Running bowl thread

Bullshit.

Alabama: Ranked/top-tier ACC team, two Sun Belts and a I-AA.

Boise: Ranked/top-tier Pac-10 team, two MACs (one of which went 1-11), a C-USA and a I-AA.

The only difference is that extra game they get for playing at Hawaii, and they used it to play at Tulsa. In what way is that schedule clearly better than Bama's?

 

I'll take this one.

It's not.

 

Oh, and Boise wouldn't go 13-0 in the SEC, as has been clearly demonstrated. There is simply no way they could win every week. There's a reason their BCS-opponent record since 2002 is still under .500.

 

Well, the Tulsa game was played. Anyhoo...

--Oregon better than Va. Tech
--Bowling Green way better than either of the Sun Belt teams
--Miami (O) and North Texas are a wash.

My point stands tall.

And there's no way in hell you can say that. No way in hell. Will never know because Boise isn't in the SEC.

Bottom line it: Are you trying to say Boise shouldn't be in a BCS game?

 

I'm not making anything up.

Four years ago, Georgia had the guts to host Boise St. Georgia beat the hell out of them.

My point? They were willing to play them, and won handily. The rest of the SEC schools are afraid of being that one team that loses to them at home. That's why they schedule the patsies.

 

I'm thinking "afraid" has nothing to do with it. And how many times do SEC schools need to curbstomp them in the regular season anyway?

Somebody still needs to explain why Boise is owed a game with any BCS school it wants to play.

 

Yeah, and Tulsa's No. 81 in the CBS 120.

So, that's your defense? That Bowling Green is better than FIU? Yeah, OK. That's CLEARLY a better schedule. Clearly. Clear as day. (Bowling Green, incidentally, is No. 66 in the CBS 120, two spots behind UCLA and two spots ahead of Northern Illinois.)

And Oregon may be better than Virginia Tech, but Oregon was a home game for Boise. Va. Tech wasn't for Bama.

I'm saying Boise beat a 10-2 Oregon team and got a BCS bid for it. And I'm saying that if Alabama had beaten LSU and then played the rest of Boise's schedule, you probably wouldn't think they deserved a BCS bid.

 

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/bowls09/columns/story?columnist=schlabach_mark&id=4724361

ESPN's Mark Schlabach ranks the 34 bowl games.

 

If they were curbstomped by an SEC team every year, you'd hear a lot less about them at the end of the season. Instead, it's happened once (unless there was another time that I'm forgetting).

The SEC teams don't want to risk having their seasons spoiled by losing to Boise St. And that's not even mentioning schools not wanting to travel to Idaho for a return game.

 

Well, the idea of a WAC team demanding a return game is ridiculous in itself, even if it is Boise.

They also got a 41-14 beating at Arkansas in 2002.

Boise's still only 4-5 in the regular season against BCS-conference teams since 2002. 2-1 in bowl games, 2-2 if you count Louisville, which was playing its last game as a C-USA member in 2004.

 

Why should an SEC school that plays in front of 80,000-100,000 people each weekend give up the millions it takes in from a home game and fly all the way to Boise?

 

And has been riding that horse ever since.