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Since 1980, BYU is 6-31-1 against BCS teams that have won 8 or more games in a season. The biggest margin of victory in the six wins was 28-21 vs Miami in 1990.
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Season W/L Team Opponent Record PF PA 1997 W BYU Arizona St. 9-3-0 13 10 1990 W BYU Miami (FL) 10-2-0 28 21 1989 W BYU Oregon 8-4-0 45 41 1988 W BYU Colorado 8-4-0 20 17 1981 W BYU Washington St. 8-3-1 38 36 1996 W BYU Kansas St. 9-3-0 19 15 1991 T BYU Iowa 10-1-1 13 13 |
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Come on, you gotta admit it was a little funny. Sorry for the hijack, but I couldn't resist.
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upside: --slightly more likely to make a BCS game in years we are not legit top 12 --financially we might bring in an extra $2M (our share) every 10 years (??--this is incremental over a tough schedule model) downside: --boring regular season --everyone complaining about our schedule --more likely to get waxed in the big spotlight game once we make it My schedule: upside: --exciting season --national talk in your good years is about what you've done on the field not about your weak schedule --financial increase in tickets, TV revenue downside: --slightly less likely to make the BCS Slightly When I say slightly I mean extremely slightly, and possibly zero. It's much more difficult to game the system than people realize. It could easily work against you. You could be a legit top 5 team, with a crap schedule, and play one unlucky bad game, and lose all BCS dreams. Also with a tough schedule, you could get lucky in that tough national game, win, and be overrated due to the tough schedule. I don't know which of these assumptions the pussy schedule crowd is valuing differently than me. It's very mind boggling what the logic is. |
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If I had to choose from a. crap Vegas Bowl victory or loss or whatever vs b. Hawaii type experience in a BCS game, where everyone's ripping on our schedule, and then we get embarassed I choose a. Maybe that's the difference. I don't see any value in the Hawaii experience. |
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I agree with you that in general BCS Bowl game > Las Vegas Bowl game ; however, I think that Las Vegas Bowl game + 4 awesome non-conference games each year > Crappy non-conference + BCS bowl game once every 10 years. |
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