Hypothetical: Let's say that Bosie is up by 30 at the half (not probable, but possible)...do they run the score up in the second half knowing they need a huge statement game to have any chance at the national title game?

Are you telling me that of the 60+ schools in the BCS conferences that none of them would play you?

Tonight we have our first virtual "elimination game" as Boise State/Virginia Tech meet. Really though, Boise State may be in trouble because of such a poor schedule that unless we have a lot of 2 loss teams they may be on the outside looking in. You have to judge a team on how many big wins it has and how many bad losses it has. Boise likely won't have any bad losses but they certainly won't have the big wins either outside of tonight.

Before you say the standard response of "No one would schedule them. They can only play who is on their schedule. The system is unfair!" just keep in mind that they scheduled two BCS conference opponents and then a MAC team and a WAC team. Are you telling me that of the 60+ schools in the BCS conferences that none of them would play you? It's just really hard to justify a national championship contender that has played a total of two games against opponents that are ranked over someone like Alabama or Ohio State who will play at least double that.

Virginia Tech could still stay in the conversation with a close loss and then running the table. Boise is clearly out if they lose.

No one will play Boise State. They usually beat the ranked teams that they do play. Here is a program with a recruiting class that doesn't even rank in the top 50 yet they can play with anyone. They will go 12-0 this year & the NCAA & BCS committee will crap their pants.

They have two opponents from BCS conferences. I hate this "No one will play them" crap. It's false. I'm sure if this year they said "Hey, average BCS conference team, keep all the money you would pay out to a MAC team and we'll come play you" that a team that struggles to fill the stadium for those poor games would do it.

It's not crap. Here are some links to a few stories from last year about the Broncos quest to play BCS teams. They all have declined.
Karl Benson, the Western Athletic Conference Commissioner, says..."They're running into a situation where nobody will schedule them," Benson said. "Nobody will take them."

This isn't that hard. They have two BCS schools on the schedule this year. Therefore, "no one will play them" is false. Let me reiterate. You can't say "No one will play us" when two teams are playing you.

It's really easy to say things like that because who is going to refute it? I mean, it's not like Purdue is going to say "We would have played Boise State! They never called us!".

Did you read the articles? Here is another good one:

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/n ... oise110709[url][/url]

Why didn't Boise contact Purdue in 2006? They probably could have gotten a game there instead of Purdue going to play a game @Rice. It's stupid to try and schedule an opponent two years down the line and then complain that no one will schedule you. Purdue likely has one open date in 2016 and 2017 if the Big Ten goes to a 9 game schedule.

It's not crap. Here are some links to a few stories from last year about the Broncos quest to play BCS teams. They all have declined.
Karl Benson, the Western Athletic Conference Commissioner, says..."They're running into a situation where nobody will schedule them," Benson said. "Nobody will take them."

This isn't that hard. They have two BCS schools on the schedule this year. Therefore, "no one will play them" is false. Let me reiterate. You can't say "No one will play us" when two teams are playing you.
It's really easy to say things like that because who is going to refute it? I mean, it's not like Purdue is going to say "We would have played Boise State! They never called us!".

Did you read the articles? Here is another good one:

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/n ... oise110709[url][/url]

Yes. I read the articles. It's still mostly crap and a convenient thing to say now. Can you at least acknowledge that a team that "no one will play" has somehow miraculously scheduled two BCS conference teams? Can you at least acknowledge that a majority of schedules are filled out further out than two years beforehand? Can you at least acknowledge that Boise State is still not scheduling well in that timeframe? Can you at least acknowledge that Boise State can say whatever they want and no one is going to refute it?

Blame the AD for poor scheduling and not some supposed right that Boise State should have it's pick of any school to schedule two years before the game simply because they are good now.

It's pretty clear you want to buy into the cute little story of the team that no one wanted to play(except 50% of the OOC schedule) and everyone is scared of. It's just a shame that it's a little bit of a truth and a lot of spin.

Say what you will about spin, but every top ncaa football program has declined to play Boise State. That is a fact.

ESPN offered money & a prime time HOME TV game to any top program who would play the Broncos...they all said no.

I see you are still posting Scorehead. Why won't you respond to the fact that you posted a bunch of articles that "no one would schedule them" but at the time that you were posting them(and since May) they've actually had an SEC team scheduled? Doesn't that pretty much mean your whole point was false since Boise State chose to schedule 3 non-BCS teams next season too.

All of the top NCAA football programs were offered a home game on ESPN, & they all declined. In any case, Boise State is now an elite football program & they can beat anyone in the country.

Well, obviously, Mississippi took the challenge and is paying them $900k for the privilege. They were right around 20th at the end of last season. So once again, you are wrong. I don't know how you can think otherwise. Just admit that teams will play Boise State and that they haven't had an issue filling out the schedule. They had one open date in 2011 and got a team coming off a top 25 team in the best conference in the land. My guess is that a majority of the top 25 from last year had already scheduled all four out of conference games prior to Boise State playing the "no one will play us!" card. Were they supposed to break contracts or something?

Do me a favor, just admit that you were completely wrong about it in every possible way and we can move on. It's ok. You bought into the PR campaign that they put on by making completely unprovable statements that looked good but in the end proved to be unneeded concerns since they got as many BCS opponents as they wanted.

The fact is that Boise State loves the fact that they only play two good teams a year. They'd be exposed in a better conference.

Let me say it one more time. Boise State, who were complaining about not being able to find an opponent and claimed no one would play them, was then able to schedule a top 25 opponent even with most teams having completely full schedules.

I'm not sure what you are so angry about. Miss & Oregon State are not the top programs that were invited to play. You know who the top programs are...USC, Texas, Florida, Purdue...just wanted to make sure you were paying attention!

JohnKirk rule.

When I say no one I mean the top programs, not the low end BCS programs like Miss & Oregon State.