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Bigdleech: 27=better than 36! said 06/25, 10:29 PM
Obviously this includes football, basketball, and baseball. The team that you choose does not have to have won their respective title, so teams like George Mason, etc. are options.

Tonight's winning Bulldogs did something unimaginable. They were an average team during the regular season, floating around .500. They had to win the conference tournament to get in, and they certainly weren't expected to win the WAC tournament. But they did, and they managed to get a four seed in their regional, the worst seed you can get. They were pushed to the wall, in a winner take all game against San Diego for the regional. San Diego had won the previous game 15-1. So what does Fresno do? They come back and dominate the game 5-1.

After losing game one against 3 overall seed Arizona State, they came back to win the next two games in Tempe.

In the College World Series, they went 2-1 against number two overall seed North Carolina, blew out the sixth overall seed Rice, and went 2-1 against eighth overall seed Georgia

They were best when their backs were against the wall, going an astonishing 6-0 when they faced elimination

No team over the past twenty years has made a run of this nature

Bigdleech: 27=better than 36! said 06/25, 10:58 PM
I thought this might have been an option, but I didn't see you going there.

This game was one of the top two BCS games of all time, through ten seasons. It was a great game and an upset, but it was not a great upset.

Oklahoma may be a powerhouse in college football, but they weren't neccesarily an elite team that season. After Texas won the national championship the previous season, the Big 12 went down into a bit of a spiral. The pollsters didn't think it was such a big upset, because Boise State was only two spots behind Oklahoma in the AP poll, and they were ahead of them in the computer rankings. Oklahoma was a good team, but they didn't have a real leader.

Boise State, on the other hand, was underrated the entire year. They had a much better offense than Oklahoma, with a far superior quarterback and a better running back. Boise State probably would have even won it in regulation had Zabransky not thrown that terrible interception.

Besides, this Cinderella story was only one game. Fresno State faced elimination six more times than that.

They had tons of injuries, a very below average bullpen, but they still managed to upset top eight teams one after another.

Bigdleech: 27=better than 36! said 06/25, 11:30 PM
Isn't any Cinderella story about a team getting hot at the right time?

I don't know what you mean by "nobody gave Boise a chance beforehand". As I pointed out, the people that voted on in the AP poll thought that they were pretty close. Most people thought that Oklahoma would win, but most people also gave Boise State some chance.

How can you even compare the two? Nobody, and I mean nobody, gave Fresno State a chance to come out of the region. They were in one of the toughest regions, and Long Beach State was supposed to be the team with a shot at the title from the region. People didn't think they could even come out of the region. They HAD to win the conference tournament just to make the field.

If this was ranked like March Madness, they probably would have been a fourteen or fifteen seed. Boise State was one of the top eight teams in the country. They may have played an easy schedule, but they went through it without a hiccup.

Boise State went up against a team with pretty similar talent, but Oklahoma was not a "Goliath" that season. Fresno State had to beat four or five Goliaths.

They were down 5-0 and down a game to Georgia, but their offense exploded to win it