Official college bowl games thread

Here's a thread for some talk about all the bowls in general. Which ones are you looking forward to? Which ones do you think you can pick as locks? Which ones suck?

Here's my initial rundown:

This bowl season as a whole is kind of a letdown. This season sees a lot of great teams with very good championship arguments (or at least BCS arguments) being left out in the cold. The BCS bowl matchups are pretty disappointing, but most of the games should be good. But I'd prefer to have seen Alabama match up against Texas as a 1b championship game with Utah playing Ohio State (or preferably, a team that isn't Ohio State and is more deserving than Ohio State).

The worst bowl: Orange. VaTech vs. Cincinnati sticks out as a terrible game considering that it's a BCS bowl game. In my opinion, this game does nothing but make an argument against the BCS. I hope it lives up to its billing and ends up being a horribly boring game.

The best bowls: Rose and Poinsettia. USC against Penn State should be one hell of a game. I can't wait to see how that Penn State offense does against the Trojan defense. And Boise State vs. TCU in the Afterthought Bowl is an unbelievable matchup. It's just a shame that they had to do it in such a lower class bowl.

Matchups that I would love to see instead: Texas vs. Alabama, Utah vs. Ohio State, Boise State vs. Texas Tech, TCU vs. Michigan State, Ball State vs. Missouri, Georgia vs. Oklahoma State, BYU vs. Oregon

My picks in select bowls:

Oklahoma over Florida
USC over Penn State
Texas over Ohio State (by a huge margin)
Alabama over Utah
VaTech over Cincinnati
Boise State over TCU
Ole Miss over Texas Tech
Oklahoma State over Oregon
Georgia over Michigan State
Oregon State over Pittsburgh
LSU over Georgia Tech
Notre Dame over Hawaii
South Carolina over Iowa
Missouri over Northwestern
BYU over Arizona
Vanderbilt over Boston College

Yeah, there are way too many bowl games. 68 out of the 120 teams DESERVE to go a game? I don't think so. January 1st used to have some good games at one point, but look at who is playing this year. Blech.

http://www.2news.tv/news/35767489.html

Maybe they'll luck out and have nice weather that day so they can sell a few more dozen tickets to locals?

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Originally Posted by justanewguy

My picks in select bowls:

Oklahoma over Florida
USC over Penn State
Texas over Ohio State (by a huge margin)
Alabama over Utah
VaTech over Cincinnati
Boise State over TCU
Ole Miss over Texas Tech
Oklahoma State over Oregon
Georgia over Michigan State
Oregon State over Pittsburgh
LSU over Georgia Tech
Notre Dame over Hawaii
South Carolina over Iowa
Missouri over Northwestern
BYU over Arizona
Vanderbilt over Boston College

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Florida over Oklahoma (Murray is out for Oklahoma)
Penn St over USC
Texas over (The) Ohio St
Bama over Utah
Cincy over VaTech
Boise St over TCU
Georgia over Mich St
Texas Tech over Ole Miss
Oklahoma St over Oregon
LSU over Georgia Tech
Notre Dame over Hawaii
Iowa over South Carolina
Mizzou over Northwestern
Arizona over BYU
BC over Vandy
West Virginia over UNC
Florida St over Wisconsin
Miami (FL) over Cal
Pitt over Oregon St
Kansas over Minnesota
Nebraska over Clemson
UConn over Buffalo
Ball St over Tulsa
ECU over Kentucky

Anyone going to the games?

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Originally Posted by bucher34

Florida over Oklahoma (Murray is out for Oklahoma)
Penn St over USC
Texas over (The) Ohio St
Bama over Utah
Cincy over VaTech
Boise St over TCU
Georgia over Mich St
Texas Tech over Ole Miss
Oklahoma St over Oregon
LSU over Georgia Tech
Notre Dame over Hawaii
Iowa over South Carolina
Mizzou over Northwestern
Arizona over BYU
BC over Vandy
West Virginia over UNC
Florida St over Wisconsin
Miami (FL) over Cal
Pitt over Oregon St
Kansas over Minnesota
Nebraska over Clemson
UConn over Buffalo
Ball St over Tulsa
ECU over Kentucky

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My picks in the bowl games:
Florida over Oklahoma
Penn State over USC (USC doesn't want to be at the Rose Bowl again)
Texas over Ohio State ( Will not be a blowout I believe)
Alabama over Utah
Cincy over Virginia Tech
Tulsa over Ball State
Buffalo over UConn
ECU over Kentucky
Texas Tech over Ole Miss
Clemson over Nebraska
TCU over Boise State (Boise has not played a D as good as TCU's)
Georgia over Michigan State
Iowa over South Carolina
Georgia Tech over LSU
Kansas over Minnesota
BC over Vanderbilt
Oregon State over Pitt
Wisconsin over Florida State
Oklahoma State over Oregon
Mizzou over Northwestern
Cal over Miami FL.
BYU over Arizona
West Virginia over UNC
Hawaii over Notre Dame ( It will 10 straight bowl losses for the Irish)

I totally agree with what you guys are saying about there being to many bowl games. In my opinion it is ridiculous to allow teams who played .500 ball to go to a bowl game. They need to go back to 11-game schedules so this cannot happen. Of course that will not happen because universities want to keep the 12th game for money reasons and for the major programs to play a garbage opponents from 1AA.

No one picking Oregon over OK ST? I think that may be the best NON BCS bowl this year by far.

