NCAA Football Re-alignment

Technically, there are two undefeated teams in this year's season of NCAA Division I-A football. Ohio State will either clinch its National Championship against Florida on January 8, or we will watch highlights of the greatest upset in history for decades to come. Boisie State has a record of 12-0, but every commentator expects the Broncos to lose to the Oklahoma Sooners on New Year's Day. The trouble with Boisie State's record is that their schedule lacked a truly challenging opponent. The best opponent that the Broncos beat was Hawaii, which is now ranked 23rd. Hawaii defeated the unranked Arizona State Sun Devils in the Hawaii Bowl, which highlights a schedule problem that plagues both Hawaii and Boisie State. Even a so-called bowl victory for Hawaii does not solidify a case for the Warriors to be ranked in the top 25. How many ranked teams has Hawaii beaten this year? Zero. How many ranked teams has Boisie State beaten? Counting Hawaii, One. Providentially, the big conference that suffers from the worst case of mediocrity lives next door to these two over-achievers. The PAC-10 is a mere hop, skip and a jump from the WAC. Currently 0-2 in 2006 bowls, having suffered one defeat and one utter massacre, (BYU had Oregon Duck Soup for dinner on December 21, 38-8) the PAC-10 is in need of more competitive teams. Boisie State, having won the WAC for five years running, but still gets labelled, "untried," is in equally desperate need of competitive opponents. Fortunately, the PAC-10 has one team that would never be missed except at other schools' homecomings.
I propose a trade of Boisie State to the PAC-10 in exchange for Stanford, who has a record of 1-11 this year, but they have never been good in football, even in distant memory. Stanford likely suffers from higher academic standards than those enforced by a number of other teams. The trade would give the PAC-10 another competitive team to compensate in the years (like this one) when few PAC-10 teams are good. It may be unlikely that the NCAA and school and conference officials would accept this trade idea, but this much is certain: if Boisie State had gone undefeated while playing USC and CAL this year, they would be playing Ohio State for the National Championship on January 8.