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Mid Major Teams Make the Preseason Cut

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Ncf_a_hall_200_mediumLast week the first Preseason top 25 poll was released and if the rankings are correct, it might bode for good things to come for the non-BCS conferences. This year marks the most non-BCS teams in the top 25 since the BCS began in 1998. Out of the four teams that made the top 25, three of them are in the top 20. Boise State (No.13), Utah (No. 18), TCU (No. 20) and BYU (No.21) all made the cut and will hope to prove to the rest of the football world that they deserve to be in the top 25. 

This is a huge step in the right direction for drawing more attention to the mid major conferences. To be recognized before the season has even started says something about the quality of football that is being played within these conferences and this should benefit the non-BCS conferences in receiving more attention and becoming more attractive to bigger bowls.

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The most important thing about this is..

Being ranked this high pre-season allows an undefeated team to beat the computer in the sense of BCS title game….If Florida is the only undefeated BCS school and one fo the current top 25 non-bcs schools goes 12-0 they will have the first legit chance ever to play for the national championship since the BCS began. Boise can do it if they beat Oregon….13th is plenty high enough to be #2 in the BCS rankings come Jan!

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by CapitolLions on Aug 10, 2009 1:37 PM PDT reply actions  

Where is the Big East at!

That is what I want to know, and those weak arguments about the depth need to go away. The top of the league is more important then the bottom and the MWC has 3 of them and the bottom is not far off SDSU and Syracuse are similar, as is UCONN and USF are similar to Air Force and Colorado State.

by Jeremy Mauss on Aug 11, 2009 9:22 PM PDT reply actions  

Sorry man, i gotta side with the masses on this..

Colo St and Air Force would get beat 7 out of 10 by Connecticut and 9 out of 10 by USF.

I agree that Syracuse is worse than anyone in the MWC though. They might be the worst team in Division 1 right now.

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by CapitolLions on Aug 12, 2009 8:14 AM PDT reply actions  

Not true

Neither of the schools are special but the games you mentioned would be toss ups for either side.

by Jeremy Mauss on Aug 15, 2009 3:51 PM PDT up reply actions  

Look, dont get all riled up.

I am a mid-major guy. But I am also realistic. TCU. UTAH, and BYU are now and usually are as good as anyone in the big east…but USF is better than anyone in the MWC other than those 3 and it would be a toss up with those three…..

Cincy, WVU, Pitt, USF. and Rutgers are on par with BYU, TCU, and UTAH…regardless of ranking.

Other than that is sketchy…UL and Conn are better than everyone other than the top 3 in the MWC. and ’cuse is worse than all of them.

MWC is good man. Very good. and I for one, think that TCU can go undefeated…and if they do, will have an outside chance at playing for the NC….seriously.

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by CapitolLions on Aug 18, 2009 11:08 AM PDT reply actions  

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