Wow. LSU is crushing Notre Dame.
Mwaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahaha!
And once again, Notre Dame gets murdered in a bowl game. Must be January. ESPN says their nine straight bowl losses are a record, and they’re usually blowout losses. Would I sound too much like Rush Limbaugh if I said Notre Dame gets consistently overrated because they want ND to be successful and be one of the top programs? They don’t suck, but they’re not that good either.
And that gives me a boner! The wife knows she’s in for a rough night whenever USC wins and nd loses.
Shes been walkin’ funny lately.
The credit ND receives is ridiculous. Laying the 9 last night was the lock of the century.
I was reading “footballoutsiders” and they were saying, “if some nondescript team like Washington State did was Notre Dame did this year, they’d be 16 point underdogs.”
But for a couple of lucky plays, they could have had 4 or 5 losses EASILY this year (and no, you can’t say that about every team out there.) ND had one good win, against Penn State early. They easily could have lost to G.Tech, Michigan State, and UCLA, those last two at home.
Ridiculous that ND gets to play in a marquee bowl like this. It’s because the Catholics run the media in this country.
Ah, the Sugar Bowl. It was sweet! Geaux Tigers!
Robert Smith (ex-footballer, not the guy from The Cure) made a good point last night about ND’s now-record streak of bowl losses. He said that Notre Dame keeps getting put in bowls way over their heads because of their name recognition. Swtiching Notre Dame’s and Rutgers’ bowl invitations would have made for two more interesting and competitive bowl games.
Yup.
I’m proud that contained in that streak of bowl losses was a blowout loss to Oregon State, one of my graduate schools.
That was a year that ND was overmatched in a bowl game. I think they were 3 point faves or 3 point dogs, and they looked like a Division II team that day.
Maybe one day, everyone in the country will be able to say they attended a school that beat Notre Dame in a bowl game.
Will Pat Robertson add defeat number 10 to his list of predictions?
At least Charlie Weiss was looking healthy.
I think it’s win-win all around. Nobody puts fannies in the seats or viewers on the tube like ND, so it makes sense to have them in an upper tier bowl even if they don’t belong. The team that beats them in the bowl gets the benefit of the extra exposure that playing ND gives you. ND makes a boatload of money from the bowls and doesn’t even have to share with conference brethren. And the bowl makes a tidy profit, too. Competition comes a distant last in all the considerations.
Well, he was trim, anyway. I think he was looking a bit sick around the end of the third quarter… 
Notre Dame has lost by an average of almost 18 points in those nine bowl games.
It always annoys me that Notre Dame gets an almost automatic BCS bid just by being Notre Dame (the only BCS school not in a conference), while schools from the “less popular” conferences (Boise State/Utah/BYU) have to jump through all kinds of hoops to even be considered, even though they have better records.
It’s definitely time to institute a playoff system in division I football.
Except for the shitty games, that really seems to be the case.
Disagree with that. I like the bowl system, honestly. I like that the best teams in the nation have the pressure on them every week to win and that really, only an undefeated or one loss team has a chance to be crowned the champion. In that way, the regular season itself is kind of a playoff system, since even a single loss will essentially end your chances.
A playoff wouldn’t necessarily have to be a 65-team monster like the NCAA basketball tournament (which effectively does render the regular season moot). An eight team playoff would still make it vitally important to win your conference and have no more than one (or maybe two) losses, while giving the mid-major champs a fair shot.
I hate that in basketball, a team can go 16-13, come in fourth in their own conference, and have a puncher’s chance of being declared national champion.
I also hate that in football, a team can go 12-0 in the toughest conference in the country (thinking of Auburn in 2003-2004) and have no chance of being declared national champion.
LSU’s defense in the 1st half was about the worst I’ve seen them this season. Why did they wait to drop the blitz until after halftime? Nonetheless, Brady Quinn looked like a deer in headlights. He had all the time in the world to get the ball to his receivers and couldn’t connect. This guy was a Heisman Trophy contender? I realize he had only had 5 interceptions prior to the Sugar Bowl but he added two more to that statistic last night.
This game just solidified my contention that the Heisman is nothing but a popularity contest for those schools willing to fork over the campaign bucks.
I hope Jamarcus comes back to LSU in the fall, but that man has quite a future ahead for him in the NFL. Why risk getting injured?
Anyway, I’m still giddy.
Next week, I will be breaking the rule of pulling for “my” conference and be rooting for Ohio State for two reasons - one being my hubby is from Yellow Springs OH and the other being I hate Florida. 
Oh, and I forgot - I’m really looking foward to our win against Bama next fall. 
Not only that, but he won the Maxwell and Unitas awards.
Who decides these things?
And I wonder how Quinn would have done if he had to play in Tiger Statdium. That crowd last night was nowhere near the typical Tiger fans.
Oh, and FUSC.