If Tech and two teams currently ranked ahead of it successfully run the table, the Hokies are almost a virtual cinch to be the one left on the outside looking in. Of course, if Tech is one of only two unbeatens left, those strength of schedule numbers won't mean as much, a point that was proved last season in the Bowl Championship Series formula. I got to wondering the other day how much it would have helped Tech's schedule strength to have played and beaten Georgia Tech in the ill-fated BCA Bowl. Of course, that chance was nullified when Georgia Tech athletic director Dave Braine opted not to play Tech in a rescheduled Dec. 1 game in Blacksburg. Maybe Tech fans can blame Braine, the former Hokies' AD, for costing their team a shot at playing for the national crown.
All Tech can do is win 'em all, and pray for a lot of outside help.
Hey, it can happen. The evidence was supplied last season. It seems that some folks were offended by a blurb in the Aug. 31 Tech Insider. Apparently, there were some who were not amused by what I later discovered was nothing more than an inside joke planted by John Ballein, Tech's director of football operations. Obviously, the upset parties take this column much more serious than I do.