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What others are saying: Biggest question for the BCS: Why not us?

I completely congratulate the Utes on their remarkable season, doing many things that many of us doubted they could. I also agree that they deserve a share of the crown (as much as I hate to admit it). However, I can only imagine the response from Ute fans about this article if things were the other way around, and BYU were the only undefeated team in the country.

Print the "National Champs" shirts now!!!

I want to buy a case!

Utah 2008 National Champions!

What don't you understand. It's their party and their rules.

Utah was fortunate to finish its regular season without a loss, it took a few blunders from TCU. The MWC was overrated all season. Take out the U and TCU and there is no substance left in the MWC. TCU showed what they can do to Boise State, unfortunately they also showed how they would fare in the Big XII when they played OU.

Utah brought it's A game to the Sugar Bowl, but does not have a season worthy of a national title.

Name me one other sport, anywhere in the entire world, where you can be the ONLY UNBEATEN TEAM in the sport, the ONLY team that does not lose one single game the entire season, and not be the champion. Not even have a chance to play for the championship.

It's ridicilous. Plain and simple.

It is a complete joke...

This writer has hit the nail on the head. NOW is the time for all football fans to unite. Tear down the BCS! Write your congress person, write the newspapers, post on message boards, take up the quest (BYU please get on board).

UTAH - NATIONAL CHAMPIONS

As the age of corruption and greed is flowering before our very eyes in other matters, the BCS fits right in, don't they. Money, money, money! That's really what this is all about. Utah played an incredible game (especially in the first quarter) and proved they were better than Alabama and just as good if not better than USC, Texas, Florida, and Oklahoma. What's there left to prove? The Utes were 13-0 and beat Alabama, a team that was #1 longer than anybody else this season. The rigged BCS machine has reared its ugly head in plain sight for all to see. I live in Illinois and am very disappointed in college football this year in regards to this matter.

Go ahead and print the T-Shirts. In fact, USC and Texas can do the same thing. Even though the BCS and the media claim there is one, the reality is we don't have a national champion in College 1-A football. Never have.

Nearly every year there are at least a couple teams that have just as much right to call themselves number 1 as the winner of the "BCS Championship game".

As much as each team's fans want to say "we're number one", until it is proven on the field with a playoff, it is always open to debate.

Don't just give "National Champs" t-shirts to the team. Make them available to the public. Most Utah fans and some BCS haters would love to buy one.

Rather than casting a "protest vote," here is THE reason AP voters should vote Utah #1.

Take the final AP poll of the season and look at how Florida, Oklahoma, Texas, USC, and Utah played against the teams that ended up in the top 25.

Florida beat 2 such teams.
Oklahoma beat 5.
Texas beat 4.
USC beat 3.
Utah beat 4.

Of the 3 teams that played against the toughest competition, Oklahoma, Texas, and Utah, only Utah finished without a loss.

If Oklahoma wins tonight it can argue that 6 wins against the ranked teams negates the loss to Texas and it should claim the championship, especially if it wins "big."

If Oklahoma loses it's an absolute no-brainer that Utah deserves the national championship because of its schedule and won/loss record, and not for any other reason. And, it can make the same claim even if Oklahoma wins -- because, as the Utah Coach has said, "we don't have to explain away a loss."

Either way, the figure-skating analogy holds and "the system" has got to be fixed.

BTW, Urban Meyer's teams are very tough when they have a month or more to prepare for a game.

How uninformed can you get!? Your argument has the depth of a MAD Magazine article. "Take out Utah and TCU and there is no substance left in the MWC." Take out OSU and Penn State and the Big 10 becomes the little 8. Take out USC and the PAC 10 is no better than C-USA. There is no one to take out of the Big East or the ACC, they just plain stink! The MWC was the 3rd best conference this year by any ranking system. Our best teams beat their best teams, and our worst teams best their mediocre teams (UNLV over Ariz. St.; WY over TN; NM over AZ).

I can also point you to 4 or 5 ESPN articles that compare Utah's season to the rest of the "contenders" and clearly proclaim the Utes as having the best resume for a championship (victories over 4 ranked teams and 6 bowl teams, 3rd toughest conference, undefeated, beat the previously #1 team in the sugar bowl, etc.)

Get your facts straight...

No where does the words "NCAA National Champs" appear in the BCS title game. It's "BCS (tm) National Champion." Print the shirts and call it "2008 Utah Utes - National Football Champion (tm) among all FCS Colleges."

Stop whining. The BCS was set up to determine its champion from its own conferences. Whining about not being given consideration when you are not from a BCS conference is inane. The non-bcs conferences need to organize just as the BCS ones did and prove that they are just as good in generating money as the BCS ones have. This may lead to some agreement where all teams who compete can have a shot at the title, until then, get to work organizing and stop whining.

"What don't you understand. It's their party and their rules."

No, it is the NCAA's game, and they have outsourced it (or allowed it to be highjacked) by 6 "BCS" conferences. It would be like the NFC deciding that they had the best teams, so they were going to abandon the rest of the NFL after the regular season ended, vote on their two favorites (the two teams from the biggest markets), and let them play in a game called the "National Championship."

Neither the NFL nor the fans would stand for it. Why should the NCAA or we? It's time to take this sport back from those that have usurped it.

Champions in their own minds.

They have never cared what the facts are.

They have been the best team in the world for the past 10 years.

Forget about the 13-10 win over a 4-8 UNM.

That's what the best team in the country does.

Beat a 4-8 team by a field goal.

Best teams ever, in their own minds.

It needs to change. When the BYU alum lawyer was pushing for an anti-trust suit against the BCS, Ute fans were all over the bashing about BYU not deserving it. Now that they're wise enough to see they too are not allowed, they are holding up the banner. It is time for all the have-nots to stop fighting amongst themselves and go after the real enemies to equality.

Get serious...

Pull Penn St and Ohio St out of the Big 10 and what do you have left?

Pull VT out of the ACC and you have the sunbelt.

Pull USC out of the Pac-10 and you have the ACC.

Pull Florida and Alabama out of the SEC and you have the Big East.

I would have ranked the MWC as the third toughest conference this year after the Big 12 and SEC.

I will not recognize Oklahoma or Florida (especially Florida) as the National Champions. They don't deserve it, they both lost at home. You can't do that and be champions. It hurts to say this, but the Utes are the National Champions. If it means getting a playoff system installed, send me a T-Shirt and I'll wear it on BYU campus.

Here is another idea. I say the smaller conferences get together and create their own playoff system. They should shun any BCS invites and allow the larger conferences to play in the tournament as well. I for one would only recognize the winner of the playoff as the true champion. If the big schools are too scared to play in the tournament, then they don't deserve a NC. Plus if you get just a few of the BCS conferences to commit, then the BCS would be "Busted". I'm sure USC would jump at the chance right now along with Texas.

I'm telling you the best way to end the BCS is not to take part in it. Non BCS teams need to turn down BCS bowls when given the chance to prove a point. We as fans need to not purchase any merchandise from BCS teams. We shouldn't watch their games on ESPN or CBS or ABC or NBC and we shouldn't cower in the shadows just because of our zip code!!! The biggest thing to the BCS is money, not love of the game, or pure football drama, it is money. So, in order to get rid of it, we have to hit them where it counts. Their wallets.