Did Anyone Notice The Final Bcs Ratings?

[DallasGreen]

Cincinatti beating a top 25 opponent, and TCU's win over Clemson being devalued a bit by G. Tech beating the Tigers was enough to tilt the computers.

I think an eight to ten year study of the improvement of Cincinnati program might give some ideas as to why they have progressed at light speed since their N.O. Bowl loss to us. What did they do differently that propelled their program to these heights?

[untjim1995]

I think an eight to ten year study of the improvement of Cincinnati program might give some ideas as to why they have progressed at light speed since their N.O. Bowl loss to us. What did they do differently that propelled their program to these heights?

They had a great basketball team, which opened up the door for them to get into a better hoops league and have their football team compete in the weakest AQ-BCS league. If they were still in CUSA, they wouldn't be going to any BCS game this year because their SOS would have dropped them below Boise. Instead, they get Pittsburgh, WVU, USF, UConn, Rutgers, and Louisville to compete with year-in and year-out. Makes their progress much easier, similar to what USF got by just being in CUSA with basketball and then being in a prime location in Tampa for the Big East.

We gripe about our "dead years" in I-AA, for which we may never fully escape, but allowing our hoops team to not stay affiliated in a league with Louisville, Cincinnati, and others in the old MVC was just as bad. USF was always in a conference with those schools, so when the time came to move up, they blew right by UCF, ECU, and other top notch non-BCS teams due to their location and the university's vocal support of being a top-notch program. When you look at where we could have been with a leadership that actually supported athletics completely, we would, at the very worst, be in CUSA today. It definitely hits home even more when you look back at the great NO bowl victory over Cincinnati. That very well could be the last time those two schools could ever be that close in football again, both in prestige and in money.

[forevereagle]

I think an eight to ten year study of the improvement of Cincinnati program might give some ideas as to why they have progressed at light speed since their N.O. Bowl loss to us. What did they do differently that propelled their program to these heights?

Get in to the Big East.