You and I watched different games last night. The NIU team I saw was manhandled most of the game. A team averaging around 40 points a game scores only 10 points, and Lynch gets only 44 yards rushing when he had been averaging 3 times that amount. From a purely football standpoint, NIU proved itself to be a decent homecoming opponent for most of the big time football programs.You misunderstand - I did not say that they deserve to be in the BCSCG. I said that they deserved to be in their BCS bowl and played under the same BCS rules/formulae that put Alabama in the BCSCG.
They played very well last night - in the game and within a TD going into the 4th qtr. They simply didn't have the depth to hang with FSU.