Week 14 College Football: Holy Tebow! A Civil War for the Rose Bowl?

Since 2002 Boise State has played Arkansas, Georgia, Washington, Oregon State multiple times, Oregon twice. Next year against VT. Doesn't really seem like they are shying away from scheduling BCS opponents.

This year TCU played at Virginia, at Clemson, at Air Force, at BYU and had Utah at home. Is that really significantly worse than the Texas schedule?

 

No. But it's not significantly better, either. And it's still a schedule that includes a I-AA and a handful of conference teams that other schools schedule as rent-a-wins.

As for Boise, almost all of those examples were in the first few years after 2002. Since 2006, they've played one a year -- Oregon twice, Oregon State and Washington. The last time they played two was 2005, when they opened against Georgia and Oregon State -- and started 0-2.

 

Perhaps TCU should drop out of the conference and go independent. It could put together a schedule of say:

Nevada
Michigan
Michigan State
Purdue
Washington
USC
Boston College
Washington State
Navy
Pitt
UConn
Stanford

An independent team that wins 10 or 11 of those games should get into the BCS. Undefeated should certainly get you into the national championship game, right?

 

Pretty amazing that Michigan was the worst team on ND's schedule this year.

 

Nothing's stopping TCU from going independent. They've jumped conferences twice in the last decade, after all.

Since the SWC dissolved, here's TCU's conference affiliation:

* 1996-2000: Western Athletic Conference
* 2001-2004: Conference USA
* 2005-present: Mountain West

 

Boise State is the one that should go independent if they want more respect. At least TCU has Utah and BYU as solid programs.