Oklahoma and the 84 Nat'l Championship

[jay santos]

Originally Posted by Goatnapper'96

However, I warn to you to critically think before you read the rest of this post. If you hold the Utenation belief that BYU is responsible for the BCS sacred, just like the belief that your galaxy leading bowl win percentages for any team that has played in 20, ooops my baaaaad 10, bowl games is proof of your programs power, then you might want to skip this post.


I guess you chose to wade forward. God bless you even Wayne Howard would have given up by now and asked all his LDS friends how they could be Mormon and why the LDS Church had not adopted a 14th Article of Faith that "We believe we should stop trying in games where we have a big lead." But hey if lying and accusing others of being bigots is one's thing, Ndiye to ya!

In the early 1970's I believe Alabama and USC were both undefeated and yet were unable to play each other with the SEC being contractually bound for the Sugar Bowl and Pac-8 contractually bound for Rose Bowl. I believe there was a similar deal in the early 90's with Colorado and Washington, might have been Georgia Tech? Regardless, these events resulted in split National Championships. There was no move to eradicate these situations until well into the 90's when humongous TV revenues, and ladies knockers, became the rage of the land. As Miss America 1983 demonstrated a flat Scando Mormon babe can become the epitome of beautiful, 1984 clearly makes it obvious that TV revenues did not provide the cash to tell contractually bound bowl masters to piss off!

I think to evaluate 1984 it is best done with the perspective of pre huge cash payouts from TV.

I feel like I just read a SIEQ post but the philosphers were substituted for porn stars.

I'm not sure what you just said, but I agree whole heartedly. I think also a good example was the year (mid 90's) two teams finished undefeated, I'm thinking it was Nebraska and Michigan. These kinds of issues drove the formation of the BCS--not the haunting distant memory of giving up the MNC to BYU in '84.