Would the BCS ever allow a non-bcs school to even play for the National Championship, no matter who they played and what the season standings are?
I can see BSU at another BCS bowl game, but I'm not sure they'll ever be in the National Championship game unless they leave the WAC for say Mountain West(non-bcs but tougher schedule) or Pac-10(11?, BCS)
Thoughts?
I haven’t anything against BSU but I wonder what their record would be if they had to run thru the SEC gauntlet.
For the record, I’m a Big East man and firmly believe the SEC is the best football conference PERIOD.
My solution.
Each team in the Top 32, should have to play two other Top 32 teams outside of their conference in the following year. Set aside two weekends when these games will be played. That would guarantee that Boise State would have to play two tough non-conference games. If they win those games, by all means they deserve their shot. That is one way to improve the BCS without necessarily having to have a playoff.
I would like to see BSU open up against Alabama in the Georgia Dome next year.
They need to play a SEC team regular season, but no one will.
They will have to go undefeated again during the regular season to have a shot at the national championship.
I sorta think we ought to wait for the final whistle tomorrow night before we crown NEXT year’s champion.
Oh. And , ROLL TIDE.
They are playing Va Tech on Oct in DC. Va Tech should be a very good team with their RB, Ryan Williams and QB Tyrod Taylor coming back. Oregon State should have the Rogers brothers back. Potentially two wins over what could be Top 20 teams.
How about one of these?
Tell the WAC and the MWC that if they merge, they get a championship game and an automatic BCS bid for the winner.
TCU, Texas Tech and Boise State need to find their ways into tougher conferences. The 2 Texas schools could go to the Big 12—their locations would keep their travel costs down. Unfortunately, it would be tougher for Boise State. The Pac-10 would be the obvious choice, but their travel costs would increase, and they would have trouble finding a “travel partner.” (Look at a map of Pac-10 teams to see what I mean—e.g., ASU and UofA basketball teams play at USC and UCLA on the same weekend, and granted, Oregon and Washington teams are further apart.)
Any team that would let an impotent Tech stay around as long as they did will need about 20 years to compete with any team in the SEC. West coast teams are ‘too white’ to be contenders.
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.
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.
There schedule is not strong to ever be ranked higher than three or four. The computer is the driver on that one
But ...but..but..the same “lesser conference” folk was whinning about TCU not being in the big game this year...after all, they were undefeated....
You are correct...until they play in a conference with real caliber competition they are not going to the big game..
Not long ago Hawaii was undefeated and played the third place SEC team (Georgia)...before the game, all the lesser conference folk where bitching and moaning about Hawaii not being the the championship game...they got get 45-6.