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Virginia Tech Does It Again - IMPRESSED With Hokies & James Franklin? · ACC Football Addiction (Atlantic Coast Conference)

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  Speaker 2: a little love to the ACC. Bit of a head-scratcher
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  Speaker 2: between the Virginia Tech Hokies and Boston College. Our coverage
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  Speaker 2: of this presented by PrizePix. James Franklin and Virginia Tech
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  Speaker 2: escape Chestnut Hill by a score of 21-14. This one
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  Speaker 2: was a Boston College lead of 14-6 with about 11
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  Speaker 2: minutes to play in the fourth quarter. This was– I
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  Speaker 2: don't know what to make of this game. I'll give
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  Speaker 2: credit to Virginia Tech that they found.
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  Speaker 1: A way to– Can you tell me when the first
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  Speaker 1: point was scored?
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  Speaker 2: The first point was scored.
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  Speaker 3: Let's see.
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  Speaker 2: Virginia Tech– Don't look.
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  Speaker 1: Don't look. Just tell me if you can guess.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm looking now. I'll just tell you. 16 seconds
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  Speaker 2: left of the second quarter. Field goal.
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  Speaker 1: 16 seconds left of the second quarter, 3-0.
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  Speaker 3: Before that, it was, I believe, 11 consecutive punts?
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  Speaker 1: No, no, no. A turnover on downs. Punt, punt, punt, punt.
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  Speaker 1: Turnover on downs.
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  Speaker 3: Punt, punt, punt, punt, punt.
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  Speaker 1: Finally, field goal. 10 punts before we saw points.
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  Speaker 2: I'll give credit to Virginia Tech. You find a way
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  Speaker 2: to win in the fourth quarter with limited time remaining.
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  Speaker 2: You have a 10-play drive for 80 yards. You go
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  Speaker 2: and get a touchdown. You tie it up at 14 apiece.
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  Speaker 2: and then you get an explosive to the point that
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  Speaker 2: you win the game by a score of 21-14 and
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  Speaker 2: you escape Bill O'Brien at Boston College. To me, this
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  Speaker 2: is a Virginia Tech team that has ability and somebody
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  Speaker 2: that we talked about during the offseason could be a
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  Speaker 2: dark horse to show up in Charlotte and be that
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  Speaker 2: second team next to Miami competing for the ACC championship.
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  Speaker 2: I don't have more faith in them all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 2: but considering what's happened already to SMU, what happened this
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  Speaker 2: past weekend to Louisville. The way Wake has been performing,
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  Speaker 2: I think you have to acknowledge. The way Duke has
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  Speaker 2: been performing, I think you have to acknowledge. Clemson going
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  Speaker 2: out to Cal, and Cal kind of underperforming. The coaching
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  Speaker 2: staff is new, but you still have questions there, and
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  Speaker 2: it's just not necessarily coming together the way that they
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  Speaker 2: thought in Berkeley.
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  Speaker 2: The ACC just feels like it's wide open right now.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that's the greater conversation when it comes.
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  Speaker 1: To the number two.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think about Virginia tech at this point
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  Speaker 2: in time? Cause this didn't make me feel like, Oh man,
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  Speaker 2: Virginia tech. I'm, I'm not more scared of like Virginia
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  Speaker 2: Tech's chances the remainder of the way, nor am I
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  Speaker 2: saying like, oh man, they showed such grit and resolve.
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  Speaker 2: They're going to wind up as the number two.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but they found a way to win in sloppy conditions.
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  Speaker 3: And while again, is this the game that we'll be
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  Speaker 3: looking back and saying Ethan Grunkemeier is a reason to believe.
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  Speaker 1: In the Hokies? Probably not.
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  Speaker 3: But Ethan Greckemeyer has shown you at this point in
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  Speaker 3: the season with over 1,000 passing yards and an 8-0
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  Speaker 3: touchdown to interception ratio, he's a good fit. And he's
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  Speaker 3: done a lot of good for this offense to build
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  Speaker 3: upon for the future. The fact they said, hey, Jeffrey Overton,
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  Speaker 3: we're going to hand it to you 25 times and
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  Speaker 3: you're going to average 8.4 yards of play and you're
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  Speaker 3: going to find the end zone once, but you're going to.
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  Speaker 1: Get 200-plus rushing yards. Are you cool with that? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm fine. I think that's fair.
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  Speaker 3: The fact that Luke Reynolds came on in after being
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  Speaker 3: in a situation that was not working at Penn State,
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  Speaker 3: but reuniting with his former coach and now going up
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  Speaker 3: against ACC competition. He's living up to the bar and
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  Speaker 3: the billing of what he was supposed to be in
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  Speaker 3: State College.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's promising.
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  Speaker 3: There's a lot of good, I think, with Virginia Tech,
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  Speaker 3: and now they have an opportunity going into Friday night
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  Speaker 3: against Pitt to keep the undefeated streak alive and kind
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  Speaker 3: of separate themselves as that next team in the ACC.
