Final Bowl Projections

[Eric]

There are surrounding circumstances in every game. The James Madison loss was just a hangover effect type game. I mean James Madison did only finish 6-6 in the CAA, but that's not much different from being a 5-7 C-USA team or something like that. The CAA is basically the equivalent of a mediocre non-BCS conference. I like the system the way it is set up. You can hold the James Madison loss against them as a negation, but does running the table in a conference like the ACC count for anything?

Just let the BCS conference winners be in the BCS. Only stipulation I would put on it is that they need to be in the top 20 of the BCS standings.

I think that says something about the ACC....there conference champ lost to a 6-6 FCS school. That just blows me away. It should never happen on 5 days rest or 1 hour of rest. I would be equally as shocked is a 5-7 C-USA team went to Virginia Tech and won the game.

Nobody is saying that the ACC is fantastic this year (I think this is the lowest it has been in the past few years, but I think it was underrated during a general span between 05-09). The fact remains though, if you run the table in a BCS conference, odds are you are pretty good.

[donovan]

We certainly needed the BCS to pick those top two teams.....and those are the only ones the BCS cares about....

[Brian Roastbeef]

Of course, though I agree that the James Madison loss reflects poorly on Virginia Tech, that does raise the question of how far the transitive property stretches...

Andrew Golota drew Chris Byrd beat Vitali Klitschko beat Shannon Briggs beat George Foreman beat Ken Norton beat Muhammad Ali

Is Andrew Golota then better than Muhammad Ali, or even Vitali Klitschko (one of the current legitimate heavyweight champions today)? Does James Madison have claim over the entire ACC? As the above list of fighters goes through George Foreman in his absolute decline, is there similar claim that James Madison got Virginia Tech during the weaker part of their season? Don't know that I have any answers here, just more questions... of course there would be far fewer opportunities for such confusion if 1-A teams played fewer 1-AAs (or FCS if you simply must be current ).