college football season · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Virginia Tech. Are you you know, you see a lot like CBS Sports
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  and some others they always throw out their way too early dark horses. Are
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  they a true dark horse? I mean they have they made this kind of
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  this turn back towards the center and maybe even upwards in the ACC. Yeah,
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  Virginia Tech. That's a program that's got a lot of you know,
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  historical success here in the last twenty thirty years, and it's not not too
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  far removed from them being at or near the top of the ACC. As
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  I quickly look back to see what their dashboard looks like from a year ago,
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  Virginia Tech, for me, a team that again, let me pull
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  that up here real quickly, a team that performed better than I expected last
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  year. Based on my numbers, they were overperforming team just slightly, getting
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  back to six and six. I expected about five wins for them. So
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  I have to take a look to see what their returning production numbers look like
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  and just what we're looking at in terms of their more recent k forward rating
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  history. But the ACC of the Big Twelve, if we're looking at power
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  for conferences, the Big twelve is going to be wide open. I'm really
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  not sure there's a handful of teams that you can make a case for,
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  But outside of that, the ACC is a conference where there's a lot of
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  uncertainty. You would think that a Clemson of Florida State and Miami, those
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  programs, I'm on record, those programs should be grabbing that conference by the
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  neck and saying this is ours, like, we are going to own this
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  conference for however much longer we have the ACC. With this composition, we're
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  gonna own it. We have the history, we have the resources, we
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  have the tradition, we have the coaches, we have the recruiting. We're
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  gonna own it. They haven't really done that. Florida State, of course
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  last year, Clemson, if you go back five, six, seven years,
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  Miami, we're still waiting on that. Every single year, it seems,
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  whether it's North Carolina, whether it's Louisville, whether it's pit From a
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  couple of years ago with Kenny Pickett, it seems like we do get a
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  team that we don't expect out of the ACC to really make a run towards
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  that title game. Virginia Tech's gonna look around and think why not us?
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  They got off to a slow start last year. They were, you know,
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  two and four at one point before they really started turning things around and
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  playing better football. They ended the year for me number fifty one in my
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  Power Ratings. So I'm not ready to say they're gonna be a dark horse,
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  but they could, you know, they could look around and say,
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  you know, why not us, we can do it. So there'll be
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  an interesting team to watch. I wouldn't go as far as I call him
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  a dark horse just yet. Make sure to find him on x at k
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  Ford Ratings also kfod Ratings dot com. Kelly, I appreciate your time.
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  Hey, before I let you go, did you get a chance to take
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  in the LSU Iowa game last night in women's basketball? Yeah, I mean
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  anytime you've got Caitlin Clark and going up against Angel Reese in the revenge game,
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  right, last night was a great night for women's college basketball, And
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  yes, it was very exciting. I think on the women's side, they've
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  got a great Final four set up. You know, Yukon finally makes it
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  back there. It's been a while for them, Caitlin Clark looking to finish
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  the deal this year. South Carolina of course an undefeated team, and then
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  NC State Jake, I don't know. I don't I don't believe unless I'm
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  forgetting a year, I don't believe we've ever had a year in which two
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  programs have both their gender men and women in the final four in the same
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  year. Of course, you have that this year with NC State and Yukon.
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  So yes, I did see the game last night. It was incredible.
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  As always, anytime Caitlyn Clark is on the floor, it is musty
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  TV. I live up in Indiana. I think we talked about that before.
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  The Fever have the number one pick in the WNBA Draft. I'm certainly
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  hoping that they don't mess that one up. It seems like Kitlin Clark's to
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  play, so I'm hopefully going to be able to see her play in person
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  for the next decade or so. Kelly, great stuff as always, Look,
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  I appreciate you. We'll visit next Wednesday. Thanks so much. Thanks,
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  Jake, appreciate it having a good one.