I used to pull for Virginia Tech in college football, since the university I went to didn’t have a football team. Lately though, I find myself almost rooting against them. I think it has to do with some of the fans thinking that the team walks on water in this area. I have friends and family who have season tickets to the stadium that is a 3.5 hour drive from Richmond, and I should say that they are not the reason for my recent change of heart. It is more due to some other people, ie: local radio, my boss, and a few other people I run into. They have become so blindsided by their recent successes over the past 10 years. But compared to many other programs, their success still isn’t anything great in my mind since they can never win the big game.

Some will say it is just school spirit. But I think it has really gotten to some people’s heads. I am almost hoping that UVA becomes as competitive and takes the spot as “Virginia’s best college football team,” again almost, only because when UVA wins their fans are even worse!

So forgive me if I have recently become negatively-biased towards Tech. The fact that Virginia Tech, a team with 4 losses on the year is playing in one of five Bowl Championship Series (BCS) bowls is a joke. Just because they won the ACC, they get the right to play in a game that quite a few other teams should be playing in. The BCS bowls should be represented by the top teams in college football as a whole, not the top teams in sub par conferences, and yes sub par is exactly what the ACC and the Big East were this year.

It doesn’t stop there either, the team they are playing is undeserving in my mind as well. The Cincinnati Bearcats have two losses on the season in down year for the Big East. But someone has to represent the Big East in the current format.

This game is a prime example of why they need to ditch the automatic bowl bids and go by the end of the year rankings. That is if they do not come up with some type of playoff format, which is much needed to determine a true champion. Besides, doesn’t this kind of downgrade the seasons where these teams might actually be worthy of such a bowl game? When they know that if they can just get lucky and have other teams lose key games they could get in just as well it makes the feat of getting there that much less satisfying. I don’t know, maybe it is just me, but it takes some luster off of the trophy that the victors will hold above their heads.

But as it is, congrats Va Tech. I can’t wait to hear over the next month how great the Hokies are once again. Win or lose though, I just want to see a good game!…..and if I could score tickets, and the wife wasn’t pregnant, I would probably go