I wasn't half kidding when I said that the Big Sky Conference should split and half the conference should move to the FBS and take the place of the WAC. It is a good solution. The performance of Eastern Washington and Sacramento State to open the season are proof. Eastern Washington beat Idaho and played a close game against Washington State to open the season. And for the second consecutive season, Sacramento State has defeated a PAC-12 school.
You may laugh at the level of competition. I mean, Washington State is not exactly smelling roses right now and neither are California and Colorado. But these BSC programs are performing as well as any bottom-tiered WAC or Mountain West school has in the last decade.
The top tier of the Big Sky would not beat a PAC-12 team every week. The Big Sky is not what the Mountain West was when they were led by BYU, TCU and Utah. But there is a hold in the college football world left by the terminal Western Athletic Conference. The top half of the Big Sky Conference looks ready to fill the void.
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