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

If your school played the same team in three consecutive bowl games, wouldn't you be bored with the matchup, too? Seeing the same game three straight years isn't exactly inspiring.

 

That was my understanding. Cincinnati, with a coach on the way out the door and a poor track record of bringing fans to bowl games, defaulted to the Sugar Bowl with the last pick. Nobody wanted the Bearcats. That was my whole point about the Fiesta last year, that they thought Boise State was better for their game than Cincinnati, and their picking the Broncos wasn't the result of some mad conspiracy meant to segregate the non-Big Six teams

 

The Orange Bowl didn't "pick" Georgia Tech as it was locked in as the ACC champ.

And the Fiesta had the at-large choice ahead of the Orange. It picked Boise over Iowa. The Sugar had to take UC.

 

Auburn still has to play Bama (in Tuscaloosa, I believe) and Spurrier and the Cocks in the Championship game.

That's two games they could lose very easily.

 

Then it's also true that there was no conspiracy, no evil attempt to keep Boise and Florida from meeting.

And if ANY team had a right to complain, it was Cincy --- first in the BCS (outside of the title teams) and last in the pecking order.

But the last team picked --- the team nobody wanted --- got to sit at the big kids' table, or so it goes.

 

Understood about Ga. Tech, but I thought the order was Sugar/Fiesta (replacing teams lost to the BCS), Orange, Orange, Fiesta, Sugar?

God, imagine the butthurt if the Fiesta took Iowa and we ended up with TCU-Iowa and Boise State-Georgia Tech, since there's no way the Orange wanted Cincy back after they stunk up the ticket office the previous season.

 

Of course there was no conspiracy. At least not one that targeted Boise and TCU, despite what some here would have us believe. Yet the only scenario that would have placated them was Boise State-Florida and TCU-Cincinnati, even though it couldn't happen without at least one bowl sandbagging their own game to make it happen -- oddly enough, the accusation they're casting. In other words: Because the BCS didn't discriminate in favor of Boise and TCU, they discriminated against them.

 

So the Big East champ has to go somewhere. So does the ACC champ. If I were a bowl committee stuck with one of those two, I'd be thinking a novelty act like TCU or Boise might be my best bet at selling tickets. Or will Va. Tech-Pitt wind up as one of the BCS bowls. Hell, that matchup would stink for a decent pre January 1 bowl like the Gator or Holiday.

 

If I'm reading this right, the Fiesta will have the last choice of teams this year. So we're probably looking at Big 12 champion-Big East least worst team.

 

Coming off its greatest season in more than 50 years TCU couldn't sell 30,000 tickets for a game against a BCS school at Cowboy Stadium on Labor Day weekend.

 

Oh, and there's a good chance Va. Tech will ride an 11-game winning streak into the postseason. So the Orange Bowl won't get stuck with them by any means.

 

When was the last time a Pac-10 team other than USC won a national title outright in football? Washington split its title with Miami. Hell, you might have to go back to WWII.