Well, well, well. Big doings last night in the ACC Coastal Division race. Although Football Girl tried not to mention it, or even think about it (and it wasn’t too hard, because I had the migraine from Hades yesterday and didn’t even watch the game), it was within my knowledge that at Georgia Tech win last night would put the Hokies back into contention for the Coastal Title. We now, as the saying goes, which I hate by the way, “control our own destiny”. Who would have thought that our dismal showings at both FSU and Miami would become meaningless? With wins against Duke and UVA, the Hokies could once again find themselves in an ACC Championship game, right where we were predicted to be at the seasons outset. And, possibly playing Maryland for the title. And we all know how that one turned out last time.
But suppose all this happens, and we do win out. Would we find ourselves in a BCS bowl again? The BCS rules are convoluted, to say the least. You can read about them here. But, if I’m correct, we may actually win the ACC and lose out on a BCS bowl, due to this disclaimer:
3.The champion of Conference USA, the Mid-American Conference, the Mountain West Conference, the Sun Belt Conference or the Western Athletic Conference will earn an automatic berth in a BCS bowl game if either:
A.Such team is ranked in the top 12 of the final BCS Standings, or,
B.Such team is ranked in the top 16 of the final BCS Standings andits ranking in the final BCS Standings is higher than that of a champion of a conference that has an annual automatic berth in one of the BCS bowls.
Right now, we’ve got Utah sitting at number 7, Boise State at 9, and Ball State at 17. VT isn’t even in the top million. So, any of those could seemingly be chosen over VT if the standings continue as they are today. And do we even want to play in a BCS bowl? And is it sacrilege for me to even mention such a thing? I just know this. I’m almost certain we’re not ready to play with the big boys. The results could be LSU-like disastrous. And I know I don’t want to spend another off-season down in the dumps because of a lousy bowl performance. (See Chick-fil-A loss, last year’s Orange Bowl loss specifically.) Sometimes, even when you win, you kinda lose.
