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[QUOTE="SU94, post: 1813908, member: 202"]
This is college football in a nut shell.

Teams play 12 games. Most teams, even good ones, can only be at peak or near peak (aka "ready to play") 3-4 times per year IMHO. Then about 5-6 times, they are at standard efficiency ("ready to play"). Then about 2-3 times per year, they crater out and are not "ready to play." Don't focus on the numbers too much, more so the idea.

So, why do we complete pretty well with Clemson? We play near peak (in search of a Top 5 win) and they crater because they know they can turn it on and still get the win. Similar scenario at play between BC and Florida State.

I think most CFB fans get frustrated by this. How can my team not be "up" to play every week? After all, they only play 12 games in all? What is so hard about being ready every time out? Well, ask Nick Saban, because even his Crimson Tide battle this phenomena.

My prediction for 2016 ... we will win the VT or Louisville game. Very very unlikely to win both. But there is also a strong likelihood that SU will lose a game we all believe that we'll win (@BC or @ Wake ... perhaps both). We're are hardly a road juggernaut and I am not sure that we'll turn that corner completely in our first year under Coach Babers.

That said, I cannot wait to find out. 
I keep reminding myself to enjoy the process of becoming Coach Babers' program.
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