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  Speaker 1: And sometimes, again, like.
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  Speaker 3: Every other conference, the level of competition that you face
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  Speaker 3: off against, it won't always be pretty. It just matters
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  Speaker 3: if you win. That's Virginia Tech right now after this game.
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  Speaker 3: It was a disgusting slot fest of a lot of
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  Speaker 3: punts and a lot of miscommunication and a lot of
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  Speaker 3: just bad execution for literally three and a half quarters.
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  Speaker 1: And then you turn on the Jets.
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  Speaker 3: And you had a couple of explosives and you found
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  Speaker 3: the end zone twice and you got a two-point conversion
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  Speaker 3: and you were able to win by seven.
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  Speaker 1: And you did so in sloppy weather conditions. You made
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  Speaker 1: no excuses.
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  Speaker 3: Now he's got to be able to go back and
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  Speaker 3: play the version of football that we saw against Maryland
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  Speaker 3: for us to believe that you are actually going to.
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  Speaker 1: Be that next team to talk about in the ACC.
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  Speaker 1: Because you could be. You very well could be. I
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  Speaker 1: think that's a fair statement right now.
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  Speaker 2: The rest of their schedule, the Pitt game this weekend
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  Speaker 2: is definitely going to be one to keep an eye on.
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  Speaker 2: I'm really intrigued by that game. I think it's going
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  Speaker 2: to be very competitive. Cal, I don't know what to
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  Speaker 2: make of them. JKS, I love, but I don't like
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  Speaker 2: what's around him. The Georgia Tech game, I think I
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  Speaker 2: favor Virginia Tech. Clemson is showing signs of life.
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  Speaker 1: It's odd.
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  Speaker 2: I think Dabo is– I wouldn't say he's rallied the troops,
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  Speaker 2: but Clemson looks at least viable, and they're going to
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  Speaker 2: put up a fight in every game that they play.
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  Speaker 2: Like last year, it didn't feel that way, the back
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  Speaker 2: half of the season. The SMU game will be a
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  Speaker 2: challenge at any given point. Stanford, okay. You play Miami.
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  Speaker 2: You're in Miami for that game late November, so health
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  Speaker 2: being something to consider. And then the Bo Perbula revenge game,
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  Speaker 2: Virginia versus Virginia Tech to close out the season. So
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  Speaker 2: I think James Franklin has done a good job organizing
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  Speaker 2: this non-conference schedule very quickly over the offseason to make
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  Speaker 2: had in about three wins there so this is a
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  Speaker 2: team that i think is going to get to bowl
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  Speaker 2: eligibility pretty darn quickly which is great and i think
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  Speaker 2: that's something virginia tech is very excited about i don't
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  Speaker 2: know if i'm prepared to put them into the acc
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  Speaker 2: title game just yet if i had to put money
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  Speaker 2: on it at this point i think i'd lean duke
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  Speaker 2: which way would you lean.
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  Speaker 1: Duke I think it's a good answer. Wake Forest. I
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  Speaker 1: think Wake Forest deserves a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: Of a rush.
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  Speaker 1: I agree with Wake.
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  Speaker 2: I agree with Wake.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not ready to rule out Louisville entirely. Again, they
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  Speaker 3: have no room for error anymore, but they only have
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  Speaker 3: one conference loss right now, and they have a massive
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  Speaker 3: win over SMU. SMU could still be in it. It's
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  Speaker 3: hard to separate. What I will say is that I've
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  Speaker 3: been very pleased with looking at how the defense was
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  Speaker 3: for Virginia Tech so far. I think they played up
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  Speaker 3: to a certain par. I think that you are watching
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  Speaker 3: as Grunkemeyer in a system where it's not playing against
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  Speaker 3: Big time competition, he's gained back his confidence.
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  Speaker 1: I think they have a run game.
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  Speaker 3: I think they have weapons that they know they can
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  Speaker 3: win against the competition that they go up against in
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  Speaker 3: the ACC. And they got a coach that I think
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  Speaker 3: is getting the best version of a football program out
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  Speaker 3: there week in and week out, regardless of circumstances. So
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  Speaker 3: I'm not ready to punt on anything when it comes
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  Speaker 3: to Virginia Tech. Again, you don't apologize for winning. You
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  Speaker 3: don't apologize for playing under really rocky conditions and still
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  Speaker 3: finding a way to come away unscathed.
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  Speaker 1: There's just a lot of clean on up.
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  Speaker 3: I think right now, if you were to tell me
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  Speaker 3: that if Virginia Tech is the best bet for the
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  Speaker 3: ACC to get a second team in the college football playoff,
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  Speaker 3: I would have my reservations. But to be fair, outside
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  Speaker 3: of right now, I would say Miami, I have all
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  Speaker 3: my reservations for any team in the ACC.
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  Speaker 1: That's just kind of where we are.