With college football in such a state of upheaval, I regret that BYU is not playing the same roll it did in 1984. Then, if you were not in a power conference, you had almost no chance of winning the national championship. BYU did win it, though. The Cougars were ranked No. 1 in the land going into the Holiday Bowl and defeated Michigan to become the first team ever to win the national title in a bowl game not played on New Year's Day. Their 13-0 record was best in the land.
BYU's fans had felt the system was unfair. Regardless how good your team and how many games you won, you simply were not considered good enough to be the national champions. They disproved themselves, fortunately.
Now, BYU is preparing to enter a power conference, the Big 12. Another conference, the Big 10, is expanding by raiding USC and UCLA from the Pac-12, creating quite a super conference. If you are not a member of a power conference -- regardless how good you are and how many games you win -- you will not have a chance to
win the national championship.
It's enough to make you wish the Cougars would decline joining the Big 10 and, instead, endeavor to win the national title in the same fashion they did in 1984.
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