His younger brother actually goes to school with me and lived on my dorm floor freshman year. With all due respect to Jesse, I don't agree with his views very often. He just said he thinks #19 Nevada is a "for real" team. I don't want to express too much hate and have to rant but that is just a clueless statement so i will leave it at that. If Nevada played any team ranked ahead of them (except maybe Texas A&M who stinks but always win at home so they squeak their way in the top 25). I feel at least half of the Big Ten, ACC, SEC, and Pac 10 teams would have no problem DESTROYING Nevada so their top 25 ranking does not have any merit in my book.
He also said he also thought Utah would hang with TCU (they got blown out 47-7) and to me for non-conference teams I rank the teams like this:
1) TCU
2) Boise State
3) UTAH
I feel TCU is a better team than Boise State but I feel like I am in the minority on this view. For some reason, everyone loves Boise State and it just confuses me. I am apparently the only person who knows what Boise State is doing. Their conference, the WAC, is a complete joke so they automatically win 8 games a year b/c the next best team in their conference is NEVADA and to me they are a joke. So, the unknowledgeable public is going to go crazy when Boise State goes into Nevada and wins by 14+ points this week. So, they only need four more wins to "trick" the public in thinking they are something they are not. So, they schedule non-conference games against WYOMING (worst team in MWC) and Toledo (MAC). They are now at 10-0 before the season even starts. They complete the schedule by playing Oregon State (i think Baylor vs Oregon St. is a good game) and the most overrated pre-season team year after year in VA Tech. So, essentially their year came down to the first week of the year and when they won that they were essentially in the national title game. To me, it is not fair all of these SEC teams face tough matchups week after week because of their conference and Boise State doesn't even think about losing those games b/c it isn't even possible. A football season is long and the mental and physical preparation
week after week is draining and that is what the major conferences must do every week and Boise State plays high school teams every week.
So, you are probably asking yourself well isn't TCU in a cupcake conference as well? And the answer is yes but the MWC is much stronger than the WAC. TCU actually faces anywhere from two to three tough conference games a year (Utah, BYU, and Air Force [Air Force is good and if you don't think so you are dumb...gave #7 Oklahoma run for their money and lost by 3 @Oklahoma) and Boise State doesn't face anyone. The media will try to say the win against Nevada is a good win but it is not to a realist. The non-conference schedule is similar in difficulty in my eyes with TN Tech>Wyoming, VT>Baylor, and SMU>Toledo..Baylor and SMU are actually not bad teams and when you add that to the conference games you have 6 potential lose-able games for TCU vs only 3 lose-able games for Boise State.
Boise St Non-Conference
1) Wyoming (3-9)
2) VA Tech (9-2)
3) Oregon State (5-5)
4) Toledo (7-4)
TCU Non-Conference
1) Tennessee Tech (5-6)
2) Baylor (7-5)
3) Oregon State (5-5)
4) SMU (6-5)
TCU Gets the nod over Boise State for the following reasons:
1) Tougher conference
2) Convincing victory @ #5 Utah (granted Utah wasn't #5 worthy but still impressive)
3) Better team and talent levels across the board...TCU players actually get drafted, Boise not usually
4) TCU six "potential" lose-able games (Utah, Oregon State, Baylor, SMU, Air Force, BYU) vs Boise State three lose-able games (Oregon State, VA Tech, Nevada)
I wrote this post because I feel like chaos is going down this weekend when BAMA upsets AUBURN in the Iron Bowl. Therefore, you have Oregon at #1 and then debate for #2. I am for a playoff and my top 8 teams for the playoff would be:
1) Oregon
2) Auburn
3) TCU
4) LSU
5) Boise State
6) Stanford
7) Wisconsin
8) Alabama or Ohio State (Bama in if it wins over Auburn, out if they don't..logic: b/c of tougher schedule than Ohio State)
This is the most fair way to do it b/c the non-conference teams would have a chance and although i think they would lose it would be good entertainment. You keep the same bowls and say the Rose Bowl game would be #1 Oregon vs #8 Alabama....that is like a national title game and that is 1 vs 8..what a game..Sugar Bowl #2 Auburn vs #7 Wisconsin and so on. It gives every team a chance and teams can have one or even two losses and have a chance at the national title. All you have to do is be in the top 8 to have a chance for the national title and that is what is should be and no one can blame anyone but themselves if they don't finish in the top 8.
So if/when Auburn loses this week do yourself a favor and pray that it doesn't happen or we are going to have to watch the Oregon Ducks beat Boise State by 17 in the national title game. Yuck.
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