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[QUOTE="Chip, post: 289894, member: 19"]
Right.  A conference is considered as strong as its strongest team today, although good to have at least 2 that are considered strong.  Some may ask why that didn't work out for the original Big East, I would say that you also can't be a smaller 8 team league with 25% of your league as bottom feeding programs who most years were worse than anything the MAC had to offer.

FSU's problem right now is that people said the same thing last year (possibly the year before too, can't remember).  They were preseason Top 10, everyone was saying, FSU is back.  But FSU still couldn't deliver.  VT isn't proving strong enough to carry the league's reputation on its back.
 
The league's other perception problem is that BCS record.  It's only win in recent history is against the Big East.  Clemson giving up an Orange Bowl record of 100 points as the ACC champion certainly didn't help.  The last 2 BCS games, the ACC champ was beaten easily, Clemson as mentioned, and Stanford pulling away from VT the year before.
 
All cyclical stuff, and could unfortunately end up being bad timing, but hopefully all teams stay the course as this league has all the potential to get where it wants to be.
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