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OK, and what if the sun was made of marmalade and the moon was made of crackers?HorseshoeFetish;2149683; said:
Buckyle's observation re: the regular season is my response.
Look - I'm just not impressed by any team that can play some weak ass schedule and go undefeated. We want Alabama, Florida, Ohio State, Texas and so on to go undefeated against the "big boys" and yet we're just all googly eyed when Boise St. does it against toasted pastries? Give me a break. All the "big boys" would do just as well against Boise's schedule... or Hawaii that one year.. etc.
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Always enjoyed the Boise bashing myself. One argument was that they didn't have the talent - just look at the recruiting rankings.
Then they get six players drafted in this years draft - two in the first round. And Kellen Moore was not one of those. That is as many as the Big Ten champs and two more than one of my favorite teams.
Then they get six players drafted in this years draft - two in the first round. And Kellen Moore was not one of those. That is as many as the Big Ten champs and two more than one of my favorite teams.
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Illinois was pretty awesome this year. Oh you were serious...Oh8ch;2149711; said:
Many upstart programs have had to prove themselves. Until recently Boise was too arrogant to agree to road games like many of the previous underdogs who had to earn the right to home and Away series.
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BearBuck27
Game Day!!!
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/ncaaf-...-start.html;_ylt=Ak75LA1KSwiMAXCTntjfftU5nYcB
Wetzel weighs in on what he thinks should be the format. I'm pretty much in agreement with everything. Especially point #2. Please, let this happen.
Wetzel weighs in on what he thinks should be the format. I'm pretty much in agreement with everything. Especially point #2. Please, let this happen.
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LovelandBuckeye
You never lose to those pricks. Ever. Ever. - UFM
HorseshoeFetish;2149689; said:
But Bammer plays both Western Kentucky and Western Carolina. I mean Bammer never plays teams from out West...
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BUCKYLE
Washed
HorseshoeFetish;2149689; said:
'Bama plays LSU followed by A&M.
LSU plays UF follwed by South Carolina
All four of those teams are, in most every year of my life, better by a long fuckin' shot than anyone on Boise's schedule this year, with the exception of their one big non-bowl game they now schedule (MSU this year) to claim they don't only play the UNLV's of the world.
Link
Follow that link and show me where Boise plays ANYFUCKINGBODY after Sparty.
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HorseshoeFetish
Silver Bullet Supporter
BUCKYLE;2149695; said:
No, but I wouldn't deny that they have had some pretty decent teams.
Tangent:
What bothers me is that you would use the SEC to prove your point, it's just unholy. As far as I'm concerned if you are a Top team in the SEC you get a favorable schedule period. You will not play anyone Back to Back unless a team happens to have a breakout type season.
I also think the SEC has as many dog teams as any other major conference in the country. The big difference is no one is going to rank Illinois or Purdue in the top 10 early in the season so one of our top teams can get an early win against a top opponent.
I've said it before and I'll say it again..The SEC schedules their top teams better than any conference in the country. The BIG needs to do the same IMO. Hell I want to play Purdue the second game of the season when there is a miniscule chance they might be ranked..I want to play a Div II school the week before scUM much like Bama, LSU or whatever is the top SEC team heading into that season usually does. Instead we'll get PSU, Wisco, and scUM as our last three games. That's a lot of physical football to end a season and going into a playoff.
Back to Boise...I don't care one way or another about them..I do feel however that ANY team that goes undefeated should have a chance to play in a playoff system..It's not easy to win every game during a season regardless of who you play...and it doesn't matter what conference you are from, if you're in a playoff, and don't bring your A game..well that's on you.
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LovelandBuckeye
You never lose to those pricks. Ever. Ever. - UFM
BearBuck27;2149715; said:
So many good lines but this one angers me.
I like the rebuttal since it applies to $EC as well with one of their major sports.
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zincfinger
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Keeping the Boise States of the world out of a playoff is not bias. It's bias elimination. If you say all 12-0 records are equal, or all 11-1 records are equal, for purposes of getting into a playoff, then you are giving the Boise States far easier access to the playoffs than the Ohio States of the world get. Because it's far easier for Boise to go 12-0 than it is for Ohio State to go 12-0. It's probably easier for Boise to go 12-0 than it is for Ohio State to go 10-2. Not because Boise is better than Ohio State, but because Boise typically plays maybe two opponents in the regular season who have a remotely realistic chance of beating any good D-1A team. Ohio State plays at least 5 or 6.ShowMeBuck;2149765; said:
That's the difference. I'm not saying Boise doesn't put good teams on the field, or that they're not capable of beating BCS big-timers on a good day. They do, and they are. But the fact remains that their schedule simply doesn't allow them to earn their way into a playoff in anywhere near the same way that the BCS conference teams will be forced to. To fail to recognize that, and to fail to do something about it, would be an enormous bias. In Boise's favor.
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