(01-02-2013 04:24 PM)200yrs2late Wrote: Do you really feel like you could replace Louisville with NIU and NIU would have replicated Louisville's success? NIU faced 5 teams with 2 wins or less, thats 45% of their wins coming over teams that won 16% or less of their own games. Louisville faced just 2 teams with 2 wins or less, only 22% of their opponents. Louisville might not have played the best teams in the world, but NIU played some really terrible teams that accounted for almost half their wins.
Falcon I never said Kentucky was a great win either. But it is a win against bottom of the barrel SEC players which are on average better then decent MAC players. Oh yeah, that same Kentucky team destroyed Kent St 47-14.
Bottom line is that I see nothing in NIU very nice 11 win season that makes me feel like they deserved a shot at a BCS game. They played too many teams that barely squeezed out one or two wins.
So they beat the teams they were supposed to. Kent State also destroyed Rutgers, but, guys like you and ESPN folks don't want to talk about a BCS co champion losing to MAC schools. Just that they lost to UK.
The MAC enjoyed one of it's best years in a long time and NIU proved to be the best team. The 2nd and 3rd best teams in the MAC BEAT 2 of the Big East co-champions. You keep ignoring that. Yes, NIU could have won 10 games with Louisville's schedule. But, alas UNC would never play NIU in Dekalb.
Could NIU kept it within 20 of Syracuse? Yes.
Could they have beat, UC, USF, Pitt, Rutgers, and Temple. Yes to all those teams.
Would they have lost to UConn at home? No. UConn lost at home to Western Michigan...who lost to NIU by 2 TDs.
Sorry NIU only beat Eastern, UMass, and Akron by a combined score of 149-14. We'll start having teams run the score up on those guys.
Sorry they only beat Army by 1. The same Army who beat BC, Air Force and had Navy on the ropes.
You could say Louisville played a lot of horrible teams that accounted for half their wins.
UK (2 wins)
Missouri State (3 wins....FCS)
FIU (3 wins)
Southern Miss (0 wins)
South Florida (3 wins)
Temple (4 wins)
5 FBS teams...combined 12 wins. With an FCS team who won 3 games. 6 of their wins came against teams with a combined 15 wins...the shame.
And you want to complain about who NIU beat....wow. I'm sure ESPN will touch on all this tonight.