# College Football Bowl Season, Bowl Pool? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [December 10, 2009, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-football-bowl-season-bowl-pool/520733 "2009-12-10T15:52:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 18
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2010, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-football-bowl-season-bowl-pool/520733/341 "2010-01-06T17:12:30Z")
It’s hard for me to hold my nose too. Root for the state that gave us George Bush, and the team that polluted the Rose Bowl two years in a row, or root for a team in the despised SEC with a traitorous head coach. For me, the SEC factor trumps all. ---
**Author:** ![Rucksinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/898d66/32.png) [@Rucksinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rucksinator)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-football-bowl-season-bowl-pool/520733/342 "2010-01-07T00:24:11Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > Troy is in Alabama? Who knew? > > 😉 Probably half the people in Alabama and about two dozen others. I only found out recently. > [@BobLibDem](#): > > It’s hard for me to hold my nose too. Root for the state that gave us George Bush, and the team that polluted the Rose Bowl two years in a row, or root for a team in the despised SEC with a traitorous head coach. For me, the SEC factor trumps all. Traitorous? Why do people think that only a traitor leaves a job for a better job? I hear the same kind of thing from Cincinnati fans. Everybody with any ambition tries to work their way up the ladder of whatever profession they chose. Some college football coaches think that coaching pro football is the next rung, and then find out it’s a different world; one that they are not comfortable and/or good at (see Spurrier, Steve, et al). Was Saban supposed to tell Les Miles that he needed his office back? ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-football-bowl-season-bowl-pool/520733/343 "2010-01-07T03:34:06Z")
I will never believe for a moment that LSU is “up the ladder” from MSU and it still grinds me that he thought so. ---
**Author:** ![Rucksinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/898d66/32.png) [@Rucksinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rucksinator)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-football-bowl-season-bowl-pool/520733/344 "2010-01-07T03:39:05Z")
I didn’t get to see the Florida/Cinci game, where the announcers supposedly verbally felatted Tim Tebow. I can’t imagine that it was worse than the verbal felattio that C.Michigan’s QB is getting right now. Was it really as bad as this? ---
**Author:** ![Rucksinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/898d66/32.png) [@Rucksinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rucksinator)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-football-bowl-season-bowl-pool/520733/345 "2010-01-07T03:52:30Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > I will never believe for a moment that LSU is “up the ladder” from MSU and it still grinds me that he thought so. Who is MSU, again? ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-football-bowl-season-bowl-pool/520733/346 "2010-01-07T04:01:06Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > I will never believe for a moment that LSU is “up the ladder” from MSU and it still grinds me that he thought so. You ARE joking, right? :dubious: Michigan State has one, and only one reason it is known outside of the state of Michigan: it plays U of M every year and usually has that game on television, mostly because it’s U of M, not because of the Spartans. :smack: In the football world, the Spartans are NOTHING. Haven’t been for, oh, almost 5 decades. LSU, by comparison, have been national champions within very recent history, and have been big in the football world outside the SEC for longer than that. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-football-bowl-season-bowl-pool/520733/347 "2010-01-07T04:01:31Z")
> [@Rucksinator](#): > > I didn’t get to see the Florida/Cinci game, where the announcers supposedly verbally felatted Tim Tebow. I can’t imagine that it was worse than the verbal felattio that C.Michigan’s QB is getting right now. Was it really as bad as this? IMO, the color commentator (Brian Billick) was very critical of Tebow during the Sugar Bowl. Thom Brennanmen (the play by play announcer) was very supportive of Tebow. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-football-bowl-season-bowl-pool/520733/348 "2010-01-07T04:10:14Z")
