Much was made last weekend of Virginia Tech's loss to James Madison in regard to the BCS. Everyone was in agreement that the Hokies' loss to a team from the FBS was damaging to Boise's chances of reaching the BCS title game as Virginia Tech was expected to be Boise's signature win and an eventual 12-1 record would be a boost to the Broncos. And so even though we are weeks away from the first BCS standings, experts were poo-poohing the chances of the party crashers from Idaho.
But then a funny thing happened last night. Nevada, a WAC stalwart for years unable to achieve the national standing of Boise, whacked Cal. Remembering Fresno State's beating of Cincinnati week one, suddenly the WAC is not looking too weak anymore. Boise State finishes the 2010 regular season with a road game against an improving Idaho squad--and the two schools are already sniping at each other--a home game against Fresno, a road game against Nevada and a home game against the Utah State team that lost to Oklahoma in Norman by 7. If the conference can continue to accumulate scalps--say Louisiana Tech over Navy today--then all of the moaning about how bad the WAC is can end (just in time for the conference to implode with defections in the off season)
Of course, so too could the Boise domination of the conference. The lesson with all of this? IT IS TOO EARLY TO BE DISCUSSING BCS TITLE GAME IMPLICATIONS!
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