as a warmup, wouldn't mind SMU beating Pitt to give BE 7-1 to 2-7 bowl edge

[bamamarquettefan]

While waiting for the Syracuse (BASKETBALL) game to start, I sure wouldn't mind seeing SMU beat Pittsburgh in FOOTBALL to have the future BE teams go 5-1 in Bowls and the future ACC finish 2-7 in Bowls this year.  Shoot, let's add Temple in the East and convince BYU in the West, and it would be 7-1!  (though Air Force lost and Navy didn't play).

Either way, not sure adding Pitt (#52 in computers) and Syracuse (#84 in computers) football is going to help the ACC improve on their 2-13 all-time BCS record.  Based on 2013 team/conferences the ACC improves to 5-15 historically and Big East drops to 3-5 historically in BCS games (e.g. we lose WVU's 2 wins to B12 etc.), but don't see Miami getting back to their Big East level anytime soon.

http://espn.go.com/blog/pac12/post/_/id/32855/points-and-counterpoints-this-bcs-bowl-season

The conference that was once expected to challenge the SEC is now 2-13 in BCS bowl games. That's hard to do. You'd think in 15 BCS bowls the conference could get lucky at least five or six times. But no, it insists on making ACC blogger Heather Dinich, a genuinely nice person, into some sort of Grim Reaper every bowl season.

Heck, the Big East has won seven BCS bowls -- second fewest among AQ conferences -- but it's 7-7.