by Racarie Software has developed an awesome web app that shows how your team can become National Champion via the transitive property of college football. Well that is unless you are Southern Methodist, Washington, Washington State, North Texas or Western Kentucky. In case you didn’t know the transitive property of college football is: if Team A > Team B and Team B > Team C then Team A > Team C*.
Here is Virginia Tech’s path
| Virginia Tech | beat | Maryland | on | 11/06/2008 | by a score of | 23-13 |
| Maryland | beat | Wake Forest | on | 10/18/2008 | by a score of | 26-0 |
| Wake Forest | beat | Mississippi | on | 09/06/2008 | by a score of | 30-28 |
| Mississippi | beat | Florida | on | 09/27/2008 | by a score of | 31-30 (on the road!) |
| Florida | is the 2009 Div 1-A champion | |||||
*This is complete bullshit. Penn State thumped Oregon State, Oregon State beat USC, but USC throttled Penn State.
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