You shouldn’t have this easy a road to the title game. BSU has exactly one tough game this year and they’ve already played it. Should they be able to sleepwalk through November and get a card punched to the big dance? I don’t think so. I look at my Michigan State schedule for 2011 and I see Notre Dame, Michigan, Ohio State, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Nebraska. Get through a schedule like that unscathed and we’ll talk about a title game.
Did they play in Blacksburg?
No. They played in Maryland. Still very much an away game for BSU, but not precisely a home game for VT.
I hope Boise plays for the title if they go undefeated. The players, who didn’t make the schedule, will have defeated every opponent placed in front of them. Is there any other sport where you can win every game and not be champion? If you want only BCS schools eligible to be champion then go form a league of just BCS schools.
Ah, whoops. The changing face of college football again (another example: Indiana playing a “home game” this year against Penn State at FedEx Field in Washington, DC).
Yeah, I had to double-check too. As it turns out, BSU, and VT played at FedEx field, too (which I assume is in a Maryland suburb of DC?)
Yeah, it’s in Landover, Maryland. Drove past it a couple months ago, and I can tell you that the traffic is going to be hell for the IU-PSU game, with all the Penn State fans getting lost on the way there and trying to U-turn on the Beltway. Us Penn State fans are used to “go on Route 80 until you see the signs, then park in the cow pasture.”
But what if there are more than 2 undefeateds, two of whom have tougher schedules than BSU (as has indeed been the case recently)?
You answered your own question. BSU will not get a chance to play for the title, and the BCS championship game will be between the 2 schools with the bigger traditions and reputations. BSU will get to play in another BCS game, but not the big game.
And as for Cincinnati, I’d really like to see how they’d have done in the bowls last year if their coach hadn’t have jumped to Notre Dame. That really put them at a severe disadvantage, IMHO, YMMV.
Virginia Tech, Oregon State, Fresno State, Nevada, Hawaii, and Utah State are not pushovers.
More importantly, there are plenty of easy weeks in the SEC as well.
Just look at Kentucky’s schedule. If it is harder than BSU’s, it isn’t by much.
Kentucky stands no chance of going to the Show, and probably has a slightly tougher schedule than BSU.
No, they will not, not even close.
That’s the big myth about Boise. They are only willing to play traditional powers if those traditional powers play either home-and-home or neutral fields. They will not play two-for-ones (i.e. Boise gets one home game, Major Power gets two), and they will only play one-offs as a visitor if they get $1 million. See cites below.
That may not seem fair, but the big-time powers have spent decades building up their fan bases to the point where they can pack in 60-100,000 people. I think it’s understandable that they’re not going to give up those home dates easily.
If Boise was willing to play two-for-ones, or even two-for-threes or some other thing, they could have 3-4 games a year vs. BCS teams every season. Since they refuse to do so, I have no problem holding their weak schedule against them.
Yes, but lets look at other teams that are actually going to be competitive with regards to making the championship game… like the two teams that last played in that game:
Alabama plays Penn State, Arkansas, Florida, South Carolina, LSU, Georgia and Auburn. Would you say that’s a tougher or easier schedule than VT, Oregon State, Fresno State, Nevada, Hawaii, and Utah State?
Texas plays Texas Tech, UCLA, Oklahoma, Nebraska, OK State, and Texas A&M. Would you say that’s a tougher or easier schedule than VT, Oregon State, Fresno State, Nevada, Hawaii, and Utah State?
If your answer to either of the above questions is “easier”, then I don’t think we are going to come to a consensus anytime soon and we will have to agree to disagree. The fact is that Boise State is going to have a much MUCH MUCH easier time going undefeated than either of those two teams. And it’s not because Boise is a better football team. It’s because they have an easier schedule.
Fuck VA Tech. Go Eagles!
Let’s all cry for the scheduling problems of the “big-time powers”.
No, you have no idea if Boise State is a better team until they play. Playing an easier schedule does not make you less powerful team. At worst they are a very, very good team. At best they could be the best team in the country. Their schedule doesn’t change any of that.
Are you a Florida grad by any chance? Let me know and I will try to use smaller words and simpler sentences. 
I made no judgment about who is better. If you read my post, you will see that what I’m saying is that Boise State has an easier schedule and thus a much better chance of going undefeated than Alabama or Texas. I qualified my statement with that “better” stuff to focus the argument on who has an easier road to going undefeated.
Believe it or not, we probably agree on everything. I am a playoff proponent. I was furious at the BCS last year for pitting Boise State against TCU and denying both of them an opportunity to beat an AQ team. But it’s painfully obvious to me that Boise State has a fairly weak schedule this year. Even if they run the table, I don’t see them getting into the NC game over 1-loss teams from the SEC, Big 10 or Big 12. Not only do I not see it, but I don’t think the BCS formula will see it that way, absent some shenanigans from the poll voters.
Who’s saying they have scheduling problems? They like their schedules just fine.
It’s Boise that has a scheduling problem: they want the respect that comes from playing teams from tougher conferences, but they don’t want do what it takes to get more of those teams on their schedule.
Then why are the SEC and Big 10 fan boys already complaining that their future 1-loss team should get preference due to their tough schedule? Sounds to me like they’re PLENTY unhappy.
So bend over and get screwed by signing uneven contracts with bigger schools or else we’ll just refuse to recognize their ability and skill on the field?
No, Boise State has done everything the BCS has asked of them. Give them the big time Fiesta Bowl game…they knock off Oklahoma. Oh, crap you beat some great teams…then then they throw them in with TCU in the “Non-AQ E for Effort” Bowl last year. Play better opponents…they schedule Oregon, Oregon State, Southern Miss, and Virginia Tech.
They shouldn’t have to jump for anybody at this point.
IF BSU goes undefeated and they don’t allow them in, I don’t see how the BCS survives. The BCS argues that everyone has a chance at the National Championship. Boise State sits at 3/3 in both polls at the moment. If they win every single game from here on out and not move (provided Bama and OSU lose), there’s no way the BCS can keep arguing this.
Those demands don’t sound at all unreasonable. Actually, a two-for-one demand sounds like both an insult and a way for a BCS conference AD to blame Boise for not getting a deal done.
It is fear of losing that keeps teams from manning up against Boise State.