BCS Rankings: Mountain West Deserves Automatic Bid over Big East

“Big” is the wrong adjective to describe the conference that is the Big East.  Weak, pitiful, pathetic and embarrassing all fit much better.

Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, West Virginia and Rutgers have all boasted strong teams at times over the last few years, but this season, the Big East is a joke from top to bottom.  South Florida is the only team in the entire conference that has a win against a ranked non-conference opponent. 

They should be stripped of their automatic-BCS bid and it should be given to the Mountain West.  Boise State and TCU are superior to any team in the Big East. 

The Broncos defeated Georgia and TCU knocked off Boise State.  Each squad has a top 10 scoring offense and fields enough talent to compete with the vast majority of schools in the nation.

What quarterback in the Big East could keep pace in a shootout with Kellen Moore?  There isn’t one.

For a team like Cincinnati, WVU, Rutgers, Louisville, Pitt or whoever wins the Big East to receive a BCS bowl bid over the Horned Frogs or Broncos is absolutely absurd.  It wouldn’t even be a stretch to believe that Wyoming and San Diego State could be competitive against Big East teams this year. 

Sure, TCU is going to the Big 12 next year and Boise State may leave the Mountain West as well for the Big East, but in the 2011 season, there’s no question which is the better conference.

Here are the updated BCS standings:

Rank	Team	BCS Average
1	LSU	.9933
2	Oklahoma State	.9642
3	Alabama	.9099
4	Oregon	.8755
5	Oklahoma	.8400
6	Arkansas	.7974
7	Clemson	.6935
8	Virginia Tech	.6755
9	Stanford	.6747
10	Boise State	.5959
11	Houston	.567
12	South Carolina	.528
13	Kansas State	.497
14	Georgia	.453
15	Michigan State	.439
16	Nebraska	.382
17	Wisconsin	.333
18	Michigan	.295
19	TCU	.252
20	Southern Mississippi	.245
21	Penn State	.230
22	Baylor	.136
23	Texas	.120
24	Auburn	.079
25	Florida State	.071

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