UT commits to Alamo Bowl...

[TheTruth]

Ehhh..

[JoeChalupa]

Go Big Ten!!!

[Mr Dio]

Should be a closer game than the Rose Bowl!
Any game settled by less than apprx 17pts will be though. :lol

[satexan77]

Hey UT gets to play in the Dome this December .... and in all likelyhood next December as well...thou that will be for the Big 12 Championship.

[KB24]

UT at the ALAMO BOWL. Hellz Yeah. From the Rose Bowl to The Alamo Bowl. Hey Mr. DIO don't worry about the scoreboard at the Rose Bowl. Just make sure UT players don't drink the River water in San Antonio.

[Mr Dio]

Sorta like drinking that filth from the LA water system eh? :lol

Boys of Troy will be CHUMPED 2 games in a ROW!!!!!! :lol

That's gotta suck, be a few yds & a couple of minutes from the BCS title game & BLOW IT!!!!!! :lol :lol


:downspin: :clap :elephant :clap :downspin: <------This downspin is what the Girls of Troy did....CHUMPED!!!!! :lol

[Mr Dio]

Hey Mr. DIO don't worry about the scoreboard at the Rose Bowl. .


No worries, the winner of the game is Mich. :lol :lol :lol

[KB24]

Hey Mr. Dio they are showing the Bowl Game Selections on FOX. I am waiting for them to show the ALAMO Bowl, were champs play.

[KB24]

I amean CHUMPS. What a difference a year makes.

[MosesGuthrie]

The Alamo Bowl isn't shitty....UT's play down the stretch was though.

[Mr Dio]

Have knon for a little while that UT wasn't going to AZ to play in the BIG game.
You thought up until yesterday u were.

HEARTBREAK ChumpS!!!!!!!! :lol

[Cant_Be_Faded]

How does UT end up playing an opponent with a 6-6 record?

[Mr Dio]

By having fluke teams beat UT in a yr when other teams WISH they had a 9-3 down yr.

It's all good though.
I remeber when ags thought the Alamo Bowl was a godsend.

[Tek_XX]

Iowa travels well that why they were chosen.

[Mr Dio]

Iowa does indeed.
Not like the Huskers but they do bring it.

[MajorMike]

Iowa travels well that why they were chosen.

Iowa was chosen, because the B10 has 7 Bowl ties. Iowa finished 8th in the B10 at 2-6 in conf, but the 7th place team was Indiana, a 5-7 team that was 3-5 in conf.

Therefore, for purposes of Bowl selections, Iowa was the B10 #7. 2 teams were chosen for the BCS from the B10, thus making Iowa the #6 B10 team for purposes of Bowl selections.

The pecking order of the B10s Bowls is: BCS, Capital One, Outback, Champs Sports, Alamo, Insight, Motor City

BCS has 2 (Ohio, Mich)
Cap 1 - 11-1 Wisc
Outback - 8-4 Penn St
Champs - 8-5 Purdue

The remaining 2 Bowls both had 6-6 teams. The Alamo Bowl gets to pick whomever they want. They were left with two 6-6 teams, Iowa and Minnesota. From what I understand, Iowa was chosen not so much because they travel well, but because it is perceived that Minnesota travels poorly. There was not another Bowl eligible team from the B10. The conf's other Bowl (Motor City in which they face he MAC Champ yearly) went to 7-5 Middle Tenn St.

Bowls can negotiate with the confs to get who they want, and it is fairly common. OSU was chosen over ttek in 2002 for Houston (a higher Bowl when they had a sponsor) even tho ttek beat us and had better record. The same happened this year, when the Indep chose OSU over KState, even tho KState beat us (and UT) and had a better record.

One of the reasons the Alamo wanted UT or OSU is that they travel very well. The AB lost its title sponsor and must sell seats. Iowa does not travel SUPER well, but apparently better than Minnesota. They have had the benifit of playing ttek in their last 2 ABs, and ttek sells the Alamo Bowl very well. It is also the main reason the Alamo did not want ttek - they did not want a 3rd tteck/Iowa AB matchup.

[tlongII]

I wonder if Texas will be favored in their bowl game against 6-6 Iowa?

[johngateswhiteley]

I wonder if Texas will be favored in their bowl game against 6-6 Iowa?


LMAO.

[MajorMike]

I think they have the largest early line of any Bowl game so far at -11

[SrA Husker]

I think they have the largest early line of any Bowl game so far at -11

Be careful, Horn's. As Nebraska showed last year, you have to show up to play to win the game you don't deserve to be at.

Of course, Nebraska last year is/was a tougher opponent than Iowa.

[Mr Dio]

I think they have the largest early line of any Bowl game so far at -11


Are all the lines out?

Is USC favored?
Oh, what am I thinkin'?!?!? :lol :smokin