Yellow Jackets dream of crystal honey combs

Sorry I never update - school is the most time-consuming it's ever been for me here at "Ma Tech," the North Avenue Trade School, the good ole Institute. So what makes a nesting Yellow Jacket dare to dream?

Saturday saw the Jackets extend our win streak to 4 games and take down the number four team in the country (over rated as they may have been) and place themselves back in the ACC title conversation. Grant field was stormed and a goalpost was taken down. The BCS standings printed the next day had us at #12.

We are in the best spot we've been in since I've been at Tech. That's including 2006's ACC-Title shot. Back then we didn't have the beans to beat Wake in the championship game and definitely would've gotten hosed in any BCS bowl. This time around? Well, let's just say that from the #12 spot we are capable of anything. ANYTHING. If we win out and the right teams lose we could conceivably be up against anyone in the country for any trophy or title they make for college football teams. And that DOES NOT scare me this time. You heard it here first - we could take the best of the best to the wire. Give us a Trojan, Longhorn, Gator or Buckeye - it doesn't matter. Our defense is not what it used to be - sure enough - but it'll hang with anyone for 60 minutes and let our offense light the fireworks at will. And, oh, the fireworks this offense can bring! Not sayin' we'd WIN the national championship if we went...but I'll bet it'd go better than people might think.

SO...

What does my wildest dream for a perfect end to this season look like as it stands tonight after 7 games? Georgia Tech wins the next four convincingly and Miami loses to Clemson. Tech beats Georgia who has miraculously eeked a win over Florida and climbed the rankings. We beat Clemson in a rematch to grab the ACC Crown and rub it in their faces. All the right teams between #1 and whatever we're ranked after all that drop a game at crucial moments getting us to the #2 BCS spot. Georgia Tech meets Alabama for a historic national championship game in Pasadena's Rose Bowl. The most exciting game in the history of college football ensues as Mark Ingram lights up our D for a million yards and all of our "options" light up the Tide for a million and a half. The game stays touchdown for touchdown until a 45-45 stalemate sets in through the fourth quarter. Bludgeoned and bloodied in overtime after a clutch defensive stop, Josh Nesbitt takes the snap, fakes to Dwyer, rolls right and pitches to Roddy Jones. Anthony Allen lowers the boom and flattens an oncoming D-back into little more than a grease spot for an epic block. Roddy slips through the huge hole only to be hit and fumble the ball straight to a linebacker who finds himself violently helmeted in the chest and the ball ripped from his grasp by a now fire-breathing Josh Nesbitt who swiftly turns, hurdles two more defenders, blazes up the sideline, sheds a tackle, gets caught from behind by four other defenders and proceeds to charge onward dragging them all into the endzone by virtue of sheer will. After gladiating his way to victory to the din of an erupting crowd he camly returns the championship winning ball to the nearest ref, hugs each of his teammates and then passes out in a pool of his own sacrificial blood. Paul Johnson is then handed the crystal football only to put it back on the pedestal and say "Thanks, but there's no sense makin' a fuss over it. We plan on comin' back."

Ah, dreams.

Let's just start with beating the Hoos in Charlottesville tomorrow.