Reply #19: The current system rewards mass ignorance among fans and media [View All]

Boise State destroys mid level teams routinely. There is a considerable burden to that accomplishment. That's why their power rating is so astronomical, and has been that way for years. The most dense fans I've ever encountered on the college football message boards thrill to assert that any Top 25 team could run the table with Boise State's schedule, and win by the same margins. It's such simpleton poppycock I wonder how they get by in day to day life, without mistaking a pepper shaker for something that can bake a turkey. Those teams are 7-14 points worse than Boise State in power rating, which means the vulnerability soars game after game. You can't merely look at Boise's margins and subtract 7-14 points, which is something fools love to do when I provide the numbers. The more middling the team the greater the regularity of sub par efforts, leading to upsets. If you gave those teams Boise State's schedule their season win over/under would be 1-2 games lower than Boise's number every year.

Strength of schedule is an invention of idiots and an obsession of idiots. In Boise State's case it has been used to exclude them from major bowls or to match them against TCU - twice -- conveniently preventing another Oklahoma or Wisconsin situation for either team.

Here is what the Boise's knockers are waiting for -- next season when Kellen Moore is gone and Boise State inevitably declines. Their power rating will drop the 7-10 points that puts them into the second tier, the crowded tier of vulnerability. They will lose the extra 1-2 games and the nitwit schedule strength tulips will howl, asserting that Boise State was overstated all along. That type will be wonderfully clueless that they upsets they are witnessing at the time verifies how moronic they were years earlier, when claiming, "any team could run the table with that schedule," blah, blah, blah...

Boise State actually has a tough assignment this year. A Pac 12 team like Arizona State has plenty of athletes on both sides of the ball, a pro prospect quarterback, and was rated Top 25 in virtually every preseason list. The team averages 7.8 yards per pass attempt with many other good numbers in the key stats.

The same geniuses who rip Boise State are the type who annually downgrade the Pac. So they'll be double wrong merged in the Las Vegas Bowl but a tighter than expected game will allow them to feel happy. :rofl: