(04-04-2014 08:51 AM)Crump1 Wrote:  

(04-03-2014 09:58 PM)AtlantaJag Wrote:  

(04-03-2014 08:49 PM)Crump1 Wrote:  

(04-03-2014 07:36 PM)AtlantaJag Wrote:  

(04-03-2014 04:47 PM)MTPiKapp Wrote:  VT is not Michigan in terms of history, but they're still a very respectablepprogram and went 11-3 that year and won the ACC.

Virginia Tech is probably a Top 10-15 program the last 20 years, likely better in that span than Michigan. And they ended up doing well that year as well, so it wasn't like JMU caught a notable program in a down year.
BTW, I know Michigan also ended up doing well the season that ASU beat them, so I'm not trying to say it's a better win.
However, this was a signature win that few in the Sun Belt could match.

Advantage: JMU...and Liberty isn't even close.

It isn't close except when they actually played.

You can only vaguely remember JMU pulling off one of the biggest upsets of the last several years but you can recall that JMU and Liberty have played a close game recently?
I would expect that to be an extremely rare circumstance for most college football fans.

I have this thing called the internet. When we discuss the various candidates I use this mechanism to look at facilities, schedules, budgets, etc.

Ditto here.
The JMU/VT talk was an example of of their superior athletic accomplishments and therefore greater name recognition (at least in terms of athletics).