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Originally Posted by transplant99
No it really wasn't.
What you meant to say is that other conferences are tougher opposition. Well no kidding.
That still doesn't mean that BSU is a weaker team, therefore should not have a chance to play for the NC. Which in a very veiled way is what your argument is.
I couldn't care less what teams have had harder seasons when they have over a month off to face each other in bowl games...that has no bearing on anything actually. So I don't understand what the point is when making an argument that an easier schedule means something when considering planning to play team X. It's really quite simple and obvious.
Again all this is easily settled by a playoff system that would require every team to play the same amount of games in the same amount of time as everyone else in order to get to a NC game. And that is done even after a month long break for all these "power" conferences to get their teams healed up. I know this can happen because every other sport in the western world can do it, the NCAA itself has schools that can do it, and the NCAA has every other sport under its wings doing it.
And yes it is hilarious conversing with you.
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But in other leagues the path to playoffs is the same for everyone as the regular season is balanced. Like the Flames and Maple Leafs have equal chance of making the playoffs, or the Cowboys and Steelers have an equal chance. There is no Boise State playing a weak schedule in the NHL.
Thus, BSU's path to a playoff and an 'equal chance' to win a title really isn't equal at all.
When Boise State made the Fiesta Bowl and famously beat Oklahoma this was their schedule to get there.
Sacremento St. (H)
Oregon St. (H)
Wyoming (A)
Hawaii (H)
Utah (A)
Louisiana Tech (H)
New Mexico State (A)
Idaho (A)
Fresno St. (H)
San Diego St. (A)
Utah St. (H)
Nevada (A)
If THIS schedule was good enough to get a Fiesta Bowl spot is certainly would be enough to get playoff spot in a 16 team tournament. Why would BSU need to put an Oregon or a VA Tech on the schedule? They could be a good enough team to run a cupcake schedule every year. Doesn't have to be BSU, it could be whoever runs the table in any easy conference would make the playoffs? If all the little conferences had one team that went undefeated (let's say, BSU, TCU Marshall and Troy ALL went undefeated, would you put them all in the tournament?) That's not fair as teams in the BIG conferences would have to kill themselves to make the playoffs. Would a BSU or TCU or Troy be seeded in a playoff and host an eighth-finals game? Like a 6 versus 11 game? That's even worse.