Spence wrote:I don't think that Boise State has been locked out either. I think that any team that wants to make into national championship position has to do it over more then one year. Because teams in CFB don't play their peers in other conferences you really can't take a team without a lot of history and put them in the game. I'm not saying this is a great way of doing it, but what else can they do. They are going to give the benefit of the doubt to someone that has done it over time or err on the side of what they know. I don't have a problem with that. I do have a problem with them playing TCU against Boise State last year in the BCS. They should have let them play one of the AQ teams and that would give everyone a better idea of where they are as a team.
Boise State will likely never be able to match the SOS of a top team in a major conference. They don't play in a major conference. They likely haven't been invited into one. They can't just call up the PAC 10 and say "we will be joining now." They are scheduling good programs in the OOC. They are traveling to play them. They have the right to schedule an OOC home game or two. If Ohio State won't come to Boise State and play - and they won't - then they can invite Toledo and keep their ticket receipts. Arkansas isn't going to play in Boise either - neither of those teams would duck Boise State. Ohio State will play anyone, but they won't travel unless it is a marquee game. That isn't Boise State's fault or Ohio State's. That is how the system works. So the only way a team like TCU or Boise State or Utah or whoever from an non AQ conference can make the game is to do the sort of thing Boise State is doing. No team is going to play 4 big games and play them all away from home, I don't think you can expect that.
I agree with everything you just said. So the only real solution is to try and find an AQ conference to join if you are Boise....that is if the goal is to play for a BCS NC. That is the whole reason Utah jumped ship to play in the Pac-10 (more revenue, better recruits, and a shot at the big game if you earn it on the field). Ark has played Boise twice this very decade but they simply can not afford to lose the money from a home game and travel to Boise (they have to pay for Petrino's salary some how...and they have to keep up with facility improvement if they want to compete in recruiting with the likes of Bama, Auburn, Florida, LSU, etc).
