Virginia Tech is Going to the Sugar Bowl

WOOP WOOP HEADED TO THE SUGAR

"Deserve's got nothin' to do with it." Awesome. Now please kill Michigan.

It's awesome that we got a BCS bid, but I'm going to get pissed every time I hear something like we don't deserve it. It's gotta be a good win for us to get some credit.

Oh well.

from WHATTHEFUCKJUSTHAPPENED to HOLYFUCKEENGSHIT!!!

Now hopefully the offense will play with a chip on it's shoulder (from the demoralizing and pathetic product they put on the field in Charlotte) and go blow out a B1G Ten(?) team. This is probably the turning point where VT is getting some clout on a national level to have gotten such a nod -and the fact that a helluva lot of pieces fell in to place...

Go Hokies!

Bring it on Joe

I wonder how much hotels will be for this spectacular event.

I am still very surprised. Though I know we leapfrogged some teams here are some important points to remember for the selection:

Four teams in front of us claim to have a legitimate gripe and two behind us, as follows: Kansas State, Boise State, Georgia, Arkansas, South Carolina and Michigan State. Three teams were eliminated tonight when the National Championship Game was announced (Georgia, Arkansas, and USCe) because of the two team from conference rule and the fact that the BCS wouldn't bend for the 1 v 2 being outside the formula. Secondly, Boise State was eliminated when TCU clinched the Mountain West Title (it is described as a handshake agreement- if I remember correctly- that for a non AQ to go, they need to win their conference. Boise failed to do so. BLOCKED AND CUT). Now, Kansas State and Michigan State are the two most viable gripes. However aside from money the choice can be logically explained. K-State, though most people won't accept this, is very similar to Tech in that they didn't play many ranked teams this season (four). They were .500 (blown out by Oklahoma and lost to Oklahoma State in a one possession game. They beat Baylor by one and Texas by four- slight margin of victory. VT played FIVE games against ranked teams in the AP/Coaches: Wake Forest (won by 21), Georgia Tech (won by 11), UVA (won by 38- ranked 25 in AP) and lost those two games to Clemson by a combined forty eight (man that stings). Common opponent was Miami, we won by three and they four- cancels out, both are a one possession final. Combined with the money issue Tech actually isn't an awful decision by the Sugar Bowl committee. Enter Michigan State....well, plainly they would've and should've replaced Michigan from a football standpoint: head to head victory and won that division to lose a rematch of a win from earlier in the season. BUT Michigan State = little brother who doesn't bring half the fans or tradition that Michigan does along with television ratings. That was really a no-brainer in money, but a terrible football decision.

Overall I am still ecstatic and cannot wait for a game I've wanted to see for a long time. The ACC was granted a chance to show itself with two teams and BOTH need to win convincingly to set up for another great start to 2012. LETS GO HOKIES!

Virginia Tech
1500 Sugar Bowl Drive
New Orleans, LA 70112

Clemson University
14360 NW 77th Ct.
Miami Lakes, FL 33016

Dear Clemson,

Thank you for winning. Don't get me wrong, I hate losing, but because of you, we got to a better bowl game than had we won. So again, thank you, and please go slaughter some Big Least team for the ACC.

Sincerely,

Virginia Tech

Well, I wondered what was up when I saw the mothership crawl that said Chick-fil-A bowl: Virginia vs. Auburn. I thought it must be a typo, somebody left the "Tech" off of the crawl. Then a bit later I glanced at the TV (I was vacuuming so I couldn't hear the sound), and I saw the big "M" and "VT" on the screen. I thought "What kind of rinky-dink bowl are they sending us to??". When it sank in that we're on our way to BCSville, I was initially stunned that we were picked. We apparently hit the football lottery.

Personally, I don't think we should be going to a BCS bowl. Don't misunderstand me, I am elated to be going to the Big Easy, but I think there were more deserving teams out there (KSU, Boise maybe, UGA, who can't because of the no-more-than-2-from a conference rule). But, after some reflection, in some respects our selection doesn't surprise me. The Sugar Bowl selection was a product of our fan base, not the team. Herbstreit was ranting about our selection, last night ("Is this what it comes down to?!! How good a fan base you have? How well you travel?") but this is exactly what bowls do. They gravitate towards teams that put butts in seats. Its what bowls have ALWAYS done. So Herby needs to get over it. Our fans won this bowl for the team.

This year's BCS is exactly why there should be a playoff of some sort, whether it's plus-one, eight teams, sixteen teams, or some other scenario. You have two teams from the same division of the same conference playing a rematch game, you have one conference guaranteed a spot when they can't decide between three mediocre teams, one team denied because of one loss on an incredibly tough, emotionally devastating day (even though they beat better teams than one of the NCG contestants), and you have the same old same old from the bowls outside of NCG selection. The system is not set up to reward teams on the basis of on-the-field merit outside of 1 vs. 2.