Published 1/20/2009
by Jeremy
at Bleacher Report - College Football
Since it is the off-season, we shall take a look back at the league and each team specifically for the 2008 football season with the highlights and lowlights. Just for fun, below is how I thought the order of finish would turn out :
#9 San Diego State
#8 UNLV
#7 Air Force
#6 Wyoming
#5 Colorado State
#4 New Mexico
#3 TCU
#2 Utah
#1 BYU
The actual final standings were:
#9 San Diego State
#8 Wyoming
#7 New Mexico
#6 UNLV
#5 Colorado State
#4 Air Force
#3 BYU
#2 TCU
#1 Utah
I nailed San Diego State and Colorado State on their projected finish, and had the top three there, just not in the right order. Take that for what it’s worth; I think I did all right.
The season was one for the ages, all the preseason talk was on BYU crashing the BCS with their amazing offense. This looked really good with two straight shutouts of UCLA and Wyoming.
Then BYU was exposed against TCU as being slow and not having a good ...
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