College Football - Bowl Games

[UMFan83]

Kind of crazy that NW was 2 terribly blown 4th quarter leads at Happy Valley and Nebraska and an OT loss at Michigan from an undefeated season. They really should have won all 3 of those games.

[Careless]

Oh well, Wisconsin

[sneakypower]

would have been cool to win the game, but i'm probably even happier Denard got the QB rushing record

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would have been cool to win the game, but i'm probably even happier Denard got the QB rushing record

 

Um, Denard hasn't been a QB for like 8 weeks

[sneakypower]

my annoying acquaintances tell me he hasn't been a QB for 4 years, but the record's still his

[Slugger_16]

Steve Spurrier on the horrible 4th down spot:

 

“Well you know what, I asked one of those other refs there, I said, ‘You know the ball did not touch the first down marker.’ He said, ‘I know it didn’t.’ I said, ‘Well, why’d you give it to him,’ and he said, ‘I don’t know.’ That’s what he said.”

 

Big East refs. :banghead:

[Guest]

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[ConstableRabbit]

Northwestern: 87 INT return yards

Miss St.: 106 passing yards

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One would hope that the SEC rep would take a bit of a hit after yesterday. While SC and UGA came out on top, neither dominated their big ten opponent. LSU lost to-gasp-the ACC. Florida won't be challenged but the second tier of SEC teams certainly didn't live up to the hype yesterday.

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[Andy]

One would hope that the SEC rep would take a bit of a hit after yesterday. While SC and UGA came out on top, neither dominated their big ten opponent. LSU lost to-gasp-the ACC. Florida won't be challenged but the second tier of SEC teams certainly didn't live up to the hype yesterday.

Specifically, no SEC team has given up fewer than 24 points yet in a bowl.

 

And as I'm sure the B1G fans on this board will also note, two of the league's best teams aren't playing in bowls, which created some mismatches with SEC foes.

[Guest]

Les Miles is such a brutal in-game coach. His time clock management at the end of the game was just wretched. He made Dabo look like a competent coach.

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One would hope that the SEC rep would take a bit of a hit after yesterday. While SC and UGA came out on top, neither dominated their big ten opponent. LSU lost to-gasp-the ACC. Florida won't be challenged but the second tier of SEC teams certainly didn't live up to the hype yesterday.

Specifically, no SEC team has given up fewer than 24 points yet in a bowl.

 

And as I'm sure the B1G fans on this board will also note, two of the league's best teams aren't playing in bowls, which created some mismatches with SEC foes.

 

The mismatches were offset by Wisconsin getting the Rose Bowl bid. If OSU were eligible it would have been in the Rose and UW would have been further down (NW's spot?). UM against SC wasn't a mismatch. PSU is, at best, the 3rd or 4th best team and I don't know that they would have a better chance against SC. Nebraska would have gotten UGA even if all big ten teams were eligible. So there were no mismatches with SEC teams.

[sneakypower]

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i can't really complain much about the offensive gameplan we had, which worked well, but- i still can't believe for even one play we actually had a walk-on TE matched up with Clowney

 

and i wanted to like those jerseys, but that highlighter yellow was near impossible to read most of the time; nobody could figure out who was in on any of the plays! step up your game, adidas

[Guest]

One would hope that the SEC rep would take a bit of a hit after yesterday. While SC and UGA came out on top, neither dominated their big ten opponent. LSU lost to-gasp-the ACC. Florida won't be challenged but the second tier of SEC teams certainly didn't live up to the hype yesterday.

Specifically, no SEC team has given up fewer than 24 points yet in a bowl.

 

And as I'm sure the B1G fans on this board will also note, two of the league's best teams aren't playing in bowls, which created some mismatches with SEC foes.

 

The mismatches were offset by Wisconsin getting the Rose Bowl bid. If OSU were eligible it would have been in the Rose and UW would have been further down (NW's spot?). UM against SC wasn't a mismatch. PSU is, at best, the 3rd or 4th best team and I don't know that they would have a better chance against SC. Nebraska would have gotten UGA even if all big ten teams were eligible. So there were no mismatches with SEC teams.

If they were eligible, there's a great chance an undefeated OSU team is playing ND for the title.

[chuckywang]

One would hope that the SEC rep would take a bit of a hit after yesterday. While SC and UGA came out on top, neither dominated their big ten opponent. LSU lost to-gasp-the ACC. Florida won't be challenged but the second tier of SEC teams certainly didn't live up to the hype yesterday.

Specifically, no SEC team has given up fewer than 24 points yet in a bowl.

 

And as I'm sure the B1G fans on this board will also note, two of the league's best teams aren't playing in bowls, which created some mismatches with SEC foes.

 

The mismatches were offset by Wisconsin getting the Rose Bowl bid. If OSU were eligible it would have been in the Rose and UW would have been further down (NW's spot?). UM against SC wasn't a mismatch. PSU is, at best, the 3rd or 4th best team and I don't know that they would have a better chance against SC. Nebraska would have gotten UGA even if all big ten teams were eligible. So there were no mismatches with SEC teams.

If they were eligible, there's a great chance an undefeated OSU team is playing ND for the title.

 

Doubt it, OSU only went undefeated in a mediocre conference. If they were in the SEC, they'd have probably 2 losses. Then again, the voters can be idiots sometimes so who knows.

[SouthSideRyan]

They would have absolutely been #2 in the polls. It depends whether an extra win over Nebraksa would move them enough in the computers. It would've been very very close.

