Must Win Championship.

Virginia Tech moved into the top five this weekend. This is extremely exciting because it just gets us one step closer to the National Championship which we could very well play in this year. After defeated Duke in a game that was to close for comfort we jumped Boise State in the rankings to move up to number five. In this game Virginia Tech’s offense was explosive and Tyrod Taylor showed why he is an all star by racking up 300 plus passing yards. This game was absolutely ridiculous and showed how powerful an offense we have. This was very important because after all the wins many critics still questioned if our offense could produce enough to make us a serious contender. This week we showed that we could do that with or without a strong running game.
Duke, who was not supposed to play this well, showed why their quarter back was an all ACC member. He played almost as well as Tyrod by putting up extremely similar stats. Because of Dukes play and ability to score so easily on us I must question our defense. Our defense is usually one of the strongest aspects of our team and carries us when we cant produce offensively. Our defense needs to play a lot better than they have previously if we are to be successful enough to be considered for a national championship.
Bud Foster, our defensive coordinator, should be able to handle the team and make sure they bounce back after a disappointing game. The defense played down to Duke because they under estimated their skills. As a team we cannot afford to do this if we intend to be successful and win every game. We can’t let our performance and rankings get to our heads and make us think we are untouchable. This has happened to many teams when they think too big of themselves. This is especially key considering how many top ten teams have fallen this year because they played down to teams. Bud Foster has always been in control of this defense so I’m sure they won’t have any problems bouncing back to their winning ways.
Also, this upcoming weekend the Florida Gators play the LSU Tigers. This is a great game and very important to Tech fans. Either way the game goes Virginia Tech will move up in ranking. LSU has been very close in many games this year and they will be playing the number one team in the nation. Florida may be without their starting quarter back though. Tim Tebow suffered a concussion last week and he is attempting to recovering from this crucial injury. If the Gators do not win this game however the Hokies will still move forward. Also, we do not have to worry about the victors of this game staying ahead of us because three of the four teams ahead of us are in the SEC. This means that two of them will presumably play in the SEC championship game and the third would then not be the SEC champion so they would not play in the National Championship. Alabama however seems untouchable and if they where the team in the number one slot I do not know if the voters would chose us to play against them considering we already lost to them this season. This is very disappointed because I belive from the start of the season until now we are a much improved team.
Once again though we still need the Texas Longhorns to lose and fall behind us in the rankings. Texas still hasn’t been tested so they could still lose a game. Later in the year they play the Oklahoma Sooners who just lost to the Miami Hurricanes who we dominated last week. This is very important for our Championship hopes because now that Oklahoma has two loses even if they defeat the Longhorns they will not jump us in rankings.
Next week we play Boston College who in past years has been growing into a serious rival. Boston College has not been as good this year and I’m sure this will be an easy win but we do not need to play down like we did against Duke. Hopefuly we are back in line and our offense plays just as well as it has been in the past few weeks and we completely and utterly dominate the Eagles for our homecoming game.