Mad Giggler on :
I don't believe Boise State will get a National Championship invite, even if they go undefeated. The polls are too strongly influenced by men who believe BSU's schedule is too easy and they don't deserve an invite.
Wednesday, September 1. 2010Red, Blue And Pigskin
This is it. Game Week. Opening Kickoff is on it's way. All of the offseason nonsense is behind us. Utah's evacuation to the Pac-10 is moot until next year. BYU's Independence is set to be announced, and is also moot until next year. All that matters now is the next 3 months.
It's start with a great weekend of games. Pitt/Utah, TCU/Oregon State, Washington/BYU, Utah State/Oklahoma, and a Labor Day Evening nightcap of Boise State/Virginia Tech. The games finally start Thursday, but before they do there still a little bit of business to be discussed. Among the business to be done, is the fact that BYU finally revealed the worst kept secret in all of football. Independent at Last
A press conference at 12:00 p.m. MST today will officially announce BYU going independent, and moving the rest of their sports to the West Coast Conference, at least the sports that are played in the WCC. I mentioned last week, my doubts about long term viability for BYU as an independent. This is a short term deal. The long term goal is the Big 12. This is basically BYU picking out their nicest dress, getting their hair done up all nice, and putting on make up, and trying to prove to the cute boy who is rumored to have some interest, that they are a good match. As of right now, this is a good move. They were worse off in the revamped MWC than they will be as an Independent. Now they have control of their TV Rights. However if 3 to 4 years from now they are still independent and Big XII hasn't come knocking, this good move could turn bad. Independence wasn't the only announcement made by BYU. Too many cooks Coach Mendenhall this week announced that BYU will be going with a two QB system. Riley Nelson will get the start and Saint Jake will split time with him. This is a bad move. Two QB Systems do not work. It's made even more difficult considering Nelson and Heaps are two different styles of QB. That means two separate styles of offense, two separate styles of play calling that has to be learned. Heck Nelson is a lefty, and Heaps is a righty, that means the Blind Side, and therefore the main attack point of the defense, and the point that needs to be protected the most, needs to change based on which QB this is. There is one instance where this could be a good idea. BYU starts the season with a pretty tough schedule. Home vs. Washington, @ Air Force, @ Florida State, and then home for Nevada. That's a tough schedule for an experienced team. That's a really tough schedule for a team that could travel as many as 50 freshmen and sophomores. Moreso, that's a tough schedule for a true freshman Quarterback. Add into the equation that the #2 team on Jake Heaps' list this past summer was hometown Washington. He was highly recruited by Steve Sarkisian. Sark knows Heaps, and what his tendencies will be. By This will give Heaps plenty of experience before starting, and to give him a chance to finish the season with 3 wins, before playing Utah, and a probable Bowl game. He starts 2011 having been the starter for the last 5 games of 2010. If this happens, than it's acceptable move by Mendenhall to split QB's. However if Heaps and Nelson are still at a 50/50 split by midseason, or Heaps is not starting by the end of the year, BYU is in trouble, and Heaps may not be the "Saint" that all are hoping for. Why you do not want Boise in the National Championship With Boise State starting the season ranked 5th in the Coaches poll, and to a lesser extent TCU being 7th, there has been a lot of talk about a Non-AQ Team finally making the national championship appearance. At first glance, this looks to be a good thing for the Non-AQ, and anti BCS faction. Truth is it's not. In fact, it would be a terrible thing for those who oppose the BCS. Boise State or TCU, or any Non AQ, although all other AQ's start too far down the polls to have a chance, in the National Championship game, means the Bill Hancock, and the rest of the BCS can puff out their chests and proudly proclaim the system works. It doesn't exclude teams, because one of them made it to the game. Anybody can win the national championship. A non AQ playing and even winning a championship, may prove that some of the Teams outside of the big boy conferences are worthy of the opportunity, but at the same time it also will give the BCS Cartel the fuel it needs to argue the system works. It won't be true, the BCS will still be a cartel, it will still be rigged against the small teams. The money disbursements will still be widely unfair, and putting non-AQ's at a disadvantage. There still won't be a true national champion until we get a playoff, but that won't matter, because Boise State will be the poster child for why the BCS works and college football doesn't need a playoff. Fearless Predictions With the season upon us finally, It's time to put out some predictions for the upcoming season. Some of these will come true, some of these won't, but these are my going out on a limb thoughts for this season. Boise State will lose to either Virginia Tech or Oregon State. This one may be related to the first one, but Oregon State will beat either Boise State or TCU. Ohio State will lose to either Miami(FL) or Wisonsin, but still find itself getting blown out in the National Championship. The National Champion will not come out of the SEC Nebraska will leave the Big XII as Big XII Champion, and maybe even more. Rich Rodriguez will be fired 2 days after the Ohio State/Michigan game. Two non-AQ Teams will play in a BCS Bowl, with a 3rd Non-AQ in the Top 15. Air Force wins the Commander-in-Chief trophy, and Army surprises Navy. 2 of the Highly Touted Pac-10 QB's will suffer major injuries. During a late season game, Case Keenum's arm will come flying off his body during one of his 750 pass attempts this year. Houston will then make Keenum learn to throw with the other arm. Utah State makes, and wins a bowl game. Utah State's bowl victory, will be the only MWC loss in bowl season. Looking into a Mirror The question has been asked, If the MWC were an AQ Conference, would it be higher ranked. The answer is coming into Rice-Eccles Stadium this weekend. Pitt, and Utah are near mirror images of one another. The only real difference is the Big East is an AQ Conference, so Pitt gets the benefit of the doubt. Other than that though, the similarities exist. The Big East is the least respect AQ Conference, The respect the conference gets as an AQ School, is about equal to the respect the MWC gets as a Non-AQ. Both teams have younger QB's. Jordan Wynn started 5 games last year, Pitt's QB Will be starting his first game. Pitt will try to dominate the game with their star QB Dion Lewis, while Utah will use Maddie Wide-iata III to control the game. The core of both teams is their Defense, and more specifically the Defensive Line. Pitt has Greg Romeus, while Utah has one of the more dominant rotations that no one knows about. Finally All the talk is over tomorrow. Kickoff finally is here. We will begin to know for sure, how things will come out to be. The pads start colliding, the passes start flying, and I couldn't be happier. See you in Section N25. Trackbacks
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Mad Giggler on :
I don't believe Boise State will get a National Championship invite, even if they go undefeated. The polls are too strongly influenced by men who believe BSU's schedule is too easy and they don't deserve an invite.
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I'm in complete agreement. I said as much two weeks ago, but the fact that Boise plays in the WAC will kill any chances. TCU has a better chance than Boise. In fact if both teams were to go undefeated, I think TCU would once again rank higher than Boise (TCU would be 3, just outside of the NC Game).
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