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Posted By: Rhett Yeakley

As a BYU guy it pains me to the very core to admit this but I was really rooting for Utah, as it makes the other MWC schools look much better. The fact that the MWC was better than many of the conferences with auto-bids really goes against what has been said by many of the BCS supporters.

When people say things like "Utah wouldn't have beaten Florida anyways so it doesn't really matter" or anything along those lines it completely goes against what "Sport" is all about. Would they have been beaten? I don't know, but it is easy to belittle Alabama after the fact, but before the game nobody though they could do that either. The fact is that they should at least be given the chance.

There is little doubt in my (obviously biased) mind that the Mountain West was stronger than both the Big East and the ACC this year, and an argument could be made for even being stonger than the Big Ten and even the Pac 10 (if you kindly threw out USC).

Anyways, I'm sure many will disagree and continue to belittle the non-BCS schools becasue they couldn't possibly hang with the "Big Boys".
-Rhett