I don't know where you are getting these numbers, but VT is no higher than 24 undergrad. Grad students really don't matter as they rarely have any loyalty to the school.
Still apples to apples since I included postgrads for all.
Private school money helps? Yes this is why bowls always pass over BC, and Wake in their bowl selection.j
Wake yes, BC no. BC has an area following that doesn't seem to travel well.
Notre Dame has a smaller enrollment and has no problem getting bowls. Same with Stanford, USM, and several of the schools I listed like Clemson, Ole Miss, and MSU.
The FACT that football isn't that important to the BC community helps my argument... and hurts yours. Emphasis is part of the reason SEC football is better than ACC football.
The only reason Miami gets selected is past tradition, but they can't even fill a stadium in Miami.
Yes because they haven't been good in awhile. Their ticket used to be alot tougher to get than a Dolphins ticket.
The SEC only has one school like that, Vandy, and they get pushed under the rug in football.
Vandy has been bowl eligible exactly ONCE since 1982... last year. How does that qualify as getting pushed under the rug?
Interestingly enough, they played in the Music City Bowl last year... against the ACC runner up Boston College... and beat them.
'
I didn't protest the other conferences, not because I don't disagree, but because the MAC statement was just so ridiculous that I had to jump on it.
And yet it isn't. You could have replaced the lower half of the ACC this year with random teams from the MAC and not noticed a difference in the level of competition.
It turns out that the ACC has more impressive wins than any other conference except the SEC and even then the wins are on par with the SEC. Oklahoma, Nebraska, Pitt are only a few of the teams that the ACC has beaten this year.
Name a few more because Pitt doesn't qualify IMO... I mean come on. They lost to NCSU for heaven's sake... OTOH, they did just beat one of the better ACC teams in their bowl. Still not a "quality" win.
NU is rebuilding and almost beat you at home. You were saved by a last minute TD after being statistically dominated by a team in offensive disarray at that point in the season. Again, one of my buddies is a NU fan and I live in an area of Big12 country where there are alot of NU fans.
OU is suffering one of their worst seasons in years at 7-5. They came in 4th in the B12 South. Again, those just aren't impressive wins.
Now you are probably going to try and discredit those teams this year,
Mostly because they are credit worthy.
but the Big 12s best win this year is UGA and it isn't close at all.
Yes. So exactly how does that support your argument that OU who was stomped at home by the same team that beat UGA in Stillwater? Answer is that it doesn't. You're talking out of your ear.
All of their other OOC are awful, yet you probably consider the Big 12 to be the 2nd or 3rd best conference.
The Big 12 is in a down year with KU, MU, and OU all worse than previous years... and yes, they are still better than the ACC or Big East. It is closer with the Big East though.
WHAT HE SAID!!!
