stat is overblown and misleading. If you're playing a true top 5 team then you should lose most of the time. This is especially true if you are not a top 5 team. There's also the caveat of how you count Top X teams. Is it their ranking at the time of the game? End of the season? Are you using a specific poll or ranking or any of them or all of them? What if you beat a Top 5 team in game one but that team turns out to be vastly overrated? Conversely if you beat a team early that is underrated and they end up in the Top 10 that win doesn't count towards the stat but it probably should. The point there is you can massage the numbers to make a Top X stat look better or worse than it really is depending on the point you're trying to make. As far as VT and the new coach, whoever we end up with is going to have some flaws or cons or reasons he could fail here. It's kind of a crap shoot really. Even if we went out and poached a current, successful, proven coach from the SEC or Big 10 there's no guarantee it would work. Lincoln Riley and Brian Kelly are two examples of that (Kelly more so right now obviously). At this point I'm ready to support whoever we hire and let them get to work.