R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl San Diego State VS [Louisiana Lafayette]
Poinsettia Bowl [TCU] VS Lousiana Tech
Las Vegas Bowl Arizona State VS [Boise State]
Sheraton Hawaii Bowl Nevada [Southern Miss]
Independence Bowl [Missouri] VS North Carolina
Little Caesers Bowl Western Michigan VS []Purdue]
Belk Bowl Louisville VS [North Carolina State]
Military Bowl Toledo VS [Air Force]
Holiday Bowl California VS [Texas]
Champ Sports Bowl [Florida State] VS Notre Dame
Alamo Bowl [Baylor] VS Washington
Armed Forces Bowl [BYU] VS Tulsa
Pinstripe Bowl Rutgers VS [Iowa State]
Music City Bowl [Mississippi State] VS Wake Forest
Insight Bowl Iowa VS [Oklahoma]
Car Care of Texas Bowl [Texas A&M] VS Northwestern
Sun Bowl [Georgia Tech] VS Utah
Liberty Bowl [Cincinatti] VS Vanderbilt
Fight Hunger Bowl Illinois VS [UCLA]
Chick-fil-A Bowl Virginia VS [Auburn]
Ticketcity Bowl [Houston] VS Penn State
Outback Bowl Michigan State VS [Georgia]
Capital One Bowl Nebraska VS [South Carolina]
Gator Bowl [Ohio State]VS Florida
Compass Bowl [SMU] VS Pittsburgh
GoDaddy.com Bowl Arkansas State VS [Northern Illinois]
Cotton Bowl: Kansas State VS [Arkansas]
BCS BOWLS
Rose Bowl Wisconsin VS []Oregon
Fiesta Bowl [Oklahoma State] VS Stanford
Sugar Bowl [Michigan] VS Virginia Tech
Orange Bowl [Clemson] VS West Virginia
BCS National Title game [LSU by 2 TD's just for lulz] VS Alabama
Southern Miss, TCU, and Boise deserve better bowls in my opinion. Virginia Tech shouldn't even be in a BCS bowl after what happened in Charlotte against Clemson.
For those to lazy, it's a clip from this weekend's Wofford-Northern Iowa playoff game. UNI kicks off up 21-14 in the 4th. Wofford guy catches it in the endzone....and just walks around like it's instantly a touchback. UNI strips him, recovers, touchdown.
Boise is stuck in the MWC for the 2012-13 season. The only reallignment changes that are going into effect next season are Missouri and TAMU to the SEC, and MAYBE WVU to the Big 12, lawsuits pending.
Back from my trip to the heights of anger and frustration mountain. Now I'm back in full time positive Go Pokes mode. I have my flight, hotel and tickets to the Fiesta Bowl reserved (went for 50 yard line nose bleeds...). Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Happy New Year, and good luck to your teams (as long as they aren't LSU, BAMA or Stanford).
Ohio State whacked with a one year (2012-13) Bowl ban, reduced football scholarships from 85 to 82 through 2014-15, and placed on 3 years probation. Jim Tressel given five years of Show Cause penalty.
I have no complaints with the penalties. It basically ends Jim Tressel's NCAA coaching carrer, and the 5 students will probably be gone after next year.
What are the arguments for the other teams in contention to be ranked ahead of Alabama? I'm not a Bama fan by a long stretch, but I just want to hear the arguments for other teams.
Bama may well be the second best team in the nation, albeit by the slimmest of margins, but they've already had their shot at the top dog and lost. Give someone else a shot at LSU, because there is no outcome to the Bama/LSU game that can even be close to being considered fulfilling. If Bama wins, it's a 1-1 series and the National Championship means nothing because they essentially tied. If LSU wins, it just proves yet again that they were better and everyone walks away saying "I already knew that." What no one knows however is how LSU would fare against OKST, and that game would be far more exciting than watching LSU prove a redundant point or Bama tying the series. It also makes LSU seem like a far better team, having played against 14 different teams and walking away with victories over all of them. Even if LSU loses, they still seem like a better team than they would if they just had a rematch with Bama.
Yeah, that's essentially my problem with it too. If Alabama wins, that means when LSU beat them before, it meant nothing, but this time, it means everything.
Oklahoma State also had one loss, but beat a substantially better schedule with more ranked teams. Alabama only beat Arkansas, whose best win was over a terrible Texas A&M.
Regardless, the Oklahoma State schedule was a juggernaught. No FCS teams. 11 straight games without a bye week. Two of the three non confrence games Oklahoma State had were against Bowl Eligible teams (one of which already won their bowl). The loss came on the road, in double overtime, to a bowl eligible Iowa State team.
The Alabama schedule was a joke. It didn't have to play Georgia. It didn't have to play South Carolina. It got Arkansas (and LSU for that matter) at home. Virginia Tech...VIRGINIA TECH had a better schedule. Alabama only played one offense ranked in the top half of FBS teams. Arkansas...at home..in week 4, to open SEC play for both teams...with a rookie QB.
The pokes BEAT SEVEN winning teams. (UL-LAF, @Tulsa, OU, @Missouri, @Texas, Baylor, Kansas State) Alabama PLAYED Four (@Penn State, @Auburn, Arkansas), and lost to one. (LSU). Hell, even the who-did-they-play Virginia Tech beat more winning teams than Alabama played.
It didn't matter in the end. The Game of the Century was an exhibiton game. All that's left to do is root for LSU in the title game.
