Fiesta Bowl

[Lil' Lavery]

Originally Posted by Cory

Thats a problem with the Big Least, not the BCS.

It's up to the conference commissioner to get favorable bowl tie-ins. Until this year the Big East has completely sucked, and even this year it looks so good on paper because of weak SOS.

If Rutgers wants to go to better bowls, they need to schedule tougher opponents, and the conference commissioner needs to make a deal with better bowls.

I completely agree with Corey (with the exception of his earlier comment about UGA sucking this year, any team that beats GT, Auburn, and VT definitely doesn't suck). Rutgers played a mild schedule at best. The marquee win was at home vs. Lousiville (who struggled against the 2nd or 3rd best team, yet somehow champion, in the ACC, Wake Forest). The only other notable teams they played were Navy (who lost to ACC opponent Boston College) and West Virginia (who also stuggled against an ACC foe, GT, who didn't even have their starting QB). The Big East got alot of credit this year for having 3 teams that stayed in title contention into the late part of the season, but this is primarily because the lack of competition they faced. None of these teams played a non-conference game against a team ranked in the Top 25 at the end of the season. Additionally, the Big East lacked depth beyond Lousiville, WVU, and Rutgers. None of the other teams even breached the top 25 during the season. Compare that to the SEC (6), Big 10 (6), and ACC (8), who each had half (or more) of their teams penetrate the Top 25 at one point during the season. And notice what happened when the Big East powerhouses started playing eachother, they all suffered at least one loss (2 for WVU and Rutgers), and fell lower in the standings. That is what was happening in the other major conferences (especially the SEC, Pac 10, and ACC) all season. The Big East is still the worst conference with a BCS tie-in.

As for the actual topic of discussion. I'm glad I picked Boise State to win that game (although they had me worried after OU returned that Int for a TD with 1:30 left). We saw it with Utah in 2005, GMU in 2006 (in NCAAB), and now again with BSU in 2007, mid-majors can win against the big conferences. I have never seen a team respond in the pressure like Boise State did. With that ability to come through in the clutch (and against a team that only had one real loss), I think BSU could have competed with anyone in the nation, even Ohio State.
Which brings me to my final point. I'm not calling for a play-off, but...
we had two undefeated teams, Boise State University, and The Ohio State University (stupid schools that put "The" in their name ). When we have two, and only two, nothing else should matter, they should play for the National Championship. Period.