Running College Bowl Selection Argument/Outrage/Discussion thread

Nonsensical nonsense. Indiana would have been bowl-eligible if it had won its last game. I doubt the Hoosiers were in the bottom three.

And let's see -- what were the high-profile SEC non-conference games?

Arkansas got its ass handed to it by USC. Florida struggled against a crappy Florida State team.

Yes, it's so clear.

 

Can we stop with all the "our conference is better than you bullshit." Save for about 10 teams, every other team in D-1 is either mediocre or sucks. There's no such thing as a conference that is actually really good from top-bottom. Most have 2-3 good teams, 3-4 mediocre teams and 4-5 bad teams.

 

Totally agree. I switched over to ESPN after the first 30 seconds of the opening montage. I flipped back a couple of times, but it never got any better.

That interview with Tressel felt like it could have been taped last week.

 

Get real. If it's not the No. 1 vs. No. 2 game, it's all about maximixing economic impact for the host cities. It's always been that way. Rutgers has been to two bowls in its history (one doesn't exist any longer). If their program stays on the upswing, it will be fine. But until then, it's the job of a bowl committee to get teams whose fans will travel. That means West Virginia, Virginia Tech, Clemson, Iowa, Ohio State, Florida, Maryland, N.C. State, Kansas State, Georgia and Penn State will get decent trips and Syracuse, Miami, Boston College, Pitt, etc. won't. The answer: when fans of those latter schools get a bowl game, sell the hell out of it and build a reputation over a number of years. It's how the other teams did it.

 

Hate to break it to you, but Georgia going to the Peach isn't necessarily an economic boom for Atlanta. There'll be a lot of red in the Dome, but not many of them will be sleeping in local hotels or doing touristy-type things. Georgia fans can do that any other time of the year when there aren't so many visitors to Atlanta.

 

Not every Georgia fan lives in Atlanta.

 

I dunno, you might get a lot of fans who don't have tickets heading to Atlanta to watch the game in bars and restaurants, so they can be around for any victory parties. That's what caused the Sugar Bowl to get over its anti-LSU bias...granted, the Sugar Bowl (even when it ain't the BCS Championship Game) is a hell of a lot bigger deal than the Peach Bowl.

 

Yeah, they should definitely apologize for playing FSU in Tally. Are you daft? UF's supposed to know in advance when Bobby's son will finally drag them down far enough that the Seminoles aren't a high quality out of conference game? THe computers have UF with the toughest schedule in the country even with them playing an awful 1-aa team.

That crappy 1-aa game, by the way, was the best they could do for a game on November 18 (when the 12th game was sprung on everyone a year ago). The other possibilities were Middle Tennessee and Western Michigan and they got outbid for both. Would playing either of those teams really have made a big difference in your thinking?

 

Just curious, anyone see Junkie? I worry about his sanity since the announcement.

 

Shouldn't Cal versus Tennessee count? SEC was 3-1 against the Pac 10, but Auburn-Wazzu and LSU-Arizona weren't as big. Unfortunately, there aren't many Big Ten-sec matchups so that argument has to wait until after the bowls are done.

 

No, but most are close enough to drive in the day of the game. The ones that do stay in a hotel will do one night as opposed to three or four.

 

That's funny. Batgirl saw that interview and said it looked like somebody did it with a camcorder in the 1970s