That I can love and absolutely HATE at the same time. I love the Broncos, but I hate the system with a passion that no man or woman can possibly comprehend.

You said it best, 2 teams above us had their crack at Bama. We will never get a crack at Bama. This is more than unfair. I know there are thing in life that are unfair and I’m ok with that. This is unfair crossed with mindless stupidity sprinkled with a whole lot of bias.

We need to develop some sort of “Oversight Committee” to balance the subjectivity of the polls. If Craig James wants to rank an undefeated Boise St #7, who by the way has 2 wins over BCS top 10 teams, the Poll Oversight Committee (P.O.S.- appropriate because I feel the entire system is a PIECE OF BAD WORDS!) can take a look at this and say, “Sorry Mr. James, you need to explain yourself or relinquish your vote because you are obviously not qualified to participate.” This would make it a HUGE headache for the voters who have historical biases which would probably lead to many of them giving up their voting privileges. That would lead to more motivated, educated voters and a better overall product.

Also, I fully expect an article from Wojonutsski completely tearing down last night’s game as an error-filled, omelet laying on the part of both teams. Anyone have his e-mail?

That was so beautiful, it brought a tear to my eye. Mike Leach would be proud.

4th place, though? I’m so excited about that.

That’s really encouraging to hear. I am rec’ing this because I want to be like you.

I’ve never cheered for a college team ranked so high

You did earlier this year

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkprkMQY_6Y

But, I bet he’s going to LOVE Boise State in it.

“If we played in the SEC, PAC10, or BIG 10 or wherever, we’d lose a couple games or more.”

First, there’s the argument that we would be able recruit on the same level of teams from those conference. Which has to be part of the equation.

 Then there’s the fact that members of those conference can go with a loss or two to a title game. So a loss doesn’t exclude us, as it does now.

Last, Boise State beat the eventual PAC10 champ this year. With the way that conference went this year, I am confident Boise State could be right up there THIS year, without an advantage in recruiting.

In all actuality, I think the Broncos would have a few losses upon moving to better conference. But only in the first year or two. I’d also argue that with the year’s bowl win, BSU will at least be recruiting on a level comparable to lower and mid level BCS teams now. That gap is not as large as tWWL would have you believe. And as with all recruiting the real difference is coaching. Which we all can agree Boise State has in spades.

The Broncos are not far off. Coach Pete, I believe would agree. Football smarts go long way when size, strength, and speed are lacking.

It was called on the field.

Welcome, Caves! This board is up for plenty of OBNUGgery with you involved.

I wonder what he ranked Texas Tech?

He has Tech at #23 and is the only voter to leave Utah unranked.

having been in contention for a NC sometime between 1935 and 1975.

After all, Georgia Tech found respect after only one year with Paul Johnson. I think they deserve respect, but it sure took a lot less time for them.

Name the contestants and we’ll get it going starting pre-season next year.

They have that over at pollspeak.com

Scott Wolf is the current bad voter. But you can vote for Craig James and change that. I did.

The problem with this is that people like Craig James won’t show up on the poll, for the same reason that Idaho doesn’t get votes in the football poll.

We might want to do both a best-of and a worst-of poll.

Tyrone Crawford will step right in and be an All-WAC DE along with Winterswyk.

Billy Winn and Chase Baker have another year of experience under their belts and the two-deep won’t really even be a drop off with Atkinson, Grimes, Koontz, and Jungblut or Tjong-A-Tjoe coming in. The secondary will lose a good one in Kyle Wilson but will have Jamar Taylor back and some highly touted redshirts in Ewing and Makinde (possibly even true frosh Bryan Douglas). We’re extremely deep at LB and bring back experience and add extremely talented redshirts Allen Mooney and John Michael Davis to the mix. Oh…I guess we’ll have Winston Venable, Jeron Johnson and George Iloka back too…they’re alright.

Wow…I just got myself really excited for next year and this one just ended. Anyone have any plutonium? I need to go fire up the Delorean and set it for September 2010.

Awesome. I’m using that as my defense for the next SOS talking point brought up to me.

…give Boise their due. I hate the term “mid-major” but I’ll use it because it’s the term that’s used. Anyway, we at Roll Bama Roll have a pretty high opinion of what mid-majors have (and can) accomplish. I know it’s no consolation, but we voted you guys #2 in our BlogPoll Ballot.

But “ass peeved” is a great turn of phrase.

did you guys see that espn has you number 2 next season. if you run the table they can’t stop you. alabama was first, then bsu, the osu. i have problems with texas at four and florida at five. texas qb needs alot of work while florida has to replace 60% of starters. i’m not even sure urban meyer wants to coach that year b/c brantley is average and there are alot of payback games in sec. vs. tech should be somewhere in top ten and when you meet on oct. 2 you both should be 3-0. i hope you throttle them badly and show the east coast writers what your team is all about. could swing some major east coast coaches and writers. i’m very excited about your teams chances at playing for the ncg. it’s in tempe too. the fiesta bowl holds the ncg next year. you would have the crowd on your side too. i hope you guys do it. best wishes.

I hope he wins that congress seat he’s going for and leaves this analyst stuff to people that know what they’re doing

…TCU would’ve gotten the nod over Cincinnati had the Texas kicker missed that field goal or if the time had run off the clock. Unfortunately, we won’t know this year.

Championship game didn’t impress me…

It was a weird game. Thing obviously changed and got super strange once McCoy got knocked out. It was a pretty win, but Alabama shredded Texas’ #1 run defense (both Ingram and Richardson rushed for over 100.) My main point is that not every game (even including a championship game) is going to won with style or flash. Alabama’s built their tradition on defense, possession and a running game that’ll grind opposing teams into dust. We can obviously win “pretty” based on the Florida game (which was a much better played game by both teams) when we put up 500 yards of offense and the passing game was clicking too (our QB was playing with broken ribs in the championship game.) I think national title games would be better if they were played closer to the end of the regular season. I just don’t like the long layoff. Most of the time it isn’t a USC-Texas style epic. I think we’d see more of that without the long layoff.

If you watched a lot of the SEC games, Big 12 games, Big 10 games…. this whole season was a very transparent one, as well as mediocre. I understand that you’re full of hate and rage for some programs, but you really need to look at everyone objectively. Boise State is a great team in a mediocre cfb season. If you can’t acknowledge that, good luck finding anyone acknowledging you.

Join a real conference

This is not a valid argument. The implication is that it is Boise State’s choice of which conference they are in ergo they choose to play a weak schedule.

Come on; you don’t really think you are better program than the three that finished ahead of you, do you

This statement is also erroneous to this discussion. Rankings are not based on which program is better but which team is better. Besides, how do you decide what program is better than another program? Revenue? Number of fans? Number of years in I-A? Win/loss percentage?

Even if your statement was pertinent to this discussion, it’s still highly subjective.

The debate is whether Boise State is a better team during the 2009-2010 season than Florida or Texas. Obviously we won’t ever know since college football refuses to let Boise State prove itself. However, we do know that Florida and Texas both got a crack at Alabama and Boise State did not. It is foolish to assume that Boise State would lose to a team they never played (Alabama) but rank them lower than 2 teams that did lose to that team.