People can say what they want about Virginia Tech, UNC, and South Carolina being disappointing. I would point to VT's win over one-loss Ohio State, UNC's win over 5-2 Georgia Tech, and South Carolina's win over one-loss Georgia as greater evidence of those teams' quality than anything that a Marshall opponent has done. Furthermore, I would argue all three, along with Temple, Cincinnati, and UCF, are at worst on par with the best team on Marshall's schedule, and at best, they're all better than anyone Marshall plays.

Remember that the selection committee watches a ton of film and has all kinds of data to work with. Everything works in ECU's favor except for a close road loss at South Carolina. Now, if ECU loses a second game, unfortunately that would put ECU at the mercy of committee members. The strength of schedule argument gets weaker with every loss. But I think it will be pretty clear to the committee that going 11-1 against ECU's schedule would be more difficult than going 12-0 against Marshall's.