Utah should be #1 in the AP Poll since it didn’t make it to the BCS championship game
Utah’s quest for a national championship relies on the human hands of the AP voters. By being the only undefeated D-1 football team; Utah has a white, blank space on their loss section unlike all the other 118 college football teams.
Tonight, a win from Oklahoma or Florida will crown a new “National Champion," but with one-huge-detail-missing: placing the W next to the tainted number 1, as in one-loss team.
Utah should be playing for the National Championship. Many critics, and fans have questioned their MWC schedule, but SEC’s team plays two or three non-conference cupcakes games a year, and USC’s played two JV Washington’s teams this year.
One can also question if a Utah’s team could handle a team like USC, Florida or Oklahoma on the play field? One has to look no further to two years ago when Boise St defeated Oklahoma as a statement game for non-BCS teams.
Boise St was not given a chance, but with a precise, well-achieved game plan did the unthinkable, and beat an Oklahoma team that many expected to trash the Broncos.
Utah’s victory against Oregon St should be a game that the country should taken more notice with wide-open eyes, and not concave glasses. The same Oregon St squad beat USC which consequently, left them out of the National Championship game.
It should be no different for Utah in their quest. Their resume is impressive with victories over Michigan, Oregon St, BYU, and TCU. Everything that Utah could have done with their human hands was done, however, it now, depends on the human hands of the AP voters.
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I pretty much agree with everything you said. But I would just take Michigan off that list of impressive victories. That would often be a solid out-of-conference opponent, but certainly not this year since Michigan was so poor. Your argument still stands about those victories though, and it became even stronger as the season went on and teams like Oregon St. and TCU turned out to be a lot better than originally believed.
The reason I added Michigan to the list of impressive victories was for two main reasons: (1) Playing away at Ana Arbor in front of 100,000 fans. (2) First game of the season, therefore, one doesn’t really know if Michigan was a good or bad team.