Bowl Games/New Years Let Down

XXXIV · Post by **XXXIV** » Tue Jan 06, 2009 10:02 am

Texas got lucky to win...Ohio st collapsed on that last drive.

Watching the sweater implode never gets old....A bigger d***** in college football?

pk500 · Post by **pk500** » Tue Jan 06, 2009 12:24 pm

XXXIV wrote:Texas got lucky to win...Ohio st collapsed on that last drive.

Watching the sweater implode never gets old....A bigger d***** in college football?

Yes. Steve Spurrier springs to mind ...

Take care,
PK

icvu42 · Post by **icvu42** » Tue Jan 06, 2009 12:38 pm

Who's fired up for the GMAC bowl tonight?

I thought the BCS bowls lost luster when they stopped playing on New year's Day. Why on earth is this game being played tonight?

Rick

DivotMaker · Post by **DivotMaker** » Tue Jan 06, 2009 1:21 pm

snaz16 wrote:1. This vaunted Texas team came within a questionable spot

2. and a blown coverage to squeek out a win against a supposed inferior team, that for 3 quarters, pretty much was the better team on the field. And Mizzou having to go to OT to beat that vaunted powerhouse Northwestern? That margin is not as wide as you think.

1. The spot was NOT blown if you looked closely at the replays. The receiver had posession and forward progress stopped across the first down marker before he was pulled back. Absolutely no argument. And I am NO fan of the University of Texas.

2. Agreed. Big 12 is showing some weaknesses in the bowl season.

greggsand · Post by **greggsand** » Tue Jan 06, 2009 1:58 pm

pk500 wrote:
XXXIV wrote:Texas got lucky to win...Ohio st collapsed on that last drive.

Watching the sweater implode never gets old....A bigger d***** in college football?
Yes. Steve Spurrier springs to mind ...

Take care,
PK

I'd take the 'Ol Ball Coach' over 'The Sweater Vest' any day...

XXXIV · Post by **XXXIV** » Tue Jan 06, 2009 2:55 pm

pk500 wrote:
XXXIV wrote:Texas got lucky to win...Ohio st collapsed on that last drive.

Watching the sweater implode never gets old....A bigger d***** in college football?
Yes. Steve Spurrier springs to mind ...

Take care,
PK

Steve Superior is a good choice.

We will have to make a top 10.

fsquid · Post by **fsquid** » Tue Jan 06, 2009 3:32 pm

icvu42 wrote:Who's fired up for the GMAC bowl tonight?

I thought the BCS bowls lost luster when they stopped playing on New year's Day. Why on earth is this game being played tonight?

Rick

ESPN owns that bowl so it is programming filler for them.

bdoughty · Post by **bdoughty** » Tue Jan 06, 2009 4:11 pm

XXXIV wrote:
pk500 wrote:
XXXIV wrote:Texas got lucky to win...Ohio st collapsed on that last drive.

Watching the sweater implode never gets old....A bigger d***** in college football?
Yes. Steve Spurrier springs to mind ...

Take care,
PK
Steve Superior is a good choice.

We will have to make a top 10.

This guy would take all 10 places. I remember reading this SI article by Frank Deford when I was a kid. Made Bear Bryant seem classy in comparison.

http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/ ... /index.htm

To spice up practices Bull Cyclone would sometimes have the managers wrap old mattresses around pine trees to make blocking targets. The idea was to see if anybody could slam into a tree hard enough to knock off a pinecone. Try it. Or, if he thought things were slack during a scrimmage, he would scream, "Get after it!" and the linemen were automatically obliged to choose up and start fighting one another.

