Each week a member of the Blogpoll will be hosting a roundtable this week it is Doug at Hey Jenny Slater. Great Questions!

1. In his “visiting lecturers” series posted on Every Day Should Be Saturday over the past few months, Orson Swindle asked each participant to explain which country, during which historical period, their team most resembles. Let’s bring everything up to the present day and ponder: Which current sovereign nation is your team? Or to look at it another way, how does your team fit into the “world” of college football?

Virginia Tech is the above average team with elite talent that has yet to get over the hump.  We are the Eagles of the college football world.  The one great program to never take home all the bacon.

2. Every preseason roundup has to have some discussion of who’s overrated, but let’s go beyond that. Which team do you think is poised to crap the bed in the biggest way this season relative to high expectations, and which game do you think will begin their slide into ignominy?

Its definitely Clemson and I’ve already beat that one to death.

3. On the flip side of that coin, which team do you think is going to burst out of nowhere to become 2008’s biggest overachiever — this year’s version of Kansas ‘07, as it were — and what’s going to be the big upset that makes us all finally sit up and take notice of them?

Out of curiosity was Kansas’ biggest upset last year when Mangino passed on his fourth helping of beef wellington…?  I think picking a non BCS team is cheating because 1) it is easier to just say BYU or Fresno St 2) Kansas is a BCS team.  I am going to go with Uconn.  Much like Kansas they have been progressing from a loser program, each year they have been learning how to win and they play an easy \ winnable schedule.  If this prediction is going to work out they are going to have to win at UNC (another team with high hopes) on 10/4 and the following game at Rutgers on 10/18.  By the way parity in college football is killing the “come from no where” teams.

4. Here’s an “I’ll hang up and listen” question. I put Ohio State and Oklahoma #1 and #2, respectively, despite their recent high-profile BCS face-plants. Where did you rank those two teams, and did those BCS issues have anything to do with it?

I have Oklahoma #3 and tOSU #4.  Last year is last year and I didn’t rank either of them lower because of their recent BCS struggles.  I simply thought they were not as good as Florida or USC and better than everyone else.

5. Last season was a statistical outlier in countless ways, not the least of which was the fact that we ended up with a two-loss team as national champion. Do you think anyone plays a strong enough schedule to get MNC consideration as a two-loss team this year? Conversely, do you see anybody managing to sail into the national-championship game undefeated?

The only two loss team that comes to mind for me is Auburn.  If they are able to beat WVU and win the SEC they could lose to two lower ranked SEC teams and sneak into the MNC if the same bat-shit scenarios that went down last year repeat.  Obviously Ohio State has the best shot.  The Big Ten is absolute garbage and they get USC early with two inexperienced quarterbacks and injuries. Speaking of the Big Ten.

6. OK, time for some Olympic fever. Which athlete from the Beijing Olympics — any sport, any country, with the exception of USA basketball since those guys are already pros — would you most want to add to your team’s roster this season? No worries about age, eligibility, or even gender; we’ll worry about that crap later.

I am going to go with the Chinese Table Tennis Team.  While they wouldn’t play a down Virginia Tech could finally replace dumb-fuck Bryan Stinespring at offensive coordinator with this six man brain trust.

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