re: The BCS

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Everything he's stating is true. It does places other Div 1 schools at a disadvantage b/c smaller schools have absolutely no shot at a championship in Div 1 football.

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If any team in the country played and beat the schedule that Florida or Nebraska or Georgia played last year, that team would have been in the National Championship Game. Period. Utah did not make it because they did not deserve it. Their 13 game schedule did not measure up to the 13 game schedule of Florida and Oklahoma. And responses that cite any sample less than the entire schedules of the three teams involved is a blatant admission that this is true.

Utah, Boise State, etc., all want to take credit for facing similar schedules because they beat OU, or Bama, or UCLA. The fact is that until they beat a schedule that is 2/3 to 3/4 teams like that, and only 1/3 to 1/4 teams like Utah State, New Mexico, Louisiana Tech, San Jose State and Idaho, they are laying claim to credit they simply do not deserve. Winning one or two games against top level competition does not make for a championship-worthy season (at least not since the polls were dethroned as the mindless arbiters of such things -- cf., 1984). There is a difference between the level of competition in those conferences and the level of competition in conferences like the SEC and the Big XII. And anyone who insists that the same system that shut out undefeated SEC Champion Auburn has its unfairness targeted at "the little guys" is simply not making a rational argument.