TheRob8801;1686905; said:
As sad as it is, it bothers me that what we as fans get accustomed to is rooting for what "looks the best". It signifies a great flaw in the system that there's such stock in how the title game "looks".
BSU maybe plays a couple tough games a year, and a bowl game. And by tough, I don't mean like our tough, or SEC tough. Although Oregon was an exception last year.
They don't deal with a grueling schedule that requires them to show up every week, like most power conferences do.
That makes them less-deserving. A one-loss power conference team is more impressive to me than a no-loss BSU. Maybe it'll be different if BSU beats Oregon State and VaTech this year. Maybe.
I'm more interested in those games because the look better, sure, but why do they look better? Because there are two better teams playing. It's not because of the names. If you put BSU against a traditional power, I think the traditional power wins the majority of those games. Until they prove to me that they can beat these teams on a regular basis, not once a year, then maybe I'll chance my mind. They're doing their best to schedule better teams, and good for them. Like I said, change the preconceived notions. They might not be deserved, but when you're Boise State you have to do what you can to disprove them. Don't be like Hawaii and bitch about not being in the title game, then get blown out and sink back into obscurity. They haven't done that. But I'm still not a believer.
The two teams that make it to the championship should be the two teams that everyone can agree made it there. NOTE: not "should be there" but the two teams that did what the rule state they should to get there.
This will never happen.
Watching the same handful of teams make the title game every year is not what the league should be striving toward.
I dislike Boise State for their fans...nothing more, nothing less...
They feel entitled to some sort of respect that, quite frankly, I don't think they deserve...
Their marquee victories over the past few years have not been nearly impressive enough to be worthy of some sort of significant praise.
The last sentence in this part of the quote is exactly why I don't want to see them in the title game.
This may be the year that people take notice...and if they do somehow manage to win the national championship, it could be very good for the sport. It could also start the ball rolling for a complete overhaul of the system.
Who knows? Maybe we should be pulling for BSU simply for the betterment of the game.
I don't think BSU winning will overhaul the system, it'd just add another yearly-contender in the same system.
And I'm definitely not pulling for BSU. Gimmicks are lame.
My point is that, fairly or unfairly, the SEC has become Ohio State's cross to bear. Until we beat them in the big game, we'll continue to carry that monkey on our back.