From his Parris Island days, Bull Cyclone borrowed the idea of an obstacle course, adding a wrinkle of his own—a trip wire in the tall grass that the managers yanked as the weary players came through. From another part of the course, Bull Cyclone would hurl bricks at the players as they tried to regain their balance after clambering over a wall. He would miss, but barely. He did, however, get their attention.

bdoughty · Post by **bdoughty** » Wed Jan 07, 2009 2:15 pm

http://sports.espn.go.com/espnmag/story?id=3815656

Rick Riley declares Utah the national champions. He makes some good points. Though he should be flagged 15 yards for excessive use of transitive property. The whole "x" team beats "y" team which lost to "Z" team who beat "u" team that is the same conference as "q" team, therefore "p" team is the best in the land, is quite possible the worst logic to base a champion on. Every week is different Rickster, you know better than that.

pk500 · Post by **pk500** » Wed Jan 07, 2009 6:27 pm

The incredibly overrated Rick Reilly finally wrote something of substance with which I agree:

http://sports.espn.go.com/espnmag/story?id=3815656

Take care,
PK

bdoughty · Post by **bdoughty** » Wed Jan 07, 2009 6:34 pm

pk500 · Post by **pk500** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 10:36 am

I feel absolutely ZERO buzz about tonight's BCS title game compared to March Madness, and I'm a football fan.

Well done, NCAA.

Idiots.

Take care,
PK

XXXIV · Post by **XXXIV** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 10:50 am

pk500 wrote:I feel absolutely ZERO buzz about tonight's BCS title game compared to March Madness, and I'm a football fan.

Well done, NCAA.

Idiots.

Take care,
PK

There is a game tonight???

I agree 100%

pk500 · Post by **pk500** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 10:56 am

XXXIV wrote:There is a game tonight???

I agree 100%

It's Thursday night on a non-holiday week: Shouldn't the MAC or Mountain West be playing football tonight on ESPN instead?

No, it's a perfect night to crown a college football national champion. Thursday night is such a traditional night for the college game, after all.

BULLETIN: NEW YORK (AP) -- NFL COMMISSIONER ROGER GOODELL ENVIES GENIUS OF NCAA, CONSIDERS MOVING SUPER BOWL SUNDAY TO THURSDAY NIGHT, FEB. 5.

Take care,
PK

fsquid · Post by **fsquid** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 11:45 am

Should be a good consolation game tonight. Plus CSI doesn't start until next week.

bdoughty · Post by **bdoughty** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 1:29 pm

fsquid wrote:Should be a good consolation game tonight. Plus CSI doesn't start until next week.

Hilarious

fsquid · Post by **fsquid** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 1:59 pm

Thanks for showing what happens when you have a tourney to decide your champion. Good game last April

pk500 · Post by **pk500** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 2:03 pm

bdoughty wrote:
fsquid wrote:Should be a good consolation game tonight. Plus CSI doesn't start until next week.
Hilarious

There is MUCH more buzz surrounding the damn selection show for March Madness than there is for tonight's BCS game, at least outside of Oklahoma and Florida.

Take care,
PK

Post by **ScoopBrady** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 2:09 pm

At least there's a full slate of NHL games tonight with some intriguing matchups. I think I've watched a total of 1 hour of Bowl games this Bowl season. Whooptee-friggin-doo.

bdoughty · Post by **bdoughty** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 2:11 pm

pk500 wrote: There is MUCH more buzz surrounding the damn selection show for March Madness than there is for tonight's BCS game, at least outside of Oklahoma and Florida.

Take care,
PK

PK,

That was a little jab at Squid, who happens to be a Memphis fan. The team who could not hit a free throw to save their lives and lost to Kansas. Hence, the picture of a Memphis player at the free throw line, chucking up yet another brick. That was for calling it a consolation game.

I realize there is a lack of buzz but reality will set in and the game will probably still get great ratings. While I am a fan of playoffs in college football, I can't control why they have not decided for a better system. Still going to watch the sport I love more than any other, no matter what day of the week it falls on.

bdoughty · Post by **bdoughty** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 2:18 pm

ScoopBrady wrote:At least there's a full slate of NHL games tonight with some intriguing matchups. I think I've watched a total of 1 hour of Bowl games this Bowl season. Whooptee-friggin-doo.

Then it safe to say you are not much of a fan of college football. Bowl aside, there have been a few good matchups this year. Texas-Ohio St was a really good game, well worth the three hours invested watching it.

Other good games you missed.

TCU-Boise St
Missou-NW
Vandy-BC
Neb-Clemson
Utah-Bama
Rutgers-NC State

See for a fan of college football, something is better than having no college football to watch. So enjoy the hockey games on TV tonight. Not a big hockey fan myself, so I tend to stay out of the hockey thread.

