I agree, and have said many times, that VT, even when playing in the top 10-15 or better, seems to always (both with CFB and CJF) lose a game they shouldn't - and that has sometimes been the thing that prevented us from being serious NC contenders.

But in those good years SOME of the reason the rest of the conference didn't appear as good in that time period was that a good VT team was beating them.