Comes now Lou Holtz of ESPN, moaning how sad it would be if Boise State wound up having to play in the Fiesta Bowl. Now, I realize that ESPN has been in the tank for the Broncos for a couple of years now, but seriously: shut the fuck up. Was it fair when an undefeated Auburn team got jobbed out of the national title picture in favor of Chokelahoma in 2004? Or when a Cal team ranked #4 in the country, with their only loss to #1 USC, wound up in the Holiday Bowl so that Pitt and Utah could get automatic bids? Or when Oregon got left out of the 2001 title game – in the Rose Bowl no less – so that a Nebraska team that didn’t even win its conference title game could be sacrificed to Miami? And what, for crying out loud, about TCU – which has matched Boise State’s performance against superior opposition for the last 3 years?
Life isn’t fair. And Boise has gotten hype and privilege far above and beyond teams with better resumes (how many mid-majors get fully half their games on ESPN?) – if you’re in a BCS bowl, enjoy it. Relish it. Because when Boise finally gets a national title bid against somebody oher than Chokelahoma, it’s not going to be pretty.