PAC12 5-0 & B1G 0-2
- Thread starter ROCKY MOUNTAIN HAWK
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Have to give credit where it's due, but with the amount of bowls being played, there should be no reason why every power-5 conference isn't facing one-another in bowl season.
Exactly.
New Mexico.
Southern Miss.
BYU.
Miami.
And now Nebby.
Not exactly murderer's row...
If you believe in good teams playing in Bowl games, then
Indiana at 6-6 and Nebraska at 5-7 should not have been
eligible for a Bowl game. There are not enough good teams
to have 40 Bowl games this season. I realize that it is all
about the money, but football fans deserve better.
Bottom Line: Only teams with at least a 7-5 record should
be invited to any Bowl game.
Indiana at 6-6 and Nebraska at 5-7 should not have been
eligible for a Bowl game. There are not enough good teams
to have 40 Bowl games this season. I realize that it is all
about the money, but football fans deserve better.
Bottom Line: Only teams with at least a 7-5 record should
be invited to any Bowl game.
Don't know, but you gotta believe 8-4 UCLA playing 5-7 Nebraska in Cali is likely a pretty heavy favorite. How do match ups like this even happen?
Indiana got jobbed by the refs. It's ridiculous they couldn't review that field goal.
Also, UCLA-Nebraska is tied at the half, although Nebraska just got jobbed by the refs on that targeting penalty. Lost one of their best defensive players for the second half.
Also, UCLA-Nebraska is tied at the half, although Nebraska just got jobbed by the refs on that targeting penalty. Lost one of their best defensive players for the second half.
UCLA's defense is garbage. Plain and simple. Pretty much fits that entire conference for the year. They were national media darlings all year. That worm starts to turn tonight when Nebraska knocks off UCLA and we see the supposed better PacXII teams struggle and the better Big Ten teams show their strength.
The Big10 had 2 teams that were at-large selections to big time bowls so every other Big10 team gets moved up not one but two spots in the pecking order. So if a bowl game was supposed to match the Big10 number 5 versus Pac23 number 5, now it's our #7 versus their #5. Go back through our bowl lineup and imagine the matchups if we were like the Pac12 and didn't have Ohio St and MSU make it into the Fiesta and playoff game. If we could play a bunch of teams like Air Force and Southern Miss we could notch a lot of wins too.
It would be interesting to see how many of their teams get to play a bowl game within an hour or two of their campus. It has to have at least some impact you would think. I mean if Iowa was playing a bowl game in Cedar Rapids I would imagine that would be at least some advantage. Maybe not as much as a true home game but not nothing either.
Nebraska, an average Big 10 running team, is physically MANHANDLING a UCLA team which was ranked half of the season. Feel any better OP?
The BIG is the only conference that seems to play up in most of the games. 5-0 playing bottom dwelling teams is nothing to brag about. We need to win he games that matter and that starts this week. Go Hawks!! Go BIG!!
I like the way it is with the Big Ten playing up and being the only conference willing to challenge the SEC. My only complaint is constantly playing teams in their home states for bowl games. Playing Florida in the state of Florida. Playing Stanford in the state of California. The SEC gets ALL of their bowl games in their region and then thump their chests and crow about how great they are. Yeah, you're sleeping in your own damn bed and playing in your backyard! Same for the PacXII playing everything out west. College football is a joke to me because until they add a major bowl game as part of the playoff puzzle that takes place in the Midwest, it's a slanted system that favors the SEC, ACC, PacXII and Texas/Oklahoma. If Alabama had to come play Michigan State at Soldier Field or Lambeau Field on December 31st, how do we think that would play out?
Well that would be stupid. They should be playing games in Minneapolis, Detroit and Indianapolis though. Domed stadiums in the midwest should be getting an even shake in the playoff games.
Why is it stupid? Why is it any dumber than having to play Florida State or Florida in an Orange bowl, or USC in a Rose Bowl, or LSU in a Sugar Bowl, or Texas in a Cotton Bowl? The Big Ten is the conference with ZERO form of home cooking come bowl season. The playing field is clearly slanted against the B1G. Thankfully, we're better right now and can play through it like last year and like I think Michigan State will this year.
Hell, a bowl game in Texas regularly has snow. Why not play one outside in Lambeau or Soldier Field?
I don't understand the logic that college football can't play games in cold and snow.
Why is that? Simple, the SEC and southern schools have refused to even play regular season games in the north except in rare circumstances and never in colder weather dates.
The NFL plays a huge portion of their post season games in the cold and it is a big hit.
Don't give me the BS about fans not traveling. TV is the driver anyway.
They need to make it a level playing field for the northern schools.
I don't understand the logic that college football can't play games in cold and snow.
Why is that? Simple, the SEC and southern schools have refused to even play regular season games in the north except in rare circumstances and never in colder weather dates.
The NFL plays a huge portion of their post season games in the cold and it is a big hit.
Don't give me the BS about fans not traveling. TV is the driver anyway.
They need to make it a level playing field for the northern schools.
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Ooops. UCLA (8-4) goes down to BIg Ten also-ran Nebraska (5-7). MIght wanna rethink the premise. And Indiana, of course, gave that game away to Duke. It still counts, but let's stick a little closer to reality. And that reality is a FIVE and SEVEN Big Ten team just took down might UCLA on the West Coast. And Minnesota will make it a clean sweep for 5-7 teams in bowl season, so ain't that special...
third down conv.
#15 Stanford- made: 88.... att: 172..... pct: 51.2
#56 Iowa- made: 75.....att: 175 ....pct: 42.9
#15 Stanford- made: 88.... att: 172..... pct: 51.2
#56 Iowa- made: 75.....att: 175 ....pct: 42.9
