The outcome of tonight’s Orange Bowl seems preordained to many pundits you will read out there in PunditWorld. Basically, the Kansas Jayhawks stand no chance against the fast defense of the Virginia Tech Hokies. Virginia Tech’s corners are fast and strong and will shut down the Jayhawks receivers on the outside. In the middle, they have a 220-pound safety who will be just looking to remove the head of any slot receiver coming through the middle of the field. With, then, no one to throw to, the Jayhawks will have to rely on their running game, right?
VT pass rush will not allow the KU quarterback to get comfortable and get a read; flushing him out of the pocket, where VT will have a linebacker ready to tackle him if he starts running. The Jayhawks running backs won’t be able to run against the VT linebacking corps even if they do make it past the defensive line, which they will not.
The only chance any expert I have read gives the Jayhawks to win is if they can neak in CB/WR Aqib Talib abd somehow throw him the ball on every down without the Hokies ever catching on. Well, yoy can bet that the Virginia Tech Hokies are not so dumb that they did not think of this…or at the very least read it somewhere and made a note: “Don’t let Talib beat us in the Orange Bowl,” and stuck it up somewhere for the rest of the team to see.
All this means the experts give Kansas no chance, then, really, of even coming close to winning the Orange Bowl. The Yardstick for the Orange Bowl says VT wins by a field goal. Some sites call for an even bigger win, a blow out.
Then again, they all said the same thing about the Fiesta Bowl last night. I must have missed reading the Mountaineers paper.
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