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Pinstripe Bowl? Better bring your UnderArmor long johns...

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AzzurriDawg4

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NEW YORK -- The first Pinstripe Bowl will be played at Yankee Stadium on Dec. 30 and will be televised by ESPN.

The game will include the No. 3 team in the Big East and the No. 6 school in the Big 12, excluding Bowl Championship Series participants.

ESPN agreed to a six-year contract, the Yankees said Tuesday, and New Era Cap Co. Inc. agreed to a four-year deal to be the title sponsor. Future games will be played no earlier than Christmas and no later than New Year's Day.

This will be the first bowl game at Yankee Stadium since Nebraska defeated Miami 36-34 at old Yankee Stadium on Dec. 15, 1962.

The first football game at the new $1.5 billion stadium will be Nov. 20, when Notre Dame plays Army.
 
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patdog

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The 3 and the 6 are excluding BCS participants. Looks like the bowl in 2009 would have been Rugers vs. Iowa St./Texas A&M. I'm sure the bowl is counting on getting Rutgers or UConn pretty consistently.
 
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dogfan96

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...and how would a playoff hurt teams like MSU.. you could still have bowl games and people would care just about as much they do now, which is to say not much at all
 
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UpTheMiddlex3Punt

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Does anybody really think the Papa John's Bowl will be less important if there is a playoff? Revenue sharing amongst the conferences will happen with a playoff. Give every conference champion an automatic invite and give each team in the playoff an equal amount. The dollars will be split like bowl revenue currently is.
 
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615dawg

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A playoff would be a great thing for teams like us. We went 10-2 one season and ended up in the Peach Bowl. A 10-2 SEC team nowadays would be an 11 seed in a 16-team playoff. We would have a chance to play for a national title.

If we go 13-0, sit back and watch us get screwed out of the title game.

Signed,
Auburn
 
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dogfan96

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Auburn just had bad luck.. they happened to go undefeated in a year when two other teams went undefeated... and those two teams started off ranked a lot higher so they stayed higher
 
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UpTheMiddlex3Punt

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Yes, they got screwed. No other way to put it.

Believe me, if MSU were to somehow go undefeated this year, we would not go to the title game if it came down to 3 undefeated teams. And the powers that be at the top would defend the decision too.
 
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dogfan96

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the two previous years (well the 1st meeting was close.. the 2nd one was not), there's no way Auburn was jumping ahead of them.. and OU was considered by many to be the best team in the nation that year
 
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615dawg

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That's going to push us into the NCAA Tournament, using your logic.
 
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dogfan96

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basketball and football aren't even in the same universe... polls decide who plays for the championship in football.... USC lost one game the previous year and won a share of the NC.. they returned basically the same team that that same Auburn team (basically) couldn't even score on the year before.. by no logic imaginable would anybody in their right mind put Auburn ahead of them when SC had been #1 or #2 that whole year.
 
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hotdogface9

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we are in general better off with a bowl system than a playoff system...but to be quite honest I really did not put a lot of thought in my post, so you may be right. Also, I am of the minority view that college football playoff is in general a bad idea. In fact, I am probably in the super minority that liked the pre-BCS days when January 1st was truly the end of the bowl game season with a gazzillion bowls.</p>
 
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