Boise State is No. 3 in the BCS standings, right on the cusp of where it needs to be for the title game.
And that's where the BCS establishment wants to keep them.
The BCS was established by the six power conferences and Notre Dame, with no intention of ever including teams outside of that realm.
But Boise State's win over Oklahoma in the 2007 Fiesta Bowl changed things, and the power mongers have not been able to get the genie back into the bottle.
Then Utah came along and whipped Alabama in the 2009 Sugar Bowl. Even though the Crimson Tide gave up eight sacks because it was missing both starting tackles, people took notice.
But the red pill was always a little out of reach.
Yes, there are many times when Matrix references are worth making, and this is one of them.

The BCS is like The Architect, and Boise State is Neo. They've made it to the source, or in this case, the top five, but the BCS still maintains its control.
In this case, it's the computer rankings.
The humans are voting Boise State at No. 2, which must mean they think they the Broncos are good enough to play for the title.
This is certainly not surprising in the case of the AP voters, because the consensus media agenda is to create as much bad publicity as possible to force a playoff.
The power mongers in the BCS want the opposite.
One has to assume, though, that if Oregon were to lose, that Boise would be voted the No. 1 team in the country.
If that is so, and the Broncos continued to take care of business with blowout wins, they would almost certainly win the AP national title.
What would make the writers drop them? Only the Broncos can hurt themselves in that regard, and if they won the AP title, the crown would at minimum be split.
That would be if, when it comes to the BCS, Boise is still on the outside looking in.
The Broncos are getting killed by the computers, including Jeff Sagarin's amalagam of crap he calls ratings, where they are 11th.
So this begs the question - IF they ever needed to be, could the BCS computers be manipulated?
This question becomes more important when you realize that ESPN - which runs the coaches' poll - also owns the rights to the BCS.
I am not saying the BCS is fixed, let's be clear. But what if it needed to be? Could it be?
Who among us knows what goes into those computers? A wise man once told me that computers can only do what humans tell them to do.
Doesn't that at least bring into question the integrity of that portion of the system?
I'm not one of these bleeding hearts who thinks Boise State is getting screwed or that there should be a playoff. I am just fascinated by how the entire sport is run by faceless rich guys who no one ever sees.
Everyone is wondering what it will take for Boise to make the BCS title game, and maybe the Broncos still can. But for now, they are being kept just out of reach, just where the BCS wants them.
There's still plenty of time to see this play out to see if Boise falls down the rabbit hole or not.
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Just like his team, Boise quarterback Kellen Moore is running second in the Stiffarm.com poll for the Heisman Trophy.
Auburn's Cameron Newton is the leader for now, as only one of 62 Heisman voters polled left him off their 10-player watch list.
Moore was named on 55 ballots, as was Oregon's LaMichael James, and there is a big drop-off to quarterbacks Andrew Luck (Stanford), Terrelle Pryor (Ohio State) and Denard Robinson (Michigan).
It would seem that Moore is poised to take over the lead if Newton stumbles, and I think all it would take would be one bad game to take him out of the picture as quickly as he got in.

So again, Boise is right on the doorstep of the elite, but do the Broncos have the key?
Again, it's the most fascinating angle in a myriad of college football storylines this year.
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Today's Florida-Georgia game is historic for two reasons. First, it's their first meeting as unranked teams since 1979.
Second, it's the 30th anniversary of "Run, Lindsay, Run!"
That occured the next year in 1980, when Lindsay Scott made his dramatic game-winning touchdown from deep in his own territory to win the game for Georgia. The Bulldogs went on to the national title, and it was regarded as the greatest moment in the school's football history.
Meanwhile, Scott is reviled in Florida even by those too young to remember the play at all.
The two teams are headed in different directions this year, though, as the Bulldogs are improving and the Gators are sinking.
The main problem for the Gators has been offense, and a good friend of mine and prominent Gator supporter Dr. Tom Johnson summed it up best the other day.
"Their offense is like your grandmother playing Tecmo Bowl."
Sadly, that's accurate. If the Gators can't score this week, the organization once dubbed "The Firm" may just mail offensive coordinator Steve Adazzio his clothes.