Boise State was ready to a certain degree. They were also the home team. In a few weeks, Boise State will play much better than what they did this week. They were also VERY sloppy. Oregon was even sloppier, but their offense is more sophisticated and takes more time to get installed.
The Gators scheduled this game 5 years ago. They went 7-5 or 8-5 when they scheduled the game. Either way, most FBS schools schedule FCS games. That's how it goes.
Troy won the Sun Belt last season, which is an FBS conference. What the heck do you want? Should they be playing BCS teams every single week? Take a look at the Gator's schedule. LSU, Georgia, Kentucky, Vandy, South Carolina, Troy, and FSU all went to bowls last season. Tennessee, Arkansas, and Mississippi State are all improved and may be in bowl contention. So the weak links are FIU and Charleston Southern. Oh how horrible! They only play in the toughest conference in the nation AND still schedule Florida State and Sun Belt Champ Troy. They really should try to add a few more top 25 teams to their schedule, because playing one of the toughest schedules each and every season isn't enough.
They played one of the toughest schedules in the nation last season and have done that for awhile. You're never going to win an argument when you accuse Florida of having a bad SOS. This year may be easier than others if some teams are "down", but you can't predict that when creating a schedule.
CSU - FCS...ok, crappy
Troy - Sun Belt Champs, likely will repeat. Not a bad game.
Citadel - that was the FCS team from last year. The other 3 OOC games were Hawaii (fresh off a BCS bowl game), Miami, and Florida State. Oh the horror!
Vandy - Went to a bowl game last season and is expected to go to one this year. It's a conference opponent (which is gonna get hella funny when I get into the next post I'm quoting from you) and they're actually pretty solid right now!
Utah wasn't good enough and didn't play a tough enough schedule to play for the title. Based on the current system, they played in the correct game. Now I'm not saying they shouldn't have played for the title and a playoff shouldn't happen, but there's no way anyone can say Utah would have beat Florida, Oklahoma, Texas, or USC.
Ok so lets get back to my last comment toward you about conference scheduling and how you pointing out Vandy as a weakness is "hella funny". UTAH? UTAH? They only play in one of the non-BCS conferences that features quite a few CRAP teams. Who cares what their out of conference strength of schedule is? Their in conference SOS is pathetic! Boise State's is even worse! But Utah plays Utah State, San Jose State, New Mexico, Wyoming, UNLV, and a bunch of other pathetic teams. Ha!
Notre Dame plays a pretty weak schedule this year too. Washington and Washington State are both horrible. They are catching quite a few other big name programs on down-swings too. Lou Holtz even commented that Notre Dame may not even be a top 15 team, but their schedule is so easy that all they have to do is beat USC and they could make the championship game. That's pathetic, but it's not their fault. Only 2 non-BCS teams on their schedule, and Nevada and Navy aren't cupcakes.
Georgia plays Tennessee Tech, which is a cupcake by any definition. Penn State plays Temple, who just lost to an FCS school (Villanova). I believe Eastern Illinois is an FCS school as well. Nebraska plays Arkansas State and Louisiana Lafayette, who are two craphole teams in the SunBelt. They're basically free wins, even if it's not FCS. Oklahoma plays Idaho State, who is FCS. Oklahoma State plays Grambling State, another FCS school.
WTF were you looking at dude?
that wasn't hard to say.
