Running Bowl Selection Thread

ucacm · Dec 5, 2010

It's amazing how obsessed some of the fans are with their team getting picked by the game that has first priority for selection.

Last year, Missouri fans were upset that they didn't get to go to the INSIGHT BOWL! This year, taking a quick glance at their message boards, Mizzou fans are upset about likely going to the Holiday Bowl instead of the Cotton or Alamo Bowl. Wow, you really got shafted, you get to go play a 7-5 team in San Diego as opposed to a 6-6 team in San Antonio! Spending the holidays in San Diego, what a terrible, terrible fate.

South Carolina has to go to the Chick-Fil-A Bowl instead of the Outback Bowl? What a crime against humanity! Instead of playing a 7-5 Penn State team (Is their best win Temple, Michigan, or Northwestern?), they play a 9-4 Florida State team in Atlanta.

Ben_Hecht · Dec 5, 2010

When does the show start?

Chef2 · Dec 5, 2010

Ben_Hecht said:

When does the show start?
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Regular bowls at 8:15 EST; BCS at 9.

thestatman · Dec 5, 2010

The WWL is already posting most of the bowl matchups on the web, including this little dandy of floundering programs...

Sun Bowl: Miami vs. Notre Dame

Ben_Hecht · Dec 5, 2010

thestatman said:

The WWL is already posting most of the bowl matchups on the web, including this little dandy of floundering programs...

Sun Bowl: Miami vs. Notre Dame
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That's the Eclipse Bowl.

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thestatman · Dec 5, 2010

Ben_Hecht said:

thestatman said:

The WWL is already posting most of the bowl matchups on the web, including this little dandy of floundering programs...

Sun Bowl: Miami vs. Notre Dame
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That's the Eclipse Bowl.

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Gosh, Middle Tennessee vs. Miami (Ohio) might be more entertaining because its the GoDaddy.com Bowl.

Woo Hoo! Get to see more Danica!

Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!! · Dec 5, 2010

ucacm said:

It's amazing how obsessed some of the fans are with their team getting picked by the game that has first priority for selection.

Last year, Missouri fans were upset that they didn't get to go to the INSIGHT BOWL! This year, taking a quick glance at their message boards, Mizzou fans are upset about likely going to the Holiday Bowl instead of the Cotton or Alamo Bowl. Wow, you really got shafted, you get to go play a 7-5 team in San Diego as opposed to a 6-6 team in San Antonio! Spending the holidays in San Diego, what a terrible, terrible fate.

South Carolina has to go to the Chick-Fil-A Bowl instead of the Outback Bowl? What a crime against humanity! Instead of playing a 7-5 Penn State team (Is their best win Temple, Michigan, or Northwestern?), they play a 9-4 Florida State team in Atlanta.
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Yeah, but Penn State is a lock win.

dixiehack · Dec 5, 2010

The Pittsburgh of the North is bowling in the Pittsburgh of the South.

zagoshe · Dec 5, 2010

LongTimeListener said:

BitterYoungMatador2 said:

hondo said:

MileHigh said:

UConn going to one of these games is a joke and is example 1A of why the system needs to be blown up.
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UConn won its conference. Whaddya gonna do?
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Seriously, where was all the bitching and crying in 1999 when shitty Stanford won the PAC-10 and has its ass handed to them by Wisconsin. Or the following year when a shitty 8-3 Purdue made the Rose Bowl and was hammered by Washington. Or even better yet, how about 5 loss FSU in 2005 making the Orange Bowl. Ohh wait, none of those were Big East teams so who cares. No wonder people believe there's a midwestern and southern bias in college football. It's because there is.
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BitterYoungMatador2 said:

hondo said:

MileHigh said:

UConn going to one of these games is a joke and is example 1A of why the system needs to be blown up.
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UConn won its conference. Whaddya gonna do?
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Seriously, where was all the bitching and crying in 1999 when shitty Stanford won the PAC-10 and has its ass handed to them by Wisconsin. Or the following year when a shitty 8-3 Purdue made the Rose Bowl and was hammered by Washington. Or even better yet, how about 5 loss FSU in 2005 making the Orange Bowl. Ohh wait, none of those were Big East teams so who cares. No wonder people believe there's a midwestern and southern bias in college football. It's because there is.
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The problem for the Big East is they NEVER have a good team anymore. In the three years since WVU's Fiesta Bowl, what is the conference's greatest non-conference win -- Cincinnati winning at Oregon State last year? Big whoop. Those other conferences may have down years. The Big East in the BCS is just an anachronism from when Miami, BC and Va Tech were there.

