No smack-talking here, but I am just pleased Hawaii’s in a huge bowl game. I look forward to testing Brennan and the offense against one of this year’s best teams. While I’m not sure Hawaii has enough on defense to win, that won’t stop me from buying my Hawaii-Sugar Bowl t-shirt.
Doctor Who, we should arrange a switch, you guys go the Fiesta and play OU and give us West Virginia
Looking forward to the game; a classic David and Goliath, perhaps moreso than OU-Boise. UH has something like 1/7th UGA’s football budget. In 1998, UH went 0-12. And now look.
Ultimately, with everybody who had a chance at the title blowing it at least once, I guess the voters said “Fuck this, I’m just picking the teams I think are the best.” While I always root against OSU, and the Kansas pick is flat-out wrong, I think the results are decent. Considering how screwed up the whole system is, anyway.
Something smells foul with the computer portion of the BCS. In the final standings, the computers have Missouri at 4 and Oklahoma tied for 6th. How many more times would OU have to beat them to jump them?
Anyone want to guess on why the Orange took KU over Missouri? Kansas isn’t known to really travel a lot of fans, Nebraska style.
Man, the Big 10 got hosed by the locations of the bowls:
Ohio state vs. LSU- Essentially a home game for LSU in New Orleans
Illinois vs. USC- Home game for USC
Wisconsin vs. Florida- Orlando is what? 50 miles from Gainesville.
Penn State vs. Texas AM- College Station is maybe 75 miles from San Antonio
It happens every year. Its almost always USC or UCLA in the Rose and we play there every year. Bowls always select a local team to play in their bowl game if possible and thats a built in advantage for the SEC, Big-12 and Pac-10. Things were a little easier before the BCS since the conference tie-ins restricted the favoritism a little bit by forcing conference #1’s and #2’s to play in specific sites. Those days are gone.
It’s funny you guys talking about being screwed by your bowl affiliation locations. Out here (pac 10 land) where we, of course, always scream of the East Coast Bias, typically point to the Big 10 as having a well thought out bowl affiliation lineup, it spreads their teams to all points in the country and lets the whole country see them. As opposed to the Pac 10 with bowl affiliations in Pasadena, San Diego, El Paso, Hawaii and Las Vegas I believe- we are doing ourselves no favors by making sure nobody on the East Coast really gets to see us play.
Because playoffs have spelled DOOM for all other levels of football!
Anyway… the Voters really pulled a fast one on this… Georgia was 4th last week and remained 4th this week. Had this been ANY OTHER WEEK in the college Football season Georgia would be ranked #2 this week. The voters clearly didn’t vote how tradition would dictate, (funny since tradition is all that keeps the bowl system alive) but voted to put LSU into the NCG, and not allow a non conference champion into the game. Apparantly we get to pick and choose how we follow tradition.
I actually am not really opposed to LSU being in the game. I don’t necessarily disagree with the loud voice of the voters opposed to Georgia being in. I just think Georgia got kind of jobbed on this. And I don’t entirely know why LSU was chosen to be THE ONE, when I don’t see how they’re really any more deserving than Oklahoma, VT or USC. Seems like everybody has had LSU pegged as the team from near the start of the season and they were going to make it happen come hell or high water.
I think the pairings are horrible. It’s like one strong team vs a weak team. One could argue that OU, UGA, and USC could be in the title game. But they couldn’t find a way for those three teams to play each other?
Interesting that Illinois is a 13.5 point underdog, while Hawaii is only 11.
I would have loved to see UGA matched against Oklahoma or Southern Cal. It could have been a sort of shadow national championship, between teams currently playing better than the teams in the BCS title game.
No, because thanks to the old guard Bowl system, each of those teams (OU: Fiesta, UGA: Sugar, and USC: Rose) are property of their affiliated bowl unless they play in the championship game.
If you had an OU/UGA matchup, you would have an Illinois/Hawaii matchup in another bowl. Which bowl has to take that one?
Purdue over Central Michigan. The Chippewas have one of the best QBs in Dan LeFevour but still it’s a stretch to see CMU winning.
Michigan State over Boston College. MSU can play with anyone or lose to anyone. Other than Illinois, they played the best against #1 Ohio State
Penn State over Texas A&M. Could go the other way as it’s almost a home game for the Aggies.
Indiana over Oklahoma State. High powered offense gets by OSU’s unpowered defense.
Wisconsin over Tennessee. First of 3 wins over the SEC this year. Neither Tennessee nor LSU was at all impressive last week. Wisconsin is overlooked nationally but they’re a very good team.
Michigan over Florida. Depending on which U-M team shows up, it could go either way. They rally to send Carr out a winner.
Illinois over USC Another tough one, perhaps the biggest challenge of any Big Ten bowl.
Ohio State over LSU. No contest here, OSU is simply head and shoulders over any team LSU has played to date. Les Miles later will say, “gee, I’d hate to play Ohio State every year.”
I see the Big 10 going anywhere from 6-2 to 8-0 in bowl games.
You’ll have to excuse spoke-Bob. He is simply incapable of making a post about college football without taking a stab at the Big 10. As much as he slams the Big 10, I’m starting to think it’s jealousy.
Who’d a thunk that the crappy Big 10 could put 8 teams into bowls? I guess someone forgot to get word to the bowl selection people about how much they suck.
The Big 10 had 2 more eligible teams that didn’t make it. Sorry, Iowa and Northwestern. If your Big Ten team isn’t Minnesota, you had a 0.500 or better year this season. Ten of Eleven teams were not losers this year.
Doesn’t matter much. OSU had essentially a home game in the National Championship last year and got blown out by the Gators. Orlando will be a home game for Florida but there are probably more people born in Michigan and Ohio living in Florida than native Floridians.
