Boisie St. Does Not Belong in the Top 5

The BCS rankings are all about perception. The "BCS Conferences" are perceived to have the best talented college football teams, and for the most part, they do. However, there are teams from the non-BCS conferences such as the Mountain West, the WAC and Conference USA that have teams who are capable of beating the top flight teams of the BCS.

That having been said, Boisie St., as good a football team as they are, is not deserving of a #5 ranking. They are ranked ahead of USC and Ohio St.. Yes, I know that USC lost to Washington and Ohio St. lost to USC, but both of those teams play in much tougher conferences and their out of conference opponents are tougher. Boisie State's only really tough out of conference opponent was Oregon, who they beat 19-8. Their two other out of conference foes were Bowling Green and Miami (OH), not too difficult competition.

This is not to say that the Broncos aren't capable of beating USC, LSU, Ohio St. or Oklahoma. I believe they are, and the Broncos should be willing to go to these places and try to beat these teams like they did Oregon last year. Boisie St. is deserving of a top 10 ranking since they are undefeated and have a win against Oregon, a good BCS team, but not a top 5 ranking.