for sarcasm

I also counted UNLV’s Las Vegas Bowl win as a neutral site …

this is at least as neutral as the Las Vegas Bowl.

Nenar Nenar Nenar ; )

I am looking forward to what TCU puts on the field in a BCS bowl.

The games are a small sample size to really see how the leagues would stack up. We all know the SEC overall is a better league, but I still hate the ‘didnt want to be there’ argument that all big schools toss out when they lose to a lower team. Bama should have been excited the team had not been to a big time bowl since the 1993 Sugar Bowl.

I admit fully to cherry picking the stats.

Arguing the motivation in one excellent game of the ages is not going to work.

What about the fact that the top MWC teams appear in those games far more often than the top SEC teams?

Maybe I am throwing a stat out their to dare the top SEC teams to play the top MWC teams.

I only see one game that qualifies as a top MWC team playing a top SEC team. We all know who won that one.

I don’t remember which ute fan put it together, but it starts off with the three commentators for the game stating that they were at the Alabama practices and “anyone who thinks Alabama isn’t fired up for this game doesn’t know Coach Saban. They were practicing harder than I’ve ever seen”. The unmotivated excuse is just that, an excuse. They got punched in the mouth and then couldn’t believe it was a MWC team punching them in the mouth, so they came up with some excuse to explain it away. Utah was better than Alabama, period, and you play that game 10 times, Utah wins 9 of them. We had a much better offense than Alabama and our defense was too tough for them.

BYU in 2001 and Utah in 2008 were the only “best” MWC teams on that list. BYU faced a horrible Mississippi State team, so let’s throw that one out the window. Utah played the SEC runner-up and a top-5 Alabama team and absolutely destroyed them, so I think that one counts.

As for the others, well . . .
2000 UNLV was 8-5
2001 UNLV was 4-7
2002 Wyoming was 2-10
2003 TCU was 11-2 in CUSA and played a horrible Vandy team, so maybe counts as “best MWC team” although Utah was 10-2 that year.
2004 Wyoming was 7-5
2004 UNLV was 2-9
2005 Wyoming was 4-7 but 1-1 against the SEC
2006 Air Force was 4-8
2008 Wyoming was 4-8 and got their coach fired

So three of those teams were the “best” of the MWC and several of them were horrible MWC teams that still managed to beat SEC teams. And when the best MWC team matched the best SEC team, the only time that happened, the MWC came out on top.

In those cases yes, but overall of course not.

I need a larger sample size. Care to help make that happen?

I don’t know if you’ve only started watching college football recently, but the ACC has over the years always been one of the top conferences, if not the top conference in some years.

Check out Florida St. and Miami in the 90’s. Florida St. especially. Good luck finding Florida St being ranked outside the top2, and even more luck finding them outside the top10.

From top to bottom the Big East is a better conference than the MWC. But TCU is better than Cincy IMO.

But really, I think the automatic crap is stupid. If a team is ranked #4, then they are ranked #4 for a reason. That should be the only thing that matters.