Top 25 - Texas Tech wins (Howie and I got this)

INTER - TCU beats SMU (Howie and I got this one)

INTRA - Sooners beat the Tigers (Chip and I got this)

Random - Hoosiers win (Chip and I got this)

BTS - FSU wins by 56 (Howie was only one to say Yes)

FCS - Richmond wins (we all got this one)


jbeeman85 - 190 points (140 + 50)
bluedevil2002 - 150 points (120 + 30)
MoonKnight1 - 100 points (60 + 40)

ACC is going to 9 conference games. Not sure if they're going to start with it next year.

VT is supposed to play VMI, so I really hope that game doesn't get dropped. (And not for football reasons.)

SEC is going to 9 starting next year. 3 permanent opponents, rotate the other 6. They will "revisit" the permanent opponents after 4 years.

I predict a lot of whining about teams getting "easy" rivals, and crying about traditional rivalries being lost. Some people's definition of traditional seem to be extremely varied reading message boards.

You should be hoping they drop the ODU game.

Yeah, nothing says "tradition" like that classic SEC rivalry between Tennessee and Oklahoma.

Well, I screwed the pooch on that one didn't I?

WEEK 5

Top 25 - Oregon Ducks @ Penn State Nittany Lions

INTER - New Mexico State Aggies @ New Mexico Lobos (Rio Grande Rivalry)

INTRA - Louisiana State Tigers @ Mississippi Rebels

Random - Alabama Crimson Tide @ Georgia Bulldogs

BTS - Massachusetts Minutemen @ Missouri Tigers (Missouri by 44.5)

FCS - Princeton Tigers @ Lafayette Leopards (which cat does Howie take?)

We've already dropped a bunch of future ODU games, probably in anticipation of the ninth conference game. Although I'm starting to think that ODU did us a favor by kickstarting the changes that I believe are about to happen in Blacksburg.

As I scrolled further down the article (it got hidden by some ads so I didn't notice that there was more), and they confirmed that it starts in 2027.

We've gone through two rounds of that in the ACC in the last 2-3 years. And the VT fans were mad about the first version. We lost the annual game against Miami, and got stuck with teams we didn't want to play every year. In fact, it looked like we got our "rivals" swapped with another school. But when they added the geographically challenged teams and had to reconfigure the schedules again, they went away from having a set number of permanent rivals, so VT got two - uva and Miami, which are really the only two long term series that we care about. I was just glad we finally got away from annual games against Boston College. We were only paired up with them for so long because we both jumped from the Big East within a two year span.

A lot of fans got so used to playing GT every year that it was a shock to not play them. But then we realized that we were past the days of a Bud Foster vs. Paul Johnson chess match as a divisional championship game, and there was nothing else connecting us other than the second half of our name.

But Miami is the team we love to hate, because there is absolutely no reason for these two schools to have any sort of rivalry or connection, except for the fact that we both keep getting in each other's way.

Top 25 - Oregon Ducks

INTER - New Mexico Lobos
Not messing with the main man!

INTRA - Louisiana State Tigers

Random - Georgia Bulldogs

BTS - Massachusetts Minutemen @ Missouri Tigers (Missouri by 44.5)
YES

FCS - Lafayette Leopards
Guns and Ships!

Top 25 - Oregon Ducks

INTER - New Mexico Lobos

INTRA - Louisiana State Tigers

Random - Georgia Bulldogs

BTS - NO

FCS - Princeton Tigers