Week 11 Duke Preview

I’m showing up flat this week. This might be the worst blog post all year.

Hoping to take the place of the team, so they don’t show up flat.

If we avoid that, I think we win. Duke is better than usual this year, but still not very good.

Additionally, they are a pretty good matchup for us. They don’t run the ball very well, at least not with much power. They have a pretty good passing attack, but our pass defense (usually) is pretty good against the pass.

Their defense is not real good. I would say that means we will score a lot, but I think we have proven by this point that all that matters is how we play. We can score on good defenses if we play well, and we get shut down by most anybody if we play poorly. Are you small, have lots of injuries, and terrible against the run? Who cares? On paper, we should kill you, but we make no sense, so you might really slow us down. Are you giving up 30+ points to everyone you play? Well, keep the faith, you might shut us down.

Meanwhile, 3 of our top 4 scoring performances in conference have come against UNC, Clemson and VT. Generally, 3 pretty good defenses, and 2 of those are top 10 teams.

Like I said, our offense makes no sense. At least, in terms of how we do compared to who we play. Its all about how we play.

With that said, Duke is not a good defense, so if we play well, one would think we would have little trouble scoring 35 or 40.

Here is hoping we are not flat, and we go into the UGA game 8-3.

For some reason, I have a good feeling about us being 8-3 when UGA is 9-2...