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College football: TCU stuck in BCS standings after big win
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Looking forward to Texas vs Florida, Tebow vs McCoy. The best two teams by far.
Air Force may be licking their chops... but Utah is licking their wounds.
Sorry little bros...
I'm pro-BYU, and I'll confess: Yes, I was one of several posters who wrote that TCU would shut down the Utes. No--the Ute offense played as well as they possibly could against arguably the best defense in the country. ("Stuck?"--if you question that, let's have TCU actually FACE OFF against Florida or Texas and FIND OUT--your humble opinion counts for ZERO.)
No "little brother" smack here (knock it off, people, no sense in being jerks about it)--just resignation that this is TCU's year, and congrats to the Frogs! Take care of business against Wyo and the Lobos, and represent the MWC well!
The thing now is to regroup and look to SDSU and Air Force. Utah needs to rebound and demolish the Aztecs to gain some more momentum coming into the Holy War, and BYU needs to clean up their act, because if they play against Air Force the way they did against New Mexico, they're going to get punched in the mouth and take a 3rd home loss in one season.
How it happened was somewhat surprising to me. I expected the Utah defense to play much better than they did, and didn't predict our offense scoring 28 against TCU. I expected a closer game, with much lower scores.
As for the Utah-BYU contest, I expect it will be a great game. Both are good, but certainly not great, teams. We are less that two weeks away from knowing who wins - I for one, don't see that point of trash-talking about what is to come. The superstitious side of me even thinks it's bad for karma. Therefore, I congratulate the Cougars on a fine season, and hope for three (bowl game included) more Ute victories!
If TCU gets to play against the loser of Alabama/Florida (Texas very likely gets the winner) I predict another solid game by a MWC BCS buster and when the dust settles TCU is ranked #2 and the football world for a second years says, 'what the heck?!'
As for Utah, I am BYU all the way yet can recognize that Utah has more heart. BYU rolled over to TCU, Utah fought till the end. I want BYU to win of course, but I'm sweating it.
Utah has the future MWC Offensive Player of the Year in their freshman Jordan Wynn. He is for real and two years from now, another BCS buster-in-waiting.
Go BYU!
Go MWC!
Unfortunately some of them are so dumb they are using plastic bags.
At the end of the day, the game on Nov 28th will be a great game. Let's each get a win this weekend to set the table for an awesome finish!
BYU #19 / #18 / #22
Utah #23 / #23 / #21
but, here's the kicker
BYU plays #49 Air Force (Sagarin ratings)
Utah plays #105 SDSU
both teams are tied with Miami in the computer ratings at 0.1900.
after the games this Saturday, Utah's SOS will drop, BYU's SOS will go up;
assuming both teams win Saturday
BYU will be ranked ahead of Utah in all of the polls, including the BCS, coming into their game with the Utes on November 28th
neither team's fans have any business beating their chests over rankings, however, until AFTER the BYU-Utah game
bottom line:
the winner of the BYU-Utah game will finish 2nd in the MWC and will be ranked in the Top 20 heading into the bowl season
the loser of the BYU-Utah game will finish 3rd in the MWC and will be unranked before the bowls
I'm hoping TCU will be able to do the same thing....BYU vs. UofU will be a toss-up, but I'm hoping the Cougars will come out on top.
dyed-in-the-wool BYU fan
TCU is 8-1 against the BCS since joining the MWC.
Their lone BCS loss is to OU in Norman last year holding Bradford's record-setting offense to its lowest output of the year.
Last team to beat OU at Norman? TCU
Last team to beat Boise? TCU last December
Huge win against a good Clemosn team AT CLEMSON
Big win AT BYU - the same BYU that upset OU and ruined their season IN DALLAS which may as well have been Norman
Huge win against a young, but very good Utah team.
Texas Tech trying to back out of contract to play home and home against the Frogs 2010 and 2011.
Notre Dame rejecting a near commitment to play TCU at Cowboy stadium in 2010
NOBODY wants to play the FROGS ...one of the fastest, hardest hitting teams in the country.
None of it matters unless we do what a great Utah team did last year - beat the BCS power they select for us, and show the world again that the MWC should be part of the BCS sham
ACC, Big Least, Big 10, PAC 10??? LOL! come on
TCU is made up of players that Texas passed on. Florida or Texas would blow out TCU just as OU did in their prime last year.
MWC . . . where fans are in lala land.
Unfortunately, the big boys have conspired to monopolize major college football.
--First, they won't even schedule teams like BYU, Utah, Boise State and TCU (they're cancelling already scheduled series left and right)
--Second, they use the excuse that "they (non-AQs) haven't played anybody" to justify excluding them from automatic inclusion in the BCS bowls and any legitimate chance to compete for a national championship
The truth is, the big boys are scared to death that if they ever created a level playing field where they had to beat the little guys, instead of in the opinion polls, the little guys would quickly prove what a farce the BCS really is.
Have Florida, LSU, USC, Texas, Oklahoma start scheduling BYU, Utah, TCU and Boise State home-and-home and the farce would be exposed.
Boise State is so incredibly overrated, playing in the D-II/High School conference otherwise known as the WAC, and only beating one decent team a year, at best...BSU sucks, and they don't have a chance, and rightly so, for the BCS NCG...
TCU should be #1 or #2 in the nation; they play in an incredible conference, right up there with the SEC, Big-12, etc. The PAC-1+9, the Big (L)East, the ACC, and the Big-10 are all inferior to the MWC.
And IMHO, BYU didn't perform nearly as well as we could have this year. Any year BYU doesn't win 12 or more games and end up in the top 10 they are playing below themselves, IMHO. However, BYU's failing to play to their ability isn't nearly as pathetic as BSU and UTAH, pretty much every single year, just plain sucking, but getting way too much credit for their weak performances. Last year was a fluke...
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