ACC as usual - No reason to believe VT can win

When you look at the laugher Clemson turned in versus VT in 2006, it was easy to chalk up VT as another loss for Clemson in 07.
The ACC is very low on legitimate Division-1 teams, but VT has seemed to be the one team that has not fallen completely apart since joining the hapless assemblage of mediocrity known as the ACC.
On second thought, SCREEECH....check that respect for VT at the door.
After struggling to beat a pretty poor East Carolina squad, the Hokies looked like Division 1-AA versus the SEC's leader, LSU. Of course the college football world has come to expect SEC teams to handle teams from mid-major level conferences, but the 48-7 embarrassment the Bengal Tigers stuck on VT surprised many.
So now the Hokies come to Clemson with a ranking and some belief that they are a viable opponent.
I don't buy it. Maybe UNC is better, and getting better, each week, but the fact that the Hokies only beat the Tar Heels by a 17-10 score is not much to be impressed over.
I have little faith that VT will be able to come anywhere near the shellacking the Hokies laid on the Tigers in 2006, in a game where a distraught Clemson fan threw a bottle and hit his hapless coach, Tommy Bowden.
(An aside. Funny how that incident was dropped and the accusations against the VT Police stopped, once it was learned a Tiger fan threw the bottle, instead of a Hokie. But so it is with anything or any news "unpleasant" about the undercurrents that rage and threaten Clemson.
And another fact that seems to become more apparent with the changing colors of the leaves, the ACC just gets weaker and weaker, leaving us who want to see Tommy Bowden exposed, wanting as each week plays out.
I must admit, I've just about stopped making predictions about Tommy's sure implosion because (as Moe the Rooster said) "It's hard to lose with the stuff he use."
Yes, playing nobody is a sure path to an endless string of 6,7 and 8-win seasons. And Tommy has made a career out of that, to adoring fans.
And there is no reason to believe that VT will again deliver that crushing blow that ignites the orange-robed lynch mob toward Tommy and Brad's front door.
Of course, I'll watch the game, hanging on every Tiger miscue and stumble, but I expect in the end, I'll be disappointed.
Yes, dissatisfied that Clemson wins, but even more frustrated that the Tigers simply used its 85,000 zombies to take down yet another over-rated pretender while the media drools about the excellent football that is on display.