... on what it would take to make that happen. Of course, last year lacked the one dominant team -- Ohio State won with 102 points. PSU won with 109.5 the previous year.

What happened with us this year is pretty much EXACTLY what I posted (though probably with different guys) with one notable exception. Let's say Joey makes it to the championship and beats Gilman. Joey scored 1 team point (the 1st round win). If he wins it all, he gets 16 placement and 4 advancement even without a single bonus point. That +19 and Nick not getting penalized in the consolation semis takes us to 102. Additionally, it results in at least -6.5 for Penn State (Megaludis loses 6 placement points dropping to 3rd, as well as 0.5 advancement). That makes the score VT 102, PSU 116.5. Still pretty far away, though good enough to win in 2015. (Joey winning then would mean that OSU's Tomasello wouldn't have won and OSU wouldn't have even gotten 102.)

Bottom line is that it's REALLY hard to overcome 5 finalists (2 champs) with 0 finalists on our side. With PSU so loaded, we really need them to have a down year with injuries and/or multiple studs redshirting for a championship run the next year. The good news is that Megaludis and McIntosh are both done. The bad news is...

[Post edited by nvpbrown at 03/22/2016 07:28AM]