They played a tougher schedule than everyone’s darling, the University of Spoiled Children, and Utah defeated, while the brain surgeons lost to, their one common opponent.

The BCS itself is only part of the problem. With its dependence on polls that are rigged from before the start of the season to eliminate any possibility of an upstart like Utah from ranking near or at the top, despite merit, no Utah, Boise State, or BYU, as they once were able to do, can now have a chance to even get to the “Championship” game.

The MegaBuckBowlCartel has to be ended. There is no sane, reasonable ground to NOT have a true playoff system.

I agree, there should be some sort of playoff system!

UTAH – 2009 Sugar Bowl Champs NOT National Champs!

UTAH UTES:
THE ONLY UNDEFEATED TEAM IN 2009
two wins over top-ten opponents
four wins over ranked opponents
14-game current winning streak (longest in the nation)
8-game current bowl winning streak, including two BCS games (longest in the nation)
Has won 21 of last 22 games dating back to last season.
2 undefeated seasons in the last five years (best in the nation)
2 BCS bowl victories in 5 years (equaling the total BCS victories of the ACC since its inception)
Best record of any non-BCS team vs BCS conferences since the inception of the BCS ten years ago.

And for those who think the MWC is a cupcake, go do a little research on conference head to head match-ups and see how the MWC performed this year. It might surprise you too. Here’s a little preview: MWC vs SEC = 2-0.

So keep you BCS championship. We don’t want that crock of SH!T anyway. Everyone knows it’s a worthless trophy. When you want to settle it on the field we’ll be ready; just ask Alabama.

UNIVERSITY OF UTAH – 2009 ANTI-BCS NATIONAL CHAMPIONS!

The posters above me already made this point pretty clear, but just to make it even more clear, Utah had as good a schedule as anyone. There will always be weak teams on schedules. Florida played The Citadel from the FCS, should they not be in the National Championship game because they played them? And let’s compare Utah to USC, a team that people at ESPN were absolutely drooling over after the Rose Bowl, and look at their schedule which includes the only winless team in the FBS. The only games that stand out are Ohio State, the loss to Oregon State, the dominating win over Oregon, and a 17-3 win against Cal. Minus them you have the aforementioned winless Washington, Washington State, UCLA, Notre Dame, Virginia, Stanford, Arizona State, and Arizona. That is by no means an overwhelming schedule. Back to the signature games, we’ll learn a whole heck of a lot about Ohio State tonight, Oregon is a fairly solid team, beating Oklahoma State in the Holiday Bowl improved their image big time. Cal is pretty much one-dimensional. So by looking at the signature wins of both teams, Utah, who beat TCU, BYU, and Oregon State, clearly has a tougher schedule than a team some feel like are good enough to beat Florida and/or Oklahoma.

The way I see it, there are two solutions to this. They can institue the playoff system (which would make a lot of people happy) or if they absolutely insist on keeping the BCS system, what should happen is the Mountain West invites Boise State to the MWC, the MWC then somehow becomes a BCS conference, and everyone would be happy and Utah would then rightfully be called the #1 team. That MWC would hands down be the 3rd best conference in college football (behind only the SEC and the Big 12).

And for those of you that say that San Diego State is not worthy of being in a BCS school, look at the PAC-10. The worst team in the FBS is in a BCS conference (Washington in the PAC-10, in case you could not figure it out

With upwards of 120 Bowl Subdivision schools playing football, it is virtually impossible to narrow down the best 2 teams in the country in one attempt (that attempt currently being the BCS Bowl selection process). Until the “championship” field expands, we will always have legitimate arguments made by the top teams in the country that they should have a shot at the title. And even if/when it does expand, the next level of teams will lobby for a shot to be included. The good news is that it would be easier to stomach watching a second tier team not get included than having to watch teams like USC, Utah, Texas, etc not get a title shot (like the present system).

Congratulations to Utah on one helluva season. People will take their shots at the Utes but they cannot take away Utah’s undefeated season and Sugar Bowl whoopin’ of Alabama- those two events are in the books for good.

So no Utah is not the best team in the land. They do deserve the right to play for that distinction, however. Aka a playoff.

In every other team sport anywhere (and every other level of football under the NCAA umbrella), Utah would get the chance to prove themselves.

You talk about how Utah has “bad” wins against New Mexico, Wyoming, and Weber State, yet fail to to acknowldge Alabama’s “bad” wins against Arkansas State, Western Kentucky, and Tulane.

Utah beat a damn good TCU team, a solid BYU team, a very good Oregon State team, and flat out dominated Alabama. Utah hasnt been good for just 1 year, they have been one of the best programs in college football for the last 5 years. Utah deserves the opportunity if they have another undefeated regular season to play in the BCS title game if there are no other undefeated teams. You couldnt have watched the game on Friday and thought Utah couldnt beat anyone in the nation, and I’m an SC fan saying that. The Utes are legit.