What if?

I think their argument is strong today no matter. One of the problems with the system is the ESPN-ization of the sport. They, along with the human polls, determine the glamour teams early on and it's too difficult for the Utah/Boise St./etc. squads to climb the mountain during the season to get in position for the title game.

If the system isn't going to change I would like to see the first polls come out somewhere around weeks 5-7. This gets past the nonconference and into the conference schedule and might let one of these teams into the top 10 before the end of the year.

But I am a HUGE proponent of a playoff. 8 teams. I haven't seen an argument yet that is persuasive against it. This year is a perfect example of 5-6 teams with legitimate arguments for being in the title game.

I agree with you guys about Utah and the BCS in general.  There will be a few weeks of incense and outrage, hand-wringing in extremis and then back to business as usual.  The best we Ute fans can hope for is the writers to make a statement in some way.  If the BCS gets a few weeks of intense mocking that's about all we can expect to get out of this season.  Of course, that depends on the results this week.  A Florida or Oklahoma blowout and it's a moot point.  The winner will sweep the polls and Utah will probably end up 4th at best.

My question is really about Texas.  I think that game would have been played very early and a Utah loss would have them ranked around ten right now but it would definitely have been a feather in Texas' hat.  Enough to get them to the championship match which they arguably should be in already.

Fuzzy, I think we're saying the same thing from different angles.

It might not have been clear but I think a Texas win over Utah and Utah at 12-1 puts Utah at #10 or so.  No Sugar Bowl.  Off to Phoenix, Las Vegas, whatever.  Case closed.

But would it have made enough of a difference for Texas?  Sure TT fell apart but Texas beat Oklahoma.  The latter is enough for me to be honest.  That stupid tie-breaker based on BCS ranking thing was ridiculous.  Talk about putting your troops under foreign command. 

Fair enough to say that a win against Utah instead of whomever they replaced us with would have had Texas winning that ridiculous tie-breaker and playing for the gold medal?

the other part of the issue is without TCU in the MWC then everyone else's SOS falls and hence UTAH's SOS falls too (even while playing Texas)

that said,  considering the worst or 2nd worst MWC team pimpslapped TENN in their own house,  UTAH beat supposedly awesome ALA by more than UF did,  it's a shame they don't at least get a chance to play for the supposed 'title' .  Do I think they would beat OK?  No.  But that doesn't mean they shouldn't get their chance too.      12 Team playoff just like the NFL would be best (Current BCS ranking formula, Top 4 get a 1st round bye) With a weak ACC and Big East, a season long MWC owning of the PAC10 (sans USC), and the obvious failure of the BCS this year, hopefully we'll at least get momentum towards a +1 title game in 2-3 years.

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