USA Today notes that if VT and Miami defect to the ACC, they would arguably go from being the worst major conference in football to being the best.

Six of the league's 11 eventual teams likely will be ranked in preseason Top 25 polls this August - more than any other conference.

In the five years of the Bowl Championship Series, six of the 10 teams that played in the national championship game would now represent the new ACC. The Big 12 and Southeastern Conference - widely considered the two strongest football conferences in the country - have combined for three teams in the five BCS title games.

That may be true, but by lumping all those teams into one conference, don't you create a scenario where other conferences are more likely to go to the big show? For instance, the FSU-VT matchup would never have happened if they were in the same conference.

So what does all this mean for "the preciousss" BCS? Well, Lee Corso seems to think that it strengthens their hold on NCAA football. With the "major six" being reduced to a "major five", and with stronger conferences at that, Corso contends, "They got no chance, zippo, nada of messing this thing up now. They got what they wanted. They deleted one part of the pie. They all got stronger and eliminated one group."

USA Today isn't so convinced. They note that the voice of BCS opposition may grow louder.

If the Big East loses its BCS bid as expected after the current contract expires in 2005, for the first time schools without automatic access to the BCS (60) will outnumber the schools affiliated with the BCS (57).

So, perhaps the ACC is destroying both the Big East AND the BCS.

(link via Ravenwood's Universe staff writer, Marnette)