As the college football season moves along the conversation among fans and sports talkers on the radio is whose the baddest conference of them all. Yes, the SEC can stake that claim with 5 teams in the top 5 of the AP college football poll. Based on the SEC’s research, that has never happened before in the league plus, the SEC totals about 30% of the points in that poll.
So all bow to the SEC for they are indeed walking the walk and talking the talk.
There is one conference though that doesn’t have the clout of the SEC but is building an impressive body of work. That would be the Mountain West Conference.
Saturday alone proved that maybe the MWC deserves to be in that BCS conversation. The league went 7-1 with 4 of those wins coming over Pac-10 schools. UNLV shocked Arizona State in Tempe 23-20 in overtime, New Mexico defeated Arizona 36-28 and TCU blasted Stanford 31-14. The most impressive was BYU’s butt kicking of UCLA 59-0, the same UCLA team that
opened the season with a win over Tennessee from, the SEC. When you include BYU’s win over Washington the week before, the Mountain West owns the Pac-10 with a 5-0 record. If Colorado State can get by California on September 27th, the MWC would r
un the table on their western rivals.
I’ve got an idea for the BCS and I brought this up a few weeks ago. Boot the East Conference (they are not so big now) and replace with the Mountain West Conference.
Other than South Florida beating Kansas who has a team from the East beaten!! Your best team, West Virginia, got killed by East Carolina, Connecticut had to go overtime to beat Temple, Pittsburgh lost to Bowling Green and barely beat Buffalo, Syracuse lost by 2 touchdowns to Akron.
The Mountain West not only is unbeaten against the Pac-10 but has a win over the Big10 (Utah 23-21 win at Michigan). The MWC does have a shot against the mighty SEC when Wyoming takes on Tennessee November 8th at Neyland Stadium.
The Utah-BYU showdown at the end of the year is shaping up to be for a BCS berth barring any unforeseen circumstances however, the winner of the Mountain West Conference deserves to automatically qualify for the BCS after what this is accomplishing.
As for the BCS Championship Game, that’s another conversation.
So all bow to the SEC for they are indeed walking the walk and talking the talk.
There is one conference though that doesn’t have the clout of the SEC but is building an impressive body of work. That would be the Mountain West Conference.
Saturday alone proved that maybe the MWC deserves to be in that BCS conversation. The league went 7-1 with 4 of those wins coming over Pac-10 schools. UNLV shocked Arizona State in Tempe 23-20 in overtime, New Mexico defeated Arizona 36-28 and TCU blasted Stanford 31-14. The most impressive was BYU’s butt kicking of UCLA 59-0, the same UCLA team that
opened the season with a win over Tennessee from, the SEC. When you include BYU’s win over Washington the week before, the Mountain West owns the Pac-10 with a 5-0 record. If Colorado State can get by California on September 27th, the MWC would run the table on their western rivals.I’ve got an idea for the BCS and I brought this up a few weeks ago. Boot the East Conference (they are not so big now) and replace with the Mountain West Conference.
Other than South Florida beating Kansas who has a team from the East beaten!! Your best team, West Virginia, got killed by East Carolina, Connecticut had to go overtime to beat Temple, Pittsburgh lost to Bowling Green and barely beat Buffalo, Syracuse lost by 2 touchdowns to Akron.
The Mountain West not only is unbeaten against the Pac-10 but has a win over the Big10 (Utah 23-21 win at Michigan). The MWC does have a shot against the mighty SEC when Wyoming takes on Tennessee November 8th at Neyland Stadium.
The Utah-BYU showdown at the end of the year is shaping up to be for a BCS berth barring any unforeseen circumstances however, the winner of the Mountain West Conference deserves to automatically qualify for the BCS after what this is accomplishing.
As for the BCS Championship Game, that’s another conversation.
BYU Photo Courtesy: Rick Egan/Salt Lake Tribune
UNLV Photo Courtesy: AP
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