Jan. 5 Bowl Thread

Voters who admit they don't watch all the teams. Great. Teams that "have to" murder every opponent, not just win, because of the unfounded opinions of others.
It's a swell system. It's a perfect paradigm of the dark side of American sports. Money and power rule, and honest competition is for suckers.
On tonight's tilt, it would be nice to see the poor Buckeyes not get vaporized, but I don't expect much. Of course, Texas' defense ain't exactly the '85 Bears.

 

I'd settle for a good game that's worth watching into the fourth quarter. Expectations being what they are now, every team is ultimately a fraud.

 

Yet a win would be a big step toward retribution for the Big 11 and OSU

 

Please, somebody, please, set up a Jan. 6 bowl thread for the GMAC bowl manana.

 

I figure if we had a Jan. 3 one for the epic UConn-Buffalo matchup, we'll have one tomorrow.

 

From Wetzel's column

And, umm, does Wetzel realize that six years later BYU was named the national champion by being No. 1 in both the AP and coaches polls?
Hard to make the argument that football outside the Pac-10 hasn't mattered in 30 years when one of the teams has a national championship in that same time period.

 

I can't do that.

I know I should, for the benefit of the conference. But I just can't.

 

I'm so tired of this argument.

These guys are competitors. They get paid to win, in a sense. If they don't have any desire to win, just because they aren't playing who they thought they should, then they were failures to begin with.

If they have competitive fire, they should want to win everything they play, no matter if it is the Cotton Bowl (which I guarantee was a big deal to athletes who play in Texas) or a fucking game of Uno.

 

You might be tired of it but it's an accurate argument. Smart betters have made a lot of money over the years on that theory.

 

let it go, man. "they didn't care" is a lame-assed excuse and nothing more. take it for who it's coming from.

 

your honor, i rest my case.

 

Well, that wasn't quite my point.

My point was this: If these guys are competitors, which we assume they are, then they should want to win every time out, whether they are playing a bowl game a random game against a terrible Big 12 South team or playing Rook with the in-laws.

That's my point.

Teams don't get a pass from me because "they didn't want to be there, because they deserved better."