[SpongeWorthy]

One would hope that the SEC rep would take a bit of a hit after yesterday. While SC and UGA came out on top, neither dominated their big ten opponent. LSU lost to-gasp-the ACC. Florida won't be challenged but the second tier of SEC teams certainly didn't live up to the hype yesterday.

Specifically, no SEC team has given up fewer than 24 points yet in a bowl.

 

And as I'm sure the B1G fans on this board will also note, two of the league's best teams aren't playing in bowls, which created some mismatches with SEC foes.

 

The mismatches were offset by Wisconsin getting the Rose Bowl bid. If OSU were eligible it would have been in the Rose and UW would have been further down (NW's spot?). UM against SC wasn't a mismatch. PSU is, at best, the 3rd or 4th best team and I don't know that they would have a better chance against SC. Nebraska would have gotten UGA even if all big ten teams were eligible. So there were no mismatches with SEC teams.

If they were eligible, there's a great chance an undefeated OSU team is playing ND for the title.

 

If they were eligible, there's a great chance teams would've performed better against an opponent that actually had something to lose.

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One would hope that the SEC rep would take a bit of a hit after yesterday. While SC and UGA came out on top, neither dominated their big ten opponent. LSU lost to-gasp-the ACC. Florida won't be challenged but the second tier of SEC teams certainly didn't live up to the hype yesterday.

Specifically, no SEC team has given up fewer than 24 points yet in a bowl.

 

And as I'm sure the B1G fans on this board will also note, two of the league's best teams aren't playing in bowls, which created some mismatches with SEC foes.

 

The mismatches were offset by Wisconsin getting the Rose Bowl bid. If OSU were eligible it would have been in the Rose and UW would have been further down (NW's spot?). UM against SC wasn't a mismatch. PSU is, at best, the 3rd or 4th best team and I don't know that they would have a better chance against SC. Nebraska would have gotten UGA even if all big ten teams were eligible. So there were no mismatches with SEC teams.

If they were eligible, there's a great chance an undefeated OSU team is playing ND for the title.

 

Good point. They may well have been #2. But that doesn't help Andy's contention that there were mismatches in the big ten/sec games. I haven't worked this all out but swap OSU in for Wisconsin and you still have Nebraska in the Citrus, it seems. Maybe they go to the Rose Bowl and all the other teams slide up but then plug PSU in ahead or behind UM and the other teams fall in line. So you might get UM or PSU in the Citrus, instead of Nebraska, and the other faces SC.

 

I don't know how it all shakes out, but in no scenario does a higher ranked big ten team play SC or UGA.

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One would hope that the SEC rep would take a bit of a hit after yesterday. While SC and UGA came out on top, neither dominated their big ten opponent. LSU lost to-gasp-the ACC. Florida won't be challenged but the second tier of SEC teams certainly didn't live up to the hype yesterday.

Specifically, no SEC team has given up fewer than 24 points yet in a bowl.

 

And as I'm sure the B1G fans on this board will also note, two of the league's best teams aren't playing in bowls, which created some mismatches with SEC foes.

 

The mismatches were offset by Wisconsin getting the Rose Bowl bid. If OSU were eligible it would have been in the Rose and UW would have been further down (NW's spot?). UM against SC wasn't a mismatch. PSU is, at best, the 3rd or 4th best team and I don't know that they would have a better chance against SC. Nebraska would have gotten UGA even if all big ten teams were eligible. So there were no mismatches with SEC teams.

If they were eligible, there's a great chance an undefeated OSU team is playing ND for the title.

 

If they were eligible, there's a great chance teams would've performed better against an opponent that actually had something to lose.

 

And OSU may have played better since it had something to lose. Hard to say how the record would be different just bc they had the chance to go to a bowl or not.

[bukie]

In hindsight, I really wish OSU were eligible this year, because it would have created such an enjoyable media storm.

[SpongeWorthy]

And OSU may have played better since it had something to lose. Hard to say how the record would be different just bc they had the chance to go to a bowl or not.

 

Possible but my thinking is that it would just increase the pressure on them while giving a bullseye for their opponents. I think it'd be a net loss purely from a win/loss perspective.

 

I'm also speaking from the perspective of a USC fan who watched them be one of the better teams in the country by the end of the year last season turn into a complete dumpster fire when there was stuff to actually play for. Not comparing Urban to Lane of course.

[bukie]

They would have absolutely been #2 in the polls. It depends whether an extra win over Nebraksa would move them enough in the computers. It would've been very very close.

They would have absolutely been #1 in the polls, since they'd have started higher than ND.

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And OSU may have played better since it had something to lose. Hard to say how the record would be different just bc they had the chance to go to a bowl or not.

 

Possible but my thinking is that it would just increase the pressure on them while giving a bullseye for their opponents. I think it'd be a net loss purely from a win/loss perspective.

 

I'm also speaking from the perspective of a USC fan who watched them be one of the better teams in the country by the end of the year last season turn into a complete dumpster fire when there was stuff to actually play for. Not comparing Urban to Lane of course.

 

I really think it's too difficult to say with any certainty how eligibility would change the results if at all. But USC doesn't appear to be a team that crumbled under pressure. It appears to be a team with a bad coach that suffered from the depth issues you have when you've got scholarship limitations and aren't more selective in filling out the depth chart with the recruit slots you have.

 

I don't think USC crashed bc other teams targeted them. I have to think other teams have targeted them for a decade.

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In hindsight, I really wish OSU were eligible this year, because it would have created such an enjoyable media storm.

 

God no.