College Football Week 14 - Conference Championship Games and Pseudo Championships
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So this is interesting.
Teddy greenstein from Chicago Tribune says that the Capital One bowl is going to pick Northwestern over Nebraska.
https://twitter.com/TeddyGreenstein/status/275100061774516224
Looks like my vacation plans may be back on after all.
Teddy greenstein from Chicago Tribune says that the Capital One bowl is going to pick Northwestern over Nebraska.
https://twitter.com/TeddyGreenstein/status/275100061774516224
Looks like my vacation plans may be back on after all.
Wait, what?
OMG. That's amazing. I had no idea that was the final score. :O
What the hell, Nebraska?
Wow...
Yep, A&M gets the bowl no one watch, while UGA should get a good matchup if OU doesn't make it to a BCS game. Which is good.
perfectchaos007
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Aggy played Northwestern last year ironically
It's the only thing I asked for for Christmas so...soon hopefully??
GoldenEye 007
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Capital One would be so dumb. I know Neb was in last year but does NW travel well? Especially for a bowl of that level?
Northwestern travels exceedingly well relative to their piss-poor regular season attendance. AD Jim Phillips has been known to pull out all the stops in selling the brand to the various bowl committees that the Big Ten has tie-ins with. In fact, in several of the last five years, Northwestern as jumped over another team in expected bowl picking order
And they've played pretty well in four of the last five bowls they were in, each with above-average TV ratings on account of the shoot outs (like auburn in 2010 that went two OTs and something insane like 170 offensive plays).
The only real downer, other than the fact that they're not likely to snap their 63 year bowl drought, is that this will likely be a rematch of last year's Meineke Car Care Bowl with Texas A&M, and that game was really not much good last year.
I've got a couple friends from CFB but the system is really tailored for some sports fans. Watch games, play games on commercial/downtime. Pretty great.
outunderthestars
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So Clemson to the Peach bowl again?
Yeah, with FSU win that was going to happen. Think Clemson's gonna get LSU. Though I've heard some strange thoughts that it might pick...
South Carolina.
GoldenEye 007
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wait wait wait. they haven't won a bowl in 63 fucking years?
No, that'd be silly.
It's 64 years. Last win was apparently the 1948 Rose Bowl.
http://www.collegefootballpoll.com/bowl_history_northwestern.html
Includes a 40+ year run of zero bowl appearances, though.
There's still one more regular season week topic to be made!
sf2fanatic
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So many good / so so games today.
So when the signups start for college bowls pick ems?
So when the signups start for college bowls pick ems?
Oh, and then there's this. This was the Lacy fumble back to the 6 yard line, followed by AJ's pass right to the UGA CB. That looks like it crossed the goalline.
When we putting in technology into this game. Say some GPS chips into the footballs and the coordinates of the goallines!
Thanks for the reminder! Anyone who was in the Pick Em last year SHOULD have just received an email with whatever account you used last year inviting them back.
If you weren't in the group last year and/or you don't remember you email/password you can sign up with a new one using this info:
Group ID: 9234
Password:
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I was surprisingly good at this playing with some friends last year. That probably means I'm due for a bad year this year.
Is this Yahoo or ESPN?
Well, ask yourself this simple question: on which site would it be better, faster, everything perfect, etc.
All of them?
perfectchaos007
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I would prefer ttk to spearhead the bowl pickem. His hand calculations could potentially lead to a mistake here and there, but it's equally necessary to uphold the sanctity and tradition of the pickem, and human error may come as a consequence.
Its Yahoo.
We've been using Yahoo for awhile and we used ESPN once or twice.
bigtroyjon
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Alamo Bowl gets the Pac 12 #2 choice but will end up #3 this year because Oregon probably gets BCS at large. They get to pick their choice between Oregon St, UCLA, USC, UW and ASU.
sf2fanatic
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Well they project UCLA to go to the Alamo Bowl. I guess some fans we're kinda rooting to stay local and play in the Holiday bowl
chaosblade
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Just saw the Tulsa punt return for a TD. Pretty funny, didn't expect that.
GoldenEye 007
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Yeah neither did the return defense with a ref running up like he's blowing the play dead.
Gamecocks625
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I wonder if we get a rematch in the outback. Would suck.
Oh for crying out loud.
Future USC QB Max Browne beats future Colorado QB Sefo Liufau for the Washington State class 4A title.
And based solely on last name, one of Browne's WRs is a distant cousin of mine!
And based solely on last name, one of Browne's WRs is a distant cousin of mine!
I sat through the whole thing. That score doesn't even show how bad it was. They probably could have had 80+ if they had tried. And the entire game they kept gashing us for 40+ yards on that jet sweep. We couldn't stop a freaking sweep play the 5 or so times they ran it. Just shameful.
zyxwvu4321
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NIU being projected to get up to #16.
I sort of checked out about halfway through. Was our offense shitting it up too, or just the black shirts?
GoldenEye 007
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Would be crazy awesome if they could sneak in.
Offense couldn't get anything done. We'd get receivers open but Martinez kept shot putting the ball short and off target or not see them at all due to pressure. Good penetration by the Wisconsin front four even without blitzers. We could have put up more points were Martinez not such a bipolar QB (either he's solid or total shit). The points we did get in the second half were basically in trash time when Wisconsin starters were off making vacation plans in Pasadena. That said lay this loss on Martinez (turnovers) and the Blackshirts. Bo's matchup zone hasn't been able to consistently stop the run for years and he doesn't seem to try anything to stop the bleeding.
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Aw, it's not loading for me.
I only agree because it would result in plentiful Sooner tears.
As far as creating good BCS matchups goes, it's very un-awesome.
GoldenEye 007
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True, but I have zero sympathy for the bowl system and the affected conferences/matchups.
I agree with this too, but I still want to see good bowl matchups.
bucknuticus
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What an embarrassment, makes me wonder how bad we would have beaten unl. Prolly by 100 points, just like we would bama, notre dame, etc. guess the world will never know.
Life lesson: don't cheat
I only bring this up again as a salty Sooners fan, but NIU will lose millions by going to the game. Hopefully though those losses are offset by all the exposure and prestige a BCS bowl brings and their program gets a bounce in status like Connecticut did
GoldenEye 007
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Eh, true. But they aren't the first and won't be the last to lose money. Isn't it actually rare for any team to make money in the bigger bowls. Even established programs? Requirements for getting overpriced tickets through the bowls, hotels, etc.
Schools in general get raked over by the bowl system.
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