Call me crazy, but I think that there should be some reshuffling of what is marked as a “BCS” conference. The WAC features two undefeated teams, both of which beat repecteble BCS schools. Nevada actually walloped Cal, Boise State took it to Oregon State and even Hawaii put up a fight against USC.
Now let’s talk about a conference that does get a BCS automatic bowl bid: the Big East. Currently, there are no teams undefeated in the Big East, and of the three that are 3-1, one of them is Syracuse?
West Virginia had to pull of a miracle to beat Marshall, and Rutgers suffered an embarassing loss to Tulane today. I think the Big East is up for grabs, considering Connecticut and West Virginia have proved to be somewhat of a disappointment.
And how about the Mountain West? People always seem to forget about TCU. Okay so maybe the rest of the crop is out of season if you want an agricultural analogy, but am I crazy for even considering arguing that the Big East is not that worthy of a automatic BCS bowl bid?
Boise State did its part, scheduling Virginia Tech at a “neutral” site–the game was played in Maryland, so it was practically a road game for them, and Oregon State.
I am willing to put money that Boise State, even Nevada for that matter can put up a good fight against…Syracuse and even West Virginia. And this is a problem with a system that is solely arbitrary. A system that only favors schools with a bigger budget, a bigger fan base and bigger tradition.
What do these non-BCS schools have to do to gain some respect? Why do you think the Mountain West and WAC have been attempting to shuffle the teams like cards in a deck. They want to get recognized.
And recognition comes at a cost. The leaning tower of Pisa that is the BCS system is constantly shaken, pushed and knocked around, but remains in tact. How long has the tower been leaning in Italy? 800 years? I wonder if it would take that long for the WAC to be considered a BCS conference.
The major conferences have formed this computer system that is guarded more extensively than the wall of China, but didn’t Mongolians find a way to knock it down?
You can knock the BCS up Boise State and TCU, but you won’t knock it down. It is a sad thought, considering it is even more depressing knowing one Big East team will be playing in a BCS bowl with who knows how many losses, and the Broncos and Horned Frogs will go undefeated and not even be in the top five.
Call the conference weak, but define weak. Syracuse might be 3-1, but they also played Akron, Colgate and Maine, the latter two being FCS teams.
If Syracuse can pull off that weak non-conference schedule, and Boise State pulls off the one they endured, then I think the WAC conference champ is just as rightfully eligible for a BCS bid than say…West Virginia is.
I guess you can argue that the Big East is up for grabs, and the WAC already has an obvious winner. But the fact remains that Boise State will never be able to play for a BCS bowl game unless they go undefeated. There is no margin for error, nor is there for TCU.
It’s time to stop overlooking the smaller schools, the supposed underdogs in collegiate sports. Jacksonville State beat Ole Miss, James Madison beat Virginia Tech, South Dakota beat Minnesota; there is a trend that is transcending sports and is a pattern people need to take into consideration.
Because one fact remains: that any team, from any conference and any division, can beat any team, any place, at any given time.