Posted on 01/06/2010 9:51:24 AM PST by Domandred
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Boise State coach Chris Petersen wants his football team to set challenging but attainable goals. This year, the Broncos set out to win a Bowl Championship Series game. And they did.Winning a national championship wasn't on the radar.
That could change when the team begins preparing for 2010 later this month. The Broncos, who have won 26 of their past 27 games, will finish this season with their second Top 5 ranking in four years.
And they should start next season with their first preseason Top 10 ranking.
All of that was made possible by the No. 6 Broncos' 17-10 upset of No. 3 TCU on Monday night in the Fiesta Bowl. The win made the Broncos the second 14-0 team in major college football since 1900.
(Excerpt) Read more at idahostatesman.com ...
Only impossible because not a single SEC team has the hair on it’s ass to accept the challenge of playing BSU. Better to maintain the illusiuon of greatness then to put it on the line by playing the best coached team in college football.
That matchup made it very difficult to evaluate either BSU or TCU. Was it two great defenses, or two mediocre offenses? If BSU had played Florida, how good they really are would have become a lot clearer.
I’d love to see a school like BSU win the national championship, but I don’t think they deserved a shot at #1 this year, based upon their schedule and the fact that there were 2 undefeated teams that played much tougher schedules.
I’ll get back to you in a couple of days; as soon as I stop laughing.
Well, I certainly hope not. And don’t think so. But wwe’ll see.
I’ll accept you apology after the game. :)
They're far more comfortable in this situation than going in as the #1 favorite with Colt as a Heisman winner.
I hope the Longhorns watched tape of that Auburn game, the game that the Tide nearly lost and that everyone seems to have forgotten. They're quite beatable.
They might go 8-4, maybe 9-3 at their very best.
This is why it is such a shame that Florida didn’t get a bowl matchup against either TCU or BSU. It would have answered a lot of questons.
If either of those schools beat Florida, or even lost a close one in the final minutes, it would indicate that they could probably compete for the SEC title. If Florida beat them 51 - 7 it would show that they were pretenders who racked up glitzy records against inferior competition.
Yep, but the SEC only has one undefeated BCS National Champion, which ties them with the ACC, Big East, Pac-10, and Big-10 at 1; and that was 10 years ago. The Big 12 has the most with 2.
The SEC is good at staying high in the polls, but not at winning all their games.
BSU has offered to play against BCS conference teams so they can solve this problem with their weak schedule, and they did not have any real takers.
Texas Tech is already in the Big 12.
They are great at winning when it counts the most. The thing that hinders their going undefeated is that the play in the toughest conference in the country.
The BCS doesn’t allow members of the Mountain West to vie for the championship so, joining the Conference wouldn’t help at all. This won’t change until the BCS teams work up some guts and decided to prove their “superiority” on the field instead of hiding behind charts and computer programs.
So as watching other games including Ohio and Oregon, plus other big schools bowl games. I was not impress. BSU could have taken down any of those schools. Utah did against Alabama last year. The same Utah team that beat up on Cal, PAC 10 team that was one point 4th in the country. The same Utah team that lost to TCU. Same as BYU beating up on Oregon State. VT and Iowa last night was just the same.
Yep I agree. BCS putting TCU v BSU didn’t answer any questions about the teams. Didn’t matter if TCU or BSU won, the questions would still be out there.
It would have loved to see BSU play Florida but it should have been Florida v TCU, BSU v Cincinnati imo.
TCU would have beat either Florida or Cincinnati imo. Not sure BSU would have beat Florida, but they would have beat Cincinnati.
That would have been a worst case scenario for the BCS...both non-bcs teams beating the bcs schools and that’s what they wanted to avoid and why they put BSU v TCU so only one of them could win, and not against BCS schools.
Well the team Florida did beat was one second away from playing for the National Championship.
That doesn't really explain why the "National Champion" Gators were still able to play in the title game even though they lost to an unranked Ole Miss team. Texas' only loss last year was in the final seconds to a #5 Texas Tech team, but couldn't even go to the Big 12 championship game because there were so many highly ranked teams in the conference.
SEC, toughest indeed.
Every year they say the same thing that Boise State will lose to all big schools. Every year Boise State prove that wrong. Boise has won 2 BCS games more than some SEC teams wish they had.
WAC and MWC used to be one division. They all used to be WAC until they split. Remember BYU won the national champs when they were in the WAC.
You mean that same Ole Miss team that spanked Texas Tech in the Cotton Bowl?
I was thinking the same thing during the game. I really don't think BSU would be able to beat Alabama or Florida.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.