> [@Rucksinator](#): > > I can’t imagine that it was worse than the verbal felattio that C.Michigan’s QB is getting right now. Was it really as bad as this? Well Lefevour is the best QB in Michigan. Better than anyone on the Wolverines, Spartans or Lions. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-football-bowl-season-bowl-pool/520733/349 "2010-01-07T04:14:44Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > I will never believe for a moment that LSU is “up the ladder” from MSU and it still grinds me that he thought so. Any school in the SEC is automatically “up the ladder” from any of the non-SEC schools. Especially one in Michigan. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-football-bowl-season-bowl-pool/520733/350 "2010-01-07T05:13:36Z")
Dang it. I didn’t get to see the game tonight. I had to go to band practice. I thought Troy looked good in the first quarter. What happened? They get LeFevoured? ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-football-bowl-season-bowl-pool/520733/351 "2010-01-07T12:05:50Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > Any school in the SEC is automatically “up the ladder” from any of the non-SEC schools. Especially one in Michigan. Vandy? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-football-bowl-season-bowl-pool/520733/352 "2010-01-07T14:28:47Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > Any school in the SEC is automatically “up the ladder” from any of the non-SEC schools. Especially one in Michigan. I think you left off the sarcasm or rolleyes smiley. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-football-bowl-season-bowl-pool/520733/353 "2010-01-07T15:25:31Z")
> [@wolfman](#): > > Well Lefevour is the best QB in Michigan. Better than anyone on the Wolverines, Spartans or Lions. Isn’t that like saying someone is the best hockey player in Cuba? ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-football-bowl-season-bowl-pool/520733/354 "2010-01-07T16:09:13Z")
In the jsc1953 Race for the Bragging Rights Conference Bowl Scorecard, it comes down to tonight’s game. (If TCU had won the Fiesta Bowl, the Mountain West would have an insurmountable lead.) If Texas wins, the Big 10 wins, propelled by high-value wins over the Pac-10 champ, the ACC champ, and the SEC 3rd place team. (The Big 12 would come in 2nd) If Alabama wins, the SEC wins. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-football-bowl-season-bowl-pool/520733/355 "2010-01-07T20:06:47Z")
If Zamboni picked the same team I did, we would end up with the same number of points. I would be declared the winner because I would have 1 more winning pick. I declare victory. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-football-bowl-season-bowl-pool/520733/356 "2010-01-07T21:16:39Z")
Can anyone tell me why I am not getting the Rose Bowl on TV here in Australia. We have had all the other bowl games live but it doesn’t look like we are even getting a next day replay of the BCS National Championship Game. How is this game different to the others? ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-football-bowl-season-bowl-pool/520733/357 "2010-01-07T21:30:25Z")
> [@don\_t\_ask](#): > > Can anyone tell me why I am not getting the Rose Bowl on TV here in Australia. We have had all the other bowl games live but it doesn’t look like we are even getting a next day replay of the BCS National Championship Game. How is this game different to the others? Hmmm. Could it be because the BCS NCG is being broadcast (here in the states) on ABC? (as was the Rose Bowl game on Jan 1). All previous bowl games were broadcast on ESPN (primarily) with a few on CBS and 3 of the BCS games (Sugar, Orange, Fiesta) on Fox. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-football-bowl-season-bowl-pool/520733/358 "2010-01-07T23:02:12Z")
I just hope the SEC doesn’t get another crappy win on a missed filed goal. ---
**Author:** ![RaftPeople](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@RaftPeople](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RaftPeople)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-football-bowl-season-bowl-pool/520733/359 "2010-01-08T03:12:32Z")
Even though that wasn’t the quarterback’s fault (shovel pass interception for td), I think that was too risky a call against the Alabama D at that point in game and field position, not a smart choice. I did like the deep throw from the end zone earlier, that situation is better because he can just overthrow Shipley if everything isn’t perfect. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-football-bowl-season-bowl-pool/520733/360 "2010-01-08T03:25:51Z")
> [@RaftPeople](#): > > Even though that wasn’t the quarterback’s fault (shovel pass interception for td), I think that was too risky a call against the Alabama D at that point in game and field position, not a smart choice. I think it was the QB’s fault. He shoulda just kept the ball and taken the sack on the play. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-football-bowl-season-bowl-pool/520733.md?page=17) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-football-bowl-season-bowl-pool/520733.md?page=19)