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I am convinced that a team from a non-BCS conference will never play in a BCS
title game.
That's because the big-time conferences, which created and dominate the
process, will never allow it to happen. And neither will the voters who take part in
the two polls that comprise two-thirds of the BCS formula. It's college football's
version of a glass ceiling.
BCS busters will have to be content with playing in the other big-money bowls,
just not the one used to determine the national title.
Such has been the recent case with the likes of Boise State, Hawaii and Utah – with
mixed results.
Boise State stunned Oklahoma 43-42 in overtime in the 2007 Fiesta Bowl and Utah
soundly defeated Alabama 31-17 in last season's Sugar Bowl and, after the fact,
was ranked second in the country.
But UH showed it was not ready for prime time when it was hammered 41-10 by
Georgia in the Sugar Bowl two season ago.
Cross Houston off the BCS buster list for this year after the No. 12 Cougars were
beaten 58-41 by UTEP and dropped completely out of the latest Top 25 rankings.
That leaves Boise State and TCU as the only unbeaten non-BCS teams. Despite
improving its record to 5-0 against D-I-AA UC Davis, Boise State slipped a spot in
the rankings to No. 6. TCU moved up one place, to No. 10, following a win over
SMU.
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1 comment:
No non-BCS conference team is going to play for the national title. Really? That's kind of stating the obvious, don't you think? When the agreement was made to let non-BCS teams into the BCS games a couple years ago, it said the top non-BCS team (read that 1) gets into a BCS bowl game if it is in the top 12 in the final BCS standings. That was the only guarantee, not that a non-BCS team would get a shot at the national title. So, you're right, a non-BCS team will never get a shot at the national title, but every real college football fan already knew that, didn't they?
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