It’s not likely they’ll be able to influence the voters in the two relevant polls — anyone who thinks the team hasn’t been sufficiently challenged since week 1 isn’t going to be swayed by press releases.

And I guarantee this effort will have exactly zero impact on the computers.

This is all about BSU fans milking the victim’s role for all it’s worth. I have no problem with BSU getting into a BCS bowl, but at some point you have to show on the field that you’re worthy, and one game against a decent team isn’t sufficient, especially when you only win that game at home by 11 points.

Boise’s problem is the timing. If they’d come into the Oregon game at, say, 8-0, and beat a highly ranked team, they’d have momentum on their side, and maybe be higher ranked than they are now. When you shoot your wad early, it takes a great effort to recover in time for anyone to notice, especially without stimulation. The rest of their schedule isn’t exactly stimulating.. and they have to resort to a commitment to destroy every other team on their schedule.. which doesn’t work, because the human voters understand BSU is playing sh*t teams all year after game 1, and the computers ignore margin of victory.

More to the point — there’s a good shot that even if they wind up unbeaten, they won’t even make a BCS game; their competition could be a 1-loss Penn St, either FL or Bama or LSU, TCU, or even one of several 2-loss teams, especially Notre Dame. There just aren’t enough open slots for everyone to get in. If TCU wins out, Boise is probably screwed regarding a BCS game.. but a PR firm will make a bunch of money, and the wailing from Boise will be heard across the land.

Having said all that, I think they do have a case. The “only one non-BCS team gets an automatic bid, and only if they manage to jump through all those hoops” rule is elitist crap. There’s no real football reason two non-BCS teams from different conferences who finish in the top 12 shouldn’t get a BCS game.

Hell, let them play each other in the Fiesta Bowl when that happens. I’d much rather see that than sit through Notre Dame getting pounded.

How did I know that was coming (Not picking on you, grimc. Someone was going to bring that up)?

Totally different. Oregon was looking for overall exposure for the program. Joey was the centerpiece, yes. Someone had to be and his potential for Heisman consideration was an easy go-to theme. But that was about promotion of Oregon Football in a more broad sense. Same goes for billboards in Los Angeles.

This campaign is far more focused on getting presumably undefeated Boise State in a BCS game ahead of their most likely competition, a one-loss Penn State, LSU or Alabama, an undefeated TCU, or maybe even Utah, should the Utes win out with only a road loss to Oregon and a much tougher SOS. This is lobbying for a cash grab, pure and simple.

I’m not really complaining about the WAC hiring a PR firm, though my prior comment doesn’t represent that well. The system puts that conference in a position where they feel the need to lobby.

That got a smile out of me when it came across my rss reader this morning.