*** Baylor vs Sparty Cotton Game Thread ***
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Big 12 has been just as pathetic in bowl games in recent years...and I'm pretty sure the Big 10 still has the more recent successful bowl season (2009-2010 with all their top ranked teams winning). And Iowa actually contributed to that by winning the Orange Bowl.
Nothing worse than fans of teams that are completely irrelevant in their conference latching onto their conferences "success" in bowl games. Its like Vanderbilt fans talking SEC smack, you just sound completely silly.
Iowa is probably my favorite Big Ten team. I seriously hate most of the others due to the media infatuation and Iowa winning means my friends and family are happy.
I'd still rather have the drama and screw jobs of a 4 team playoff than a two team one. I mainly don't like how they abandoned the BCS formula for something drastically more subjective and less transparent. There was no need to change the BCS formula.
Yep. In reference to ISU's position--it comes down to people talking about a bunch of teams that would beat (and have beaten) ISU by just showing up.
Your opinion is as good as mine - my point is contrary to popular belief in this and other threads, TCU didn't exactly dominate everyone in the Big 12, as they had close wins and a close loss.
BTW, Ole Miss isn't close to the team that Mich State is.
Yep, but we still like the sport and can still have an opinion. Unless M3MEPLEASE wants to never ever talk about the NCAA tournament, which I doubt he does.
Makes sense. I do think TCU was as deserving as anybody.
I really wish there was just an eight team.
I really wish there was just an eight team.
The TCU vs. OSU discussion makes sense. It's relevant and is what keeps interest in the college football playoff.
The B1G vs. B12 discussion is old, tired, and useless.
Agreed here. Anyone have any idea how they would set up the 8 team? Do they have higher seeds host at home a week after the conference championship weekend for the first round -----> 2 Major Bowls ----> N.C. game?
I think that makes the most sense. I also think we will see that sooner rather than later.
They had 4 bowls separated out that could have been the first round, but now with 6 I guess that could still be first round, semis then a title game all with those 6 bowls.
I would just like some more transparency and less blatant lying about the criteria. They went out of their way over and over again early in the season saying that teams wouldn't have to be a conference champ, 2 loss teams could be considered, all this...then when they want to dump their #3 team out for no reason they suddenly contradict everything they had been saying. The BCS ranking was so much better for picking teams and would be better for picking 8 teams too, the computer average component without margin of victory kept in check the greed element of college football that the committee is likely specifically designed to cater to.
Do most B10 schools have heated fields? I remember this being an issue when the Bears had to play at Minnesota's stadium after the metrodome roof collapsed a few years ago. Minnesota's stadium wasn't set up to have games played in December and beyond, from the field to even some of the concession stands. They upgraded those things before the Vikings moved there full time this past year, but I'm not sure all B10 schools would be able to host home games in the middle of Decembers without some stadium renovations.
Why do all these Hoks care so much about MSU? They didn't even play them this year, so MSU might as well be in a different conference altogether. As a matter of fact, if Iowa had to play MSU and OSU this year, they wouldn't be going to a bowl game either. And before any stupid Hok trolls say that they could have beaten those teams, may I remind them that they could not beat a 2-10 team AT HOME.
A. The Bowls: are fan bases going to be able to afford going to 3 bowls with all of the logistics involved? That's why I'd assume they play at one or another's home field in the 1st round. Separately, it feels like 3 bowls like that already dilutes the bowl situation even more than it is (which I thought was hard to do).
B. Didn't the Sugar Bowl feature something like #15 Michigan and #13 Virginia Tech one year? I realize the BCS had a formula, but I also know that feels more like two teams with big markets vs. 8 top teams.
