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Arizona State
Boise State
Cal Poly
Cal State Bakersfield
Cal State Fullerton
Oregon
Oregon State
Portland State
Stanford
UC Davis
Certainly doesn't remind me of the other PAC-10 schools.
And regarding football, the conferences can do what they want that will earn them the most money. Until the NCAA sponsors the "post-season" in football money will be the driving factor.
And yes, while I am a BYU grad I am a Big 10 fan.
Go Buckeyes!
Why will the Buckeyes get over their little National Championship "hump" this year?
They're returning virtually every starter from last year, had one of the top recruiting classes in the country, are deep at every position, and...add mega-star TERRELLE PRYOR to the mix!
With all the junior All-Americans that decided to forego the NFL draft(Boone, Jenkins, Laurinaitis, etc.), you're looking at roughly 20 Ohio State starters that will almost certainly be playing on Sundays soon.
Once the Bucks thump USC in September, you better get used to the idea of seeing Ohio State in the NC again, except this time they're loaded, fast and experienced!
GO BUCKS! LONG LIVE THE BCS!
I think this year it is Georgia's turn to humiliate OS if they get to the big dance.
It is like a year long slow motion car wreck and even before the season starts you can see how this is going to end and it isn't pretty for the BuckEyes.
Go Dawgs
The NC in New Orleans? Are you kidding me?!?!?
I want to see the NC in a foot of snow in Buffalo or Green Bay and see how the pansies in the SEC fare.
Those schools all play unbalanced schedules. Equal teams play home-and-home series. Bigger schools only agree to "you come here, we pay you, now get lost" deals (Aren't we still waiting for Michigan to come to Utah?), or at best two-for-one deals (notre dame and BYU). Either way they get the lion's share of the gate. If the non-BCS schools stopped doing those deals, the BCS schools would get hurt.
Hawaii already showed you don't have to have a big game on your schedule, just go undefeated, so the incentive for a 1-2 deal is no longer there -- home and home with an equal school is probably now just as financially viable, and would be especially so if it led to a genuine playoff system, and not this four-then-one baloney that is being proposed.
pac and big 10 schools don't want to home-and-home each other. The chance of a loss hurts their players and their record, decreasing the likelihood of the big payday down the road. If anyone doesn't believe this, look at notre dame.
No one thinks BYU or Utah would contend every year, we'd just like to see them have a chance when they catch lightning in a bottle like Utah did in 2004.
If there were a geniune playoff, not this gutless 4 and 1 deal, then recruiting would be on an increasingly level playing field, because players would know they would have a chance at a BCS bowl in the lighting years.
Play the games in 10 feet of snow and the result will be the same.
And here is just a question that I hope someone can answer. Why is it that the NCAA can govern every aspect of play, including rules, scholarships, who can eat dinner with whom and get it paid for, etc. and yet they can allow the disparity to occur when it comes to not allowing equal and fair play when it comes to the national championship? That, in my opinion, would be the basis for a law suit against the NCAA. If it governs one aspect of play, it should govern all, and therefore be fair.
The Mountain West and WAC top teams could very well hold their own with most of the teams in the so called major conferences and are every bit as deserving of a chance to be in a play off as are the second tier teams from the major conferences. Bring on the four team play off and go from there.
We're both right...the imputus... "WAS"... the BYU undefeated season of 83 that crowned us in 84 since the Holiday bowl was played before New Years Day. Brian Gumble, "The Mouth" (Barry Sweitzer) and a certain Ohio State Alumni made a big stink over it. The concept of the BCS was initiated not long after by the Ohio State Alumnus who later became the University President and later Big Ten Commisioner.
When you plant a seed for "some trees" ... it takes a few years for the seedling to develop and then for that seedling to grow and expand into a fully developed tree with ripening fruit it takes even longer. That is where you fail to see my friend...... The BCS didn't develop over night....and our former Ohio State University President/ Big Ten Commissioner,.... is the brainchild. Because of the Rose bowl ties that already existed between the Big Ten and the PAC Ten is what keeps the BCS in power....it's also the reason for this article.
