It is time for people to start showing respect to the Mountain West Conference. This isn’t a conference to be taken lightly, yet still, there are people that want to continue to disrespect one of the top conferences in all of college football. We aren’t talking Conference U.S.A or the Sun Belt here. This is a legit conference with teams that can play with anyone, and we have seen it.
TCU, Utah, and BYU aren’t afraid to play anyone, and it has shown. In the last eight years, those three teams have combined to knock off USC, Alabama, Pittsburgh, Georgia Tech, Iowa State, and the media darlings Boise State. That is just in bowl games. You could add Oklahoma, Texas Tech, and others to the list from regular season games.
People want to keep making excuses as to why the MWC isn’t as good as the other conferences in the BCS, but they are all complete b.s. Let’s take a look at a couple of my favorite excuses so I can show you how stupid these people really are…
- The bottom half of the Mountain West is bad, therefore the MWC shouldn’t be in the BCS
Oh Really? This argument makes no sense to me at all. Each conference has their tier of top teams, middle of the road, and terrible teams. The Mountain West has three top teams in their conference (TCU, Utah, BYU) just like any of the others. Are people really trying to tell me that the bottom of the MWC is any worse than the bottom of the ACC or Big XII? The Big XII north is a complete joke. I mean, look at the ACC from this weekend, it is appalling!!
- Virginia loses to William and Mary 26-16
- Maryland killed by Cal 52-13
- VT goes down to Bama 34-24
- Duke lost to Richmond 24-16
- Clemson beat Middle Tennessee State, enough said there
- North Carolina beat the Citadel
- NC state looked TERRIBLE against South Carolina
- Wake Forest lost to Baylor 24-21
Yeah, that is a powerhouse conference that deserves to be the BCS…give me a break!
- Here is my other favorite excuse…If (insert Mountain West team here) played the SEC or Big XII schedule week in and week out, they wouldn’t survive.
Well, I hate to break it to you, but the teams in that conference can’t even survive their schedule. The likes of Florida, Tennessee, Florida State, Texas, OU, Texas Tech lose conference and out of conference games all the time.
I mean, you could seriously argue that Oklahoma just got beat by the third best team in the Mountain West Conference. Our worse team in Wyoming beat Tennessee at home last year!
The part that gets me the most about this, is the fact that our conference can compete with the so called “elite” and it’s not an even playing field. If our teams didn’t have to recruit AGAINST the BCS, and we got the type of BCS money these other schools get, our conference would be even scarier than it is.
It is time for the BCS and their elitist to step down off their high horse and realize there is quality football being played outside their little cartel of teams. The Mountain West has shown they can play with anyone, now it is time to let them have their chance just like everyone else.
