Virginia Tech doesn't look as comfortable in the ACC standings as they did a week ago. They no longer control their own destiny, and they need some help to make the ACC Championship Game. It's simple: The Hokies need Georgia Tech to lose. To anybody.

Here's a look at the remaining schedules for Georgia Tech, Miami and Virginia Tech.

It's very important that Virginia Tech win out. A loss to any team remaining on their schedule, including ECU, could potentially put the Hokies out of the race.

A two-team tie is simple, so we aren't going to spend much time talking about it. If Georgia Tech loses one of their remaining conference games to Virginia, Wake Forest or Duke, the Hokies would hold the head-to-head tiebreaker over the Miami Hurricanes. With the Hokies and Hurricanes at 7-1 in the ACC, and Georgia Tech at 6-2, the Hokies would get the nod in the ACC Championship Game.

However, if Miami loses and Georgia Tech doesn't, Virginia Tech would lose the head-to-head tiebreaker against the Yellow Jackets based on their loss in Atlanta this past Saturday.

Now let's get on to the hard stuff, the three-team tiebreakers. This assumes that all three teams win out in ACC play and finish 7-1 in the conference.

You put Georgia Tech, Miami and Virginia Tech into a mini-division and see how they fared against each other. Georgia Tech beat Virginia Tech but lost to Miami. Miami beat Georgia Tech but lost to Virginia Tech. Virginia Tech beat Miami but lost to Georgia Tech.

That makes all three teams 1-1 in the mini-division. Thus, the first tiebreaker doesn't help, so we move on to the second tiebreaker.

Again, this one is simple. Each team is 7-1, and their only loss coming in their mini-division. None of the three teams lost to Virginia, North Carolina or Duke. Thus, all three teams are 4-1 against Coastal Division competition, and we have to move on to our third tiebreaker.

This one isn't going to help either. Virginia, Duke and UNC all lost to Georgia Tech, Miami and Virginia Tech. Since the Yellow Jackets, Hurricanes and Hokies have the exact same divisional wins vs. those bottom three teams, we'll have to move on to the fourth tiebreaker.

Whoever wrote that line didn't do a very good job. Exactly what does "overall record for non-divisional teams" mean? Apparently it means overall record against the other division. In this case, how did Georgia Tech, Miami and Virginia Tech fare against the Atlantic Division? Well, if they are all 7-1 in the ACC and 4-1 in the Coastal Division, that means they are all 3-0 against the Atlantic Division. That means we go to our fifth tiebreaker.

This one is simple to figure out as well. The three teams don't have any common non-divisional teams. Georgia Tech and Miami played Florida State, Clemson and Wake Forest from the Atlantic Division. While they both had three common opponents, Virginia Tech played NC State, Maryland and Boston College. That doesn't match up, therefore we'll skip to the sixth tiebreaker.

There's that key phrase again: "common non-divisional". All three teams don't have any common non-divisional opponents, so we've got to skip to step #7.

This is the one that decides it. Currently, Miami is #10 in the BCS, Georgia Tech is #12 and Virginia Tech is #14. Assuming each team stays in the same order in the BCS standings, since Virginia Tech is the lowest-ranked BCS team, they become irrelevant, and it comes down to Miami and Georgia Tech. The Canes are the highest ranked of those two teams, and since the Yellow Jackets lost that game head-to-head, Miami would go to the ACC Championship Game.

However, things could get complicated if any of these teams manages to lose a non-conference game from here on out. Georgia Tech has non-conference games against Vanderbilt and Georgia remaining. A loss to either one of those teams would likely send the Yellow Jackets toppling below Virginia Tech in the BCS, assuming the Hokies win out. If that's the case, the top two teams in the BCS rankings would be Virginia Tech and Miami. Assuming the Hokies were still within five spots of the Canes in the BCS, the Hokies would get the ACC Championship Game berth based on their head-to-head victory against the Miami. However, if Miami is more than five spots ahead of VT in the BCS, the Canes would go to Tampa.

What happens if Miami loses to South Florida at the end of the season? If that's the case, then the two highest ranked ACC teams in the BCS would be Georgia Tech and Virginia Tech, assuming they both win out. In that scenario, Georgia Tech would get the invite to Tampa for the ACC Championship Game based on their head-to-head victory over the Hokies.

What if both Miami and Georgia Tech lose a non-conference game, and Virginia Tech wins out? Just a guess, but I think we'd see the Hokies as the highest ranked ACC team in the BCS, with Miami second and Georgia Tech third. In that case it would come down to Virginia Tech and Miami, with the Hokies securing the bid based on their head-to-head victory and their higher BCS ranking. That scenario uses a lot more guessing, however. Who really knows how those BCS standings would turn out?

Virginia Tech needs Georgia Tech to lose to somebody if they want to make the ACC Championship Game. Preferably to an ACC team. A two-team tiebreaker with Miami would be much simpler, and guaranteed. However, if the Yellow Jackets drop a game to Vandy or Georgia, that could be enough to bump the Hokies into the ACC Championship Game.

Of course, it goes without saying that the Hokies have to take care of their own business. They probably can't afford anymore losses, though in this crazy world of college football, you never really know.