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Not trying to be a hater. Congrats to the fans and alum of TCU.

Bama and Oklahoma
 

Alabama and Oklahoma sure weren't laughing when they lost to Utah and BYU respectively.

Seriously.

It's not the fault of schools like TCU, Utah, Boise St, etc. that BCS schools are too scared to schedule them.

Alabama hasn't lost this year. And Oklahoma has lost 5 times. We're not talking about the past. We're talking about 2009. Oklahoma sucks.

Mountain West is, sadly, pretty bad. TCU makes a great argument for a playoff.

That's not good enough for a free ride to the NC game IMO.

That doesn't address the fact that the Mountain West is an inferior football conference. Look at the teams TCU beat this year. Let TCU or Boise State play an entire season as a member of the SEC, Big 10, Big 12 and let's see how they do. Let them have to recruit in those conferences and see how they do.
One-hit wonders such as those you cite above are merely exceptions to the rule and are aided in part by not having to suffer the atrition of injury that is the cost of playing an entire big conference schedule.

What still out of jokes?

TCU beat more top 25 opponents than Texas did this year.

Mountain West is NOT an inferior football conference. Anyone who denies that Utah, TCU, and BYU are all good football schools is an idiot. Now is every team in Mountain West a great football school? No, but no conference can say every team is an great football school. The Big 12 and SEC both have their shitty teams.

2009 FOOTBALL SCHEDULE

9-12-09 at Virginia WON 30-14

9-19-09 TEXAS STATE WON 56-21

9-26-09 at Clemson WON 14-10

10-3-09 SMU WON 39-14

10-10-09 at Air Force WON 20-17

10-17-09 COLORADO STATE WON 44-6

10-24-09 at Brigham Young WON 38-7

10-31-09 UNLV WON 41-0

11-7-09 at San Diego State WON 55-12

11-14-09 UTAH WON 55-28

11-21-09 at Wyoming WON 45-10

11-28-09 NEW MEXICO

It isn't enough.

However, schools form big time conferences should have points taken away in the BCS if they refuse to schedule the schools mentioned.

To be fair, the only true one hit wonder was Hawaii a couple years ago. Utah has won a couple BCS games and Boise won theirs. Boise beat Oregon, who could end up being the Pac 10 champ this week. I think Boise and TCU especially would probably contend for the conference title in several major conferences. It'd be tougher and they wouldn't run the table but I wouldn't be surprised to see them in contention for BCS bids.

I just don't think teams they're up against for BCS at-large berths... like Oklahoma State, Penn State, and Georgia Tech are THAT much better. Actually I'm not sure they're better at all.

Why don't you put the ranking of those opponents when we played them up there?

I don't think we should get a free ride to the NC either. If Texas and Florida are both unbeaten then they should be in the championship however if TCU is one of two unbeatens then TCU should be in the NC.

Hence the Nebraska and Alabama comment.