I picked Oregon because of I think they can win...but I'm not an objective watcher lol. But I think the UO Okie St game will be a game and a half to watch.

http://www.fannation.com/si_blogs/th...own-new-mexico

Ahhh...I can almost taste the Green Chili from here

The Navy/Wake and Fresno/CSU games were pretty entertaining earlier today, but this USF/Memphis game is a clunker. 1-1 in my bets so far, just need either team to score once to move to 2-1. BYU/Arizona tonight should be a good one.

I lost my 33 point and 22 point games, but won my 30 point game (It's a confidence rankings)

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Originally Posted by OregonDuck1989

No one picking Oregon over OK ST? I think that may be the best NON BCS bowl this year by far.

I picked Oregon because of I think they can win...but I'm not an objective watcher lol. But I think the UO Okie St game will be a game and a half to watch.

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OSU will CRUSH Oregon completely. Or at least they better

Dangit, 1-1-1 on my bowl game bets. Had over 55 in the USF game, and pushed it.

Arizona beats BYU 31-21.

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Originally Posted by RedsoxRockies

OSU will CRUSH Oregon completely. Or at least they better

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Nope. Oregon is a better team then people think. They will play a good game. Remember they beat the living hell out of an Oregon State team that only needed a win to clinch a rose bowl berth.

Oregon OSU will be a close hard fought matchup and a shoot out.

deandre brown's leg just broke in half...literally :eek:

TCU beat Boise St. 17-16. Good game.

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Originally Posted by EVEN11323

TCU beat Boise St. 17-16. Good game.

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I was sort of hoping for a better ending than Boise throwing up 2 ints though :(

I realy didn't care which team won but I thought the ending was dissapointing.

not college football, but didn't feel like making a separate thread:

http://highschool.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=892888

:D

Go To Hell carolina

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8nmGtLJMzQ

Holiday Bowl last night was a really good game. Too bad that Dez Bryant was hurt in the 2nd half, he had a monster game going.

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Originally Posted by EVEN11323

Holiday Bowl last night was a really good game. Too bad that Dez Bryant was hurt in the 2nd half, he had a monster game going.

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The Holiday Bowl is one that I make a point to watch every year. That, the Alamo Bowl, and the Chick-fil-A Bowl are the 3 pre-New Year's Day games that I circle. They always seem to have good games lined up.

Scoring explosion today in the Sun Bowl. Oh wait.

Man, that was a painful game to watch if you like offense. Congrats to OSU.

Kind of dissapointed that I can't watch the Gophers/Jayhawks game, just more reason to get DirectTV...

OREGON 42 OK ST 31

Great game to watch.

Hey RSR :p!!! haha What a game. I had fun watching it.

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Originally Posted by OregonDuck1989

OREGON 42 OK ST 31

Great game to watch.

Hey RSR :p!!! haha What a game. I had fun watching it.

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Wow Pac-10 really is having a down year (sarcasm)
It'll be nice to be undefeated in bowl games this year

LSU really came to play, 35-3 at the half.

Wow .. USC is embarrassing Penn St. , Penn St defense is getting absoluelty torched.

utah is running shit so far in this one

Congrats to Utah. While I thought that 'Bama would win, I thought that Utah would keep it within 7 points, but they sure came to play tonight.

Im glad Saban lost, he is a shitty NFL coach, and I hope he has nothing but failure in Alabama, even though I respect Bear Bryant.

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Originally Posted by ragecage

Im glad Saban lost, he is a shitty NFL coach, and I hope he has nothing but failure in Alabama, even though I respect Bear Bryant.

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I'm sure he'll be interviewing for an opening or 2 :p

Can UCONN play any worse on Special Teams?! Wow.

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Originally Posted by ragecage

Im glad Saban lost, he is a shitty NFL coach, and I hope he has nothing but failure in Alabama, even though I respect Bear Bryant.

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What college coach is ever good in the NFL, lol. Completely different system.

Saban is a great college coach. Just look what he has done at Alabama already. Yeah he lost the bowl game, but a BCS bowl game in only his second year there. He'll get a better quarterback next season (Parker-Wilson isn't very good and I think he's graduating?? Correct me if I'm wrong) and his team has shown that they can contend as a national title threat. Watch out for Bama in the coming years.

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Originally Posted by bucher34

Saban is a great college coach. Just look what he has done at Alabama already. Yeah he lost the bowl game, but a BCS bowl game in only his second year there. He'll get a better quarterback next season (Parker-Wilson isn't very good and I think he's graduating?? Correct me if I'm wrong) and his team has shown that they can contend as a national title threat. Watch out for Bama in the coming years.

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Bama wasn't even SUPPOSED to compete this year, they were supposed to win 9 games or so and go to a pretty good bowl. Next year was supposed to be their BCS run, but it came one year early. I can't wait to see how good they'll be next year.

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Originally Posted by bucher34

What college coach is ever good in the NFL, lol. Completely different system.

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Jimmy Johnson
Tom Coughlin isn't bad
Switzer won a SB also didn't he?
Mariucci wasn't bad

Wow... the Sugar Bowl was great.

Goodbye, BCS.

If Florida beats Oklahoma, you can expect a very, very interesting vote in the AP poll for the AP champion.

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Originally Posted by etothep

Jimmy Johnson
Tom Coughlin isn't bad
Switzer won a SB also didn't he?
Mariucci wasn't bad

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Johnson and Coughlin definitely did well. I don't count Mariucci because he spent several years as an NFL assistant before being a head coach...he had time to adjust to the pro game. Switzer won with Johnson's team, then promptly had it collapse under his 'leadership'.