What it means:
Expect a lot of scoring in the conference next year! The first-team D is riddled with seniors. The first-team O, however, has more juniors and sophomores than seniors. The second team O has one more senior than juniors and sophomores. Not surprisingly, no freshman made either first or second offensive or defensive all-conference team.
TCU had 15 selections, 6 of which were seniors, as well as the offensive, defensive, and special teams players of the year and coach Gary Patterson was coach of the year. Not all that surprising for a team that was CLEARLY the class of the league this season.
Utah had 12 selections, 9 of which were seniors.
BYU had 7 selections, 5 of which were seniors.
Air Force had 7 selections, only 2 of which were seniors.
Barring huge defections on the coaching staff or too many starry-eyed NFL dreamers, TCU should dominate the league (and the all-conference selections) again next season. Air Force's youth served it pretty well this year. I expect they'll make a serious push to move up at least one spot in the standings as they mature as a team and as a program. BYU is probably the more likely of the two (BYU and Utah) to get supplanted in the top 3.
I hope this is enough reading material for a Tuesday. It's usually the slowest news day for football of the week, so I tried to give you something!
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