“Nobody can stop people from Boise State from selling “National champions” T-shirts. Nobody can stop people from buying those shirts. And nobody can say those shirts are wrong.”

Get your National Champions shirt today, and dare someone to say you’re wrong. Maybe not in the AP, or the coaches poll or the BCS…but BSU tops 4th & Forever’s season-ending poll. And that’s saying something.

It's like deja blue, all over again.

Pat Forde is generally spot on, but his assertion that “Having the BCS is worse than having shingles” is simply not true. (See article here). We’re not pro-BCS, necessarily, but we’re pretty sure we’d rather watch a psuedo-National Championship game than suffering if not the indignity, than certainly the pain, of shingles.

Additionally, we are not sure there is any indignity associated with shingles. No offense to all you shingles sufferers out there.

Homerism is not unlike optimism in that our cup runneth over here in the 208. There is no doubt that Boise, as a whole, believes TCU could and even should be playing a few days from now against Alabama. Even so, you would also be hard-pressed to find anybody in Boise picking against BSU tonight. It’s just how it goes in a small town. I’m not saying we are hanging our entire emotional, spiritual and financial outlook for 2010 on tonight’s game…just the first 4 months or so of the New Year until Spring Camp opens.