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

Those "great bowl matchups" indeed happened and they comprised the 10 percent I mentioned in my post.
The other 90 percent, year-in and year-out mean little to any people except those in the fanbases of the participating teams.

Also (and this may just be me, but I doubt it) as we age, there is less and less interest in the bowls' lead-ups and outcomes. As we get older, we all have more and more other stuff that we occupy our time with or stuff that we deem "important".

 

Beth Mowins in the booth for this afternoon's game. Oh joy. Sounds like my fourth-grade teacher explaining the action to me.

 

The Purdue-Western Michigan game is not the worst one I have seen to date during bowl season. Can't remember the last time I saw a team recover two onside kicks.

 

Or two double-turnovers. That was a fun game to watch, even if the level of play was less than stellar.

 

After the last five minutes of the Mediocre Department Store Bowl, I wouldn't put Charlie Strong or Tom O'Brien in charge of a two-car funeral.

 

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Not going to happen. Get no particular pleasure out of watching a game with more punts than points.

 

That was brutal. What the hell was O'Brien doing going for it?

 

The local news crews here are excited to have the Heisman winner in town for Thursday evening's Alamo Bowl.
I'm picking Baylor to win that one, as will most prognosticators, I think.
The coaches are evenly matched, though, so it could easily go the other direction.
Let's look for lots of points either way.

 

As we get older, our perspective changes because of a broader frame of reference.

To a 13-year-old kid in the 70s, a 7-page swimsuit spread in SI would keep him up all night (pun intended).

To a 40-year-old in 2011, a 185-page swimsuit issue is no big deal, and "it's too bad that SI just ain't what it used to be."

Same goes for college football bowls and almost everything else from our memory banks.

 

C'mon Chef .... I'm not buying it, but you make the call.
If you choose not to watch, the entire SWAC men's hoop circuit will be in action that nite and here is the lineup for more college basketball in that same time slot (not all of it televised):

http://www.ncaa.com/scoreboards/basketball-men/d1/2012/01/09

Also that nite, the Knicks battle Charlotte, plus Chicago and Detroit square off as part of a 6-game NBA slate.


Finally: Well-put, BTEx

 

On a somewhat-related subject, a court in Rhode Island has elected not to dismiss West Virginia's lawsuit against the Big East. Are we to believe that at the moment, all WVU has for a 2012 schedule is its non-conference games?

 

So, would this be the place for general FBC news? Because here's a possible doozy. Granted, it's not for 5 years:

PeteThamelNYT Pete Thamel
BREAKING: Pac-12 and Big Ten enter scheduling agreement. All 12 teams playing an inter-league football game starting 2017.