Digestion

So now that we have had some time to digest the weekends' events, I thought I'd do a quick follow-up.  I told my buddy on Sunday night that, this week after the BCS disaster, we'd either see Boise State join the Big East or Chris Petersen more seriously entertaining offers from BCS schools.  As it turns out, Boise State is joining the Big East.  I am sure the decision was already made, but I am sure if they needed final OK from Chris Petersen, he gave it to them on Monday.  The writing was on the wall.  For the second straight year, his 11-1 top 10 squad did not get a sniff of the BCS, while an 8-4 and 9-3 Big East Champion got in, no questions asked.

I think a couple of teams have legitimate gripes with how it turned out.  How did Va Tech and Michigan both get in over Kansas State?  People talk so much about the SEC, but the Big XII was amazingly deep this season.  Kansas was the only gimme win in the conference this year.  8 teams are going to bowl games out of ten teams.  Texas Tech, who finished ninth, won in Norman, something no one had done in 6 years.  Iowa State gave everybody a tough time at home, including beating OK State.  The 6th best team in the conference was Texas which is still Texas, even on a down year, and the 7th best has top 20 talent (A&M just never recovered mentally from a few early season fourth quarter collapses).  Kansas State, Baylor, Oklahoma, Missouri are all very good teams.  OK State was great.  Yet, the mediocre Big Ten and ACC BOTH got two teams in the BCS, while the Big XII only got one.

Michigan got in, which played 8 home games and whose biggest win was at home against Nebraska.  Other big wins: Notre Dame and San Diego State (who finished FOURTH in the MWC).  Kansas State won AT Miami and Texas.  They beat Baylor and Missouri.  I think those four wins are better than ANY of Michigan's wins (maybe Nebraska trumps Missouri, but I just can't take Nebraska seriously: have you seen Martinez try to throw the ball?).  And Virginia Tech lost TWO games by 3 TDs or more.  Best win: at Georgia Tech.  And let's be realistic about it: that was their ONLY "good" win.  K-State can probably throw down 5 wins better than that.  There is no logical explanation as to why K-State, or Baylor, or ANY 2nd Big XII Team, should have been left out over the two picks the Sugar Bowl made.  I do like the Arkansas-Kansas State matchup though.  That IS a BCS game as far as I am concerned.  That is a must see game.  Michigan-Va Tech is not.  Shame on the Sugar for selling out.  Again, I call for a boycott of the Sugar Bowl.

That's jacked up.  Why have polls if they don't matter at all?  Everyone vote for their top 3 or 4 so we can determine 1-2 and just forget the rest of the nonsense.  Because it is just that: nonsense.  The 7th and 8th ranked teams in the country can't get slotted for bowls that are supposed to have the 10 best teams in them?

Back to my original point: it's messed up and Boise State or Chris Petersen was going to make a move sooner rather than later.  Boise State is doing what the others figured out a long time ago: if you can't beat them, join them.  The part that's messed up about it: on the field, Boise continues to beat them yet still can't get ahead.  Now they just get to do it in conference games.  Good for them on the jump to the Big East.  The move should happen in 2013, allowing them to rebuild next year in an up-in-the-air MWC and get back on top their first year in the Big East.  Good luck to them!