A little UT eye candy!
There has never been a true national champion in college football, especially with this ridiculous BsCS system.
Until there is at least a 16-team playoff that provides equal access to all division 1 teams, there should be a fat asterisk next to every “champion.”
I didn’t think it was possible, but the BsCS took a pretty bad Bowl system and made it worse.
BTW, regarding the quip about Boise’s schedule - Texas faced a pretty weak Big 12 this year along with Wyoming, LA Monroe, UTEP and UCF out of conference. Alabama played an ever so slightly better OOC schedule with Virginia Tech followed by the fearsome threesome: FIU, North Texas and CHATTANOOGA!!
As they say, people in glass houses...
If it were possible, I would hope both Texas and Alabama lose, because college football fans get screwed every year about this time.
Your schedule anaylisis is not an “apples to apples” comparison...while it is true that the big boys pad their won-loss with some easy games, almost the entire MW is littered with losing lower level and unranked opponents.
Take a closer look at TCU and Boise this year and you will find that the teams they beat were uniformly beaten by unranked teams by larger margins than either TCU or Bosie beat them by...being undefeated cannot be a realistic measure...Hawaii was unbeated recently and got their brains beaten out by the third place SEC Georgia Bulldogs.
Cinncy was undefeated and was crushed by the second place SEC team.
A playoff system would have given TCU and Boise a shot...but they would have faced much stiffer competition than they faced on their schedule.
Amazing how you guys omit the conference games Alabama and Texas play.
Hmmm let me see now, which team in the WAC or MWC matches against Florida or Nebraska.
If you said “none” you win 1000000 points.
As far as this ridiculous notion that a 16 team playoff would solve the issue, let me say this about that - wrong!
Why stop at 16? What about teams 17-182? Don’t they deserve a chance?
Besides tournaments are ridiculous since they depend on the bracket anyway. A team in a weaker bracket will make it to the championship game even though they don’t deserve to do so.