The BCS was in existence before the 98 season. All the 97 season did was force the BCS to get the polls together on the same page to select a true "BCS" #1 & #2 and that they and only they would win the "BCS" National title. Prior to 98 with the disagreeing polls it was possible for a winning #3 or a winning #4 to split the title if there was disagreement in the performance level of play between #1 and #2.
The issue of the at large birth selection by rankings also was changed prior to 98 because of the snubbing of the 96 BYU Cougars who at #8 was forced to go to the Cotton Bowl ( which they won finishing #5 in the final Poll) despite being #9 or higher which was the BCS criteria.
The National Championship already deserves a serious asterisk. It's nothing but a beauty contest. There were at least 6 teams last season who could have built serious cases for being picked for the BCS Championship game.
Typical BCS conference supporter arrogance; except for the Pac 10, most top BCS teams won't schedule games in places like Provo, Salt Lake City, and Boise because they know there is a good chance they are afraid that could actually lose to a good team on the road.
1990
- Miami, defending National Champion and No. 1 ranked with their speedy defensive backs
vs.
- BYU and their slow-footed receivers
BYU - 28
Miami - 21
Hope you really enjoy watching bubba ball in the SEC and Big Eight(or is it Big 2 and the little 6). Where players seldom attend real classes and graduation runs a distance second to posting up for the NFL draft even if you are not even drafted.
Bring on the hype and jive and vist Provo for a thumping, just like BSU put on Oklahoma and BYU put on the elite DUCKS from the PAC -10.
What a treat to see the good ole Fla Gators face off againt the Cougars in the 2008 sugar. Check the final 2007 rankings , and I think you'll find the beloved longhorns looking up at the cougars!!!
can I have some?
BYU vs Georgia for the Nat Championship ?
let's make it a date
Go Dawgs
Mendenhall over Chow followed by a Win over Urban Myer.....now that would be a season even if we lost to the Uteys.........I have my doubts.... lets just get past Washington and take the season as it comes......this is a special team and could be a special year.....we don't need the hype and jive frenzy....cool your jets....and quite being a jerk.
I-O
Do you like worms???.........I'll keep plenty of them on hand.... to serve to you on a plate just in case somebody like little ole Indiana trips "the(pronounced thee) Mighty Buckeyes" and gives them a Charlie Rose of a shiner.
Now that they're gone, we are again the same program we were under McBride. We could fire Whittingham and hope to get another coach like Meyer who uses us for a stepping stone to somewhere great, but we're more likely to hire someone like Guy Somebody (that's Utah State's coach for those of you who don't follow D-II teams) than Urban Meyer. ... Realistically, we are the third best program (behind TCU and, ugh, BYU) in the nation's best non-BCS conference. We can consistently win between six and eight games a year, which is pretty good, considering how far under the radar we are nationally (thank you, Craig Thompson). So this article is meaningless to me.
Utah fans shouldn't fight this.
If there was a playoff, all that would happen is that we'd just be sitting at home watching BYU occasionally play in the playoff.
That's not what I fought in 'Nam for.
And I ain't fightin' for this.
The last time the Buckeyes lost to a team that did not go on to a BCS bowl or win a National Championship was 2004. Keep in mind that 3 out of Ohio State's last 4 losses were to the eventual National Champions.
With this said, Scoobie, I'll keep a plate of worms around in case BYU finds a mediocre Conference USA team on their schedule. Wait... actually, I won't. Not only could a three year old come up with something better than "worms," I really couldn't care less if BYU loses to Northern Iowa or Washington, nor will anyone else. Would it even make headlines? Probably not, because it won't be much of a surprise. Anyway, my attention will be on the Ohio State - USC game around the time of BYU's next loss to a mediocre Pac-10 team.
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I know that you are just eager to pounce....I'll have to concede and eat my crow in silence. The objective is still however the BCS farce.