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I can't wait for Oregon to whip Kansas State so I can bump the thread where Big-12 homers were jerking Bill Snyder's 6-7 bowl record off.
sons since we have another month or so to sit around and wait for the bowls to start we may as well keep all the bowl talk in one thread. what are your thoughts on the bowl selections this year?
the Top-25 teams/bowls that matter ...
Discover BCS National Championship
#1 Notre Dame vs. #2 Alabama
Tos os Fiesta
#4 Oregon vs. #5 Kansas State
Allstate Sugar
#21 Louisville vs. #3 Florida
Discover Orange
#15 Northern Illinois vs. #12 Florida State
Rose Bowl Game
Wisconsin vs. #6 Stanford
AT&T Cotton
#9 Texas A&M vs. #11 Oklahoma
Capital One
#7 Georgia vs. #16 Nebraska
Outback
#10 South Carolina vs. #18 Michigan
Chick-fil-A
#8 LSU vs. #14 Clemson
TaxSlayer.com Gator
Mississippi State vs. #20 Northwestern
Valero Alamo
#23 Texas vs. #13 Oregon State
Bridgepoint Education Holiday
Baylor vs. #17 UCLA
MAACO Las Vegas
Washington vs. #19 Boise State
GoDaddy.com
#25 Kent State vs. Arkansas State
I can't wait for Oregon to whip Kansas State so I can bump the thread where Big-12 homers were jerking Bill Snyder's 6-7 bowl record off.
There's some ty ass games this year. Not gunna lie.
No kidding. I see 3 games I will watch max -- Discover, Cotton and Valero (probably in person, although tickets will have to be cheap).
To be honest, I've enjoyed this college season alot. Much more than the NFL. I'm interested in alot of the bowl games even the smaller one.
I do wish the SEC wasn't stuck playing Big 10 teams. Would love to see SEC/Pac-12 matchups.
I agree. there are some good and interesting ones (particularly the national championship game), but most are pretty dull. this will be Notre Dame's opportunity to put up or shut up. let us review Notre Dame's bowl history vs SEC teams over lets say the last 30 years or so ...
2007 Sugar Bowl
LSU 41 - Notre Dame 14
1997 Independence Bowl
LSU 27 - Notre Dame 9
1992 Sugar Bowl
Notre Dame 39 - Florida 28
1981 Sugar Bowl
Georgia 17 - Notre Dame 10
I expect Northwestern to -whip Mississippi State to give the SEC its only New Year's Day bowl loss.
Watch though, it's going to end up being an awesome bowl year with exciting down to the wire games. Just doesn't look like much from the outside.
I think so too. I'm gonna watch alot of these bowl games.
I think the Kent St - Arkansas State game in Mobile will be a great one. If I still lived in Mobile, I would have thought about going to that game. I still remember the ECU-Marshall classic between David Garrard and Byron Leftwich in that same bowl game years ago.
sons the biggest disappointment for me is the main four BCS bowl games are all pretty dull. now I'm sure at least one of them will come down to the wire and be an exciting game (hopefully), but none of them look good in my opinion. the only one that appears to be somewhat evenly matched ON PAPER is Oregon vs K-State, but K-State is a team that allowed a very bad Baylor team to drop 52 points on them so God only knows how bad Oregon is going to punish them. I could see Florida and Louisville putting on a decent show, but the other two (Rose and Fiesta) are just horrible looking.
the Cotton, Chik-fil-A, and Outback Bowls all look more attractive than the Rose and Fiesta Bowls.
Fiesta bowl will be interesting.
A couple of thoughts:
1. I think Satan rolls the Catholics
2. I think Oregon beats Kansas State. Should be good game.
3. A & M will have trouble against OU. Mike Stoops has had phenomenol succes stopping the Air Raid. It will all be on Johnny Football's shoulders. My money is on Johnny.
4. LSU Clemson should be a good game. LSU wins.
5.Wisconsin Stanford: The White Boy Smash Mouth Football Bowl. Dull but fundamental. Push.
