BCS/Bowl Game Selection Shows Open Thread
It's early, but not sure when the site is going to be up or not, so while there's a window, I'm getting it in. If the hits crash it, could be a really short open thread. But discuss the Michigan Bowl (which will probably be known for sure before the show...if it's not already), and any othre bowl games on ESPN's coverage tonight, starting about an hour away. (By then the 504 errors will hopefully be done).
December 4th, 2011 at 7:37 PM ^
Michigan may very well be the only Big Ten team that wins a bowl game this year lol
December 4th, 2011 at 7:42 PM ^
We heard you the first time.
/just joshin'
December 4th, 2011 at 7:51 PM ^
Va Tech will be ready if it is them....this is a 2nd chance for them after that beatdown. I'm not sure our O is as good as Clemson as far as throwing the ball and clemson was able to keep VT off balance in both games. I think our D is good enough to handle things though.
If I had to guess a line right now I'd put it at VT +5 or so...maybe as high as 6
December 4th, 2011 at 7:54 PM ^
December 4th, 2011 at 8:00 PM ^
When does the actual show start,and how long after that until the picks are announced?
December 4th, 2011 at 8:04 PM ^
Starts with Champ game, then other BCS. How long they drag it out, I'm not sure.
December 4th, 2011 at 8:03 PM ^
December 4th, 2011 at 8:03 PM ^
Just sitting back with a cup of hot jasmine tea enjoying this moment. Before the start of the season, NO WAY someone could have convince me Michigan,would be BCS bound...a very good,timely turn of events the last eleven months.
December 4th, 2011 at 8:12 PM ^
No harm in that is there?
December 4th, 2011 at 8:19 PM ^
WoW vs. WOW. Not the post.
December 4th, 2011 at 8:42 PM ^
This is truely one of those moments...GO BLUE! Beat va tech!
December 4th, 2011 at 8:11 PM ^
I didn't want to make an apology thread, so I just want to apologize here for posting that Bama pic. Serving in the military for 4 years, I promised to protect this country from enemies foreign and domestic. So, I don't take lightly anyone making a mockery of the Oklahoma City Bombing. I believe in publically denouncing people like that, so they know their actions were wrong. Once again, I do apologize greatly.
December 4th, 2011 at 8:20 PM ^
December 4th, 2011 at 8:45 PM ^
Not anyone of the mgousers could have predicted this...just sayin!
December 4th, 2011 at 8:23 PM ^
I once posted a Jonestown/Kool Aid Man pic. Comedy is tricky. Knowing when you went a little too far and not defending it blindly is the thing. Mistakes happen. Owning them like you are makes the difference.
December 4th, 2011 at 8:12 PM ^
Godamnit I love Brady Hoke. He really does poop gold huh.
December 4th, 2011 at 8:13 PM ^
Right now, Adam Schefter is discussing Tebow and the virtues of starting bad QBs, and Chris Berman is trying very hard to make his act still interesting...
December 4th, 2011 at 8:15 PM ^
December 4th, 2011 at 8:17 PM ^
December 4th, 2011 at 8:19 PM ^
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
F Alabama!!!
December 4th, 2011 at 8:19 PM ^
REMATCH!
December 4th, 2011 at 8:20 PM ^
An hour ago. Go blue! Beat va tech in the Sugar.
December 4th, 2011 at 8:20 PM ^
that sucks. Get ready for another 9-6 eye bleeder, I may have to make other plans for that night.
December 4th, 2011 at 8:20 PM ^
December 4th, 2011 at 8:21 PM ^
December 4th, 2011 at 8:21 PM ^
Blerg for the game. Good for my bowl trip.
December 4th, 2011 at 8:22 PM ^
Screw the SEC!
December 4th, 2011 at 8:23 PM ^
same arguments that were discarded in 2006 are now being made in this case to justify this rematch. What a load of shit.
December 4th, 2011 at 8:24 PM ^
I'm not going to watch the rematch. I think I'll catch up on Falcon Crest that night instead.
December 4th, 2011 at 8:25 PM ^
So much smarm. I have never seen two grins eat so much shit.
December 4th, 2011 at 8:26 PM ^
Gentlemen, gentlemen! You just can't argue with the dominance Alabama showed playing that brutal schedule. They have two wins over teams in the top 25! Two! That's twice as many as one! And think how dominant there defense has looked this season against the Murderer's Row schedule that featured 4 teams with winning records! That's one third of all the teams they played! No Big XII schedule could compare to playing four teams that finished above .500!
And the clincher is how close they lost to LSU! By only three points! If losing a home game doesn't mean you deserve another shot at beating an opponent, then I don't know what the word "deserve" means, I tell you what. Oklahoma State, on the other hand, completely dodged LSU all year. Refused to book them. I'm not about to reward them for not going out an losing a home game to LSU by letting them play against LSU now! We might as well make Southern Miss vs TCU the national championship if we're going to do that.
Look, Oklahoma State had a fine season, but they just exist in a state that wasn't technically part of the confederacy, and when they go out and rectify that and move their campus from Stillwater to Savannah, Georgia, we'll start talking about National Championships in the future.
December 4th, 2011 at 8:27 PM ^
Saved up, didn't you? ;-)
December 4th, 2011 at 8:29 PM ^
December 4th, 2011 at 8:41 PM ^
December 4th, 2011 at 8:26 PM ^
It will be played the same. FG-Fest. Sominex on the field.
December 4th, 2011 at 8:26 PM ^
December 4th, 2011 at 8:34 PM ^
December 4th, 2011 at 8:52 PM ^
December 4th, 2011 at 9:05 PM ^
Doesn't necessarily make them more "deserving." And at least that 5 loss team will have own 3 or 4 games to deserve to get there. Alabama didn't beat Okie State to prove they deserved to be there.
December 4th, 2011 at 10:10 PM ^
...but the BCS Championship is played at a neutral site.
LSU already beat Alabama at home...Alabama squeaking out a victory at a neutral site doesn't mean anything.
December 4th, 2011 at 8:43 PM ^
And got fucked.
December 4th, 2011 at 8:55 PM ^
December 4th, 2011 at 9:06 PM ^
It shows the system changes on the fly. In your example, if they said one year that the team that beat the Packers couldn't play them again because they already lost to them, but then another year they could play them in the Super Bowl, how is that not relevant?
December 4th, 2011 at 9:13 PM ^
December 4th, 2011 at 9:29 PM ^
Comparisons to the NFL are fine when they back up your point, but comparisons are pointless when they contradict your point. Gotcha.