Comments about ‘Mountain West starting to get national attention’

as much as I hate to say it...
I hope TCU wins. A BYU win won't catapult them into the BCS picture, bipolar Florida St. killed that...
But TCU winning out and surpassing a weaker scheduled BSU would be better for the conference.
Plus, the money BYU gets if TCU loses in a BCS game is still more than they get if they win the LV bowl!

...that the three most successful MWC programs have the three best coaches. Whittingham, Mendenhal, and Patterson are all high-class guys whose teams seem to take on the characters of their head coaches. Troy Calhoun is right there with'm. Go MWC! But most importantly - GO UTES!!!

I know to many in the MWC TCU has never seemed like a good fit; but as a TCU Grad living in Texas, who loves to ski Utah, I root for our MWC teams, lift up the MWC to all my Big 12 friends, and have wholly enjoyed the MWC's teams and fans when they come to Ft Worth. I have enjoyed each game since TCU was invited to the conference (yes even last year's thriller in Salt Lake) and I expect this weeks game in Provo will be "Game Day" crazy fun as well. Keep College Ball Fun!

I couldn't care less if TCU goes to the bcs I hope they get handeled. there is no such thing an consolation prizes. Win Baby win.

Go Cougars. Eat hornfrog for dinner this saturday.

Florida State isn't bipolar, they just have a lot of speed. BYU had the inside track to a BCS Bowl, maybe even a championship bid, and they utterly blew it against a mediocre-at-best Florida State. At home.

And after watching the 2nd through 4th quarter of the FSU game, ask TCU if they're scared of BYU's home field advantage. BYU is about to be taken to the woodshed.

What kind of fans care about the money TCU gets if they beat BYU and make it to the BCS?

You honestly think it's better for BYU's recruiting and for the program to lose to TCU, and get a million bucks or so from a TCU BCS pot, than for BYU to win the MWC?

Ridiculous. College football is about game day, and your team winning as many as they can.

If TCU wins Saturday, sure, root for them to go to the BCS, but if you're a BYU or Utah fan, you root for your team to win. Period.

Leave it to the athletic director to worry about the money. Go BYU. Beat TCU!

Even if the Frogs are still undefeated going into the Utah game and it meant a BCS berth, I still want the Utes to beat them. If TCU beats the U and goes to the BCS I wouldn't be too sad to lose to them. But there are still half a dozen games left, and going undefeated isn't as easy as Utah makes it look! Go Utes and Go Frogs!

While most of you think it is between BYU and TCU for a possible BCS berth. I wouldn't count out the Utes just yet. If Utah runs the table and wins out they finish 11-1 and highly ranked in the BCS standings. You only need to be in the top 14, at 18 we are a few weeks away. If Boise State were to stumble, I dare say the Utes are still in the thick of things. We all need HOUSTON to lose a game as well. Utah has won 26 of their last 28 games, that is amazing. The two losses were by a touchdown or less and to respected programs BYU and Oregon. Utah has been in every game now for almost three years. This is a good Utah team, hoping to be great, but NOBODY has blown the Utes out for a long time.

you seem to be forgetting the goose egg 0 posted by your yewties back in 07 I don't know about you but 28 to nothing seems like a pretty good schalaking. if not just go ask that 07 defense about frank the tank. I'm sure they could tell ya all about it

Dream on! It is 2009, not leap year. You aren't going anywhere near a BCS game, you aren't winning in Dallas, and not in Provo, you won't even be MWC champs... come back in 2012 and we will see.

The MWC now has two schools with frogs for mascots, the TCU Horned Frogs and the Utah Leap Frogs.
U only has a good team during leap years, so change your mascot to a leap frog.
Go Cougars! You are going frog hunting this year.

Speed? Speed had little to do with that game. BYU blew assignments on nearly every play! Watch that tape again.

To "bigutefan" - as for the utes, I'm gonna count them out. Sorry. If BYU or TCU isn't in, the boys with the blue field will be. Yes, it's lame. They're schedule reads like it belongs to a junior college. But they'll probably get a BCS invite.

To "it's no suprise" - please remember that Whit was one of SI's Turkeys of the Year in '07. "High class"? Not so much.

Utah isn't out of anything - it's just that the BYU/TCU game is foremost right now. If TCU wins this game and Utah wins the rest of their games going in to the TCU game and then beats TCU in Fort Worth, the Utah should jump BSu in the polls and go to anyother BcS game...as much as it pains me to say it.

I love to watch BYU,TCU, and Utah. I love to watch ESPN. Hopefully ESPN understands this. With a little love to Mountain west teams they could sink the MTN. With the whole conference improving and an effort from ESPN at TV renewal time and maybe our TV nightmare can end. It would be great to have the MWC back in the College football discussion.

THIS NATIONAL RESPECT THING IS OLD. Most in the country do respect Utah, TCU, and BYU, its the other members of the MWC that are a joke and which is holding the conference back.

It is interesting, I didnt see Utah to be too much of a worry for Gary... Sorry UTES you'll get some respect soon enough.

"It is not what they say in August, it is what they say in December"

He's right, considering...

BYU - Quest for Perfection 2008 Preseason
Utah - Quest Accomplished 2008 Postseason

National Schedule is light this week.

ESPN is essentially sticking their thumb the the MWC eye. Knowing full well that no one in the country outside of MWC enclaves will see any of the BYU-TCU game.

Memo to BYU fan: Beat a team that FINISHES the season in the TOP 10 and get respect. OU is sinking fast without Bradford (oh wait, it won't make any difference, they're as good, or better, without him. Isn't that how your explanation for beating OU goes).

Oh, and last I checked FSU is 0-3 in the ACC (arguably the 2nd worst BCS conference and has only beaten BYU and Jacksonville State (an FCS school).

That's because he isn't playing us yet! Get a clue. nobody worries about a team until they have to play them. Get a grip, if I were you I'd be counting on another BIG L this saturday.