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And the Criminoles' dominance of ACC football has been rarely questioned. Even when their QBs go to jail, Florida State still manages to get the BCS bid.

Yo...wait...halt...that is "QB" not "QBs." Singular. One quarterback.

Let's have a show of hands for all those college teams that haven't had players get in trouble with the law. What? No hands? I thought so...

As someone who thought Miami and Florida State had a far too easy road to get to a BCS Bowl every year, I actually welcome the merger because then one or the other might not get to go every year. Let them find out what the Big XII and SEC schools already know - that you can beat yourself silly trying to get to a conference titile game, lose there, and wind up with the Chick-Fil-A Peach Bowl or the Culligan Water Holiday Bowl as your reward. They can ask Florida how fun that prospect is - if they're still on speaking terms with the Gators.

Lord, where do I start?

Seems the 'Noles have been playing Miami just about every year for forever. They have also been playing Florida, just about every year. Do you know ANY OTHER TEAM that uses two of it's patsy non-conference slots to play teams that consistently rank in the top ten? And when not playing those two non-conference powerhouses, they match up with Pitt or Syracuse or West Virgina...

IN conference we have those easy teams like NC State (11-3), or Virginia (9-5), or Maryland (11-3). Clemson often is tough, as is Georgia Tech. Florida State does not have a cakewalk to the national championship. In fact strength of schedule has been the deciding factor twice in Florida State's favor in recent BCS polling.

Having Miami in the ACC will give the ACC a great championship game and should FSU and Miami play as they have in the past, it is entirely possible they could rematch in the BCS Championship game.

And, no, we are never on speaking terms with the Gators.

Seems the 'Noles have been playing Miami just about every year for forever. They have also been playing Florida, just about every year. Do you know ANY OTHER TEAM that uses two of it's patsy non-conference slots to play teams that consistently rank in the top ten?

PUH-LEEZE!

It's BECAUSE Miami and FSU play such a B-movie conference schedule that they *have* to play each other and Florida to boost their RPI. I'm sorry. Playing every other year in Blacksburg or College Park is NOTHING compared to playing every other year in Knoxville, Columbus or Lincoln with everything on the line - and you know it.

It took FSU - what? - three or four years before they even LOST an ACC conference game. How many conference games did Miami lose in ten years? Less than five? FSU had a terrible year last season and *still* got an automatic BCS bowl bid because the rest of the conference was no better. At least if they and Miami are in the smae conference, they can't both have the same engraved invitation to a BCS bowl every year. They won't each have their own cakewalk to get there.

Do you know ANY OTHER TEAM that uses two of it's patsy non-conference slots to play teams that consistently rank in the top ten?

Michigan, Colorado, and USC have a long history of such, just to name 3.