NIU_Huskie wrote:
Jeez, Boise State can't win them all. So they lost one to a good team after winning 24 straight. How many teams can win 24 straight games? If it was so easy for the non-BCS teams then you would see more doing it.
Most non-BCS teams are really bad. That's why pretty much all of them have terrible records against the BCS teams.
Boise is pretty much a lock to score 40+ in every conference game they have. Some teams have a decent offense but absolutely no chance of stopping them. Basically, for a majority of the schedule, Boise State walks on the field, goes through the motions, and wins. When they play BCS competition, the margin of victory is significantly smaller. The thing is that it's much harder to play really well in 8-10 games you have an opponent in front of you with a chance of beating you on a bad day vs. playing well in the 3 games against opponents that have a chance. When Ohio State misses two field goals, a team like Purdue can beat them. When Boise State misses two field goals, it normally is meaningless because the team on the other end is so bad. Boise State picked a really bad game to make some mistakes because Nevada is good too.
NIU_Huskie wrote:
Boise is still a really good team that no BCS team wants a piece of in a bowl game. They would do well in all the BCS conferences. Only one that is brutal week in, week out is the SEC.
I agree. Boise would do well. They would probably be equal to Michigan State in the Big Ten. They would find it very hard to go undefeated but would win a lot of games.
I'm a little too young to remember Penn State joining the Big Ten, but I'm under the impression that many people thought Penn State would dominate there. Upon joining, they found out that it was a lot harder to dominate in a conference where every team is capable of beating you and is very familiar with you. Boise State would run into the same issues.