The BCS seems so corrupt to me.
There's just no shot for a cinderella story. I mean in NCAA Hoops at least there's a "chance" a team like Coppin State can win their division, get a 15 seed in the Tournament, and go undefeated the whole way. Having "2nd class" conferences in College Football just rubs the wrong way.
Let's look at their schedules:
Boise State: @1 ranked BCS team, 10 unranked non-BCS FBS teams, 1 FCS team
Combined record of the 12 teams BSU beat: 64-80
Non-conference wins: @#17 Oregon, Bowling Green, @Southern Miss, Idaho State
That win over my ducks is really the only impressive win they have, followed by blowouts of three 7-5 teams and a struggle to hold on against rallying 7-5 Nevada
Utah: 2 unranked BCS teams (1 was later ranked), 2 ranked non-BCS teams, 7 unranked non-BCS teams, 1 FCS team
Combined record of teams Utah beat: 73-71
Nonconference wins: Oregon State, @Michigan, Weber State, @Utah State
They have three pretty impressive wins (including an 11-pt. comeback in the last two minutes to keep Oregon State from a second big upset in a row), but their strength of schedule isn't quite good enough to get them to the top 2.
Ways they could have a better chance of making the NC game:
1. Better non-conference games:
That's part their fault (scheduling FCS teams Idaho State & Weber State, Bottom 10 regular Utah State) and part the fault of the teams they played (Michigan's record settingly bad season, Oregon State's early-season flops)
2. Join a better conference:
going undefeated in a BCS conference would be much more impressive, but joining a BCS conference would also make it harder to go undefeated.
Utah's chances were also probably hurt by Hawaii's blowout loss in a BCS bowl last year