Running bowl thread

And what is it about this that astounds you?

 

Just to clarify, the Capital One Bowl has nothing to do with division alignments in the SEC. The eastern equivalent of the Cotton Bowl is the Outback Bowl. The Capital One Bowl must pick the SEC team with the best record or a team within one win of the best record. In the past ten Capital One Bowls, the SEC representative has been from the western division a total of six times (Auburn three times, Arkansas once, and LSU two times).

 

^^Gotcha. Thanks for the clarification.

 

Field Goals aren't a part of the game?

 

Troy and Central Michigan was one of the better bowls I saw.
Really liked CM's quarterback. Is he a pro prospect?
With the Cotton Bowl now being played at Jerry World, it will be in the BCS mix sooner rather than later.
I figure they'll add another game and make the Mountain West an automatic qualifier
Ends about a dozen headaches for the BCS people if they do it that way.

 

Because it's ridiculously low - Compare it to Alabama -- overall 67% and African Americans 65% Almost twice Texas rate.

Here is link to chart showing all bowl teams rates.

http://www.tidesport.org/Grad%20Rates/2009-10%20Bowl_APR_GSR_Study.pdf

 

Would have been better if ESPN did not spend the entire night previewing UT / Bama during broadcast.

 

SportsCenter today had an interesting "Sports Science" feature comparing McCoy with skeet shooters.

 

People keep saying this, but I don't see any reason why it will happen. Do you think the four existing BCS bowls are going to want to divide the pie into five pieces instead of four? Furthermore, the BCS is already watered down with the addition of the separate championship game. Add a sixth game and we'd end up with something like Boise State vs. Virginia Tech this season.

Also, if the Mountain West gains AQC status, I can't wait for the year when Air Force, Wyoming, San Diego State, UNLV, New Mexico, or Colorado State wins the conference with an 8-4 record.

 

YES.

 

The additional game would money into the pot as it takes some away, so the money could be, essentially, a push.
Boise brought something like 40,000 fans to the Fiesta, Va. Tech travels very well.
The danger isn't Boise and Va.. Tech, the danger is getting another joke like Hawaii in.
Or, and perhaps more importantly, a team like Utah gets in and kicks the shit out of an Alabama again.
Nobody from the big four wants that to happen.
Is the Rose Bowl really about tradition or just a way to keep embarassing results from happening?

As for ESPN's broadcast. The low point was when the color guy broke down how Colt McCoy could run on Bama's defense with a white board that was in the booth.
That's just awful.

 

If this is so, then someone needs to raise their standards.

The only thing the Capital One Bowl has going for it is that it's relatively accessible for fans of the SEC representative (but even then it's at least a 7-hour drive from the nearest school outside of Florida). The stadium is a dump that's located in one of the most-crime-ridden parts of town, parking is an abomination, there's not one legitimately decent hotel anywhere near the stadium, and the game shares all of its TV slot with another bowl game and part of it with another.