I could not tell you who played in the Poinsettia, Alamo, or Liberty Bowls because since the inception of the BCS, I just don't pay attention to any of the lower tier bowls. However the games I did see all looked sloppy and ragged (ie Cotton Bowl, Cap One Bowl, Fiesta Bowl). A month between games is just too long for a team to wait.
Anyone think the bowls have sucked this year?
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I would have liked to see Boise and TCU split up, but their game was the best to watch. Yea I am not counting some of the overtime games of teams that I do not remember.
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As always, there were some entertaining games, but they are just exhibitions. You have some coaches that treat bowl games as business trips. Others treat them as vacations/exhibitions. That, coupled with the layoff, and the fact that some teams are more excited about their game than others makes the bowl games a poor gauge of how good teams really are.
Back in the days before the BCS, bowls were treated as a bigger deal because first off there weren't 34 of them, and second there was often more than one bowl that had something legitimate riding on it. These days, they've gotten out of hand, and only one of them really matters. I will say that the Boise-TCU game may have implications for next season, so it mattered. Both are returning a lot next year. Both will be pre-season Top 10. Boise, by winning the game, will probably start out ahead of TCU, and if the right teams lose, the Boise-TCU game could potentially have decided which of the two teams will have a legit shot at the title game. If both go undefeated next year, as they will be expected to do, then Boise will be ahead of TCU, and Boise may be playing for the national title.
Other than that game though, the bowls were primarily exhibitions this year.
Back in the days before the BCS, bowls were treated as a bigger deal because first off there weren't 34 of them, and second there was often more than one bowl that had something legitimate riding on it. These days, they've gotten out of hand, and only one of them really matters. I will say that the Boise-TCU game may have implications for next season, so it mattered. Both are returning a lot next year. Both will be pre-season Top 10. Boise, by winning the game, will probably start out ahead of TCU, and if the right teams lose, the Boise-TCU game could potentially have decided which of the two teams will have a legit shot at the title game. If both go undefeated next year, as they will be expected to do, then Boise will be ahead of TCU, and Boise may be playing for the national title.
Other than that game though, the bowls were primarily exhibitions this year.
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and something to have on TV in the background. They are rewards for the players. Of course nobody really cares, except for the fans of the teams playing.
Cotton Bowl - neither of those teams played to their potential during the year, why start now?
Cap One Bowl - did you see the field and the weather?
Fiesta Bowl - for all the hype, these two teams are mid-majors. they simply are not as good as most of the other BCS bowl teams.
Cap One Bowl - did you see the field and the weather?
Fiesta Bowl - for all the hype, these two teams are mid-majors. they simply are not as good as most of the other BCS bowl teams.
Last night's GMAC bowl was in the top 10 bowl games this season. The Cotton Bowl (sloppy on both sides) and Sugar Bowl (terribly one-sided) were easily in the bottom 5.
It used to be you had to win 8 games to have a decent chance at making a bowl, and even then there were only 10 or 11 games in a season. Now if you squeak by to 6-6 you get one. Playoff could solve much of this. At least there would be a greater number of exciting games.
It used to be you had to win 8 games to have a decent chance at making a bowl, and even then there were only 10 or 11 games in a season. Now if you squeak by to 6-6 you get one. Playoff could solve much of this. At least there would be a greater number of exciting games.
As to why we should have a playoff and change college football's postseason for the better. The bowl games can all stay in place, but they need to start about 2 weeks earlier. The Rose, Fiesta, Orange, and Sugar Bowls will start 2 weeks after the SEC Title game and will be the first round games for the 8-team playoff. You add two games the weekend around Christmas for the Semifinals and the BCS National Title game gets played right around new years. So this year the BCS Elite Eight games would have been played on Dec. 18th and 19th (Friday and Saturday), the Semifinal games would have been played on the 25th and the 26th, and the National Title game would be played on the 2nd of January. I still have no clue why they don't play the national title game on a Saturday, it makes no sense at all to me. They would get crazy ratings on Saturday nights with people throwing parties like its the Super Bowl.
Another plus of this system: it wouldn't give 6-6 teams like Kentucky, who won 1 more game than we did, an extra month of practice. 4 weeks of practice, even in December, seems to me like it would be very beneficial, especially if you have a young kid in waiting at QB like Russell.
Another plus of this system: it wouldn't give 6-6 teams like Kentucky, who won 1 more game than we did, an extra month of practice. 4 weeks of practice, even in December, seems to me like it would be very beneficial, especially if you have a young kid in waiting at QB like Russell.
TV ratings in mid-December would be a lot less than in the Christmas and New Year's weeks. That's just the way it is. I do agree about playing the title game on Saturday night though. That would be much better than Thursday starting only 15 minutes after people on the West Coast get off of work.
16 teams, first two rounds on campus (imagine how freaking awesome mid-December on-campus football would be). Then have the semifinal rounds at bowl sites on or around NYD. Finally put the championship game a week later. If you lose in the first two rounds you will be out by December 21 and could still get a bowl invitation.