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View Poll Results: If BYU was undefeated this year would they play in the MNC game? | |||
Yes | 12 | 35.29% | |
No | 22 | 64.71% | |
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12-01-2007, 02:37 AM | #31 | |
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Why were the Big East and the ACC in the BCS to begin with? It certainly wasn't because of national appeal.
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12-01-2007, 02:50 AM | #32 |
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FMCoug, I looked at some examples of schools...
Does anyone here believe that if Troy went undefeated they would play for the MNC? The Colley poll has them ranked 2nd in the nation if they had won the last 3 games they lost. We all know that there is no way in hell Troy from the Sun Belt plays for the MNC. |
12-01-2007, 03:44 AM | #33 | |
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ACC: FSU Pretty simple. National appeal.
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12-01-2007, 03:52 AM | #34 |
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You're a smart guy, but I have a difficult time believing that you wouldn't accept that the number of tv sets wasn't the determining factor in creating the BCS.
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12-01-2007, 04:14 AM | #35 | |
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The flagship teams in all 6 BCS conferences (plus ND) are all nationally loved and followed schools (probably in large part because they have all won NCs at one point or another...USC, Texas, Oklahoma, Ohio State, Michigan, LSU, Florida, Tennessee, Miami, FSU). Very few of those schools reside in large media markets. As a matter of fact, with the exception of SC, ALL of those schools reside in small media markets. The non-BCS schools were not invited to the party because they have no real national presence. BYU has about the strongest claim against that, but nowhere near to the extent that BYU fans like to make it seem. Church members all over the country dont follow BYU because it is a Church school. And even if they did, how many million people are LDS in the country? There are probably more SC fans in the state of CA than there are LDS church members in the United States. The biggest benefactors of the BCS are not really the traditional powerhouses. those schools were huge names before the BCS. It is all the pretender BCS coattailers that receive BCS money while not really being a high caliber football program....UNC, Duke, Vandy, Maryland, Miss St, Ole Miss, Arizona, Washington State, etc... I think ultimately we are saying the same thing. My focus is just on national presence while you seem to be emphasizing local media market.
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12-01-2007, 04:19 AM | #36 | |
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My two main problems with the BCS is that it has declared that it's championship game is the legitimate championship game and that it does not give all teams a chance to play for it's championship. It really bothers me that the Miles Brand is such a pussy about it all. He has the power to do something about it, but is to skeered of the SEC.
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12-01-2007, 04:25 AM | #37 | |
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1. There are more BCS schools than non BCS schools in D1. 2. In the history of college football championships, non BCS schools dont really win national championships anyway, so what does it really matter that they are not in the BCS now? The irony would be that if BYU and the U went to the Pac 10, one of us would wind up playing the Vegas bowl nearly every year, anyway.
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12-01-2007, 04:33 AM | #38 | |
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And you speak the truth about Utah and BYU in the PAC 10 ending up in the Vegas Bowl. More likely BYU, as what's-her-name is still upset that she scheduled her game on a Christmas Day in the early afternoon and Utah didn't have many fans in the stands. She's the idiot for it happening, but won't accept responsibility. But I digress.
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12-01-2007, 04:39 AM | #39 | |
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In recent years, unbeaten teams like Marshall, Tulane, Boise State, Utah....they were not the best team in the country, so they really were not robbed of anything.
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12-01-2007, 04:46 AM | #40 | |
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And the "best team in the country" is subjective anyway, especially when it is decided by a computer that is being fed data and told what to do.
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