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April 10, 2010 # 4:24 am # Medication # No CommentWe?ve all surmises Backstreet Boys heard them back street boys imparts over and over again. It?s the same stuff year after year.Blanket assumptions opined by ignorant fans from BCS teams questioning the worthiness of non-BCS teams and their quest to bust the BCS.While the naiveté comes in different shapes and sizes, from various parts of the country, from analysts, coaches, and fans alike, what they all share in common is their blatant lack of validity, rationale, and factual support.We all get that the BCS is rooted in tradition, fanbases, recruiting, and revenues, while those factors may be a source for a delusional sense of superiority, they don’t usually correlate to performance on the field.Remember the tune Barry Switzer sang before kickoff at last year?s Sugar Bowl? ?There isn?t one player, not one player, on Utah?s team that Nick Saban would?ve recruited.?That alone was the basis Barry used to predict that Alabama would be too much for Utah to handle. He wasn’t alone.The blogosphere along with “analysts” throughout the country were rampant with the expectation that Alabama was going to dismantle Utah, based on worthless, delusional assumptions.So how do they explain Utah’s bitch-slapping of Alabama?They can’t. They can only minimize Alabama’s motivation or point to the loss of OT Andre Smith. Never mind that USC was still motivated to beat Penn State, Texas to beat Ohio State, Georgia to beat Hawaii, etc.So goes the logic and the rationale in the attempts to discredit the non-BCS elite.We all welcome a healthy argument, but please do so with a) logic, b) substantive reasoning, c) empirical data, or d) items that can be found on a scoreboard.No assumptions.
We already know that you think TCU couldn?t withstand the “brutal week in, week out” schedule in the SEC or the Big 12. Or how teams like Colorado or Virginia would probably run the table in the MWC.We?ve heard it all What we haven?t heard is evidence to support it Though we?ve seen plenty to the contrary backstreet boys incomplete . If the MWC is so weak how does:Colorado State clobber Colorado in Boulder, but then go 0-7 in the MWC?Last year?s Wyoming (1-7 in the MWC) travel to Knoxville and beat the Volunteers?Last year?s UNLV team (2-6 in the MWC) go 2-0 against BCS teams (Arizona State, Iowa State)?These are teams that have a combined 3-20 record in MWCplay that somehow have managed to go 4-0 against BCS competition.While the MWC has proven it?s on par at the bottom, it?s beating the other conferences at the top as well backstreet . In the last two seasons alone, the MWC has beaten Alabama, Boise State, Clemson, Oregon State, and Oklahoma backstreet boys bsb . Can your conference lay claim to five stronger out-of-conference victories in the last two years?While the MWC can talk up scoreboard, the BCS will continue to throw out useless platitudes to justify their illusion of superiority back street boys tour . As a result, we all have to suffer from the existence of pathetic articles such as, ?Three Reasons TCU Doesn?t Belong in the BCS,” which came out Monday from Tim Nash.(Mr. Nash also focuses the article on Boise State, which I’ll ignore.
The BCS conferences love to denigrate the MWC by blurring it with the WAC.) Let’s break down Mr backstreet boys never gone . Nash’s typical, uninventive arguments for why TCU doesn’t belong in the BCS.Reason No 1: The MWC Has Inferior Depth and TalentMr black and blue backstreet . Nash says, ?There are currently only four schools from BCS automatic qualifiers that are currently undefeated backstreetboys live . That’s because the BCS schools play conference schedules against teams that test them for the most part, week in and week out.”When you get an unranked Tennessee team that almost knocks off No back street boys concert . 2 Alabama at home, or an unranked Oklahoma almost upsetting No. 3 Texas, it tends to weed out the contenders from the pretenders.?So let me get this straight, there are six undefeated teams left. Four come from the six BCS conferences and two from the other non-BCS conferences.
This illustrates how truly weak the non-AQ conferences are?Confused?You should be It makes no sense . The basis of this poorly articulated argument is that BCS teams fall and suffer from close calls more frequently because they play tougher schedules.Never mind TCU is ranked higher than Texas in four out of the six computer polls or that TCU has more wins over ranked opponents than Texas and Florida backstreetboys concert . Or that both of Texas?s marquee wins have lost to non-BCS teams.To support his assumption, Mr backstreetboys tour . Nash uses the Longhorns’ close call with Oklahoma as proof that TCU doesn’t belong.Does he not know that Oklahoma lost to BYU, an MWC team that TCU slaughtered 38-7?Then there?s Tennessee-Alabama I get it . He?s trying to say that because Alabama plays talented teams like Tennessee week in and week out, they’re more vulnerable to loss.Let?s reverse his logic. Over the last two seasons, Alabama is 15-1 in the vaunted SEC. Yet somehow, they are 0-1 against the MWC in the same time frame.

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