Boise State Is The Best Team in College Football

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Let’s stop fighting it. Let’s give props where props are due. Boise State is the best team in college football and it should be the Broncos in the BCS National Championship game.

Every time Boise State gets a chance to show what it’s made of, it does. Boise State is a team that hammered Oregon, which hammered USC mightily. Boise State would do the same to USC whether it’s on the blue turf in Boise or in Los Angeles.

There are plenty of skeptics that will line up and take a shot at me. That’s fine. Including one near and dear friend, none other than gasman for the Dale Earnhardt Jr. Number 5 car in Nationwide, former Southern Illinois tight end Mike Green.

“Boise State is a joke just like the entire BCS. Boise State should try to go on the road to play somebody. Oregon at home, are you serious? There is no dominant team in college football,” said the man known as ‘Gigantor’ on pit row.        

Green raises a valid point, echoed all throughout college football. Green—former high school teammate  of former Wisconsin/NFL offensive lineman Aaron Gibson—went on to say, “College football got what they wanted, a bunch of crap. Scholarship restrictions and parody, all equals crap. Texas Christian has a better resume’ than Boise State.”

Another valid point since TCU went on the road and got passed a scrappy Clemson squad, a team that just beat Miami (Fla.) at home.

The argument is whether a TCU could have the same success in the Big 12. Some Big 12 analysts would argue that it should be TCU or Houston in the Big 12 instead of Baylor, a program that has not brought in any money via football to the Big 12 since its inception in 1996.

ESPN has all the cards in its hand when it comes to college football. It is the only network with the power to sway voters and give a Florida or Alabama all the hype it needs. Texas deserves to be number one in every poll because it has played a tougher schedule than Florida in a watered down SEC.

Alabama has one impressive victory outside of the conference, defeating Virginia Tech on Labor Day weekend. You could argue that Virginia Tech was over-hyped as well following a victory over Nebraska and Miami (Fla.) on back-to-back weeks.

Georgia Tech is taking advantage of a bad ACC, mowing through everybody on the ground. Not even Florida State’s vaunted athletes could stop Georgia Tech’s triple-option attack. It was proof, again, a great system can still win in college football and you still can run the option in college football.

Then there’s Iowa, probably the most overrated top ten team in the history of college football. Iowa would not win a game against any of the upper-echelon teams of the BCS conferences. Green, though, gives Iowa credit despite once beating Football Championship Subdivision (better known as Division I-AA) foe Northern Iowa, 14-13.

“Iowa is not great, but the goal is to win and every week thus far they have done that. All the major conferences agreed to the BCS and if Iowa wins out, they deserve their place in the BCS. Is Iowa the best team in college football, hardly. But they are unbeaten so it warrants consideration,” said Green.

Again in 2009, it’s the great BCS caper. Boise State and Texas Christian deserve spots in the BCS if they both can win out, as does Cincinnati. But Cincinnati ranked in the top five?

As for the "big guns" in college football like Florida, Alabama, Texas, Ohio State, Oklahoma, and LSU, it's all over-blown hype. This is 2009, not 1989. Maybe back then you could say how much better the "big guns" were than a Boise State and TCU, but not anymore.

It again shows what a mess the BCS is. Vote no for playoffs, just return the system back to when it was broke, but didn’t need to be fixed.

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