Filed under: NCAA Football, college-sports
On the eve of this college football's kickoff game Sept. 6 between then No. 3 Boise State and Virginia Tech in suburban Washington, D.C., Boise State president Bob Kustra and most of the Idaho congressional delegation appeared on Boise's KTVB public affairs television show "Viewpoint" and decried the BCS.Sitting on the Capitol's stairs, they argued that it didn't matter that Idaho's state-pride Broncos' football team was ranked third in the nation then, the highest ever preseason rating for a non-BCS conference team, and appeared on the threshold of sharing in the BCS loot at season's end by earning an automatic invitation to one of its bowl games. It didn't matter that the Broncos had lost just one game over the previous three seasons and had become a program the keepers of the BCS could no longer ignore.
It didn't matter that just a season earlier Boise State played in the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl as part of the BCS, meeting TCU in a BCS game that for the first time featured teams from conferences not part of the BCS, college football's version of a cartel.
The folks who ran Boise State knew the system still worked against them, and needed to be sacked.
"There has to be a level playing field," Senator Jim Risch declared on KTVB two months ago.
Ten weeks later, Risch and his constituency have even more ammunition. Their Broncos are undefeated again, 11-0. They're ranked third in the writers' AP Poll, third in the coaches' USA Today poll and third in the Harris Poll, which is composed of former players, coaches, administrators and current and former media members.
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