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Twisting and Turning in the Mountain West
Since being established in 1999, the NCAA’s youngest D-I FBS conference, the Mountain West, has been gaining exponentially more media coverage and national respect over the past few years, as a growing mid-major conference that can compete and win against the other high-major conferences: Pac-12, Big 12, Big 10, Big East, Southeastern and Atlantic Coast. Of the five mid-major conference BCS births since the 2004 NCAA College Football season, four of the five have been from the Mountain West (Utah in ’05, Boise State ’07, Utah ’09, Boise State and TCU ’10 and TCU again in ’11), going a combined 5-1 in those BCS appearances, possibly 6-0 if Boise State and TCU had not been bidded against eachother in the 2010 Fiesta Bowl. Mountain West men’s basketball has not been meek in competitive spirit either, appearing in 29 NCAA Tournaments since the Conference’s inception; on average, almost two and half teams a year. Most notably in my mind, the Mountain West has had three #1 overall draft selections for each major professional sport: the NFL’s Alex Smith of Utah and the NBA’s Andrew Bogut of Utah in 2005; MLB’s Stephen Strasburg of San Diego State in 2009. Read More >>
TCU, No Cinderella Story
Everything came up roses for Texas Christian University on Saturday, except for the part about how College football crowns its national champion.
The No. 3 Horned Frogs defeated No. 5 Wisconsin in the Rose Bowl, 21-19, behind the playmaking of senior quarterback Andy Dalton and linebacker Tank Carder, but the sport’s crystal trophy will go not to unbeaten TCU, but the winner of the Jan. 10 BCS title game between Oregon and Auburn. 
What else could TCU (13-0) have done to state its case as national champion?
Nothing, short of piling even more style points against Mountain West Conference teams during the season.
The Horned Frogs led the nation in total defense and averaged 43 points per game, and they did themselves one better on Saturday when they outquicked, outpassed and outcoached a very good Wisconsin team. While all of that will not be enough to put TCU atop the final AP and coaches polls, the Horned Frogs enjoyed both the journey and especially its fragrant ending.
“We did everything we were capable of doing,” Dalton said. “I guess it’s just the way the system is. But in my time here at TCU, we never thought we’d have a chance to play in the Rose Bowl.”
Noting that it was TCU’s first Rose Bowl appearance, coach Gary Patterson said he didn’t want to say anything to detract from what the Horned Frogs accomplished by beating Wisconsin (11-2) before a crowd in which Badgers partisans outnumbered TCU fans by at least two to one.
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TCU Now In The Big East
Marinatto was unable to secure the coveted tie, but he got an even better present on Monday — a new College football member for the Big East.
TCU and the Big East announced Monday afternoon that the Horned Frogs would be joining the league for the 2012-13 school year.
When arriving in Fort Worth, Texas, TCU athletic director Chris Del Conte provided Marinatto with a purple and black tie — and an even sharper looking football program.
Now that Marinatto has dressed up his league with a ninth football member, what’s next?
“Our goal is to get to 10 (teams),” Marinatto told FanHouse. “That’s what we said following our presidents meeting in November. Obviously there are circumstances that could change that — if Penn State called tomorrow and said they wanted to join, we’d say yes and do it.”
Since that call’s not coming in, the Big East will wait on Villanova. The Wildcats have a pending offer to join the league as a football member and the school has board meetings scheduled in February and April. Marinatto expects a decision from the Wildcats by the April meeting, at the latest.
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A Win is a Win – Really?
All season, TCU coach Gary Patterson has stuck with his one-point theory, a supposition that winning, even by one point, is still winning and should be counted as such.
Voters scoff at Patterson’s naivete.
As evidenced by this week’s coaches and Harris polls — as Boise State jumped the Horned Frogs — a win is not just a win when it comes to the non-automatic qualifying teams. Winning with style is the only thing that matters and Boise State’s 35-point thrashing of Idaho had far more pizazz than TCU’s 40-35 escape over 7-3 San Diego State.
Granted, Boise State did dominate its lowly four-win opponent in a manner that was becoming of the fourth-ranked team in the country. TCU was on its way to a similar result when it rallied from a 14-0 deficit and took a 34-14 lead at halftime. But that’s when the wheels started falling off.
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A Rose Bowl Dilemma
The site bcsfootball.org is always a compelling read, but even more so this season.
If you click onto the site’s “Selection Procedures” link, there’s a sentence worth remembering within Item 3 beneath the “Team selection procedures” heading.
The sentence, in full, reads, “For the games of January 2011 through 2014, the first year the Rose Bowl loses a team to the NCG (National Championship Game) and a team from the non-AQ (Automatic Qualifier) group is an automatic qualifier, that non-AQ team will play in the Rose Bowl.”
In short, should the Big Ten or Pac-10 champion finish among the top two teams in the final BCS standings — at least a 50 percent proposition at this point, given the lack of a dominant Big 12 team — a berth would open up in Pasadena. Should Boise State finish 12-0, there is certainly the chance that it would not play in the BCS Championship Game in Glendale, Ariz., on January 10. Read More >>
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