BTW Stanford didn't get its ass handed to it, unless losing 17-9 -- and trailing 10-9 until the final TD with seven minutes left -- is getting its ass handed to it. Quite a bit different from, say, I don't know, an undefeated team wailing about getting left out of the championship game and then losing 51-24 to a conference runner-up in the Sugar Bowl.
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What is the Big Ten's best win this year? Ohio State beating Miami, a team that was so good they fired their coach.

And I'd say the coaching situation last year at Cincy had just a little bit to do with why they performed so poorly in that game against Florida.

The Big East is awful this year, but anybody who thinks it is that much worse than the ACC is delusional.

LongTimeListener · Dec 5, 2010

zagoshe said:

LongTimeListener said:

BitterYoungMatador2 said:

hondo said:

MileHigh said:

UConn going to one of these games is a joke and is example 1A of why the system needs to be blown up.
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UConn won its conference. Whaddya gonna do?
Click to expand...

Seriously, where was all the bitching and crying in 1999 when shitty Stanford won the PAC-10 and has its ass handed to them by Wisconsin. Or the following year when a shitty 8-3 Purdue made the Rose Bowl and was hammered by Washington. Or even better yet, how about 5 loss FSU in 2005 making the Orange Bowl. Ohh wait, none of those were Big East teams so who cares. No wonder people believe there's a midwestern and southern bias in college football. It's because there is.
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BitterYoungMatador2 said:

hondo said:

MileHigh said:

UConn going to one of these games is a joke and is example 1A of why the system needs to be blown up.
Click to expand...

UConn won its conference. Whaddya gonna do?
Click to expand...

Seriously, where was all the bitching and crying in 1999 when shitty Stanford won the PAC-10 and has its ass handed to them by Wisconsin. Or the following year when a shitty 8-3 Purdue made the Rose Bowl and was hammered by Washington. Or even better yet, how about 5 loss FSU in 2005 making the Orange Bowl. Ohh wait, none of those were Big East teams so who cares. No wonder people believe there's a midwestern and southern bias in college football. It's because there is.
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The problem for the Big East is they NEVER have a good team anymore. In the three years since WVU's Fiesta Bowl, what is the conference's greatest non-conference win -- Cincinnati winning at Oregon State last year? Big whoop. Those other conferences may have down years. The Big East in the BCS is just an anachronism from when Miami, BC and Va Tech were there.

BTW Stanford didn't get its ass handed to it, unless losing 17-9 -- and trailing 10-9 until the final TD with seven minutes left -- is getting its ass handed to it. Quite a bit different from, say, I don't know, an undefeated team wailing about getting left out of the championship game and then losing 51-24 to a conference runner-up in the Sugar Bowl.
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What is the Big Ten's best win this year? Ohio State beating Miami, a team that was so good they fired their coach.

And I'd say the coaching situation last year at Cincy had just a little bit to do with why they performed so poorly in that game against Florida.

The Big East is awful this year, but anybody who thinks it is that much worse than the ACC is delusional.
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Michigan crushed UConn this year. That's an awesome win for the Big Ten's seventh-place team. Over a BCS qualifier, no less!

zagoshe · Dec 5, 2010

LongTimeListener said:

Michigan crushed UConn this year. That's an awesome win for the Big Ten's seventh-place team. Over a BCS qualifier, no less!
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UConn sucks, you've already established that.

And you just proved my point - who the fuck has the Big Ten beaten this year?

Nobody.

LongTimeListener · Dec 5, 2010

zagoshe said:

LongTimeListener said:

Michigan crushed UConn this year. That's an awesome win for the Big Ten's seventh-place team. Over a BCS qualifier, no less!
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In the context of comparing the Big East and the Big Ten, as you did, I think a knockout blow by the Big Ten's No. 7 over the Big East champion is worth noting.

UConn sucks, you've already established that.

And you just proved my point - who the fuck has the Big Ten beaten this year?

Nobody.
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