From the beginning of the Bowl Championship Series’ development, there were many complaints from the smaller conferences that the system denied them access to the upper tier BCS bowl games – and the increased revenue those games provided. For a team like the Utah Utes, the criticism had merit. With a long history of championship football within the various conferences in which they competed, the Utes felt they were as good as anyone else in the country. Other teams, like Boise State, felt they too were worthy of contention. New fans of college football are today more accustomed to the notion of mid-major teams being provided greater access to bowl games. Last year’s TCU and Boise State BCS match up was a clear example of how much things have changed. For those unfamiliar with the history of the BCS, however, the breaking of that BCS wall between mid and major conferences may be somewhat of a mystery. It was actually the direct result of Urban Meyer’s time as the coach of the Utah Utes – a short, two season span of time that enabled a school from the forgotten Mountain West Conference to crash the major conferences’ BCS party.