Al Groh, you can stay a little while longer. My rush to judgment after the Wyoming game was clearly unfair and uncalled for. After rattling off four straight victories, including three conference games, and two more nonconference games that should be victories coming up, I'm thinking that it's very likely that UVA finishes with at minimum a winning season and a bowl game appearance. Eight victories seem attainable, with perhaps more. We still haven't found out how good this team can become. They seem to get better each week with Sewell finally starting to play the way we hoped he would this year, Cedric Peerman and the offensive line playing excellently, and the defense led by Chris Long playing stifling defense and creating plenty of turnovers.

There is also a chance in my mind now that UVA could win 10 games this year (if you include the bowl game and potentially the ACC championship game) and I could finally win a bet against a certain other contributor to this blog. That's probably exceedingly optimistic, but we can dream can't we. That would probably require going at least 9-3 in the regular season, which would mean beating VA Tech probably, which we haven't done since 2003. Tech's offense looks horrible, so perhaps there's a chance with the game in Charlottesville. I also am pretty certain that Tech won't be winning the Coastal division this year with the schedule they have left (at Clemson, at Boston College, FSU at home, Miami at home, at Virginia, and at Georgia Tech). None of those games are easy wins for this year's Tech team. In fact, I think they are going to probably lose three of them, starting with this coming weekend at Clemson. Virginia has the advantage of not having to play FSU, Clemson, or BC this year. We have Miami, Tech, Wake, NC State, and Maryland left in conference.

Updated prediction for 2007 UVA football team: 8-5 with a loss in a mid-range bowl game. But a victory over Virginia Tech.