Anyone who thinks Utah deserves a piece of some mythical national championship needs to sign a pledge, in writing, to never ever ever bitch about another league’s non-conference scheduling ever again. If Utah deserves a title, then strength of schedule means nothing, and no team should receive any scorn whatsoever for maximizing the number of automatic wins in their schedule.
if anybody has a beef, it’s USC, whose 11-1 run through the Pac-10 suddenly looks a hell of a lot better given the Pac-10’s beatdown of all comers in this year’s bowl derby. And at the very least – given Oregon and Ole Miss – the people arguing that the Big 12 plays defense and that their offenses are JUST! THAT! AMAZING! plainly need to do some rethinking. I mean, Texas Tech gave up in a half what Vandy gave up the entire game (and the ‘Dores won, to boot)…
I think your four team playoff was set pretty well before we started: Florida, Oklahoma, USC, Utah. Nobody else has a case. The ACC and Big East are barely better than the MWC, and let’s not even get started on the Big Ten. Once again, if you seriously want to settle this on the field, you don’t have to go deeper than four. (Bama and Texas have a beef? Shoulda won your conference.)
Honestly, at this point, if the 1990 rules are still in effect?
ROSE: USC-PSU
SUGAR: Florida-Texas
FIESTA: Oklahoma-Utah
ORANGE: Alabama-VaTech
COTTON: Cincy-Texas Tech
If everything works out like you’d expect, USC, Florida and Utah are all clamoring that they deserve a piece of the title…and fat fucking shocker, that’s EXACTLY what we have now.
Blow it up. Blow it all up. No playoff, no BCS, nothing. Go back to the way things were in 1990 and not one single thing will be any worse off.