Boise State Football: Lack of BCS Conference Kills Chances at National Title

If the Boise State football program ever wants to be taken seriously as a threat for a national championship or as a serious program, they need to join a Bowl Championship Series conference now!  

The other BCS schools are all moving around like little green and red houses and hotels on a Monopoly board. If Boise State does not jump to a conference like the Big 12 or the Pac-12 now, they will get passed by and may not get a chance to join up with a BCS conference any time soon.  

This year Boise State is ranked in the Top Five of the USA Today Coaches' and Associated Press Polls trailing such BCS Schools as: Alabama, LSU, Oklahoma and Stanford or Wisconsin.  

All of those schools will play not just a ranked school before the end of the year, but a school that is in the Top 10.  

The rest of the 2011 season for Boise has them playing zero games against ranked opponents or games against any teams from a BCS conference.  

How does Boise State think that they can vault themselves over teams that are in front of them this year? If they were in a BCS conference like the Big 12 this year, they would have games against Oklahoma, Texas and Oklahoma State remaining on their schedule.  

Instead, Boise gets to play Fresno State tonight, Colorado State next week then Air Force the week after.  

Out of those next three games Air Force has the only chance at being ranked.  

However, a team like Stanford, who is trailing Boise in the polls right now, has Colorado, Washington State and Washington.  

Both teams have games that are against teams that are un-ranked or outside chances of being ranked, however the voters of these two polls will view Stanford’s wins over their Pac-12 Conference mates as better wins.  

The only chance that Boise State has at making the BCS National Championship Game in New Orleans this year is if four teams lose one game. That’s a lot to hope for and expect between now and the first week of December.  

Even then, if Oklahoma, LSU, Alabama and Wisconsin or Stanford lose a game, does Boise State deserve to vault any of those one-loss teams?

They wouldn’t have to field these questions if they just would leave behind the smaller conferences and join up with the Big 12 or Pac-12. 

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