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[QUOTE="Crusty, post: 1070027, member: 2265"]
I continue to agree with your 2015 projection.

As for this year - for all the reasons we all know about, I think we will be very much improved on offense. More importantly, I think we will be relatively more improved than other conference teams. To me, the real question is how many points we will average in conference games.

Last year for all games we averaged 22.7 ppg - 11th for all ACC teams. The D saved our skins for the most part. Looking beneath the surface, we were really challenged for points.

[B]Vs ACC - Non-ACC[/B]
Last year we tied with Wake Forest for dead last with 15.5 ppg. 
Non-conference we averaged 34.2 (9th for ACC teams).

[B]Versus FBS teams[/B] 
Versus FBS teams with a winning record we averaged only 19.7 (10th for ACC teams). Versus FBS teams with a non-winning record we averaged only 21.3  (12th for ACC teams).
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Versus BCS teams[/B]
Versus BCS AQ teams - 17.2 ppg (11th among ACC teams),
Versus Non-AQ teams - 52 ppg (2nd among ACC teams).

[B]Vs Ranked - Unranked[/B]
Vs ranked teams only 8.5 ppg - dead last among ACC teams.
Vs unranked teams 25.3 pppg (1oth in ACC).

If we are going to win 8 games we will have to score more than 30 PPG. Ever the optimist, I think we will do better than 30. With Ross healthy and a second year of the new offense I am looking forward to an exciting season with Hunt throwing 15+ TD passes.

This is going to be fun.
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