Running bowl thread

There were many complaints about the field . . . because it was terrible. Several events were played on it in a short time period. A Miami player suffered a terrible injury.

But the complaints were not from any one team, nor about any one game, not from fans of any conference. That's just shit you made up. Just because you repeat a line 256 times does not make it true.

 

Oh, I forgot, this is the only message board on the planet. But thanks for reminding me because I just went to get a little refresher course from some of the SEC fanboy sites and forgot about the refs conspiracy that cost LSU on the last drive as well.

From the LSU message board, a UGA fan whining about refs helping Big Ten teams against Auburn and LSU.....

http://lsu.rivals.com/showmsg.asp?fid=22&tid=137517264&mid=137517264&sid=886&style=2

And this is just one quick example, there are many, many others I could point out without even working hard to find them.

In other words, YOU STFU and admit you are wrong....

 

for the record - I think the XM thing meant that the MAC hadn't won a bowl game this year - they were 0-4 going into tonight's game.

 

There was a game tonight?

 

zag's got rabbit ears on that little TV he keeps under his rock.

Listen, you missed a good game down in Mobile. The analysts broke from the script, too, and talked alot about the Texas/Bama game.
Central Michigan QB LeFevour was brilliant and the Troy QB had nearly 400 yards himself.
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DanO, they likely were talking about this year's bowls. Good catch.

 

Well, I'm not agreeing with Zag, but I watched the LSU-Penn State game with a bunch of family members, who all happen to be LSU grads/fans and the ENTIRE game, they bitched about the muddy field taking away LSU's speed. In fact, more times than I'd care to remember, I heard the phrase "On a dry field, we'd be up by three TDs by now."

Which led to me asking this question, which didn't get answered:

If a cheetah and a camel race in the sand, does the camel win?

Point being, wet track or not, Penn State's running in the same conditions as LSU and if LSU's players (cheetahs) are that much faster than Penn State's players (camels), then they should still win the race. It wasn't like the field was dry when Penn State was on offense and it suddenly became muddy when LSU trotted out there.

 

Yes, because we're all supposed to go read all the SEC fanboi message boards along with you every day. No one here has bitched about the field conditions slowing LSU down, which is what you implied with your first post.

And for what it's worth, the Capital One Bowl is not some horseshit bowl. It's generally the best bowl game outside the BCS for an SEC East team, matching the Cotton for the SEC West (sometimes, like this year, a West team goes to the CapOne). It's hardly the "whateverhorseshitbowl" you claim it to be.

 

Let's break down the SEC's bowl performance, shall we?

On the one hand:
1. South Carolina sucked balls and had no business playing in a bowl game. Period.
2. Ditto Kentucky.
3. Tennessee was WAY overmatched against Va. Tech, and, predictably, got bitchslapped.
4. LSU was hugely overrated and poorly coached, to boot. (And, no, I'm not buying the muddy field excuse)

On the other hand:
5. Flori-a expose- Cincinnati as wil-ly overrate-.
6. Ole Miss, quite possibly the most schzoid team in the country, pretty thoroughly dominated Okie State.
7. A very mediocre Arkansas team somehow beat the best that Conference USA had to offer. (OK, that's not saying much, but still...)
8. Auburn, a very average team, won an OT shootout over another very average team. (A game it tried real hard to give away)
9. Georgia's kids were considerably better than A&M's kids.

And, finally:
10. I will be very surprised if Alabama doesn't beat Texas. I think they're more physical than Texas and I like Nick Saban over Mack Brown in a championship matchup.

To sum: The SEC as a whole was down this year, but when it's all over, I think they'll have the top two teams in the rankings, and I think they'll end up winning more postseason games than they lose.

 

There is one bowl game that matters and four others that theoretically should, but don't.

Beyond that, the rest of them are all in the same whateverhorseshitbowl category regardless of what conferences are playing in them.

 

Just to pick nits here, but you obviously didn't watch the same game I did. That was nowhere near a thorough domination.

It was a 7-7 game late into the fourth until Ole Miss got a 2-yard TD run after an Okie State fumble and then another fumble return (for a TD) to make it 21-7.

For the better part of four quarters, though, that game was about as evenly played, albeit poorly played, as you could get. Okie State had SIX, count 'em, SIX turnovers in the fourth quarter alone.

Both teams failed on goal line opportunities and both quarterbacks had a good ole time throwing it to guys in the other-colored jerseys.

 

And while we are picking at nits........ what does it really say about the relative strength of the conference that the "very mediocre" Arkansas team - the team that needed juggernaut East Carolina to miss, what was it, three game-winning field goals in order to survive -- beat bowl teams South Carolina and Auburn and should have beaten both LSU and Florida (and would have beaten Florida had it not been for some creative SEC officiating as well as Arkansas's kicker sucking), but I know, I know, THOSE GAMES DON'T COUNT BECAUSE THAT'S DIFFERENT!!!!! :