Some "eager beavers" in the sports media got ahead of themselves with premature speculation, not once but twice. In fact when this year's first BCS standings were announced last night it was Oklahoma #1, Oregon #2, Boise State #3.
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=5697573The whole BCS system is such a farce. We've known that from the beginning. What I didn't know until reading about it in the paper yesterday is that there is zero transparency to the computer rankings. This system needs to be junked.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/17/sports/ncaafootball/17score.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=bowl%20championship%20series&st=cseJust wondering -- why do they even call it a series if every qualifying team plays one game?
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>>I agreed with that last season and was pleased to see Boise State and TCU do well in the bowls when they got a chance to play against the best from the so-called major conferences. And I don't think the overall gap between the majors and the so-called mid-majors is nearly what it used to be. It's just looking at most of the teams Boise State has beaten this year, it's hard for me to fathom ranking them #1.
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>>>And why not. BSU beet the Ducks twice in the last two years. They have beet OSU,Oklahoma, TCU, Utah, BYU in the past. The problem BSU has is the big schools will not agree to play them. The big schools are afraid that the smaller schools are going to break into they money train.
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>>>>Can someone explain to me how Boise State is going to be #1 in the BCS standings despite being #5 in the human polls? Apparently that is them getting a big push from computer rankings due to strength of schedule. The only problem is they have beaten one good team, Virginia Tech, by 3; one decent team, Oregon State, by 13; and otherwise annihilated a bunch of patsies like Toledo, Wyoming, and San Jose State.
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They wouldn't make it through September undefeated in the SEC, Big 12, or Big 10. >>>I would sure like to see what they could do.
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>>>>>the OSU-UW game was more embarrassing than the meltdown against Florida.
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>>>>>They were so completely inept in even slowing down the Badger running game that they really deserved to lose. The defensive line were tossed around like rag dolls. I was pretty surprised, but they don't deserve a national title playing like that.
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>>>>>Arkansas - Auburn turned into a real shoot-out
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>>>>>>Thanks to Wisconsin (upsetting the _uckeyes), Oregon "might" be #1 tomorrow!!!!
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>>>>>>Can't wait until Thursday night.....UCLA visits Autzen Stadium in Oregon, on ESPN!!! WOOT!!!!!!!
