and in this day and age where nearly 80 teams play in bowl games every year...

Apr 21, 2015
7:45:58pm

icecougar

...citing your ability to get your team to a bowl game is kind of embarrassing, and only worse when the HC says it's not easy to do. Because there are so many bowl games we now have teams with losing records playing in them.

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justifiable frustration...BYU's "goodness" without being "great" is more of a

nashty

4/20/15 10:38am

umm...why did this list look all nice and set up before i posted it and now it's

nashty

4/20/15 10:41am

Use the <pre> </pre> HTML tags

HuskerFan2

4/20/15 10:48am

i'll do that next time...thanks!

nashty

4/20/15 10:50am

Amen brother. One of your best posts ever (which isn't saying much)

TNT

4/20/15 10:41am

if only the formatting would've worked

nashty

4/20/15 10:43am

The information is there though

TNT

4/20/15 10:43am

fixed...should look nicer now

nashty

4/20/15 10:47am

welp...don't know why the 1 is stuck up in no-man's land...that's not how it

nashty

4/20/15 10:49am

Is this any better?

Marking Time

4/20/15 1:34pm

Schedule is part of it. Beating crappy teams and losing to good ones keeps you

Real Men Wear Blue

4/20/15 10:45am

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Abe Froman

4/20/15 11:20am

Boise State has 22 more wins than BYU over the period- sad.

thejimmer

4/20/15 12:57pm

Yes, let's beat ourselves up comparing us to the #1 team on the list

kimdaddy35

4/20/15 1:19pm

and losing at least one game a year to a crappy team...

icecougar

4/21/15 7:43pm

Sadly, there have been more bad losses than big wins.

Art Director

4/20/15 10:51am

Bronco should send thank you cards to Idaho, ID St, NMSU, UNLV, Wyo, NM, etc...

icecougar

4/20/15 12:08pm

Have Mizzou and South Carolina been to BCS bowl games? I don't remember that.

XXL

4/20/15 12:16pm

sorry...i was mixing one of mizzou's 2 SEC title games as a BCS game in my

nashty

4/20/15 2:21pm

That points to our inability to string together a "special season"

ChunkyBasty

4/20/15 12:55pm

Relative to their neighbors on the list -- BSU/TCU fans should be upset too.

Still Questing

4/20/15 1:07pm

I'm not following. What are you saying?

swingcat

4/20/15 1:53pm

I'll rephrase

Still Questing

4/20/15 2:22pm

The problem is you're conflating W-L with on-field performance when comparing

Scratch

4/20/15 2:59pm

I did say that they should blame their SOS instead of on-field performance.

Still Questing

4/20/15 3:25pm

TCU/BSU had zero access to BCS/NY6 bowls until 2005.

sheriffcreg

4/20/15 5:18pm

Great post, but I'm confused.

bden

4/20/15 1:27pm

Also, Missouri has never gone to a BCS/NY6 bowl.

Still Questing

4/20/15 2:05pm

You cut me deep with that one....I was in a state of off-season amnesia....

Bonoman

4/20/15 3:25pm

Total wins is misleading. BYU stacks up wins against an inferior schedule.

DoseOfReality

4/20/15 5:36pm

and in this day and age where nearly 80 teams play in bowl games every year...

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