Official Non-BCS Bowl Games thread

At least Oregon State had an excuse for its offense, playing without Jacquizz and James Rodgers.
And yes, the other (those not from USC) teams in the Pac-10 can hit and tackle, just like the teams from every other conference.
So much for being a "soft" conference.

 

Yesterday has to have been the worst day of bowl games in the history of bowl games.

 

And Iowa's out getting some of the Big Ten's masculinity back this morning. Thank heavens.

 

OTR, Iowa's the only team, possibly, that could give the Big Ten its only win of the bowl season.

And I couldn't be more happy than to be an unabashed Iowa fanboi.

 

Heh.

 

Man, watching a bit of the Shrine Game and there appear to be as many people on the field as there are in the stands.
Remember going to the game in the '80s at Stanford and reading about the annual visit to the hospital kids in The Sporting Green (when it was still printed on green paper) and though it wasn't a full house then they'd draw 40,000. Got to figure it's not that big of a deal to see players from all over the country play anymore, mixed in with the increase of underclassmen leaving, and perhaps most of all, the decline of membership in fraternal orders like the Shriners. Those guys used to sell tons of tickets to the game. Now it seems like they can hardly fill a JuCo stadium.

 

That, and some of it might be sports fans willing to sit at home or in bars, watching college basketball on ESPN, ESPN2, ABC, CBS and whoever else is carrying games. Back in the day, the Shrine Bowl might have been one of the few sporting events on network TV. Now it gets lost in the shuffle.

 

did i mention that the midwest south sucked ... bad?

 

Damn, tp, are they STILL playing those fuckin' non-BCS bowl games?

 

The Blue-Gray game can make room for the Hula Bowl. It is DOA. Not being held this year and the organizer never even announced it's demise. So now there's just the Shrine Game (in Houston), the Senior Bowl (Mobile) and the Texas vs. the Nation Challenge on Jan. 31 in El Paso.