The mods at storm2k.org are initially predicting a NC/SC landfall, although FL and GA cannot be ruled out at this time.
When one looks at the historical maps, this storm is loosely following the track of Fran from 1996, which made landfall at the NC/SC border.
It's still early, but it looks like the GOM will miss this one.
And it's way too damn early to predict where this will hit. Weather forums can be a valuable source of useful information and perspective, but too many posters on them are into these deranged forecasting contests, and if someone gets lucky and does guess the landfall seven days out (and any such act is purely a guess), they act like they have the wisdom of God. And a few of them are also literally weather ghouls, who hope for a really, really bad storm as some form of morbid entertainment.
Nice website, thank you.