Running bowl thread

That's true, for this particular year. However, over time the worst team in the Pac-10, which plays a complete round-robin, is still far better than Charleston Southern, Georgia State, or the fourth- or fifth non-conference opponent scheduled by the teams that play eight or seven conference games, and every other year you have to play the worst team on the road.

I can completely sympathize with the Fiesta Bowl picking TCU and Boise State, as they were the best teams available when it came their turn to pick. No "conspiracy" there.

The disappointment is not seeing TCU and BSU take on the so-called "big boys," which I think most of the country wanted to see.

 

As far as betting, NC State was always money this season for the "over."

Exactly.

 

But it's not the BCS that's providing it. The Fiesta Bowl made its own choices, not the BCS. It was the Fiesta that said it'd rather have Boise than Cincinnati, just like it was the Orange that said it wanted Iowa over either for whatever reason (I'm guessing they travel very well).

Should the BCS have stepped in after the Orange took Iowa and said "no, no, Fiesta Bowl, you guys gotta take Cincinnati so Boise State can play Florida?"

What you offered was theoretical but not feasable, because again, nobody wanted Cincinnati.

 

How long until Troy is recognized as a legitimate team? Sure, they play in a shit conference, but they've won the Sun Belt three years in a row and have defeated a few AQC (Mizzou, Miss St., Ok. St.) teams over the past several years. I would compare the current state of Troy's program to Boise State circa 1999-2001.

 

When you start needing to use lines like "Troy is a good team" to justify your schedule, well, then you need to do a much better job of scheduling.

 

I'm not sure, but I'd bet that Louisville is a rivalry game for UK. And if not, the Cards were probably decent when the game was scheduled.

 

It is. They've played every year since re-starting the series in 1994.

 

You could have said the same thing about Boise State not too long ago.

 

Really?

When has Troy been anywhere even close to the discussions about being a BCS buster?

 

Even if you give Troy and NC State more respect and figure Louisville-Kentucky and Memphis-Ole Miss (this one seems ridiculous, but I'm not from that area so whatever) as rivalries, the non-conf. schedules are hardly daunting. If Notre Dame played Chattanooga or NAU, they'd be rightfully skewered.

 

So if Florida was moved to the WAC and Boise to the SEC, Boise would suddenly be your god and Florida would be scum? 13-0 is 13-0, and enough people thought Boise on balance looked like a legitimate BCS-quality team. Unless you want to equate Boise with Ball State last season before it lost, which voters clearly don't.

And Boise's non-con sked was clearly better than Bama's. Conference sked? Definitely not. But Boise won every time a game was put in front of them, and did so for the second consecutive regular season. Saying Boise is a fraud is as silly as saying the WAC is on par with the SEC

 

When had Boise State been close to the BCS prior to four or five years ago?