Unlike BCS, NY Times does not snub Boise State football

Can you believe I went to bed 10 minutes before this happened?

The New York Time’s collegiate sport blog, The Quad, ranked this year’s Humanitarian Bowl match between Boise State and TCU as the third best bowl of the sham that passes for a post-season in college football.

A classic match-up of Boise’s high-powered offense against T.C.U.’s stingy defense. Don’t forget that T.C.U. held Oklahoma to fewer points than any other team this season. The scary part about this Boise team is that its much more athletic and talented than the one that upset Oklahoma in the Fiesta Bowl.

The best game? Florida v. Oklahoma, of course. Somehow USC v. Penn State got ranked ahead of the Humanitarian Bowl. Probably due to the ongoing drama of  whether 108-year old JoePa will find his way to the stadium.

So does the NYT know something that the BCS doesn’t. Yes, duh, because watching classic underdog Boise State, no matter where you live, is like watching Davidson make a run in the NCAA basketball tournament, and the BCS still ranks teams according to how good they were in 1997.

But Boise State is more than that. Remember two years ago, when that dude scored the winning touchdown in the third overtime on a trick play and then proposed to his fucking girlfriend? What the fuck was that? I guarantee Disney movie executives had a collective orgasm when they watched that shit.

I think Boise State should do something like this every year when they go undefeated and get shipped off to some halfassed bowl game. Like this year, a player can take a paternity test after winning the game, or notarize his will or something. Something life-changing, you know? Come out of the closet to your fundy Christian parents. Something with a little drama.

Feinstein: BSC is biggest national mistake since Iraq invasion

There will be blue

John Feinstein has significant beef with the BCS. Besides comparing it in the WaPo to, well,  Operation Enduring Fiefdom, he calls the bowl system a “train wreck.” He’s even got a little some thing to say about my (new) hometown Broncos.

Let’s throw Boise State into that wrecked train too. The Broncos went 12-0 a couple years after proving their program could hang with the big boys when they beat Oklahoma in the Fiesta Bowl. They finished ahead of Ohio State in the BCS’s own rankings. But, because the rules say only one non-BCS team must be invited to a BCS bowl (if ranked in the top 12), sixth-ranked Utah will go to the Sugar Bowl while ninth-ranked Boise State gets to play in the Poinsettia Bowl on December 23. If you are looking for a non-major bowl to watch that game, with TCU as the Broncos opponent, is far more worthy of your attention than Cincinnati-Virginia Tech.