UABGrad Wrote:

3601 Wrote:If it were based solely on the BCS final ranking over the four year term then the Mountain West Conference could add Boise State and very possibly be ranked higher than the Big East. The BCS will not allow that to happen.

They only have 14 days left to announce they are adding Boise State if they want them to play in the 2007 season and be included in the evaluation. IMO, the BE has clearly seperated themselves from the MWC the last 2 years. WVU and UL have carried the torch quite well. If they can keep it up for 2 more seasons, then in IMO the autobids will not change.

The BCS Wrote:After the 2007 season, automatic qualification standards will be applied to all 11 Division I-A conferences to determine the number of conferences whose champion will automatically qualify for a BCS game for the next two seasons ('08 and '09). Each conference will be evaluated on each of the previous four seasons ('04, '05, '06, '07), based on membership during the '07 season. The champions of no fewer than five conferences and no more than seven conferences will have annual automatic berths in the BCS bowl games played following the 2008 and 2009 regular season.

http://www.bcsfootball.org/index2.cfm?page=structure

Mountain West fans have been under the false impression that they can add Boise State and/or Fresno State after the 2007 season, but have all their WAC rankings from 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007 seasons counted in favor of the MWC instead, to sneak them into the BCS. Several posters have told them the BCS will not allow such a scheme but they refuse to heed the obvious truth.

I think the passage you cite from the official BCS webpage makes it 100% clear that any team they add must play MWC football during the 2007 season. No rankings for prior seasons in other conferences will be counted retroactively for them. They think a precedent was set in 2004, but they ignore the fact that the BCS only counted one year from other conferences, not multiple years.

Lolly Popp Wrote:

UABGrad Wrote:

3601 Wrote:If it were based solely on the BCS final ranking over the four year term then the Mountain West Conference could add Boise State and very possibly be ranked higher than the Big East. The BCS will not allow that to happen.

They only have 14 days left to announce they are adding Boise State if they want them to play in the 2007 season and be included in the evaluation. IMO, the BE has clearly seperated themselves from the MWC the last 2 years. WVU and UL have carried the torch quite well. If they can keep it up for 2 more seasons, then in IMO the autobids will not change.

The BCS Wrote:After the 2007 season, automatic qualification standards will be applied to all 11 Division I-A conferences to determine the number of conferences whose champion will automatically qualify for a BCS game for the next two seasons ('08 and '09). Each conference will be evaluated on each of the previous four seasons ('04, '05, '06, '07), based on membership during the '07 season. The champions of no fewer than five conferences and no more than seven conferences will have annual automatic berths in the BCS bowl games played following the 2008 and 2009 regular season.

http://www.bcsfootball.org/index2.cfm?page=structure

Mountain West fans have been under the false impression that they can add Boise State and/or Fresno State after the 2007 season, but have all their WAC rankings from 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007 seasons counted in favor of the MWC instead, to sneak them into the BCS. Several posters have told them the BCS will not allow such a scheme but they refuse to heed the obvious truth.

I think the passage you cite from the official BCS webpage makes it 100% clear that any team they add must play MWC football during the 2007 season. No rankings for prior seasons in other conferences will be counted retroactively for them. They think a precedent was set in 2004, but they ignore the fact that the BCS only counted one year from other conferences, not multiple years.

You are exactly right. If Boise State is not playing in the MWC in the 2007 football season then their record from 2004-2007 will not count towards the Mountain West when it is determined which confernces will get the auto bids in 2008 and 2009.

I have been telling them this for two years. They refuse to believe the BCS website. Some people are simply insane.