But the Cougars' team captain can see it coming. With three unbeaten teams from non-BCS conferences - No. 14 BYU, No. 20 Utah and No. 15 East Carolina - gracing college football's Top 25 and a couple more among teams also receiving top-25 votes, there could come a day when Jorgensen and his teammates will root for a non-BCS team to get dumped.
"We have goals. We want to get to the BCS, but it is nice to see the teams from the quote-unquote non-BCS schools go out and beat those big boys," he said. "So we always want those guys to do well, but at the same time when we are trying to get our way in and we have other non-BCS teams that are [in the way], it is like, 'Oh, it wouldn't be bad if they lost,' to kind of secure where we are at."
Welcome to the non-BCS logjam, with a potential collision looming on the college football horizon this year if the aforementioned schools - unbeatens Boise State, TCU and once-beaten Fresno State (still No. 25 in the AP poll) are also in the potential mix - continue to win.
The BCS system created this potential wreck because only one team from the Mountain West, WAC, MAC, Conference USA or Sun Belt is guaranteed a berth in a lucrative BCS bowl, and only if it is ranked in the top 12 in the final BCS rankings or ranked in the top 16 and higher than a champion from one of the six BCS conferences.
Sure, a second team could be invited from the "at-large" pool, but that's highly unlikely given the non-BCS teams' smaller fan bases and lack of more national appeal.
Mountain West commissioner Craig Thompson said last week that it is too early to start up the whole "BCS-buster" talk, especially because in his league Utah, BYU and TCU, all 3-0, still have to play each other, in addition to a dangerous Air Force team that is also unbeaten. But he acknowledges if those teams continue to climb in the polls, angst with the BCS system among the have-nots of college football will grow.
"There is so much that has to be played, and I think if we get wrapped up projecting what's going to happen at the end of November, [nine] games from now, we will all go nuts," he said.
Still, there was some relief in Provo (and probably in the MWC offices) over the weekend when the Cougars leapfrogged East Carolina in the AP poll after their 59-0 thumping of UCLA, even though the BCS rankings formula does not include that poll. Not that BYU coach Bronco Mendenhall will acknowledge such a thing.
"I am paying no attention to it," he said at Monday's press conference. "I have never paid attention before, and just because now I guess we are receiving some attention, I don't intend to change. ...Maybe after nine more games, then I will take a look."
After potential BCS-buster Fresno State lost 13-10 to Wisconsin, coach Pat Hill told reporters, "We're not playing for that anymore," when asked about the prospect of a BCS bowl. And at the MWC football meetings in July, BYU's Mendenhall said he still believes a non-BCS team won't get in unless it has a perfect record, in part because of the way Hawaii was pounded by Georgia in a BCS bowl game last year.
Thompson's not sure.
"Well, maybe, maybe not," he said. "I have asked that question of myself. I have gotten no answer, because I don't make those decisions. But what if there is a second 12-0 [team] from a non-automatic qualifying conference [up] against an 11-1 [team] from one of the six automatically qualifying conferences? What does that bowl do? I think it is a question only that particular bowl can answer."
So, coaches such as Utah's Kyle Whittingham and BYU's Mendenhall are telling their teams there is no margin for error. And even if perfection is reached, there are no guarantees, either.
"I don't really rank teams until the fourth or fifth week so you see a lot of teams bouncing in and out so that should settle down as the season wears on," said Whittingham, who declined to discuss the BCS possibilities of other teams.
"If anything, I am cheering for [the competing non-BCS teams]," BYU quarterback Max Hall said. "We can't control all of it. It is going to be what it is going to be. All we can do is win as many games as we can, and watch what happens."
LYA WODRASKA contributed to this report.
