We all know the drill. This roster looks good right now. BUT.......Ford and Twyman are gone, plus we know that there will be another head scratcher that leaves like Weaver, Camp or even Mack, that won't get drafted and will get cut by Sept. Next, we have the obligatory season ending camp injury and disappearing act for Narduzzi's most heralded and anticipayed recruit. Thus, next year's roster will be like every other roster these past 40 years.
Next, the games themselves. We will squeak past Ohio U in OT, and look uninspired in beating a 1aa team. Then we will shock a ranked NC on the road with a last second FG and everyone will be talking playoffs. Next we will of course lose at Marshall by having a blocked gw fg returned for a game losing TD with 00's on the clock, followed by a gut- wrenching, last second loss to ND at home due to a bad call by an official. We will be 3-2 with a couple games coming up against middling coastal teams Duke, GT and a down VA. We squeak past VA to get to 4-2 and get everyone excited once again and then lose to a much improved GT which just pisses us all off because "how the hell did G friggin' T reduild faster than we could get good again?!!" We then beat Dook in multiple OT's. 5-3 within reach of a Coastal Championship with only 1 conference loss and the top teams ahead of us! We then get beat at FSU in a good game and lose another heart breaker at H to VT. Once again, we're at .500 and trying to find a 6th win for bowl eligibility with Cuse and Miami coming up and being in similar situations. We beat Cuse in a huge comeback after a horrendous 1st half that saw half the 35K crowd leave as the band took the field at halftime. We then beat a fellow 6-5 team, Miami in a game so boring that it is still in doubt with 2 minutes left but still there are only 30K in the stands and only a few more watching on some 7th tier streaming service. Finally, it mercifully comes to an end in some nondescript bowl in some nondescipt city against some nondescript opponent in a bowl game that will never be singularly referred to ever again by anyone except as a footnote into our college football leading record for consecutive bowl game losses.