The ten BCS teams....

[midatlantech]

Interesting note though...

I would be willing to bet that in an SEC championship between an 12-0 Alabama and an 11-2 Florida....that Florida will be favored to win in Vegas.

Certainly this whole issue becomes very complex when you factor in "upsets" in the rankings right now. The most interesting is the Penn State/Rose Bowl/factor. The Rose Bowl could take Oregon State and Ohio State and really screw everyone.

Personally the ACC Commish should once again look at our deals in the BCS and drop the Rose Bowl. Too often, the Pac 10 and Big Ten are rewarded unfairly versus all the rest.

 

[Allen Koholic]

I actually think if we and VT win out, leaving us out of the ACC title game, we'd get a shot at an at-large berth. Similar to the leg humpers last year. We then get to smoke some poor non-BCS school.

 

[kirbee]

Whose fans would be bummed and tired of travelling to BCS bowls and spend little money? Ohio State.

Who will have the higher BCS ranking if they win out? Tech.

Stop drinking the Red Kool Aid. We have positives to offer and New Orleans would love to have us.

midatl, you were doing great until you got to this part. Ohio State would bring more fans than GT to any bowl game you propose, played anywhere you pick from Grant Field to Jakarta and anywhere in between.

 

[midatlantech]

midatl, you were doing great until you got to this part. Ohio State would bring more fans than GT to any bowl game you propose, played anywhere you pick from Grant Field to Jakarta and anywhere in between.

LOL, maybe so. How can we make a bet on that one?

I still believe that OSU, having beaten nobody, and having been embarassed recently in bowl games, and with Ohio being in a very depressed economic state would not bring as many as newly excited Tech. Tech took 30,000 to 40,000 to the Citrus Bowl and 30,000 to the Gator Bowl. Those are pretty decent numbers.

 

[MatatoGT]

The Pac-10 and Big 10 are wusses....no conference championship.

Agreed, but they can't just decide to have one next year. Per NCAA rules, a conference has to have 12 teams to have a championship game. So the Big Ten (11) needs to get ND to join with 'em, and the Pac 10 needs to swipe the best two WAC/MWC teams.
But then, what do you call the Big 10? They are already stretching it with 11 teams. Do they become Yankee Big 12? And then we have the Pac-12?
I still like the idea of throwing everybody into 8 12-team conferences, each with a championship game, and the winners go to an 8 team play off. That's 96 teams, which is enough for DI-A (or whatever they call it now). The rest go back to DI-AA, and we can do like they do in European soccer, where the last place teams go down a division and the first place teams from the lower division move up for the next year. Keep you on your toes. So every year, 8 teams move down and 8 teams move up. This would require a complete scrapping and redistributing of the conferences, but I'm okay with that.

 

[hiveredtech]

Agreed, but they can't just decide to have one next year.

I understand what needs to be done...but they are making no effort to do it...and I think it is because they do not want to expose one of their top teams to yet another loss.

I would love to see the Pac-10 add Boise St and Utah.

I would love to see the Big 10(11) add Notre Dame or even Syracuse.

 

[MatatoGT]

I understand what needs to be done...but they are making no effort to do it...and I think it is because they do not want to expose one of their top teams to yet another loss.

I would love to see the Pac-10 add Boise St and Utah.

I would love to see the Big 10(11) add Notre Dame or even Syracuse.

Agreed, but if the Big 10 snags the Orange, where does that leave the Big East. 7 teams? Not very big. They'll have to rename to the Little East.

 

[ASimPerson]

I actually think if we and VT win out, leaving us out of the ACC title game, we'd get a shot at an at-large berth. Similar to the leg humpers last year. We then get to smoke some poor non-BCS school.

We'll be most likely to play a non-BCS school if we win the ACCCG, since the Orange will likely get stuck with whoever comes out of the MWC/WAC.

That said, if GT got an at-large anywhere it'd probably the Sugar, so then we'd just have to play the Big East winner. Huge "if" though because it is exceedingly unlikely we or any other ACC team will get a BCS at-large bid.

 

[kirbee]

LOL, maybe so. How can we make a bet on that one?

I don't bet anymore after losing to Beej67 last year (who I still owe).

I'm 90% wrong at least 50% of the time, so the odds aren't good when the goods are so odd.

I do bet that I HOPE YOU'RE RIGHT.

:D

 

[ncjacket]

How could the ACC possibly get an at-large bid this year? UF/Bama and Ohio State are likely to be at-large-eligible and bowls will love the number of fans they would bring. That is, if one of these non-BCS teams doesn't snake in to an automatic slot, which one of them probably will.

There's some serious kool-aid going on if you think an ACC at-large bid is even a remote possibility.

The only chance is a non champion GT finishing 10-2 with a win over ugag or FSU beating Fla and not making the ACCCG (don't know if that's possible?) and finishing with no more than 2 losses.

 

[BuzzMD]

The only chance is a non champion GT finishing 10-2 with a win over ugag or FSU beating Fla and not making the ACCCG (don't know if that's possible?) and finishing with no more than 2 losses.

Yeah, if either VT or Virginia win out, they will go to ACCCG and not us, regardless of what we do, I think. Kinda like last year with UGag -- it went to a BCS, but not the SEC championship--TN did...same thing with Kansas.