6. Texas vs Oregon State..... Texas gets humilated, AGAIN. More butthurt, only to be made worse by Mack Brown coming back next year. Not sure why the Alamabowl reps didn't pick UCLA which I think would have made for better TV ratings.
Now the bad:
1.Nothern Illinois at FSU in a BCS bowl. What a ing train wreck. Total joke. that BCS formula, thank God they are changing. Boring blowout.
2. Louisville Florida. Another stupid BCS train wreck of giving the Big East a spot. Florida blowout
This seems like the same story every year. The BCS bowls are always underwhelming due to having to see ACC, Big East, Big 10, and Oklahoma. No one wants to see those teams. Same case this season with Wisconsin, Florida State, Louisville, and Northern Illlinois.
Honestly, Oregon and Florida would be a great matchup. That's the game I wanted to see.
Rather see K-State play Georgia/LSU/A&M/.
Don't care for Louisville, Florida St, or Northern Illinois.
sons I'm honestly not trying to be a hater because I personally don't have anything against Notre Dame like a lot of people do, but I just don't find them legit. now don't get me wrong they are deserving of being in the le game because a win is a win and they won out, but from watching most of their games I just don't think they can pull it off. I personally think that the following teams this season would beat Notre Dame right now ....
- Alabama
- Georgia
- Florida
- Oregon
- LSU
- Texas A&M
- South Carolina
and possibly a few others, but those are the teams I personally think FOR SURE would beat Notre Dame right now.
- Stanford could beat Notre Dame 2 out of 3 times (should have beaten them this year if not for the blatant, rigged officiating. go back and look at those calls that pushed ND to victory)
You prolly right BR. But when they rolled into Oklahoma I thought OU was going to destroy them. I was impressed by ND's game. I still think they are over rated and will be destroyed by Alabama. But give Kelley some credit, he has a done a good job turing ND around from years of ty coaches.
I still enjoy Saturdays much more than Sundays, but the BCS games are always underwhelming every year. They should always have all the big games on New Years with the best matchups. Seems like the New Year's day bowl games were always better in the 80s and 90s compared to now with teams like L'Ville, Northern Illinois, and ACC teams getting BCS bids.
Back in the 80s and early 90s, the Big 8 conference went to the Orange, SEC went to the Sugar, Big 10/Pac-10 went to the Rose, Southwest Conference went to the Cotton, and the ACC went to the Citrus (Capital One) Bowl. Those games were always providing better matchups on New Years compared to what the BCS provides now.
Alot of the non-BCS bowl games will be more interesting than the BCS games outside of the Fiesta and le game.
It'll be interesting to see what Kent's coaching situation will be by January 6th. Darrell Hazell interviewed at Cal this weekend. If the game was pre-New Year's he'd probably stay for the bowl even if he takes another job, but he might be gone by the 6th.
oh no doubt I give them credit. like I said I'm not saying they don't deserve to be there. I just don't find them as legit as most of the top 10 teams are right now. Also beating Oklahoma is not really much of an accomplishment if you ask me. that team is just never legit and always overrated. people want to talk about Notre Dame being overrated, well Oklahoma takes the cake on that one each and every season.
Every word so true.
Notre Dame is legit. This isn't the Charlie Weis/Brady Quinn teams that got manhandled by more physical opponents. Athletically and defensively this ND team is on a different level than those ones, imo.
I agree there are a lot of teams that COULD beat Notre Dame- Pitt probably should have beaten them in South Bend. But I don't think you can ever count out a team that plays defense the way they do, imo.
Call it now BR: OU vs TAMU in the Cotton
LA Tech not playing in a bowl game.
Wow, Cal and the Pac-12 is a huge step up. Plus he's from Jersey and has only coached in the Midwest and Northeast his entire career. No experience whatsoever in the West coast and no recruiting experience. Not sure that is the best hire for Cal, but Hazell definitely should take that job.
They turned down the Independence in their backyardLA Tech not playing in a bowl game.
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