This topic just pops my cork.
This is akin to the moronic, asinine activity that's been going on for about 4 years now. It started when the mid-majors launched a campaign to break into the BCS games without actually playing their way there.
It led to the SOS component of the BCS formula being removed (one of the few parts that actually made sense).
With the congressional hearings that threatened government intervention if the big boys didn't let the little fellahs' play.
I call it welfare for the football challenged.
I know there are some who will cry foul here, but Utah had absolutely no business being in a BCS game last year. They may have been better than half the teams there, but they did not play anyone of note.
They played Pitt (who also had no business being in the big dance, because the Big Easy just got too easy, and that's another topic for another thread) who did not beat a single ranked opponent all year, on top of which, they lost to the worst Nebraska team in the last 50 years, they lost to UConn, for crying out loud, and they also lost to an unranked Syracuse. So, Utah's win over the Panther's proved nothing.
Now for Utah's claim fo fame: Their best regular season win was Texas A&M. We all know how weak they were. The Vols could have beaten them by 50 had they not chosen to empty the bench. Their next best regular season win was a 6/6 NC team. Now, before anyone cries, "Oh, but they beat them by 30." Please don't. Virginia beat them by 30, and they didn't make it to the BCS.
Utah's Opponents records were as follows:
vs. Texas A&M (7-5)
9/11 @ Arizona (3-8)
9/18 @ Utah State (3-8)
9/25 vs. *Air Force (5-6)
10/1 @ *New Mexico (7-5)
10/16 vs. North Carolina (6-6)
10/23 vs. *Nevada-Las Vegas (2-9)
10/30 @ *San Diego State (4-7)
11/6 vs. *Colorado State (4-7)
11/13 @ *Wyoming (7-5)
11/20 vs. *Brigham Young (5-6)
1/1 vs. Pittsburgh (8-4)
That's a combined record of 53 wins and 72 losses.
Now, lets look at some deserving teams who got left out.
Georgia beat the #16 team in a blowout and lost only to UT and Auburn and got stuck with the Outback.
Iowa beat #17 and #20 by a combined total of 50 points while losing to # 19 and #14.
As I said, this is football welfare.
This is why I've been a proponent of a Super Conference.
Dump the NCAA and start a Super Football Conference that eliminates all of the stupid pansy games.
Take the top 6 conferences, expand them all to 12 that aren't already, and let 'em all play one another for OOC games and that would be great football.
Each conference would play 8 conference games and play a rotating OOC schedule that included every team in the Super conference.
At season's end the teams with the best records in each conference would play a conference championship.
Take the 6 winners and place the 4 highest ranked teams on a bye.
Then the 2 lower ranked conference champions and the 6 runners up play a first round play off.
Then the 4 winners play the top 4.
Then a semifinal round
Then the championship.
Level the playing field by limiting the size of the media guide. Puhleaaazzeee!!!
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Gettin' off my soap box now.
