Define irony - Utah just gets done drilling ISU a brand new ***hole and Cyclone fans want to rip on MWC and WAC teams for not being the "real deal". TCU, Utah, and Boise St would likely roll all over most of the Big 12 this year.
Outside of those three schools, most of the MWC and WAC teams aren't the real deal.
Also, by Big 12 standards, neither are we.
Historically, to win a BCS championship, you need to come out of a power conference with either 0 or 1 loss. Could one of those schools go to the Big 12, Big 10, or SEC for 8 conference games, plus 1 or 2 BCS schools in the non-conference, plus a conference title game and run the table or take just 1 loss? I still don't know that we have seen enough to say for sure that they could do that.
The only way to know for sure is to try it. Lucky for us, Utah will do just that next season.