Running 2011 Bowl Season Thread- Match-ups on Page 1

Mizzou mascot broke the Independence Bowl trophy.

http://eye-on-collegefootball.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/24156338/34049097

 

If you think about it, though, smashing the Independence Bowl trophy is a pretty nice first act as a member of the SEC.

 

I think Missouri showed that it has a running attack that could make it a solid contender in the SEC. Yes, the Tigers run the spread. But it's the spread that West Virginia ran with Pat White.

 

I'm looking through this list of bowl games - is there one that is even remotely interesting, to the point where, you want to sit down and make time to watch it?

Maybe Oregon-Wisconsin and LSU-Alabama. After that, I'm not sure there are many more games that are remotely in the neighborhood of "must see" TV

 

They're pretty much nearly all shit. And they're spread out so much now that's it's not just a matter of switching to a better game.

 

Stanford-Oklahoma State
Oregon-Wisconsin

Couldn't give 2 squirts of shit about watching LSU-Alabama.

 

I'm embarrassed to admit this - I'm a so-called sports junkie and I didn't realize how many of them had already been played and was surprised when I was flipping through the channels and saw Missouri playing someone (maybe North Carolina State) today.

That's when I looked at the schedule and said to myself "this may be the worst compilation of games I can remember."

And I'm not typically that "the bowls suck" guy but this year "the bowls suck"

Even two of the ones which would normally be great matchups - FSU-ND in the Gator Bowl and Ohio State-Florida in the Peach Bowl or whatever, neither of those games are interesting when you consider all four of those teams are mediocre this year.

 

Besides the two Zag mentioned:

--Baylor vs. Washington in the Alamo Bowl, to see Griffin.
--Illinois vs. UCLA in the Fight Hunger Bowl, because you have to slow down to look at the wreck.
--Houston vs. Penn State in the Ticket City Bowl, to see how Keenum does against a legitimate defense.
--Ohio State vs. Florida in the Gator Bowl; see Fight Hunger Bowl
--Stanford vs. Oklahoma State in the Fiesta Bowl; why wouldn't this interest you, Zag?

 

Obviously, a thousands of fans/alums (including myself) will follow Mississippi State to play at Nashville on Friday against Wake Forest.

The bowl game is sandwiched around key hardwood dates for No. 15 MSU against Baylor (28th) and Utah State (31st) prior to Southeast Conference play revving-up in January.

 

Actually I forgot OSU-Stanford, that will be a game I'll definitely watch and hope it is as good as it seems like it will be.

 

The bowls are no better and no worse than they have been in, say, 90 percent of all the previous seasons of modern-era college football.
Judging by the lack of posts here on the "shitty bowls" subject, I'd say people are no more or no less put-off by this season's lineup as they were in past seasons.
It's just another season of 35 bowls, folks.
It's no better and no worse than past years.

And to the person who says they couldn't give two squirts of shit about LSU/Alabama ... I bet you wind up watching the game.

 

I disagree, there have been plenty of good games to watch over the year and plenty of minor bowls with matchups that have intrigued me. This year, though, I am struggling to find more than two or three games I'd even remotely consider sitting down and watching.