The Arguement for Boise State

Coming into the bowl season I was not alone with my belief that TCU was the second best team in the nation. However, because they have that pesty Christian University after Texas rather than a simple University of in front they were barred from serious National Championship consideration. Undefeated Boise State didn't even bother asking for an invite considering they were only a measly 13-0 including a win over PAC-10 champ Oregon. The two non-BCS conference powerhouses were matched up against each other in an effort by the BCS to hide their real potential. Rather than let one of them potentially exploit a Florida or Cincinnati team, both BCS teams, they were forced to face each other. After all, a win over a non-BCS team means nothing right? So whoever wins still has no legitimate argument for being the National Champ. Time to cut the crap. Here's the real picture.
1. Boise State is the second 14-0 team in NCAA D-I history. The only other team was the 2002 National Champion Ohio State Buckeyes. Boise State beat an outstanding TCU team that trounced Utah, BYU and Virginia and beat Clemson on the road. TCU averaged 40.7 points and were held to 10 by Boise.
2. This game was not bad. If you only consider 42-35 games good that is your fault, not mine. This offensive age has produced a bunch of fantasy playing stat-obsessed losers who could not recognize a great defense if the Steel Curtain was playing. Yes, sometimes a great defense beats great offense. Boise State QB Kellen Moore came in as the #1 rated QB in the land and TCU's Andy Dalton was #4. Get it straight, these defenses were the story of the game.
3. Everyone out their backing the Big 12 and Texas, listen up. The Big 12 is 4-3 in bowls. The number 2 team in the Big 12, Oklahoma St. lost 21-7 to an Ole Miss team that went 4-4 in SEC play. Mizzou got housed by Nazy 35-13 and Texas A&M got smacked 44-20 by Georgia who also went 4-4 in SEC play. Texas Tech and Iowa State's wins over two 6-7 Big Ten teams count for little. A solid Nebraska team crushed Arizona 33-0 and Oklahoma, who would be in the National Championship game if Sam Bradford had remained healthy all year, won 31-27 over a very good Stanford squad. Two impressive wins to three embarrassing defeats for the Big 12.
4. The Mountain West on the other hand, a non-BCS conference, has come up big in the bowl season. TCU's top two conference foes both won. BYU 44-20 over near PAC-10 champ Oregon State. Utah won 37-27 over Cal. But most importantly, the conference showed their depth with their lower teams winning as well. Wyoming won in double OT over Fresno State. Air Force won 47-20 over a Houston team that beat Oklahoma State and averaged 44 points per game this year. The depth shown by the conference only validates TCU's undefeated regular season and boosts Boise State's claim at a split National Championship.
5. After Alabama wins the National Semifinal there will be two undefeateds left in the nation. But yet again, since the BCS is strictly about keeping the money inside the selective few's hands, there will be no justice. This topic infuriates me to no end because even in the place where politics are supposed to be barred they find a way to ruin the purity of college sports. Yeah I know, they aren't so pure, but a story like Boise State is and they deserve a shot to pull the ultimate George Mason for the little guys out there.

TBG