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Originally Posted by dkgojackets
LKJ you don't really know what you are talking about here. It is possible for the team that lost on the road by a missed field goal to still be better. They also had beaten better teams and the same teams by more points. What's funny about all this is that when florida loses to ole miss or whoever its "just another tough game in the sec and proof you can never take a week off" but when usc loses to oregon st or boise loses to nevada they suck all of a sudden.
Oh, SEC fans are pretty ****ing blind in thinking that they're the only school that plays a truly brutal conference schedule. I'm drawing that as an implication from your post, but if I'm drawing it correctly then I agree with you.
But there's a pretty significant difference between the examples of USC losing to Oregon State and Boise losing to Nevada. USC is truly in a position where they truly only have one or two cupcakes to deal with in conference play in a given year...sadly WSU has been one of them, though I'll still suggest that when Jeff Tuel's collarbone heals they won't be one anymore. In any case, when a top team in the Pac plays any one of about 8 or 9 teams in the conference, I have to say that the underdog
at least brings about a 4-5% chance to the table of pulling the upset outright. I'm pulling the number out of my ass, but tell me if you think that it's an unreasonable one. Meanwhile I can't possibly see how anyone could think that Boise would face even that much of a possibility of upset against most of its crappy conference opponents.
Basically Boise was on notice that, in conference play, Nevada was one of the rare weeks that they had to prepare for. Naturally their coaches can just start game planning for it from day one, because hell if Boise is going to somehow lose to Idaho or New Mexico State even if they have a down week. In light of that, while clearly the fact that dropping that game isn't a sign that they suck, it's certainly a sign that they aren't that great. When you only have 2-3 games per year to really prepare for, know exactly which ones they are, and don't get the job done...you just aren't that great of a team. I'm not at any point saying that Boise isn't good or that they suck or whatever. Blowing out 11 out of 12 opponents you play pretty much dispels that, even in a pathetically easy schedule.
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The fact that gus and disko are the ones on your side should make you rethink your position.
I mean, this part isn't ideal, I'll grant you that. But this ad hominem business doesn't truly discredit an argument.
I will invoke Ed Harris from A Beautiful Mind: "McCarthy is an idiot. Unfortunately that doesn't make him wrong."
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Boise topped vegas and computer power rankings for most of last year. That isn't just casualfan liking some trick plays.
The computer rankings do include the human polls. That has sway here. And let's face it, the human polls (especially the coaches polls) are filled out by a lot of people who didn't truly pay that great of attention to the entire football landscape. Brand names win the day much of the time...and unfortunately the Boise brand name has risen.