The Speed Line

The Western "Speed" Boundary

While watching the Virginia Tech - Boise State game tonight someone asked if there was such a thing as Boise "speed".  The rule of thumb for speed is South of the Ohio River and West of the Rockies.  Basically you can draw a straight line from the Atlantic to Pittsburgh then follow the Ohio River to where it empties into the Mississippi. Then go directly west until you get to the Rocky Mountains and then north to the Canadian border.

Anything South and West of this line has "speed" and anything North and East of it does not.

This is sometimes confused with the "swagger" line but this line only extends to the Mississippi River and goes straight south to the Gulf.

Boise is west of the Rockies and therefore they have speed. They do not have swagger. Virgina Tech by definition has both speed and swagger.