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I would say that the term "mid major" is pretty generous. It implies that there is even a shred of "major" involved.
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So let's throw out most BCS teams then. Not many of them have won national chamipionships since WW2 either, if that's your standard. The problem I have with this blanket labeling is that it gives fans the idea that every team from a BCS conference is automatically better than any team not in a BCS league. This season is proving how false that idea is. You may know and care about BYU's history and tradition, but if we were to play a bad BCS conference team back east like Duke or Vanderbilt, how much do you want to bet you could poll the fans of those teams and 80-90% would think they should kick our butts? That's all due to BCS media hype, mostly from ESPN.
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And nobody has ever claimed that any BCS school is automatically better than a non BCS school. Your hypo is ridiculous. We were favored both against UCLA and Washington, so there goes your argument.
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whenever you say "we", it is very confusing. It would be less confusing if you just said "BYU was favored..."
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what do you mean? Mid major is an artificial label, so what else other than fan perception would we be talking about? No one has claimed that a BCS school is automatically better? How about ESPN's Mark May before a Boise State/Oregon State game last year picking OSU with his only reasoning being that OSU is a PAC 10 team? BSU went on to beat the crap out of them. If guys on ESPN don't do their homework and automatically assume those things, you don't think a lot of fans don't do the same?
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Your argument about perception is a strawman. How can you argue about the perception of every fan? You said that "it gives fans the idea that every team from a BCS conference is automatically better than any team not in a BCS league." Do you know people who think this way? They think that Duke football is better this year than BYU or Utah?
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