Utah Utes Should Be in National Title Hunt

College football’s BCS features overhyped teams with one, sometimes two losses playing for a “national championship” while teams with one or zero losses go without.

Such is the case with the Utah Utes and their 13-0 record reducing them to the Sugar Bowl against Alabama (a game they won 31-17) while Florida and Oklahoma, both one loss teams will get the glory of playing for a championship. But because they have Heisman candidate Tim Tebow and Heisman winner Sam Bradford respectively, they get the attention. But because most people don’t see Utah play, few have any idea how good they are or can even name two players. Because few people know them, they don’t get the exposure to capture the media’s imagination and because they don’t capture the media’s imagination, few people know them, so the cycle continues.

Bottom line is that in football, a team that wins should be rewarded. What’s the point of two perfect seasons in four years if you don’t even sniff the national championship game? One way to alleviate this would be to have one loss teams from the power conferences play the zero loss teams from “mid-majors” in an eight team playoff. Two loss teams shouldn’t even be thought about for these purposes, even the power conferences. It would almost make as much money as those silly named bowl games that all the good teams get to play in. The Utes, its head coach Kyle Wittingham, and teams like them like it would almost certainly love to get a chance to compete for a real national championship.