by Michelle Richardson

Baylor and TCU share co-champion honors: Big 12 Commissioner and former Stanford Athletic Director Bob Bowlsby awarded TCU and Baylor Universities with co-champion awards as each team ended up with similar records at 11-1 and 8-1 in the Big 12 and Baylor head coach Artie Briles was arguing with Bowlsby at the end of the game that Baylor should be the Big 12 champs not TCU simply because Baylor beat TCU during the season for TCU’s only loss.

Matter of fact TCU’s head coach Gary Patterson has more reason to be upset than Briles, TCU was number three in the bowl rankings. How do you drop from three to six? How do you go from the defending national champions, then go undefeated and become number three? That doesn’t make any sense for me.

Because #3 FSU was undefeated, it doesn’t bother me if you get it by one point or a half a point Florida State won. FSU won and FSU should be in front of Alabama #1 and Oregon #2, they didn’t volunteer for this type of schedule and FSU remained undefeated in the regular season. FSU went undefeated (13-0) in two seasons and if you want to know how difficult that is in college football it’s very, very, difficult.

CFP rankings #1.Alabama, #2.Oregon, #3.FSU, and #4.OSU: Games and teams that are selected are done partly because of politics but also TV plays a big role in these selections. You have the big day coming up New Year’s day for the bowl games, you have Ohio State, Alabama, and you know how football crazy they are.

You have the ACC, the two coasts the South Atlantic, you also have a incumbent Heisman Trophy winner and the next Heisman Trophy winner. You got two former SCC former coaches in Urban Myer the head coach at Ohio and Alabama head coach Nick Saben in this first playoff game ever. This is exciting and better than the old bowl format and this is all about television ratings.

TCU is a better team but they aren’t a second showing, this one thing about TCU every year they get rejected for the bigger bowls but eventually will get the national attention that will make them stronger. Paterson is going to come back next year and TCU quarterback Trevone Boykin who has one more year left. Honestly Boykin is up for the Heisman Trophy.

Boise State (11-2)28 vs. Fresno State (6-6) 14: I can’t wait for the bowl selections and Boise State they went 11-2 and they’re 11-1 in the Mountain West. The Broncos are doing what their suppose to do, their only loss was to Ole Miss and Air Force. That’s not bad, that’s not a bad season they beat everybody else pretty handedly.

Boise State needs to jump up and play with the real big boys in the power five conferences. People were upset because they didn’t face anyone in the Pac 12 this season although they have Arizona in their last game on Wed Dec 31. Let me explain to you the Broncos would never get an invite to be in the Pac 12. To be a member of the Pac 12 conference you must be a research one institution.

That means your school must hold an academic level to do top level research and at Boise State that’s not what they do. The Broncos are not a research one institution. So they are never ever going to get an invitation to the Pac 12. The Broncos do what they do and they do it well, they ran the Mountain West Conference overall for the year and they were 26th overall in passing yards and the Broncos had a very successful season.

Michelle Richardson does NCCA commentary each week for http://www.sportsradioservice.com