The Blue Board

What do you think is more important to the Sugar Bowl Committee? Selling tickets and hotel rooms to this game, or the potential ratings differences between Boise and VT?

You sure it's unintentional?

Boise's last 2 BCS bowl games have higher ratings than any of VT's last 3 BCS bowl games.

Not funny?

Lol that is kinda funny. Virginia Tech sucks ass. They played a terrible schedule, and got smoked twice by friggin Clemson. I think other teams got shafted, by VT seems like a good opponent for a Michigan victory. Won't find me or any reasonable Wolverine fan complaining.

Who cares? VT is a legitimate football program. BS is not. They deserve to be left at home. No real fan want to see them in a big bowl. You arguing they should be in just proves you don't give a shit about the sport.

Boise barely can be said to dominate some conference I can't even name. Don't try to put them on the same level as VT and WVU. Those are two shit programs, sure, but they're real football programs, unlike BS and their entire conference. If you wanted to say they're on the same level as, say, South Florida I'd still disagree, but we could at least have a conversation about it. Putting them in the same category as VT and WVU is just retarded.

Nobody would watch Boise in a BCS bowl game either!!!

I think it's a simple fact that VT doesn't 'deserve' a BCS bowl in the sense that their ranking was too high. They finished ranked above Clemson - who blew them out twice including a few days ago so no excuse for the media to have "forgotten" about it. It's just the sort of idiocy that results from conventional poll voting arithmetics (i.e. VT has to be above Clemson because Clemson has 3 losses, VT has 2 losses).

At the same time I don't get why people rip VT but seem keen on KSU. Kansas State scored one touchdown against Eastern Kentucky which they scored with 2 minutes left to win that game by the score of 10-7. At least VT beat their FCS opponent with ease. Kansas State got pounded by OU worse than VT got pounded by Clemson and OU isn't exactly fantastic this year either. In fact, if you look at KSU's year, they had two convincing wins, one over Kent State (5-7 MAC team) and one over Kansas (2-10 and one of the worst AQ teams this year), everything else was by a TD or less. Not to take away from Bill Snyder, the man is a genius, KSU has no business being a top 25 team normally yet they are pretty good - but a team you would consider a must invite for a BCS bowl? Uh no...

Now about Boise State, they move from the weak sauce WAC to the slightly less weak sauce MWC which had lost two of its top programs in Utah and BYU but still had one worthy competitor in TCU left and BSU promptly lost at home to them, whoops. Strength of schedule? BSU even worse than VT and that's probably giving them too much credit for beating an overrated Georgia.

Let's be real here, this was a down year for college football, maybe the last few years have been down years. USC hampered by sanctions, OU a bit down, Texas and OSU very much down, Florida down, old powerhouses like Michigan, FSU, ND, Miami, Penn St. or Nebraska not bad now but also not where they could be, teams that once played for NCs like Tennessee or Washington in the wilderness..thats why we got a rematch in the title game, thats why we got such a muddled bowl picture.

I could care less about this year's match-up but I didn't care when they played in the regular season either.