With the way BYU and Utah played in their bowls they would have dominated BSU or TCU. Shoot with how bad both teams played last night Wyoming could have beat either team. That was not the same TCU team that dominated the regular season. The crappy part is that is exactly how I expected BSU to play… their offense unable to really move the ball against a good D. Too bad the secondary doesn’t compliment the front 7 of TCU’s D.

I don’t think anyone in their right mind would actually say the WAC is better than the MWC but then again the WAC is loaded with people from the heartlands of white trash America. A good look at the BSU cheerleaders, fans, and their punter are exactly what I’m talking about. They all looked like they drove down to the game in their trailer homes.

Let’s be honest, TCU lost the game more than BSU won it. More specifically, TCU’s offense lost the game more than BSU won it. And to get even more specific, Dalton lost the game more than BSU won it. He really came out flat and didn’t do much to help his team win.

…will absolutely make it tougher to go undefeated, which is the point of having a good conference. And in the short run, that may well eliminate the MWC from NC competition, because we’re just too close in terms of talent and it will just be too difficult to go undefeated (maybe). But, in the long run, the MWC will become better and will come to be seen as one of the toughest conferences in Division I, or whatever the BCS idiots call it these days.

Having a team as good as BSU to compete against will improve the current Big 3 and future Big 4 of the MWC, again, in the long run. Recruiting will, sooner or later, take off as athletes and the NCAA realize the quality of the conference. BSU may, in fact, come in and win the conference at first (kinda like TCU did in 2005), but not without a heck of a fight.

And, as far as BSU “owning” the MWC, wasn’t it just last year around this time that the TCU defense was the one that came to play and held the Broncos to their final field goal, instead of a TD, and then intercepted one of BSU’s “tricky” laterals to win the Poinsettia Bowl and give BSU its only defeat of the year? (I guess you did owe us one.) We could go on until next college football season about particular plays (the dropped TD at the goal line that would have tied the game with under a minute left, etc.) that would have changed the game.

My point is the game was as close as a game can get. And the result was a BSU victory. BSU deserves congratulations and respect, not servility, from the MWC for a hard-fought game in which you defeated the MWC champion. As a sign of that respect, we’d like BSU to join the MWC and become one of us. BSU would no longer have the stigma of going undefeated in a conference with piss-poor competition (kinda like the current MWC, but much worse). The new MWC would have four competitive programs, comparable to the “Big 6” of BCS fame (infamy).

In the long run, it’s a win-win proposition. Now we just have to convince the folks who actually make that decision and extend the real invitation.