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Well, June Jones pulled it off. Played the biggest patsy schedule in modern history and gets a BCS bid.

Just as I feared/predicted the day the first set of rankings came out before a game was even played, Hawaii moved up to 12th in today's BCS poll qualifying them for the automatic at-large bid.

Looking briefly at the Sagarin ratings going into the last week of the regular season....Keep in mind there are only 119 D-1 programs and Sagarin mixes in D-1AA as well.

*Hawaii played the #142 rated schedule. It jumped 20+ spots when they played the game against Boise St. Let that sink in for a minute...

*They have the worst schedule strength by far of any team that will play in a 2007 bowl game.

*The second worst is Boise State at #113.

*They have one quality win (at home versus Boise State).

*They only played one team in the top 60 of the Sagarin Ratings (Boise St....see a trend?).

*BTW: some examples of D-1AA programs that somehow saw fit to play a tougher schedule than BCS bound Hawaii....

Appalachian State
UMASS
Richmond
Delaware
Wofford
James Madison
South Dakota State
Villanova
New Hampshire
Youngstown State
Georgia Southern
Elon
Western Illinois
Furman
William and Mary
Illinios State
Maine
Chattanooga
Rhode Island
Towson State
Southern Utah

They might be great. They might beat LSU in the Sugarbowl like Boise did last year. But if you play that schedule, and have no quality OOC games, play in a crap conference and still don't schedule to compensate, IMO no way you should ever get a sniff at a BCS payday. Way to reward tactical scheduling. What a joke.

They will lose to Washington this week...

Great post. Take a break and have a cold one.

I still don't understand how USF is ahead of UC in the BCS. We are higher ranked in the AP, Coaches, Harris Poll, and just one spot down in the Sagarin. And WE BEAT THEM HEAD TO HEAD on their turf.

UC looks screwed out of the Car Care Bowl and Sun Bowl. I have no faith in the BCS system. They may as well just let OSU and Notre Dame play for the National Championship every year.

GameTime_21 Wrote:They will lose to Washington this week...

absolutely.

Yes, but you can also play a Big East Conference schedule, go 9-3, beat 4 ranked opponents, and be rewarded with a trip to Birmingham!

Who wouldn't want that?

Ragpicker Wrote:Great post. Take a break and have a cold one.

I still don't understand how USF is ahead of UC in the BCS. We are higher ranked in the AP, Coaches, Harris Poll, and just one spot down in the Sagarin. And WE BEAT THEM HEAD TO HEAD on their turf.

UC looks screwed out of the Car Care Bowl and Sun Bowl. I have no faith in the BCS system. They may as well just let OSU and Notre Dame play for the National Championship every year.

I don't claim to understand the BCS standings, but I think I saw on another thread that the USF OOC SOS (isn't that a nice string of acronyms?) was higher than ours, so they could have moved that magic point or two right there.

No one wants to play these teams (Boise, Hawaii) they have nothing to gain and everything to lose.
The NCAA should step in and take over scheduling for EVERY team to make it fair. That or they should tell everyone at the beginning of the year that only these 10-15 teams will be allowed to compete for a national championship. Everyone else you can drop football or keep playing, we really do not care because we like MONEY!

Also they needed to win 2 games in OT (SJSU, La. Tech), and 1 with a last second FG (Nevada) - all road games. Lower tier BCS schools would've won with that schedule, it's a joke that the AP and coaches would vote for that team only because it hasn't lost yet. Hopefully for the Washington game there are Pac-10 officials doing the game or the real fix is in. Whichever BCS bowl would select them, I would hope that they do some serious research - that they are not that good of a team when they visit the mainland. I could see them getting absolutely pasted going up against one of the big boys.

A few of those FBS teams had harder schedules, and still went 11-0 as well.. soo why not let them be in a bowl instead of hawaii? By the way.. This years Hawaii has one thing they are good at and that is it.. pitching and catching.. their running backs.. arent good.. and their defenses is mediocre at best.. next year without hawthorne, bess, rivers and the fourth WR that is escaping me right now... and no brennan we will completely destroy them..
I know bess and the fourth wr are juniors but I have heard at least bess is probably going to try and declare..

Edit: Grice-Mullen is his name..