Predictions....applying weatherman principles to football.

So there is a chill in the air finally! Hopefully it will stick! There is a spark in the Georgia Tech Football team. They look refreshed, they look faster, and they look smarter: executing plays effectively! Hopefully it will stick!

I find weather tracking and predictions fascinating! Looking at radar and figuring out if it will or will not rain, how hot it could get, could we have colder weather, these are factors our weathermen analyze every day! They look at all the elements and finally settle on an overall forecast and even narrow it down to a temperature.

Football predictions can be the same way. You know the teams, you know their records, you know the players and then you settle on the outcome and even assign a final score. One of the blogs I really enjoy reading and I learn a lot about the ACC conference from is Heather Dinich's Acc Blog. Every week she makes predictions about how each team does in the conference.

I will leave you with her week 5 prediction:

"Georgia Tech 31, Mississippi State 28 -- The Bulldogs are playing well, but it’s not a stretch to say LSU is overrated, and they didn’t beat the Tigers anyway. Georgia Tech’s offense turned the corner against North Carolina and is finally reaching its stride now."

See you later today for Here's your sign....College Gameday Edition, Week 5! (can you believe we are almost halfway through the season?)