Why can't we just beat the teams we are supposed to beat.

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DeRRtyTree

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Every year when i think we might have something we loose to someone we were supposed to beat, and I get down, then we will turn around and for instance win on the road at #3 Miami, and I'll be up again. Then we'll loose another we were supposed to win.

If we would just win the games we are supposed to win, it would be great to be a yellow jacket, but after all the pain every year of let downs and 7-6 mediocre seasons I don't know what to say anymore. I'm not sure if this offense is fit for the acc if we don't mix in more passes. Or completely abandoning the run with 3:20ish left???? Navy can score in 3 minutes, we have big plays with the run, why not run a little, or play actions mix it up. I just don't know. If what I'm saying it true tho we would probably beat fsu, then win at unc, and then LOOSE at home to a miami team we should beat....
I'm just saying, it starts to hurt after awhile, it takes a toll on you.
 
Our offense is definitely fit for the ACC. If we don't fumble the ball like we greased our hands before the game, we are 8-0 and in the top 5 right now.
 
because that is college football. has always been and will always be unpredictable.

with scholly going to 85, even more so. why dont you ask WV from last year why they lost to Pitt? or in fact all those teams that had a chance to be number one and lost

the fact is that when you start thinking you "are supposed to win it" that is when you lose the edge and lose
 
I'll add USC v. Oregon St. to the questioning list.

USC drops a load once per year - yet still remains in the MNC race.
 
If you think about it....everyone with exception of 2 or 3 teams drops a game during the year that they should not.
 
UVA posed major matchup problems for us and they were pretty obvious before the game even started. Calling it a game "we were supposed to win" is ignorant, at best.

Their offense is built perfectly to nullify the strengths of our D and attack the weaknesses. Their defense had some help from us with the fumbles but they also adjusted to the things we were doing well in the first 2 drives and we couldn't make the proper counter adjustments.

If anything, we've "beat the teams we're supposed to beat" better this season than we have since GO'L walked the sidelines.
 
ContactBuzz said:
UVA posed major matchup problems for us and they were pretty obvious before the game even started. Calling it a game "we were supposed to win" is ignorant, at best.

Their offense is built perfectly to nullify the strengths of our D and attack the weaknesses. Their defense had some help from us with the fumbles but they also adjusted to the things we were doing well in the first 2 drives and we couldn't make the proper counter adjustments.

If anything, we've "beat the teams we're supposed to beat" better this season than we have since GO'L walked the sidelines.
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does that include Gardner Webb?
 
DeRRtyTree said:
Every year when i think we might have something we loose to someone we were supposed to beat, and I get down, then we will turn around and for instance win on the road at #3 Miami, and I'll be up again. Then we'll loose another we were supposed to win.

If we would just win the games we are supposed to win, it would be great to be a yellow jacket, but after all the pain every year of let downs and 7-6 mediocre seasons I don't know what to say anymore. I'm not sure if this offense is fit for the acc if we don't mix in more passes. Or completely abandoning the run with 3:20ish left???? Navy can score in 3 minutes, we have big plays with the run, why not run a little, or play actions mix it up. I just don't know. If what I'm saying it true tho we would probably beat fsu, then win at unc, and then LOOSE at home to a miami team we should beat....
I'm just saying, it starts to hurt after awhile, it takes a toll on you.
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So do you want to run more, or pass more? I have no clue what you want other than wins. Kind of childish isn't it?

Every team in college football loses to someone they think they should beat every year except the national champion. We've actually done better against the spread this year than we have in years up til Saturday. Chill.
 
Josh still doesn't get the option.

He has the football. He wants to run the football. Why give the football to anybody else? Let's give it to D. No let's keep it. That's not the option. That's someone that doesn't get it.

I love his chops; quikness, crazy feet, boomer arm, etc. but he's still struggling with CPJ's offense.
 
Here are the teams I would have said we are/were "supposed to beat":

Jax St
Gardner-Webb

Our "supposed to win" days of 2008 ended during the Gardner-Webb game.

Now, if asked in pre-season, who out there thought we were "supposed to" beat BC and Clemson on the road, clobber the crap out of Miss St, and shut out Duke?

All in all, I'd say we weren't supposed to be 6-2 by now. We were supposed to be 3-5 or maybe 4-4 at best and possibly even 2-6.

Supposing and college football: They don't mix very well.
 
Good post. There's nobody left we're "supposed to beat."
 
GTWannaBee said:
I'll add USC v. Oregon St. to the questioning list.

USC drops a load once per year - yet still remains in the MNC race.
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Yeah, but OSU is a talented team with confidence issues. They have a lot of potential but are very inconsistant. Think of them as the Pac-10's answer to Maryland.
 
USC would be undefeated heading into the MNC every year if they beat every team they had the edge over on paper. Teams lose to perceivably "lesser" teams all the time; if they didn't, the preseason #1 team would be national champs year after year.

We just need to beat FSU to wipe that losing taste from our mouths.
 
The thing we tend to miss when talking about "beating the teams we're supposed to beat" is that in previous years our record would have been roughly the same, if our opponents also "beat the teams they were supposed to beat."

Not to get too philosophical, but ultimately every team does "beat the teams they are supposed to beat.":dunno:
 
gtfan088 said:
Teams lose to perceivably "lesser" teams all the time; if they didn't, the preseason #1 team would be national champs year after year. .
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Sometimes the issue is not a lesser team beating a superior team, but that the initial perception was just completely wrong. (See Bama over Clemson.)
 
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