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wilson
10-11-2008, 03:50 PM
ECU has now not only completely squandered their early BCS? mojo, but also thrown themselves into a questionable spot in their conference race (though 2 of their 3 Ls are non-conference ones). More importantly, however, Duke is now better than Virginia Tech, Climpsun, and Wake Forest, according to the ironclad Transitive Property of Sports.

Duke beat Virginia by 28. Virginia beat ECU by 15. ECU beat Virginia Tech by 3. Duke is thus a whopping 46 points better than VT.

Now let's look at Climpsun. The Tigers fell to the Maryland Terrapins, 20-17. The Terrapins, however, lost to Virginia, 31-0. After their drubbing of the Hokies, the Blue Devils build on their lead and are an incredible 62 points superior to Climpsun!

Wake Forest recently dropped their first game of the season to Navy, by a touchdown. The Blue Devils, of course, handed Navy a 41-31 defeat earlier in the season, giving Duke a 17-point advantage against the Demon Deacons.

So there you have it. Duke is better than the three supposed ACC "frontrunners" by an average of roughly six touchdowns. If not for those pesky Yellow Jackets, Duke could be reliably penciled in for the Orange Bowl right now. Right, Ozzie?
RelativeWays
10-11-2008, 04:03 PM
Wilson, you didn't state how many points Duke was better than Florida. I'm very disappointed :D
(I think its 23 wow!)
jimsumner
10-11-2008, 04:05 PM
Duke also is better than Cal.

Of course, this means Northwestern is off the charts.
Wander
10-11-2008, 04:25 PM
If not for those pesky Yellow Jackets, Duke could be reliably penciled in for the Orange Bowl right now. Right, Ozzie?

But VT beat GT by 3, so we're better than GT by 49 points by that method. Given that GT only beat us by 20-something, the net margin is still in our favor. We should still make the Orange Bowl.
RelativeWays
10-11-2008, 04:32 PM
Right now Miss St is beating Vandy 10-7. Theoretically if the score were to stay the same, or the margin at least...lets see... they lost 38-7 to GT...38-27=11-7=4.... we should beat the Commodores by a td :)
CameronBornAndBred
10-11-2008, 05:37 PM
Right now Miss St is beating Vandy 10-7. Theoretically if the score were to stay the same, or the margin at least...lets see... they lost 38-7 to GT...38-27=11-7=4.... we should beat the Commodores by a td :)

Margin held...we'll see how well your system works:)
OZZIE4DUKE
10-11-2008, 07:21 PM
So there you have it. Duke is better than the three supposed ACC "frontrunners" by an average of roughly six touchdowns. If not for those pesky Yellow Jackets, Duke could be reliably penciled in for the Orange Bowl right now. Right, Ozzie?

Riiiiiiight!