Post by **ScoopBrady** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 2:59 pm

bdoughty wrote:
ScoopBrady wrote:At least there's a full slate of NHL games tonight with some intriguing matchups. I think I've watched a total of 1 hour of Bowl games this Bowl season. Whooptee-friggin-doo.
Then it safe to say you are not much of a fan of college football. Bowl aside, there have been a few good matchups this year. Texas-Ohio St was a really good game, well worth the three hours invested watching it.

Other good games you missed.

TCU-Boise St
Missou-NW
Vandy-BC
Neb-Clemson
Utah-Bama
Rutgers-NC State

See for a fan of college football, something is better than having no college football to watch. So enjoy the hockey games on TV tonight. Not a big hockey fan myself, so I tend to stay out of the hockey thread.

Woah there hoss, I believe the title of the thread is "Bowl Games/New Years Letdown" so I think I'm perfectly entitled to enter and share my opinion if that's okay with you.

And outside of some of the Missouri/Northwestern game I watched the end of the Utah/Bama game and that further solidified why I am fed up with the Bowl system and have no interest in watching them anymore. In my opinion a team like Utah deserves a shot at the National Championship and teams like Texas and USC do as well. Bowl games used to get me excited but now they seem like nothing more than glorified exhibition games. You might be happy with the current system but the fact that I'm not doesn't make me any less of a fan of college football than you. The only thing that is safe to say is the fact that you jumped to conclusions. Or to put it in a language you understand:

fsquid · Post by **fsquid** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 3:07 pm

What bowl was Rutgers and NC State?

bdoughty · Post by **bdoughty** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 3:27 pm

fsquid wrote:What bowl was Rutgers and NC State?

Papajohns.com

Scoop,

Great movie, bad use of imagery (it takes practice). I just can't see how anyone with even a remote interest in college football would watch a regular season NHL game in place of the BCS title game. For one you have two of the most explosive teams in the nation. Next up in all the years college football, OU and Florida have never played each other. Then you have the two coaches and plenty of storylines.

As for Utah. The rules were setup before the year started. Utah knew going in what an uphill battle it would be. They were shunned by both humans and computers alike. They make, yet another, great case for a playoff.

So based on that, no matter what the thread is titled, you appear to me as someone who has a passing interest in the college game to begin with. You really never spent much time in the college football threads over the years either. It is not like this system and the spreading out of games is new. They have been playing BCS games since 1998/99. Heck the first game was played on Jan 4th 1999, on a Monday, blasphemy.

Where have some of you guys been hiding the past 10 years. Bottling up that anger towards inanimate objects is not healthy.

pk500 · Post by **pk500** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 3:59 pm

bdoughty wrote:I just can't see how anyone with even a remote interest in college football would watch a regular season NHL game in place of the BCS title game.

I have a remote interest in college football, and I'm watching the Leafs-Habs' game tonight.

Maybe it's because hockey is king with me. Maybe it's because this is a sham of a national championship based on a BS system. Maybe it's because there's an unbeaten team that SMOKED Alabama, which was ranked No. 1 for five weeks, and beat three other ranked teams this season.

If New England finished 19-0 last season, wouldn't it have been Super Bowl champion? Then how the hell can Utah go 13-0, destroy Alabama and also have three other Top 25 scalps on its record, and NOT have even a sniff at the championship?

How can that system be justified, and why should it be rewarded with 3 1/2 hours of my life?

You make arguments about historical matchups, coaches and storylines, all of which point to one thing: Tonight is going to be one hell of a college football exhibition game.

I don't waste time watching NFL preseason exhibition games because they're meaningless. Just because college football puts its meaningless exhibitions at the end of the season in a pretty dress called bowls and the BCS championship game doesn't mean they're worth my time any more than a Cleveland-Baltimore preseason NFL game Aug. 8.

You can put a dress on a pig, and it's still a pig. That's why I'm watching the Leafs and Habs tonight. At least it means something.

Tonight's BCS title game is college football's version of The Skins Game. It might be fun and good TV, but ultimately it means very little.

And yes, I'd feel the same way if Syracuse was playing. (No, I'm not on acid.

)

Take care,
PK