Virginia Tech poised to pass Boise State in final BCS standings!

The computers might jump Tech over BSU but I don’t think the voters would allow it. There was talk of that last year in regards to BSU’s win over the University of Zero (Oregon). It never happened and UofZ went and laid an egg in the Rose Bowl.

There may be some Boise State fans who are worried about that, but the most of the media, pollsters, and coaches are echoing the same sentiment; Boise State looked like a top ranked team in their win. Hence the eight first place votes in the AP Poll, and only 13 points behind #2 Ohio State. Plus the two spot jump in the Coaches Poll over two teams that didn’t lose but had lackluster performances against lesser opponents.

I’d be more worried about Florida and Texas leap-frogging the Broncos once the conference schedules begin, because let’s face it, they’re bound to take a dive once WAC teams start dropping like flies. Two things will have to happen for that not to take place.

1. Boise State has to do what Herbie said; beat every conference opponent by 30 points. Style points matter to the human element. A close game against La. Tech will bring them down.

2. Florida, Texas, Ohio State, Alabama, Iowa, Nebraska, Oregon, pretty much every top 10 team will have to lose to keep Boise state inside the top 3 once New Mexico State, San Jose State, and Utah State roll around. Strength of opposition, however misguided and biased it might be, plays a real role in the perception of a team. If Boise State doesn’t beat Utah State by more than 7 points, the association between them and Oklahoma will begin; Oklahoma barely beat Utah St. 31-24.

TCU could end up jumping the Broncos like they did last year with the perception that the MWC holds sway over NAQ Conferences. But I think Va. Tech will really have to steam roll the ACC and Boise State would have to limp through the WAC for the Hokies to make that jump. It’s possible, but I think it’s highly unlikely. Boise State has never “limped” trhough the WAC. Their lowest finish in a decade was 2nd in conference.

This is what I love about College Football though, anything can happen, and sometimes it does.

We had to deal with this last year with Oregon. This is the risk of playing a high profile opponent early.

So, I politely decline to speculate until it actually happens. However, a win has to count for something, right?

I was at the game and have watched it again on tv. That game could have gone either way. Both teams hurt themselves at various critical parts of the game and both teams made great plays. If those teams played each other 10 times their records may be 5-5. I will give credit that this essentially was a road game for Boise and they had to deal with noise and a hostile crowd. Boise did a great job of shutting down Williams with the run; but I also think Boise was fortunate that Hosley was not on the field for Boise’s last drive.

If both teams win out the computers might help the Hokies because a strength of schedule- although that may not be a huge edge because we will have to see how the other teams in our conference fare. 2 thirds of the formula are people voters and I think people voters (Harris poll and Coaches poll) will have a tough time mentally placing VT over Boise because Boise did beat them essentially on the road- so I guess I would be shocked; especially if neither team has a loss from this point forward.

Is if every team in the ACC won their out of conference games and no one in the division sucked at all. The Big Tens and SECs (bw) all over the ACC almost as much as the Non-AQ’s…the ACC and Big East are the BCS’s ugly stepsisters, and I don’t mean that as an insult to VT as much as I view it as an insult to the system.

because the BCS is a very flawed system. Say VT wins and BSU wins out. A lot of this could depend on style points. If VT could solve some of their blaring problems and win out with dominating performances, you will see voters looking for reasons to jump Boise because they want to find reasons not to vote for Boise. This would narrow the human poll gap between the two.

Then you have the computer polls and they could cause real issues because they would consider DC to be a neutral site game when we all know it was not. So the imperfect system would be shown with all it’s flaws. This would totally suck for BSU and would make me feel unworthy as a VT fan but it’s not likely to happen.

It’s much more likely that a one loss Alabama, Florida, Texas or Ohio State team keeps Boise out. That’s what Boise fans should worry about.

Irritated? Yes.

Reasons:
1. Boise State beat Virginia Tech
2. Boise played VT on their “Home Field Plus” – more on this in another post – and still won
3. Boise State had more mistakes, turnovers, and blown calls – and still won
4. See reason 1, repeat

Virginia Tech is an incredible team and I feel very good about the strength of our team that we were able to beat yours. Good luck the rest of the way. I believe you will run the ACC table.

Maybe this is a subject for another message..

But is there a possibility for a Boise State / VT rematch? I don’t know the “order” of which BCS games “pick” when, but is there a chance for a rematch? I know the ACC champ goes to the Orange Bowl, but don’t other BCS bowls “pick first” or something with At-Large BCS teams/games?

Forgive my lack of knowledge on how the BCS games line up. I always just look at the overall BCS lineup in mid-December and never seem to give much thought of how certain teams “line up” in the “other BCS” games.

I’ve been hearing that the Labor Day game was ESPN’s most watched game, so I wonder if someone out there in the world might clamor for a rematch if Boise State gets passed up on for the NCG.

Among the many reasons I hated the outcome on Monday night: I want to watch the game again. But, with Tech on the losing end, I have zero interest in watching a second time. (If Tech was on the winning end I, probably like a lot of you guys, would have watched the game at least two or three more times already this week)