Thoughts about TCU vs. Boise

[YOhio]

It is a well known fact that I am an idiot. Having lived in Ohio, what do you expect?

Now that it's getting cold are you folks in Kentucky allowed to put your shoes back on?

[FN Phat]

Now that it's getting cold are you folks in Kentucky allowed to put your shoes back on?

It's easier/cheaper to put shoes back on than try to get your teeth back in!

[YOhio]

It's easier/cheaper to put shoes back on than try to get your teeth back in!

I realize that's an either/or proposition for most of your fellow Kentuckians so my best wishes to them.

[FN Phat]

I realize that's an either/or proposition for most of your fellow Kentuckians so my best wishes to them.

Times are lean, you cut funds where you need to. You Ohi-uns are all the same. Let me guess, you have had a family vacation to Cedar Point?

[BoylenOver]

http://espn.go.com/blog/ncfnation/po...-aq-distiction

Both teams are allotted 17,500 tickets, and both asked for more. The rest of the seats in the stadium (approx. 30k) are sold out.

A great showing for both teams.

[Fiyero]

Dear TCU,

Not only has the MWC never lost a BCS bowl, they've also never trailed. In fact, they've always jumped out to leads of at least 21-0.

Don't fail.

[BoylenOver]

TCU will be without Rafael Priest. He sprained his foot in practice and will not play.

I still think the Frogs win by 10-14 points. Their offense is far too efficient for the Broncos, and the Frogs are so positionally sound that BSU will have a tough time moving the ball.

[BigPiney]

cincinnati is going to beat florida.

lol, did they even show up except to puff their chests a bit?

[Art Vandelay]

Dear TCU,

Not only has the MWC never lost a BCS bowl, they've also never trailed. In fact, they've always jumped out to leads of at least 21-0.

Don't fail.

Interesting, I didn't not know that little tidbit. Even Wyoming was up 21-0? Sorry LP I didn't watch any of that game.

[Fiyero]

Interesting, I didn't not know that little tidbit. Even Wyoming was up 21-0? Sorry LP I didn't watch any of that game.

Wyoming has never played in a BCS bowl, but there's always 2011.

[Art Vandelay]

Wyoming has never played in a BCS bowl, but there's always 2011.

Oops my bad. I misread your post. I thought you were talking about the MWC being undefeated this year. Though if I would have stopped to think I know both BYU and Utah were down 7-0. I'm an idiot...in other news the sun sets in the west.

[Coastal Ute]

Complaining about this only validates the notion that the BCS is nobility. Why is TCU better off playing Iowa than Boise?

This is not the worst possible matchup for TCU. If TCU handles Boise people will respect it more than had it routed Iowa.

Complaining about this on TCU's behalf only arises from fear. Apart from the fact that MWC honor is on the line vs. an upstart mid-major, this is the best possible matchup TCU could have hoped for. Texas or Alabama was not possible, Florida is locked into the SUGAR BOWL, and no way in hell the SUGAR BOWL picks TCU over Cincinnati (especially since Cincinnati leapfrogged TCU in the BCS poll).

Prediction: TCU buries Boise like Georgia buried Hawaii, and Florida buries Cincinnati like Georgia burried Hawaii. TCU finishes no. 2 in the AP; second year in a row an MWC team finishes no. 2 in the AP. Not bad. You heard it here first.

I chuckle at all the TCU boosters here. No one was this protective of Utah even after they achieved a record that TCU cannot possibly match this year. I guess hate always trumps self-interest.

Frankly, I care A LOT less about TCU winning this year than I did last year, for obvious reasons. I wouldn't care much if Boise won, and preserved the 2008 Ute season as the undisputed greatest mid-major season ever (which it will be anyway come what may).

Right on the money so far. I think both Cincy and Boise end up getting team psychologists after this post-season.

Part of me still believes TCU got slightly screwed, but you have a point with the Iowa thing. TCU No. 2 sounds about right. At least, I hope so.

[Color Me Badd Fan]

Right on the money so far. I think both Cincy and Boise end up getting team psychologists after this post-season.

Part of me still believes TCU got slightly screwed, but you have a point with the Iowa thing. TCU No. 2 sounds about right. At least, I hope so.

Dennis Dodd says an ugly Texas win over Alabama (let's say it's a repeat of the Penn State vs. Miami Fiesta Bowl game from 1987), could propel the Football Writers Association to vote for TCU. Supposedly it's one of four entities that hands out a trophy. Somehow I think that if this happens, no one will ever be talking about TCU as a national champion since probably about .1% of the public has heard about the Football Writers' trophy. People care about two trophies: the BCS and the AP and even the BCS trophy can be tainted under the right circumstances (see 2003 LSU, no one outside the SEC thinks LSU was really the national champ that year over USC).

[Flystripper]

Dennis Dodd says an ugly Texas win over Alabama (let's say it's a repeat of the Penn State vs. Miami Fiesta Bowl game from 1987), could propel the Football Writers Association to vote for TCU. Supposedly it's one of four entities that hands out a trophy. Somehow I think that if this happens, no one will ever be talking about TCU as a national champion since probably about .1% of the public has heard about the Football Writers' trophy. People care about two trophies: the BCS and the AP and even the BCS trophy can be tainted under the right circumstances (see 2003 LSU, no one outside the SEC thinks LSU was really the national champ that year over USC).

They can still possibly get an AP trophy (highly unlikely) and claim a national championship like USC does.

[SeattleUte]

They can still possibly get an AP trophy (highly unlikely) and claim a national championship like USC does.

Whatever happens TCU will have less of a claim to it than Utah did last year. I wonder if a majority of computers would make them no. 1 like the Utes got last year.