Respect Will Only Come Next Year....maybe

I watched the second installment of the BCS, (B drop the C S),show last night and could not be more irritated at the level of weak conference scrutiny the MWC still gets from the "Hosts" of the big ESPN show. Actually it would be quite comical if not for the outright despise the "Hosts" continue to show for non-AQ conferences. Craig James keeps putting up TCU and Boise State on his board and says he is still showing respect to them....but for what? They don't move up on the board and teams ranked behind them continue to leap frog according to his list. He does not even show Utah on his BCS top ten picks, along with Robert Johnson. Then the big drop....Kirk Herbstreet, the unabashed Ohio State homer, slams Craig for making up reasons to lift other teams over the non-AQ teams then minutes later admits he does not have an agenda for Boise State and really flat out "does not care about Boise State or what happens to them". There is the rub, you get some love then the truth comes out.

THESE GUYS DON'T CARE ABOUT THE NON AQ TEAMS!
They are just a story to grapple with and banter about but if they were in charge they would not be considered for any BCS games.

So what is to make of all of this? Not much. It is still the same old school, good old boys, TV money, rip off that it has been since the BCS was installed. But the hope is that when Utah joins the PAC-12 next year that, if they go undefeated or one loss, then the BCS will show them respect that they deserve.
Not so fast...did anybody see the way that Auburn jumped Oregon for the number one spot? Did you or anyone you know understand it?
Oregon has been dismantling teams all year. They have not scored under 43 points in any game and beat Tennessee, (an SEC team), Stanford, and Arizona State convincingly. They hung 60 on UCLA, the same UCLA that whipped up on Texas.
Auburn barely beat teams like Miss. State, Clemson (OT), and Kentucky. Yes they have beaten LSU, Arkansas, and South Carolina but here is what the BCS is saying, that those teams are better than Oregon's competition, visa vie the leap frog to number one. That, at it's core, is an assumption based on old school home cookin. Period! How do they know? The computers are supposed to give that stat a one twenty fifth score behind the human polls which have Oregon ranked higher.

So there you have it, don't count on Utah getting all of the love if they make this same run in the PAC-12. As long as the BCS is in charge, most schools east of Denver and south of Oklahoma will get the nod before the western teams will. Unless Utah turns into USC. The only problem with that is that Salt Lake is not L.A. and does not have the same TV market.   BOOM!! Now you know what drives the BCS.

That is your lesson for the day.