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Originally Posted by yankeecoug
Finally someone with a clue...
I hate to sound like a hater of my own team but...
I was always very proud of BYU's 1984 national champion ship and its awesome to think they have a slim chance at doing it again in 2008!!
But I was not so proud when I saw what took place in the 1984 season...I saw a documentary on LaVell Edwards - Comcast On Demand a couple years ago and found out the following which makes me think thank goodness for the BCS even as lame as it is.
1. BYU wins national championship beating 5th place in the Big Ten - Michigan Wolverines.
2. Michigan ended the season WITHOUT a winning record - just 6-6 which by today's standards barely qualifies a team for a bowl game.
3. The first win of the season was against #3 Pitt, not a bad win! Then I found out Pitt finished 3-7 and obviously not ranked. We beat them 20-14.
4. Nothing you can say to going undefeated but we played the wrong team in the bowl game.
5. We barely beat 6-6 Wyoming (41-3, We had a close one with 6-5 Utah (24-14) but most of them are anyway.
6. Unrelated but I found out LaVell graduated from USU and played on their football team 
7. Not sure how I can justify that we were a legit champion other than its not our fault we beat anyone we ever played that year. Just thought I'd mention that info I never knew about. Maybe this year we will avenge that championship with a legit opponent?
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um, wow. I was just trying to slam BYU and Utah simultaneously. I didn't mean to suggest the title wasn't legit (although honestly I've never heard of anybody else getting a penalty on a
mascot).
You realize that all national titles are like that, right? They always involve close calls and luck, and up til the end of the 90s #1 never played #2 because of the bowl tie-ins. And it's nearly impossible to go undefeated no matter the caliber of competition, so if you guys had a perfect season and the AP gave you the title there's no reason to denigrate that accomplishment.