You're right I got confused becasue WVU and Maryland played twice this year (once regualr season and once in a Bowl game) so I got myself to think they were Big East in football. thanks for the correction.
How's that any different then what Miami and Florida State had been doing for years in the Big East and ACC? If someone like West Virginia and/or Pitt steps up and consistently proves to be a Top 10 or 12 team how is that any different then those programs? Heck, West Virginia is a preseason Top 10 team in some ESPN poll I read, or close to it.
Pitt or WVU should have a hard time becomming a top ten team based solely on their strength of schedule once the big boys leave the Big East and several Conference USA teams join up. Those Conference USA teams against TCU gave TCU one of the lowest SOS in all of the NCAA. But no matter how low the SOS, a team from the Big East will play in a BCS Bowl.
Because Miami and Fla St. can obviously kick top 25 butt year in and year out and do so in their nonconference schedule. In adding a 5th game, I think the BCS is only seeing dollar signs and the city that brings the highest bid will get the game. So unless it's gonna be the Coca-cola Bowl, I wouldn't bet against the movers and shakers in Houston. We are already pissed that we lost our rotation in the Tour Championship to Atlanta.
FSU beats up on good teams. WVU beats up Rutgers. FSU out of conference schedule: Colorado, Miami, Notre Dame, Florida WVU out of conference schedule: Wisconsin, East Carolina, Cincinnati, Maryland, Central FL If you can't see a vast difference in strength between FSU in the old ACC and WVU in the New BE, then you need a new prescription.
