Is Utah a BCS contender?

[Lineman143]

I dont think they can hang with a Big Twelve team or a Acc team, but they are a good team.

[HOLLYWOOD]

I don' t think they can hang with a BCS caliber team but never know unless they play the game against one though!

[Coach]

I think them vs. WVU would be a very good game to watch with the two similar offenses. I think they'll get there.

Remember there is a B12 championship game to be played
An SEC one to be played...

UGA still plays Auburn...

Wisky might lose somehow...maybe to Mich State this weekend...

the Pac 10 stinks and there is no title game...the Pac 10 schedule is way too easy for USC this year. Cal is the only other team that is good on the other coast.

[HOLLYWOOD]

I don't want WV to play Utah!! I want to play a heavyweight and win so it really makes everyone go wow!! If we play Utah they will be like they are playing nobody they should win and the Big East stinks la, la, la.

[The Ancient Enemy]

I honestly think Utah would beat WVU by 25 points.

[fleaflicker]

Utah is certainly a better BCS contender than WVU. I think perhaps the real reason Hollywood doesn't want them to play Utah, though he won't ever admit it, is that he feels that Utah would probably win. I think Utah could beat anybody right now that doesn't bring their A game to play, including the so called best teams in the nation. There are only a few teams that Utah couldn't beat, provided those teams brought every gun. Those are USC, Wisconsin, and Auburn. Those teams have good defense. Utah might be able to pull one over OU though.

[The Ancient Enemy]

Saying things like "they're terrible because they play in the Mountain West" is such a cop-out, close-minded opinion. When you say stuff like that, all it does is prove that you haven't seen the team play, and won't even give them a chance. Let's keep in mind here that Utah IS ALSO a Mountain West team, as is Boise State IS ALSO a Western Athletic Conference team. They are not Nebraska or Florida State deciding to drop down into a weaker conference and beat the crap out of everybody. Boise and Utah are just like Colorado State and Fresno, people. That is why it is such a monumental accomplishment for Boise State to have the longest winning streak in the country, and for Utah to be killing people. They are teams that rose from the obscurity or their conference, and are now very good programs that you hear little about. If you think Boise would go to the Pac-10 and get destroyed, you are very wrong. Same goes with Utah in the Big 12 north, or Pac-10. These two coaches are always talked about when high profile jobs open up. They are not cowpoke coaches on cowpoke teams. Wake up and realize that Utah and Boise are two teams who are VERY good, but do not have the opportunities to show that against KNOWN teams every week. You have to understand that Boise and Utah are in bad situations now because of their own success. Unless they get invites to bigger conferences, which isn't happening any time soon, no known teams are going to want to play either of them in out-of-conference games, especially early in the season. And all that will of course do is make even more people say "well they are terrible because they are in the WAC". Until USC gets screwed in the polls, the Pac-10 isn't going to a 12 team alignment. What needs to happen is that USC goes undefeated and does not get to play for the national championship because the two teams ahead of them won conference championship games. So, support Utah and Boise. And I will say this again... if Utah does make a BCS bowl, eyes will be opened.

These teams already have a tough time scheduling quality, non-conference competition, because people are afraid of them. Boise FINALLY was able to get a Pac-10 on their schedule this season, after having about 3 straight very strong seasons. They got Oregon State, who is about the #4 this season in the Pac-10, and they beat them. Cal, USC, ASU don't want anything to do with them because they risk a serious, early season upset. The teams below OSU don't want to play them because they know they'll probably get beat, and don't want to risk losing to a team in a smaller conference and end up dealing with the laughter from it. It's not so easy for these teams to get good competition on their schedules. Utah, however, landed A&M and they destroyed them even worse than what the score showed.

[deliverance]

Utah is sooooo tough that they've beaten 2 teams with winning records. They've beaten 4 teams with 2-7 records. Now that is definitely a tough team that deserves a good bowl. Come on get real. If that's all the better teams you play, you don't deserve any more than the Continental Tire Bowl. I'm starting to question your knowledge now TAE after sticking up for Utah. Playing teams like that, you're just setting yourself up for not being the BCS no matter how good you are.

[The Ancient Enemy]

Hey deliverance... did I say Utah deserved a BCS bid? I said they'd do better than people think they would, if they got one. They clearly do not deserve it over Cal or Georgia or even Texas. As a team in a smaller conference, they don't deserve to go ahead of those teams with one loss. What I was saying was that Utah IS good, and WOULD have a good showing. I didn't say they deserved to go. There are clearly problems with the entire system. SHOULD they have a chance against a better school in a bowl game? Absolutely. You gotta make the system fair, man. Right now with the current setup it isnt fair to those small conference teams.

[HOLLYWOOD]

Utah would beat WV, oh my ok that is fine but you will see what happens!! Say the Big East is bad and all that wait til bowl time. We will let the actions speak for themselves! Just wait and see the EERS take the Big East Title this weekend vs BC and Morgantown goes nuts and the fans go crazy all over the field and get the goalposts oh I can't wait!! Letsssss Gooooooo Mountaineers. Play like your couch is on fire!