College Football: Georgia Must Commit a Felony

This is the time of year where college football fans have blog-dosed on recruiting classes and must now tentatively wait to see which offseason DUI’s, petty thefts and credit card frauds hit which players at which programs.

While these misdemeanors aren’t welcome, there is one criminal act that is: Georgia must kill Boise State.

While I don’t normally advocate murder in the first week of a new season, it must be done before we have yet another year of the annual Boise debacle.

In an effort to stop this nonsense before it starts, I have already written ESPN to nip this madness in the proverbial bud.

As put to the bourbon manhattan-swilling big brass at ESPN: “Dear Bourbon Manhattan-Swilling Big Brass at ESPN: In answer to your question whether Boise State should be in the National Championship game: NO. NOT EVER. Sincerely, Dan.”

I won’t belabor my so eloquently stated point. I know Boise has been living near the top of recent polls by having year after year of 10+ win seasons with a gaudy record of 61-4 (.94 winning pct) since 2006. They beat Oklahoma in a bowl game and, in fact, they’ve won all their bowl games since, (other than TCU).

They aren’t bad.

But they aren’t that good either, not championship-level good anyway and I’ll tell you why.

From 2000 to 2005, they were 0-4 against the SEC with some pretty big beat downs. They played no SEC teams after 2005, scheduling one annual PAC 10 game instead—no USC, of course.

That leads to the big knock on the program. Boise’s strength of schedule averages around 70th or worse annually, but what isn’t so obvious is what that really means. It’s not just padding the wins with an 85-man pillow 9-10 times a year; it also means your games are glorified scrimmages to work out the kinks for the rare big game.

It means your second and third teamers are playing half the games, dramatically cutting down on injuries and constantly resting the starters for way more important things, like football games.

It means next year when other teams are replacing seniors with untested backups, your backups and your backups backups have already played the equivalent of half a season and have extended game experience before that early season matchup.

SEC, BIG 12 and BIG TEN teams have no such luxuries.

And just how good are Boise’s players? Simple point: 11-1 Boise in 2008 was shutout in the NFL draft. Their 14-0 undefeated 2009 squad had one single player drafted by the NFL - one for a supposed championship caliber college team? C’mon, really?

More importantly, if Boise is rewarded for beating up puppies with a national title shot, there will be no benefit to playing a quality schedule and quality non-conference games will disappear, which is already happening.

Worse, Boise will never shut up and eventually we will all have Idaho accents by default. I don’t even know what that sounds like.

One thing I do know: This insanity must be stopped before it starts.

For that to happen, the contract is out: Bulldog, kill the Bronco.