The Big 3 in the Big East can hang with anyone for ONE GAME. It's just 1 game.
Perhaps so, although I do have my doubts.
In terms of asking wether an undefeated Rutgers team "deserves" to go to the NT game over a once beaten Auburn, Florida, Texas, Arkansas, USC, Cal, or Notre Dame, however, the answer to me is clear: no. And the reason is that those teams will have managed to win at least 3 or 4 games against top flight opponents and another 3 or 4 against decent teams and they will have done it over the course of a whole season.
If the question is whether Rutgers can hang with OSU or Michigan for one 60 minute game, my suspicion is no but I'd be a liar if I said I knew for sure and so, as someone saidm line up and play it.
But if the question is who deserves to be there in the first place, my answer is "not Rutgers" because I think if faced with the same schedule of the one loss teams mentioned above, we would not be haviong this discussion and Rutgers might well be wondering if it could get into ANY bowl, much less a BCS game.
And atleast WV beat a current 4 loss SEC champion from a year ago.
And you were 5-6. So teams that beat you this year must suck, right?