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The Mountain West conference is better then the ACC, Big East and Pac 10 this year.
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Seriously?
Look...no question all 3 of those conferences are having bad years (particularly the big East...brutal), but there is no evidence that they are inferior overall to any of the mid-majors.
they simply do not play the same quality of athletes, week in and week out, that the majors do. Once in a while one will jump up and get a power conference team at a good tme and beat them, but it is assinine to believe they could compete on a regular basis. Look no further than hawaii last year...once they got into it with one of the big boys, they were smoked.
Sure Boise St beat Oklahoma a couple years back....and even then it was neck and neck until the last play. But look at the history and it isnt even close. Think if BSU had to roll past say Florida and USC after that game they would have? Those are the kind of schedules most BCS cnference teams face year after year.
Utah doesn't "get a chance" because they play a weak schedule compared to the power conferences....dont kid yourself that they are worthy of NC consideration under the current format.
One way they could prove it however? With a playoff system....but that isnt viable somehow in college football....at least the BCS part of college football as it works just fine with D2 or whatever they are calling it today.