Boise State deserves big bowl, not BCS title game

After last night's squeaker against an unimpressive Virginia Tech team, Boise State should now run the table, win the rest of its games and go undefeated. This will set up a huge discussion at the end of the season about whether they deserve to play for the national championship.

Maybe, this is the year to just end the argument and put them in the national championship game, unfair as that may be to all the other teams who play real schedules before big crowds and under a lot more pressure than BSU will experience the rest of the way. Not only are their opponents going to be weak (don't count on Oregon State to give the Broncs much of a game), but they will play in front of an average of 26,000 people when they go on the road. This compares to other teams facing road game crowds of 70,000, 80,000, even 100,000 partisan fans.

Boise, meanwhile, will be skating through the season, pounding on weaker opponents in order to maintain its ranking. The only pressure Boise will face will be to run up the score on every opportunity and pummel as many of its unworthy opponents as possible. Warning, OSU, the Broncs will be out to run up the score on Sept. 25 as this will be their last game against a quality opponent.

So, those of us who don't believe that Boise is worthy of the National Championship Game due to its unrepresentative schedule, it's time to let it go. Even Colin Cowherd, the ESPN host who describes my sentiments pretty accurately, is resigned to the fact that BSU goes unbeaten and then we see where the chips fall.

If there are two other undefeated teams from real conferences, BSU won't get in the title game. But, the Broncs will land a BCS Bowl game. Let's just hope that this year, it's not the "Arranged Marriage Bowl" that they played in last year where they were matched with TCU, another team that plays a chump schedule. If they can beat VaTech on the road then they can play Florida in the Sugar Bowl next January. 

But, let's save the national title game for two teams who have proved themselves against more than one ranked opponent.