On a scale of “it never hurts to ask” to “total delusions of grandeur”, I’m not sure where Boise State’s power play of trying to get the Big East and Mountain West to allow the Broncos to keep their home television rights as a deal maker for its membership fits, but I can’t say I disagree with this sentiment:
“Boise reminds me of the teenage recruit who is starting to believe he’s the biggest star in town,” a source said. “It might be a pretty big letdown when all is said and done. Actually the sentiment of ‘who do they think they are’ is starting to seep into conversations with folks across college football.
“Let’s remember this isn’t Alabama, or even Texas Tech, we’re talking about. This sorry episode is starting to make it seem like Boise is one of the power assets in college football. In reality their value is relative to the conference they belong to.”
But it’s on the table. And that in and of itself should tell you how much things keep shifting under college football’s feet these days.
One industry source believes Boise State is the “lynchpin” in whether the Big East or MWC survives. Another source said “it’s pathetic it has come to this — Boise State shopping itself to get the best deal. It’s not like they’re Alabama. These guys were a side show until 10 years ago.”
If either conference caves and gives them what they want, if you’re Houston or Cincinnati, both of which sit in much, much larger home TV markets than Boise State does, are you not going to be asking for the very same treatment five seconds afterwards? And if you get it, too, what’s left for the rest of the conference that does it?
Weird times.
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Boise State, Oklahoma State, Michigan State – these schools smell the same under any other name.
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All Time AP Rankings
19 Michigan State
51 Oklahoma State
53 Boise State
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So here we go – here are the greatest college football programs since 1936 according to the AP rankings.
RANK TEAM POINTS
1 Oklahoma 946.5
2 Michigan 919
3 Ohio State 908
4 Alabama 874
5 Notre Dame 872.5
6 USC 757
7 Texas 750.5
8 Nebraska 701
9 Tennessee 678
10 Penn State 645
11 LSU 530
12 Auburn 517
13 Georgia 517
14 Miami 511
15 UCLA 503
16 Florida 469
17 Florida State 446
18 Arkansas 414
19 Michigan State 364
20 Texas A&M 337
21 Washington 330
22 Georgia Tech 317.5
23 Wisconsin 305
24 Pittsburgh 293
25 Iowa 291
26 Ole Miss 284.5
27 Clemson 284
28 Colorado 258
29 Army 239
30 TCU 230
31 Minnesota 229
32 Maryland 225.5
33 Arizona State 223
34 Virginia Tech 222
35 Missouri 217.5
36 Duke 210
37 Navy 207.5
38 California 207
39 North Carolina 198
40 Purdue 195.5
41 Syracuse 190.5
42 West Virginia 194
43 Stanford 186
44 BYU 180
45 Illinois 177
46 SMU 168
47 Oregon 185
48 Houston 164
49 Boston College 150
50 Kansas State 154
51 Oklahoma State 137
52 Baylor 131.5
53 Boise State 128
54 Northwestern 127
55 Oregon State 124
56 Washington State 123
57 Mississippi State 105
58 Texas Tech 104
59 Kansas 96
60 Penn 95
T61 Fordham 88
T61 Kentucky 88
T61 Rice 88
64 Santa Clara 85.5
65 NC State 85
66 Tulane 80.5
67 Tulsa 79
68 Louisville 78
69 Arizona 76
T70 Air Force 75
T70 Utah 75
72 Cornell 68
73 Nevada 66
74 Indiana 63
75 Dartmouth 60
T76 Miami, Ohio 57
T76 South Carolina 57
78 Virginia 56
79 Princeton 55
80 Yale 54
81 Holy Cross 49.8
T82 Wyoming 48
T82 Duquesne 46
84 Iowa Pre-Flight 45
85 Villanova 41
86 Rutgers 38
87 Cincinnati 37
88 William & Mary 33
T89 Colorado State 31
T89 Toledo 31
T91 Bainbridge NTS 30
T91 Great Lakes 30
93 Wake Forest 24
T94 East Carolina 23
T94 Pacific 23
T94 Randolph Field 23
97 Carnegie-Mellon 20
98 Southern Miss 19
T99 Del Monte PF 18
T99 Marshall 18
101 Utah State 16
T102 Saint Mary’s (Cal.) 14
T102 Vanderbilt 14
T104 Georgetown 13
T104 Hawaii 13
106 Norman Pre-Flight 12.5
107 Columbia 12
T108 El Toro Marines 10
T108 San Diego State 10
T110 Fresno State 9
T110 Hardin-Simmons 9
T110 Iowa State 9
T110 New Mexico St 9
T110 Temple 9
T115 Colorado College 8
T115 Fort Pierce 8
T117 Delaware 7
T117 Lafayette 7
T119 2nd Air Force 6
T119 Marquette 6
T119 Ohio 6
122 UCF 5
T123 Bowling Green 3
T123 Central Michigan 3
125 Saint Mary’s PF 2
http://cfn.scout.com/2/1097657.html
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Thanks. Clearly Boise is getting a lot of mileage from a brief period of success, and they don’t bring many TV sets to the table, but you cannot ignore that is TV’s golden era they have been very relevant and a part of many conversations. In a world where one bad season can cause your reputation to sink like a stone, they have have spent the last decade being more relevant than Notre Dame or TN. In fact, they are ahead of a few SEC programs and this counts points back to 1936. Boise may be a recent addition, but they have certainly earned a seat at the table…..just not enough to be a powerbroker.
On the other hand, how do you adjust the AP results for all the years of wins that were taken away from State Penn or GT? As we pull away from Auburn this year, and discount PSU, we are 11th all time. For a program everyone says underachieves and isn’t elite, that is pretty high up in the clouds. I think 90th percentile, and up, is a fair place to draw that line. We are pretty damned good, and closer to being realistic about ourselves than many of those above us on that list. Wonder where we would be if we had spent the last 90 years playing the schedule tosu and Michigan did? They only had a chance to lose 1-2 games a year for most of those decades.
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When was the last time that Michigan State won a BCS Bowl game? Oh, wait. You have to actually go one before you go that route. And Okie State appears to be a one year wonder. At least for the past decade, Boise’s bloom smells much better than Sparty or Picken’s faves.
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How dare those upstarts Oklahoma and Georgia stand up to the NCAA and say that schools should be able to negotiate TV deals themselves! And even file suit in court over it! Who do they think they are?
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I dont think the snark is over their right to do it.
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Yeah, but the Mayor do make a helluva point.
In Boise St’s case, it’s the first one that blinks. In their favor is the quote from Capt. Jack Sparrow, “Yes, but you HAVE heard of me, haven’t you?”
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