Question by : When Will Boise State FINALLY get the recognition they deserve?
A 14-0 record, they play in a notoriously soft conference, barely eked by weaker teams during the regular season and scraped by to win their bowl game by 7 points. The Boise State Broncos??? Nope, the 2002 National Champion Ohio State Buckeyes. Boise State, on the other hand, finishes their season ranked behind two one-loss teams. And this morning on ESPN, they were talking about Boise State’s chance at winning, or at least playing for the national title next year. Like the BCS overlords would allow such a thing. Check the last decade. Which team has the most wins in college football? And what of Kellen Moore? Never even considered for the Heisman Trophy, despite being number one in almost all statistical categories related to his position, all because he doesn’t go to a big enough school. Terry Bradshaw, ( Louisiana Tech ) Jerry Rice ( Mississippi Valley State ) and some guy named Walter Payton ( Jackson State ) all did okay in the NFL. College football has turned into a contest to see which team can sell more merchandise, not which school has the better team. Go Broncos.
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Answer by dannyboyminn
well they have a couple of good teams in the beginning of next years schedule Oregon St, Virginia Tech, so if they manage to run the table again next year , it would be hard to deny them again.
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…when they stop playing on blue carpet.
Go look at the new top 25. Boise State got more than they deserve. They wouldn’t stand a chance against any big 12 or sec teams
They already have gotten the recognition they deserve. They get to go to a BCS Bowl, stop your whining. What was the BCS supposed to do? Put in the WAC Champion over the SEC and Big 12 Champion?
I will tell you what EVERYONE has been telling Boise St……..play someone!!!! They will never get respect if they don’t play anyone. And don’t even try to compare hem to the 2002 Buckeyes. They played a highly touted Miami team and physically beat them in the title game. Boise St. played TCU……wow, another unproven non-BCS team.
Teams like Boise St., TCU, and Utah will not get the recognition until they get into a BCS conference or until a playoff system is put in place. If these teams continue to have success the BCS cronies will continue to do what they did this year, pit them against each other like they did in the Fiesta bowl. The cronies don’t want a non- BCS team upsetting the apple cart and embarrassing the big boys any more than the have already.
Wow. someone isn’t biased…
If they join the Pac 10, and go undefeated, then they’ll get respect… when they play 1 ranked team every year, and the rest of the schedule is in the bottom third of all of college football, why should they get respect? Would ohio state get any respect if they went undefeated in the WAC? would they have gone to the national championship in 2002 if they were in the WAC? um, no…
Yes they are getting a Fiesta Bowl trophy
They need to start playing better non conference teams, it is so freakin simple.”The best teams don’t wanna play em” is a crock of doodoo as well. Roll Tide.
NEVER! Not as long as the “BIG” conferences want to keep the Big Money for themselves. The fewer conferences that get a split of the Bowl and TV money, the more they get to keep. It is a sad day when a sports writer is the one that will choose who they like to be National Champ rather than letting it be settled on the field of play.
The ironic thing is that a playoff system would actually lead to an even Bigger payday that what they have now. Imagine, the Top 8 Ranked teams facing off in the Big 4 Bowl games (the Cotton, Orange, Sugar & Rose Bowl), #1 vs #8, 2 vs 7, and so on. Then 2 weeks later the Semi-Finals played at Neutral sites like Cowboy Stadium or The Georgia Dome or Papa John Stadium in Arizona where the weather is not a factor. Then the REAL National Championship could be played in Rose Bowl Stadium with over 100,000+ in the stands and Many Millions watching on TV the week before the Super Bowl. Damn! How much money would the NCAA and ALL their schools earn from this set-up? Just think of MARCH MADNESS.
So, to answer your question, again, the answer is NEVER.
Boise wouldn’t last a year in the SEC. Remember what happened last time Boise played a SEC team???
I don’t remember there being a home and home contract, and besides, why would they be scared? Georgia beat them 48-13. How in the world would that scare UGA? But if there really was a contract I want to hear something about it. I’m not doubting you at all, but it was 4 years ago so I don’t remember.
Who knows. I remember the last time they played an SEC team, they lost. However that SEC team (Georgia) quickly got out of that home & home contract so that they wouldn’t get embarrassed at Boise on the blue turf.
For the same reason that nobody else really wants to play them there. When you have only lost 2 games since they put down the blue turf and can rarely get BCS schools up there, the reason is more than just about money.
Probably never. The past bowl season gives you a clue. Instead of letting TCU and Boise play against teams from the big boy leagues, they had them play each other. Why? My guess is that there would be even more complaints from us fans if they had played and beaten, Penn State, or LSU or Oklahoma. So, by playing each other, the BCS can continue to say., they haven’t played anybody. It sucks. They may not have won if they played the big boys, but why not give them a chance?
I just don’t remember anyone talking about Tulane at all when they went undefeated. Do you even remember that Tulane went undefeated and practically destroyed everyone they played in 1998? Yeah, Tulane and Tennessee were the only undefeated Div 1-A teams to go undefeated in 1998. And Tulane was not even invited to a BCS bowl game. They beat BYU in the Liberty Bowl. FInished the season ranked 7th.
Compared to Tulane, Boise St. is getting a lot of recognition. And maybe even more recognition than this years BCS Champion Alabama.
They return 21 out of 22 starters next year and will be ranked in the top 5 to begin the season. If they run the table again(and they HAVE to win them all), they will play for the national championship.
Boise State wants to play SEC teams and Big 12 teams. See if Saban has enough guts to put Boise State on his schedule. He didn’t want to do it this year. Explain to me how Boise St dropped in the rankings after their 18 point win over UC-Davis wasn’t impressive enough, the same week that LSU beat Georgia by 7, ( a game Georgia really won, minus poor officiating – fine ME, Mike Slive ) and Virginia Tech squeaked by national football powerhouse DUKE, and both of these teams passed BSU. College football is becoming a joke, but the officiating in the SEC this year was the most awful I’ve ever seen. I’ll get kicked out of the GatorNation for this, but Florida shouldn’t have been playing in the SEC championship, now should Alabama. Florida benefitted from poor officiating against Arkansas and Ole Miss, and should I even mention the game when Tennessee beat Alabama. I really do love SEC football, but I’m considering jumping ship. Just hope somebody throws Mike Slive ( SEC commissioner ) overboard before I go, so I can stand on his shoulders until the bubbles stop.
They won’t, and this year pretty much told us that. The voters never reward a team’s performance throughout the season; instead they guess which teams the best now. And no one will ever see Boise State as a #1 or #2 team. If a 14-0 season can’t get you in the top 2 at the end of the year, you will never get a chance to play for the title.
And to those who say, “They won the Fiesta Bowl, that’s good enough.” It’s not. The players don’t want to have an undefeated season just so they can win a consolation prize. They want a shot at the championship, and they deserve one.
When the NCAA pulls its head out of it’s a** and adopts a playoff system. Until then the “National Championship Game” will be nothing more than a crowning of a mythical national champion.
The Broncos were one pass away from losing to Tulsa and barely beat LTech. They aren’t that good and I’m tired off his “glass ceiling” that I keep hearing from bandwagon fans. And Kellen Moore had some pretty bad games so that’s why he wasn’t a Heisman finalist. It doesn’t matter anyways it was going to go to either Ingram or GerhArt that was evident in the last few weeks of he regulAr season.