trickblue;4201100 said:
You make good points, but how do you justify Boise's coach calling out anyone/everyone? Why won't they schedule them? It is maddening...
Pretty simple really, it's a no win proposition. If you beat them, all you did was beat a WAC (now MWC) school with a goofy blue field. If they beat you, you lost to a mid-major and your loss is seen as worse than it otherwise would be. That's how it goes in the eyes of the national media. Why schedule Boise when you can schedule an average BCS school, beat them and get more credit for it in the media than you would beating Boise?
Also, Boise has a big head now and demand a home and home with everyone they play. The OUs, Floridas and Bamas of the world don't want to go play a game in Idaho against a mid-major school.
We've had ONE major bowl with BSU and, well, they won that one... I get tired of hearing they aren't worthy...
And TCU beat Wisconsin last year. So what? BCS conference teams suffer injuries, they have to go 100% every week and they are mentally drained by their schedules. Boise State and TCU rest their starters for a quarter of the season and gear up for one or two big games every year all the while staying completely healthy. Wisconsin was down six starters in the Rose Bowl last year. OU was down five in the Fiesta Bowl and Adrian Peterson wasnt healthy.
Look at it this way, Boise and TCU always have at least one almost-loss every year against the SMUs or Hawaii's of the world. Anybody think LSU would do anything other than beat every team on their schedule by 40+ if they played in one of those conferences this year?
I love Hos, but I agree that that BYU team was a farce... being undefeated is by no means justification for a NC... a playoff is the only way...
Unfortunately, as states, we support these Cretans and their ilk and they laugh in our collective faces...
College football is my true love and the game I pay the most attention to, and it kills me when I hear people saying teams like Boise, TCU and BYU deserve anything because they beat creampuffs all year. It takes away from the meaning of competition and doesnt promote quality college football. The integrity of college football depends on keeping schools like that out of the national title picture until they win against better competition. Nobody can argue that Boise deserves the MNC more than an SEC school does, and yet people try and make cute little arguments that appeal to the "littel guy" emotion because they think it isnt fair.
I also agree a playoff is best, because it would not only determine a true champion but expose the mid-major schools. They won't be able to compete playing multiple top-10 caliber teams in consecutive weeks. They'll use all their tricks and gimmicks to win one game (maybe) and that'll be it.
