It's no secret that college football is a closed shop.
Membership is open to only a few select schools.
It's the elite group that can wear the smoking jackets, puff on the cigars and enjoy the snifters of brandy. It is a small old-boy network of annual contenders that could probably fit in your average Hilton conference room. It's more than a coincidence, then, that the New Orleans Hilton Riverside serves as Virginia Tech's digs this week as it prepares to meet No. 1 Florida State in the Sugar Bowl. That would be significant. It's not a one-year deal.