FBC Week 11 thread: Jack Mildren didn't need no stinkin' spread offense

You ain't got to buy it, but it could reasonably be characterized as a poor choice. Wonder if the Sugar Bowl committee wishes it could make that selection all over again? Lots and lots of people would have been cised to see Florida v. Boise. Lots.

 

I thought Sugar had the last choice and was stuck with Cincinnati, which brought 50 people to the previous year's Orange Bowl, and that the Fiesta, with the next to last pick, took Boise because they travelled well the last time they played there.

 

Better yet, nobody had to take Boise. Selecting TCU fulfilled the system's only obligation towards non AQ schools.

 

This from Mandel's bowl projections...

"This week I'm projecting Boise State to finish ahead of TCU in the BCS standings and earn an automatic invite to the Rose Bowl. The Broncos will need it, because I'm told there's almost no chance the Sugar Bowl, with the first at-large choice, would select Boise over a highly ranked Big Ten team, and the Orange Bowl, with second pick, won't want to stage a Boise-Virginia Tech rematch. It can, however, take TCU."

 

If it was simply a travel question, TCU should have went to the Sugar to play Florida while Boise would have been in the Fiesta.

But it wasn't travel or ticket sales or tv audiences that dictated last season's bowl placements.

It isn't a conspiracy but it does smell funny when it always seems to come up Boise-TCU in the postseason.

 

It's come up twice.

 

I think Mandel is partly right in that if Boise doesn't jump TCU they get left out of the BCS bowl party, but I'd take it a step further and say TCU also gets left out if they aren't ranked higher than Boise.

One undefeated team won't be in a BCS bowl, while Pitt or some other craptacular Big East team gets in.

 

I don't see why TCU, if not Boise, would be a better attraction than a usual Big Ten suspect for the Orange or Sugar Bowl, both at the gate and in TV ratings. Hell, doesn't curiosity sell tickets anymore? TCU also is a big enough school to bring a reasonable fan base along for those rides.

 

I don't think any BCS bowl is salivating at the prospect of inviting Pitt. Some poor bowl, likely the Orange, is going to get stuck with them. Heck, they're probably crossing their fingers for Syracuse, which would at least be a new wretched team that hasn't seen a major bowl since the days of Donovan McNabb.

I sincerely doubt a major bowl is going to pass on an undefeated this year, not with the scrutiny around the process. Especially since the four undefeateds, if they finish out that way, will almost certainly be ranked 1-4 at the end. If the Fiesta took Boise last year, I can't see them not being taken this year.

 

I think it is very interesting that both people (Schlabach and Adelson) doing the bowl projections for ESPN have TCU in the title game.

 

Wait, wasn't Cincy the last team picked in the BCS last season? Didn't the Sugar Bowl get Cincy only because they were forced to? Pretty sure TCU and Boise State were both picked ahead of Cincy, which means it's not true that there was NOTHING Boise could offer as an opponent that was superior to Cincinnati. Because obviously, Boise provided bigger ticket sales and bigger TV ratings.

 

As long as Newton is still allowed to play, I don't see Auburn losing. He's just too good. That leaves Oregon, and who's going to beat them?
So I think those two distinguished analysts are wrong.