The Mountain West Perspective, and Looking Toward TCU vs. BYU

From the SEC’s reaction to the other side of the spectrum… We head over to SBN’s Mountain West Connection, who take a look at some of the implications from this week’s rankings, as well as what the TCU-BYU game might mean:

The first official BCS standings are out and not too many surprise from where the teams are ranked, but there are with the computer polls. Before we get into that TCU is 7th, BYU 16th, and Utah at a surprise 18th. With so much football left to be played it is hard to go game by game and see who will be ranked where.

The computers are a bit surprising, because undefeated Iowa and Cincinnati are getting love by being ranked third and fourth. USC is a distant 11th by the compters, but should make ground with games against Oregon and Arizona who is not ranked in either the coaches or Harris poll, but is 22nd in the BCS polls because of more computer love.

Boise State who’s schedule gets weaker by week is getting a solid computer ranking at five mostly from the Oregon win, but expect that number to drop some as the weeks go by. BYU is getting nothing from the computers where three of them do not even have BYU ranked and average out to 25th; while the Utes who have a better loss are 14th compared to the Cougars. Looks like that Florida State loss will haunt BYU even more then expected.

All that could change with the TCU/BYU matchup this week, and with GameDay coming to Provo the tilt is getting much more hype. TCU is eighth in the computers and if BYU were to win that game they certainly would get a big boost from all the rankings and move closer to the coveted top 12 spot that could guarantee them an auto bid; however Boise State would still need to lose.