I wanted to be an astronaut when I was a kid.
But my parents told me the sky’s the limit.
Going undefeated is hard. In any league, in any division, in any sport. So the expectations for Houston were just unrealistic. To say that they were the “next Boise State” is laughable because, well, it’s really hard to be the next Boise State. That and we are still THE Boise State.
This is pretty well-done in explaining what happened after the fact. In short: the refs got that part of the game correct. It’s just the rules that are a bit on the dumb side.