The BCS Scenario Shotgun

Your opinion of this will vary with your confidence Michigan can take out a Boise or a Stanford.

I would rather get a win than a test at this point. But I'm torn on where. The Sugar sounds a lot more fun.  But I'm probably of the mind I'd rather see Okie State in the Championship game. So the greater good vs. the Greater fun.

And while K-State isn't that interesting, probably the most beatable. Other than West Virginia, which would be great fun, and my pick, but I don't think it's going to happen.

so apparently:

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Coaches poll means M is lock for BCS bid and very likely to Sugar against B12/Boise/WVU.

Kirk Cousins has spoken and you don't deserve a shot at the BCS title.   Let's have a Sparty v. Bama rematch.

Maize and Blue shouldn't run from ANYONE. I would welcome the toughest team we can get if we are fortunate enough to get a BCS bowl, generally speaking.

But this year is unique in that it is an inaugural year for a new coach.

Hoke's got some great momentum that's translating into some dramatic recruiting success the likes of which we have not seen in a LONNNG time.

Keeping that momentum alive right now is more important than it will be during, say, Hoke's third year. He's writing his first chapter. And it ending with a BCS bowl victory is disproportionately more important than it would be in any other regular Hoke year.

Also, note that this year is special not just for being Brady & Co.'s first, but also because NONE of the old school powerhouses are on the BCS bowl menu (except maybe Bama).

No Texas. No Notre Dame. No Ohio. No Florida. No Oklahoma. No USC.

It's weird. And it's an opportunity for Michigan to stand out onstage, with less competition for attention.

And good attention means good bias. And good bias means good recruiting and getting the benefit-of-the-doubt for future polls.

So in order to build the Hoke mystique, I think we need a LIKELY WIN/easier opponent under the national spotlight more than a prestigious opponent this year significantly more than most "typical" years.

a game in Glendale would give Roh & Lewan a chance to play in front of their family & freinds.  GO BLUE!

Make the right choice! 

What time is the Harris poll released?

At least we were sitting on our couches instead of ... no, too easy.

So, Sparty is hoping the voters will have the courage to vote them ahead of Alabama?

Might as well... Same argument.

Someone needs to tell Kirk Cousins that you don't get punished for playing, you get punished for losing. 

MSU should have the opportunity to lose another bowl game.

OSU a solid 2nd place and Alabama a 3rd place, then you only need the Harris Poll to be a smidge closer in vote totals than the Coaches Poll to put OSU in the MNC (my calculations say if OSU is within 50 total votes or so of Alabama, that would likely be enough).  It's likely to be very tight. 

Last week, Alabama was only #2 in 4 of the computer polls, with OSU #2 in the other 2.  After yesterday's display, plus Alabama being idle, plus the 2 Big 12-heavy polls swinging to OSU's side, I think there's a good chance of OSU getting .9600 in computer to Alabama's .9200.

well i don't thing we got what we wanted by sitting on the couch i think we got what we wanted by the last 12 weeks (Sparty NOOOOOOO!!!)

reason # 13984702497 why people would rather be at Michigan than at State

I want to play Alabama.  

in Louisiana from a recruiting point of view.  Lots of very good players down there.  Maybe we could give Miles a run for a few of them.  I'll definitely take another Drew Dileo - Michigan's version of Wes Welker.  Go Blue!

Here's hoping for the Sugar Bowl.  The Sugar Bowl is the only major bowl Michigan has not won.  Rose (multiple), Fiesta (1986), and Orange (2000), but o-fer-Sugar.  Plus I really want to hang out on Bourbon Street and drink and watch all the Jan. 2 bowl games...

Just got impossibler

A very small contingent of talking heads has been talking about UM vs. VT. This would be perfect for me as I have just moved to Viriginia after graduating. I moved down the year that VT lost to James Madison. It was awesome because I only had to deal with a couple of weeks of people telling me about THE HORROR before they had the minor horror.

and would give us a chance to avenge that execrable Jan. 1972 RB loss to Stanford. That one still stings.

It's ranked 27th in the country, 4th in the Big Ten just behind Penn State, Ohio State and you know who.

Why is MSU not eligible for a BCS bowl? Just cause they are projected to fall out of the top 14?

The Big Ten No. 1 played in Pasadena and the Big Ten No. 2 got a damn fine bowl invite - to the Orange, Sugar or Fiesta.

Those nice "runner up" days are sadly over.

But somehow I like the scenario where, for example, Michigan loses to OSU in the regular season only to rip out their hearts in the Big Ten title game (a la Wisconsin this season).

Revenge is sugar sweet.

Come on Fiesta. I haven't been to a warm weather place in 5 years and there is family there to get free things from for a couple days. 

I firmly believe the BCS will doctor the numbers to make sure it is OSU. There is such a public dislike for the rematch idea, especially between two teams with lousy passing games like this. With the public approval for the system at record lows, the BCS needs interesting more than it needs some twisted version of what is correct.