This will probably be a good game, but if I was either team I would be very disappointed. These two teams proved all year long that they can beat fairly good teams, and they wanted to prove to the college football world that they could stand up against the big time schools. Now instead they both have to face each other, and won't get to prove themselves against a top dog school like Boise did against Oklahoma a few years ago. I just feel that these teams got screwed by facing each other, and they deserved separate BCS bowls, against BCS conference schools. Now when either one of them wins it won't be considered a huge upset or prove that indeed the smaller schools can compete with the bigger ones.
They should call this bad boy...The Non-BCS National Title game. Another example of the BS that is the BCS, should be a great like last year's game but DAM lol
This was a cheap move by the BCS people. The "safe" decision because there is zero chance that the BCS conferences will get embarrassed by a non-BCS school. This system is the lamest thing ever.
anyone know that both teams played each other in the poinsettia bowl last year? This is nothing more than a bowl game rematch. shame.
We got totally screwed. By the way, last season we freaking beat an undefeated Boise st in a bowl game. Total horsepiss. Even if we crush them, we get no true measuring stick. I am livid. Dammit we already beat them last year and our squad this year is much better than last year's team. So bummed
TCU vs. Florida Cincinnati vs. Boise St. would have been fun games. F the BCS. It's like the Fiesta is taking one for the team so the other bowls could have BCS vs. BCS.
I love how everyone is dissing both TCU and Boise by saying they should be upset about playing each other. The fan bases are essentially admitting that they aren't as relevant as the big-six conference schools. Of course, the fans of these teams argued the exact opposite all year long. If they're two legitimate teams, why should they be disappointed in playing each other? You're a moron if you think that beating Iowa or Georgia Tech would prove anything. Wow, we get to play a team that beat Northern Iowa and Arkansas State by 1 and 3 points! We get to play a team that lost at home to Northwestern! We get to play a team whose best win is @ Penn State, which gets to claim a victory over Northwestern as its SIGNATURE WIN of the season! Wow, we get to play a team that just got beat at home by Georgia, a 7-5 SEC team! We're going to prove that we belong! It's like the fan bases of TCU and Boise are feeding into the notion that they don't truly belong on the same field as the big boys, because after all, they got SCREWED by not getting to play...IOWA AND GEORGIA TECH!
And also, for those saying F the BCS, you should correct yourselves. Say F the "Bowl System," because prior to the BCS, TCU and Boise wouldn't have even sniffed the Fiesta Bowl. They would have been in places like the Liberty and Las Vegas Bowl.
No, it's people who have said all year that we shouldn't be considered as a top team b/c of our conference. The only way any of you would actually shut up is if we beat a BCS conference team in a BCS game. Now, if we beat Boise (again, I might add...we beat them last year when they were lossless), all of you will still say..."Well, they only beat Boise St and they only beat Oregon and didn't play anyone else" It's a total disappointment because we are good enough to play with anybody in the country this season and we are playing a REPEAT of last year's bowl game. Basically, we are all crushed that we don't get to play Florida in the Sugar Bowl, which is where we ****ing should be
No - the fan bases are saying that college football treats them as irrelevant, as shown by the fact that no matter what TCU did this year, they weren't going to be in the top 2. Those schools want the chance to prove to the rest of the country that they are as good as the Floridas and Texases and Alabamas of the world. But instead, they weren't given that opportunity. Why do you keep repeating this? What about beating Florida or Cincinnati? You do know those two teams were also potential opponents, right? It seems that to make your case, you have to create an irrelevant strawman. TCU didn't want to play Iowa or Georgia Tech either. They wanted to play top-5 Florida or Cincinnati.
The team doesnt matter. Its the fact that they could have played against an ACC team or the Big East champ or a Big Ten team. Boise beating TCU just doesnt have the ring to it of taking out a big ten team or the big east champ or an ACC team. Vice versa of course. It doesnt add fuel to the fire of "TCU can play with the big boys, see they totally destroyed the ACC champ."
I never said a single word about where TCU and Boise should be playing. Could you please point that out in my post? You're the one disrespecting your own team. You're feeding into the notion that a win over a team like TCU or Boise proves nothing.
TCU wanted a shot at taking down a big name school and they should have got that shot against Florida. It would send a BIG statement to for little TCU to beat media darling tim tebow and their national championship winning coach urban meyer
It does prove nothing. It proves that they were the better non BCS team. But getting a shot at Florida or Cincinnati and winning would prove that the weaker conference argument is moot.
Nonsense. That's a notion that already widely exists and is seen in the polls and the media attitude towards those teams. They wanted a shot at dismantling that notion - but they have been denied that opportunity.
