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Originally Posted by transplant99
great examples.
Now lets look at the rest you left out shall we?
This is just bowl games the last few years...the non-major winners highlighted.
2009
BYU 21 vs. Arizona 31
Navy 19 vs. Wake Forest 29
Hawaii 21 vs. Notre Dame 49
(ND not in any conference but always a BCS team when good enough)
Nevada 35 vs. Maryland 42
Alabama17 vs. Utah 31
E. Carolina 19 vs. Kentucky 25
UConn 38 vs. Buffalo 20
2008
Cincinnati 31 Southern Miss 21
BYU 17 UCLA 16
Perdue 51 Central Michigan 48
Mississippi St 10 UCF 3
California 42 Air Force 36
Fresno St 40 Ga. Tech 28
Georgia 41 Hawaii 10
Rutgers 52 Ball St. 30
2007
BYU 38 vs. Oregon 8
Hawaii 41 vs. Arizona State 24
Houston 36 vs. South Carolina 44
Navy 24 vs. Boston College 25
Miami (FL) 21 vs. Nevada 20
Boise State 43 vs. Oklahoma 42
Cincinnati 27 vs. Western Michigan 24
2006
Southern Miss 31, Arkansas State 19
California 35, BYU 28
Kansas 42, Houston 13
Boston College 27, Boise State 21
Utah 38, Georgia Tech 10
North Carolina State 14, South Florida 0
TCU 27 vs. Iowa State 24
If you are keeping score.. thats 7 for 20.
Not good enough, no matter how you spin it. I am a fan of small schools but they simply do not deserve any sort of BCS bid...especially when you copare schedules throughout the year.
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Pretty ridiculous to compare top end mid-majors like Boise St., BYU, TCU, and Utah to Buffalo, Houston, and especially service academies.
I don't think the automatic bid should be there if a mid-major runs the table. But if the teams I listed above do it they've proven they are for real when they go undefeated.
There's a big difference between Hawaii going 13-0 in 2007 and Utah going 13-0 last year, IMO.