Boise State is this year's Hawaii.

by Wan Ihite on Dec 6, 2009 3:18 AM CST Comment 6 comments

Lots of belly-aching that they should be in the final because they are undefeated, but those win came over... lets see, Oregon (pretty good), and Oregon. Next best win was against Nevada, and it seems that a number of other teams not in BCS contention also handled them by a similar margin. In Columbia.

Seriously, here's their record:

9/03     No. 16 Oregon     1-0 (0-0)     W 19-8
9/12     Miami (OH)     2-0 (0-0)     W 48-0
9/18     @ Fresno State     3-0 (1-0)     W 51-34
9/26     @ Bowling Green     4-0 (1-0)     W 49-14
10/03     UC Davis     5-0 (1-0)     W 34-16
10/14     @ Tulsa     6-0 (1-0)     W 28-21
10/24     @ Hawaii     7-0 (2-0)     W 54-9
10/31     San Jose State     8-0 (3-0)     W 45-7
11/06     @ Louisiana Tech     9-0 (4-0)     W 45-35
11/14     Idaho     10-0 (5-0)     W 63-25
11/20     @ Utah State     11-0 (6-0)     W 52-21
11/27     Nevada     12-0 (7-0)     W 44-33
12/05     New Mexico State     13-0 (8-0)     W 42-7

So the lesson of Kansas and Hawaii lives on: Beat up on a bunch of cupcakes the entire season, play in a sweet bowl, and "strength of schedule" number crunchers can suck it.

The only drama left is really which team did the best in the country who has a white quarterback, so we know who to give the Heisman to.

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100% agree that teams from lesser conferences don't deserve to be top-2

simply because their conference schedules “forced” them to play 8 crap teams. That may very well be why BSU, TCU and Cincy are there this year, it certainly appears to be why Hawai’i was there 2 years ago, and might have even been why Utah was there last year (though, beating Bama decisively would suggest otherwise).

BUT, they should have a chance to prove it on the field. They can’t help that their conference sucks, and they didn’t have any weaker of a non-con schedule than we did (or, honestly, ’Bama or Texas, for that matter).

by Andy--01 on Dec 6, 2009 4:09 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

Great points… Though makes me wonder, if you’re in a crap conference, maybe you need to make sure that one or two of your non-con games are pretty good (like Utah & Bama) so that it’s actually a meaningful comparison.

and the Mustache of Truculence (formerly Canada4Mizzou)

by Wan Ihite on Dec 6, 2009 7:28 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

if anyone will schedule you

and, even if they DO, they will rarely give you a home-and-home. Can you see USC or Ohio State playing in Boise? Oklahoma going to Cincinnati? Even if one or two of those teams will take on all comers, a mid-level BCS squad (Missouri, for instance) will rarely do it.

by Andy--01 on Dec 6, 2009 7:32 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

While I understand

that Boise has had a lot of trouble with non-con scheduling, you don’t have to schedule powerhouses to raise your SOS. Playing one BCS school(at home no less, so it’s more likely you can get a game where you go to a BCS school) in the non-con when you’re in the WAC isn’t going to get it done, especially with two MAC schools there.

by Transmogrified Tiger on Dec 7, 2009 12:51 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

You know what we REALLY need...

A league system like the British soccer ones, where you can get relegated to a lower tier if you end up at the bottom of the stack, or promoted to a better league if you are one of the top few winners.

That way Boise can work its way on up, and even if your season is BOMBING you still have a reason to care about not losing your last few games.

The entrenched money would never go for it, therefore it won’t happen, but this is one place where it just makes ridiculous amounts of sense.

and the Mustache of Truculence (formerly Canada4Mizzou)

by Wan Ihite on Dec 8, 2009 1:03 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs