Let's Go Bowling------2019-20 Bowl Game Running Thread

They kind of got jammed up by the calendar. Conference title games two weeks ago, Christmas on Wednesday and Semis next Saturday. I have to think most teams are barely getting the "extra two weeks" of practice with finals and everything.

 

Probe: Army-Navy game hand gestures not racist

Looking forward to this being adapted into an NCIS episode. I guess the shock is that nothing else on their phones or computers ended up getting them booted.

 

The Florida-Virginia spread is probably high by bowl standards but low by modern reality. The Cavaliers have no defense left. Three or four of their best players are out. The Gators won't put 62 on them as Clemson did, but I'm guessing the margin will be ≥ 21.

 

You're assuming there was a full investigation. Remember who the Commander in Chief is.

 

Smoothie King Quote of the night (unintentional division) "Yes, he's going to have some questions to answer with that marijuana arrest, but he's hoping to go out tonight on a high note."

 

$300 million per year for the $EC!?!

SEC Football Leaving CBS After 2023, Likely For ESPN/ABC

 

If that is JUST for the tier one rights - that is insane, figure another $200 mil for the rest of the package? Honestly, there are maybe six SEC games worth watching in any given year. It might just ruin college football, with the SEC taking up two or three prime slots on ABC and ESPN every Saturday.
The Pac-12 should make a hard play for CBS, get a 12:30 and 4 p.m. slot and an evening game on CBSSN.

 

And the MAC is 2-0.

UB wins its first bowl game in history. I remember when it dropped the program in 1970 or so, only to bring it back as a DIII program after about a 10-year hiatus.

Kent State also gets its first bowl win. Judging by his purple nose, looked like USU's Gary Andersen is still hitting the bottle. Always a good day when he loses.

 

Utah State killed my bowl pools. All of them.

 

They already had all the non-CBS games in the conference through their revenue sharing deal with the SEC Network I believe so they are taking it all and now have the rights to broadcast conference games on ABC, which they didn't before. And forget just prime slots. You're looking at noon, 3:30 and 7:30 slots with SEC football. Alabama will get all the primetime games they want now. On the bright side maybe they can throw Gary Danielson out to pasture.

I'm guessing CBS, at least the network, will back out of the CFB game with CBSSN continues to load up on G5 games. I've always been surprised that the ACC hasn't been able to piggy back their deal with Notre Dame to sell games to NBC.

 

As if the WWL weren't already sucking up to the SEC enough right now ...

 

Every time a member of the SEConfederacy suffers its first loss of a season, the ESPN crew will convene an emergency broadcast to explain why Alabama or LSU or Georgia isn't done yet. They can still get in. The South Will Rise Again.