Running bowl thread

Oregon State wasn't as motivated as BYU because they were disappointed by not being in the Rose Bowl. [\Pac 10 fans borrowing the classic SEC fanboy line any time an SEC team loses a bowl game]

 

I'm feeling better about my pick of TCU. If Utah beats Cal tonight, I'd be surprised if another conference finishes with a better bowl record. The Mountain West needs to get some better bowl match-ups. As it is, they have two with the Pac 10, one with the WAC and one with the Conference USA. Surprised they don't have a bowl game with the Big 12.

 

The former Fort Worth Bowl (now the Armed Forces Bowl) had a MWC-Big XII tie-in when it started.

 

FWIW - there is at least one beaver who was aggressive in recent days.
http://www.koco.com/news/22042422/detail.html

 

I DID read that, and it's a good read that makes a very good point.

Regarding ESPN: It's bad enough that The Evil Empire is propping up a half-dozen or so "made for Bowl Week" games that have no one in the stands, but then they're basically getting the broadcast rights for dirt cheap while schools have to cover the cost for the host city/venue.

The MAC also comes to mind because during some weeks, they literally have ONE league game being played on Saturday while the rest are Tuesday-Friday night on ESPN-2. Again, I'm sure the conferences schools get little bank for that, and they lose out because students and "townie" fans have other things to do on a weeknight.

Here's hoping the pride and arrogance of ESPN comes before a fall.

 

Utes?

Count on it.

 

A team that doesn't really want to play in a meaningless bowl game? Gee, where have we seen that one before?

 

utes 24-14 at the half.

 

Surfing the Net this morning with no real purpose, I discover that Nevada has sold about 100 tickets for today's bowl game and SMU about 500. I don't know what this means financially — the school still has to agree to buy 5,000 or so tickets up front, right? — and I know the amount is a drop in the bucket to most big-time programs, but this also is why I want to throw up every time I hear some clueless college president say they don't want to disrupt the current bowl system. If two schools can't come close to selling 1,000 tickets, that ought to be the first clue that no . . . one . . . cares.

 

...and it has nothing to do with the game being played in Hawaii...and I'm sure the college presidents will cry about having to go to Hawaii for "work."

 

ESPN cares, and the gamblers care. That's more than enough for me.