Some of the 2007 VT football schedule reminds me of the 2006 VT football schedule. Both have a very tempting adjustment pocket of protected games, aka games we really should win. 2006 had the four game stretch of Northeastern, @ UNC, Duke, and Cincinnati to develop whomever (Sean or Ike last year), or to try different combinations (along the offensive-line).
2007 has a 12 quarter stretch that looks rather inviting in terms of making any post LSU adjustment(s). Home for OhioU, William & Mary and then UNC, should allow for any necessary tweaking or out-right overhauling in terms of personnel or game-planning for 
the rest of the year. bulab, this is the correct place to make the change you suggest in my book, in fact it is the only place to make a voluntary change by me. As I want no part of a rookie with a potential zero snaps taking over for Clemson, or the rugged penta-closer that is 2007. But watch the ECU game, if T-Mobile sits the entire game, you may very well have your answer, barring a catastrophic season ending injury to Sean Glennon.
Now let’s take a look at that aforementioned nasty five game closer. If you’ve read Paul “Bear” Bryant’s classic Turnaround book, you know you do not play back to back tough games. It is difficult to be big-game sky-high on back to back weeks, and it is very difficult to heal-up 100% physically when the starters will have to play the balance of eight straight quarters on consecutive weeks, without the benefit of a full or half quarter of rest.
But such is not our case. Georgia Tech has a tough opening run of games, but our closing stretch is the toughest run of all. Georgia Tech will feast on Army before us, Miami has two winnable home games before us, Virginia has 13 days off before us, Boston College has 12 days off before us; which only leaves Florida State as having to face a tough test (@ Boston College in fact) prior to playing us. That’s a problem. I basically see no way we can sweep that closer and run the 5-0 table. 4-1 looks like our ceiling, but that would have to include Ore and our entire remaining Offensive-Line maintaining what I’ll call starting quality health for all five games to end the year. So going 3-2 or 2-3 seems about right to me, that seems realistic, and that 2-3 part seems like our floor. 1-4 would be a disaster, but that could be precipitated by disastrous health where Ore and our Offensive-Line are concerned.
So all in all I’ve got to side with an 8 win year, the four non-wins? LSU, Georgia Tech, FSU, and oui, france.
That would seem to suggest a Champs Sports or Gator Bowl kind of year to me.
b-st.
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