I don’t say that with any disrespect to Florida — they did what they did, and they earned that pretty crystal football. But Florida isn’t the subject of this post, it’s Boise State, and there’s no team in the country that can say with 100% certainty that they are better than the Boise State Broncos.
Florida fans might say it, and I wouldn’t blame them if they did. But Oklahoma fans once said it, too. A lot of teams can probably make convincing arguments that they could beat Boise State, but still, at the end of the day, they’re just that: arguments. No one proved that Boise State could be beaten.
If I was a student at Boise State, I’d be so drunk right now that I’d piss pure distilled gin. And when I woke up tomorrow around 4 p.m., I’d spend the rest of the day making my own “national championship” t-shirt, I’d make my own replica of the Sears trophy out of broken glass and crazy glue, and then I’d make love to the luckiest girl on the Boise State campus and leave her with blue turf burns on 65% of her body.
And why shouldn’t they? Boise State did every single thing that they could do. Any task that was asked of them, they completed. And I know they didn’t play a monster schedule, and I know they barely beat Oklahoma, and there’s no way in hell that I would argue that they would beat Florida right now, but none of that matters. If you were a Boise State fan, all that would matter to you right now is that your team accomplished all that it could. They rose to every challenge, and no one can definitively say they’re better. Celebrate it.
Now, in the grander sense of the entire college football landscape, does that really mean anything? That a group of people decided to declare themselves national champions? No, not really. But the official national champions were dubbed as such because a different group of people sat down and crowned them national champions, so what the hell? If we’re going to be subjective about it, then to tell with it. Be as subjective as you want.
Both the AP and the Coaches Polls are in, and with 64 voters in each, there are a 128 possible first-place votes … Florida got 127 of them. Now, the coaches are required to vote for Florida as #1, and if that wasn’t the case, maybe they’d have snagged another vote or two.
I don’t know the grand identity of the lone son of a bitch who voted Boise State as the national champions, but I’d like to buy him a beer and take him out for a round of putt-putt.

themightymjd.com is happy to bring you a series of previews for some of the bullshit college football bowl games coming up. You may find yourself in the position of not knowing a lot of some of the teams involved, and that’s okay. I don’t either. But that won’t stop me from making up things that, if you can manage to convince yourself are true, would certainly pique your interest in these games. And again, I should probably point out that none of this is factual. 100% made up. Probably.
Nick Saban once said, and it wasn’t that long ago, that he would not be the Alabama coach. Today, he is,
They grow the testicles huge in Idaho. Last night’s Fiesta Bowl between Boise State and Oklahoma might be the best college football game I’ve ever seen. I try not to get carried away with the hyperbole like that, but… I can’t remember a game ever bringing me out of my seat that many times. If that was the climactic game played at the end of a football movie, I’d have left the theatre thinking that a 9-year-old with an overactive imagination wrote it.
themightymjd.com is happy to bring you a series of previews for some of the bullshit college football bowl games coming up. You may find yourself in the position of not knowing a lot of some of the teams involved, and that’s okay. I don’t either. But that won’t stop me from making up things that, if you can manage to convince yourself are true, would certainly pique your interest in these games. And again, I should probably point out that none of this is factual. 100% made up. Probably.
For whatever arbitrary reasons, it’ll be Florida and Ohio State playing in Glendale on January 8th. A lot of human voters changed their mind and switched up Michigan and Florida in their polls this week, and that gave Florida enough juice to grab the #2 spot in the BCS. That gives them the right to play an exhibition game against the national champions, the Ohio State Buckeyes, in January.