Hokies Surprise All But a Few

Gotta hand it to Phil Martin. In Wednesday’s projections article, Phil was
one of the few prognosticators — and the only one here at TSL — who picked
the Hokies to beat Clemson. Phil does most or all of his projections by
computer, and when he emailed the article in, he wrote, “As much as I
tried, the computer model still picked the Hokies. I have to admit that I was
surprised by that outcome.” Yeah, Phil, so was Clemson.

Here in the TSL offices, we started hearing buzz late Tuesday that the Hokie
coaching staff and players were inexplicably extremely confident about this
game. Several sources from different directions told us that the coaching staff
felt “very, very good” about this one.

Moral of the story? Listen to Phil’s computer and the sources close to the
team, I guess.

One person I talked to after the game — sorry, I don’t remember who it was
— summed things up nicely when he said, “This is what we were supposed to
be all year. A great defense, a good running game, and hard to beat at
home.”

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