Boise State projected as BCS No. 1

ESPN ^ | 10/11/10

[rhema]

Six weeks into the college football season and one week before the first Bowl Championship Series standings are released, there are 13 unbeaten teams in all three polls.

So who'd be the BCS' No. 1 if the standings came out today? Would it be consensus No. 1 Ohio State, the top team in The Associated Press, USA Today and Harris polls? Or maybe fellow unbeaten Oregon, ranked No. 2 and earning first-place votes in all three polls?

According to the projection of ESPN's Brad Edwards, it's consensus No. 3 Boise State.

According to the projections, the No. 1 Buckeyes would place fifth in the BCS standings, percentage points behind Oklahoma.

1. Boise State .913
2. Oregon .863
3. TCU .854
4. Oklahoma .8425
5. Ohio State .8421
6. LSU .782
7. Nebraska .777
8. Auburn .744
9. Michigan State .642
10. Alabama .634

Edwards projects the unbeaten Broncos, the highest-ranked team from a non-automatic qualifying conference, as the top team in the standings by a comfortable margin, followed by Oregon.

[rhema]

Let’s see, 3 of THE Ohio State Buckeye’s wins were against the following teams:
Marshall
Ohio
Eastern Michigan

Unfortunately, that's a tough schedule for my beleaguered MN Gophers this year. We'd have probably dropped all three.

[Osage Orange]

I know.

Air Force is a very good team. And OU...didn't match up well with them.

They didn't match up with Utah State well either....( I was at that game...)

Believe me...us Okie's know the Sooner's haven't played great. And they've won ugly more than not...this season.

I have great respect for the WAC....

FRegards,

[cornfedcowboy]

(eyes rolling)

Buckeye’s are #1.

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(eyes rolling)
Until you come to Iowa City.

[Badeye]

Thats why they play the games.

[rhema]

I'm rooting for the Huskers . . . especially before they show up to mangle the Gophers in the Big Ten next year.

Things we wish we could say in Minneapolis:

[RabidBartender]

Actually, if Michigan State finishes undefeated (they don’t play Ohio State), aren’t they automatically the Big Ten champion?

[RabidBartender]

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/news?slug=dw-boise110709

RUSTON, La. – Is it cowardice or collusion?

Boise State athletic director Gene Bleymaier is all but begging for a major opponent – any major opponent – to play his Broncos, particularly in 2011. He can hardly get his calls returned. Not by the SEC. Not by the Big Ten. Not by anyone.

Bleymaier is making a nearly unheard of offer in college football scheduling – Boise will bring its popular, high-profile, top-10 team to any stadium in any town to play any big name team in America in 2011. And they don’t have to return the date in Idaho.

So far, no one has bit.

The school acknowledges it needs to play tougher teams. Yet how can they beat quality opponents if quality opponents won’t play them?

[cornfedcowboy]

Actually, if Michigan State finishes undefeated (they don’t play Ohio State), aren’t they automatically the Big Ten champion?

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Both need to play Iowa but anyway............

It is my understanding that if both teams are undefeated then they share the Big Ten title. Also, the team that has been the longest since attending the Rose Bowl gets preference(although BCS might screw it up). Badeye might be able to clear things up. Don’t you love B10 FB!
Good to have the Huskers on board.

[dfwgator]

It would be fitting for Bo to go up against his Alma Mater for the BCS.

[Chunga]

I’m an SEC guy. I think I agree with you.

[Red Steel]

Air Force can help out OU in their bid for the national championship game. They still have 4th ranked TCU and 10th ranked Utah to play, and give themselves a shot at a BCS bowl game. Wins against those two teams would help clear the path for OU. AF does play these two teams tough year in and year out. They both squeaked buy with wins last year. Utah beat AF in OT last year and TCU had a 20 - 17 squirt win.

[Osage Orange]

I totally agree....

Thanks-

Best FRegards,

[Buckeye Battle Cry]

MD - I’m a goof. I can’t believe I dropped that ball! The Hawkeyes are the toughest game on the Bucks schedule this year. Hands down.

[Buckeye Battle Cry]

The problem for 2011 is that the schedules are made four and five years out. It’s not so much collusion as it is the 2011 dance cards have been filled for some time.

[MountainDad]

***I’m a goof. I can’t believe I dropped that ball! The Hawkeyes are the toughest game on the Bucks schedule this year. Hands down.***

Hoping your Buckeyes drop the ball a lot that day too! LoL.

(might be the only way for us to win)

[dfwgator]

There’s a simple solution. Reserve two weeks out of the season, for games against opponents that are determined from a random drawing that will take place at the conclusion of the preceding season. The Top 32 teams from the just completed season will go into a hopper and their two games (one home and one away) will be drawn.

[Buckeye Battle Cry]

I LIKE that idea. Talk about spicing up the season! That’s excellent!

[Moose4]

This will all be moot when the pampered princes of Division I-A football finally sack up and schedule a playoff series like every other division in college football has. Until then, this isn’t a national championship, it’s a beauty contest.

Nobody has ever offered a convincing argument why it’s such an awful hardship for the big boys in the SEC or the Big Eleven et al to have to play one or two or three or four extra games (”but they’ll lose so much class time!”) and yet it’s perfectly OK for teams in the lower divisions—with players who are going to need that education because they aren’t going to The Show—to do it.

Whine all you want about polls, if you want to see a real college football national championship, go to Chattanooga for the FCS title game, or the Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl in Salem, VA for the D-III title game. Then ask yourself if your vaunted BCS powerhouses are champions...or Miss Congeniality.

}:-)4