And the College Football season begins!!!

[Crothian]

While that might be the case, it still makes what looked like a close good win by USC look like a close bad win by USC. Not that it will make much if any difference for USC.

 

[Dungannon]

And now the WAC has 4 teams bowl-eligible, which is the same as the Big East. The Mountain West has 5, Conference USA has 6, and the MAC has 7. Which just goes to prove my theory that the only reason the Big East was ever included in the BCS was because of Miami U.

 

[Crothian]

The Big East had bowls that were bigger then the other leagues.

 

[Dimwhit]

And now the WAC has 4 teams bowl-eligible, which is the same as the Big East. The Mountain West has 5, Conference USA has 6, and the MAC has 7. Which just goes to prove my theory that the only reason the Big East was ever included in the BCS was because of Miami U.

Yep.

From what I hear, there will be 6 bowl-eligible teams that won't get a bowl this year. The WAC only has 2 tie-ins, but with Fresno getting the Liberty Bowl, only one WAC team gets the shaft--Louisiana Tech. Unless Oregon goes BCS. I think Conference USA will have even more teams not getting a bowl.

 

[Crothian]

So, the big game is about to start. Can Tulsa win or will UCF complete this miracle season?

 

[drothgery]

And now the WAC has 4 teams bowl-eligible, which is the same as the Big East. The Mountain West has 5, Conference USA has 6, and the MAC has 7. Which just goes to prove my theory that the only reason the Big East was ever included in the BCS was because of Miami U.

It's definetly a down year in the Big East. But when the BCS was founded, Miami, Syracuse, and Virginia Tech had about equal chances of winning the conference in any given year. And Pitt, West Virginia, and BC were dangerous spoilers (lets not talk about Rutgers until very recently and Temple ever); it wasn't Miami and the seven dwarfs.

1) There are only 8 teams in the Big East. UConn could become bowl-eligible by upsetting Louisville to give the Big East 5 bowl-eligible teams; which would be proporiantely better than C-USA (6 of 12), the MWC (5 of 9), the MAC (7 of 12), the Pac 10 (5 of 10), SEC (6 of 12), the Sun Belt (2 of 8), or the WAC (4 of 9), and only percentage points behind the Big Ten's 7 of 11. Heck, getting half of its teams bowl-eligbile is exactly what happened in C-USA, the Pac 10, and the SEC. Only the ACC, Big 10, and Big 12 got better than 5/8ths of their teams in bowls... and I think I can safely say that this year's Big 12 or ACC is not something the Big East wants to emulate.

2) If you think UConn or Pitt wouldn't be bowl-eligible in C-USA or the MAC (and probably contending for the conference title), you're on crack.

 

[Crothian]

2) If you think UConn or Pitt wouldn't be bowl-eligible in C-USA or the MAC (and probably contending for the conference title), you're on crack.

Pitt couldn't beat Ohio, an average MAC team. MAC is a bit stronger then people think.

 

[drothgery]

Pitt couldn't beat Ohio, an average MAC team. MAC is a bit stronger then people think.

Pitt improved a lot over the course of the season; they started poorly, but recovered to finish 5-6. And Akron won the MAC championship this year after a 6-5 regular season; this wasn't a good year for the MAC.

 

[Crothian]

Pitt improved a lot over the course of the season; they started poorly, but recovered to finish 5-6. And Akron won the MAC championship this year after a 6-5 regular season; this wasn't a good year for the MAC.

MAC played good, they just didn't have any really dominate teams.

 

[Dimwhit]

Reggie Bush is no a man...he's a machine. 14 carries, 198 yards, 1 TD, a hurdle, a high jump...all with 10 minutes left in the second quarter. Amazing.