BBVA Compass Bowl Open Thread
I know everyone is intimitated by the thought of double posting an open thread for such a popular game, which is obviously why there wasn't an open thread before coverage started.
Enjoy this, your third to last game of the season. The BBVA Compass Bowl comes to you LIVE from Birmingham. Pitt has four coaches for the game and you're going to hear about it 100+ times in the next three hours.
Feel the excitement (HT: EDSBS).
January 7th, 2012 at 1:10 PM ^
It sounds like there's about 200 people in the stands. It's quieter than those ESPNU high school games
January 7th, 2012 at 1:12 PM ^
Judging by that pick I just found at EDSBS, I'd say you're off by about 200. There are at least 400 people there.
January 7th, 2012 at 2:01 PM ^
There'd be more people there if it weren't for Craig James....
January 7th, 2012 at 1:22 PM ^
The only game with fewer fans than the BBVA Compass Bowl is the commercial for BBVA.
Rooting for SMU here--a victory is worth 3(!) points to me in my bowl pool.
January 7th, 2012 at 2:19 PM ^
I for some reason have 27 on SMU. SMU is making me look good as of now.
January 7th, 2012 at 1:33 PM ^
Line - he's from Oxford, MI. His brother Prescott Line is a senior this year and will also attend SMU. Tough kid who made some noise in the preseason, but didn't end up with too many offers. Real good HS player though, go Wildcats
January 7th, 2012 at 1:38 PM ^
Pitt is looking exactly how i expected them to look... horrible
January 7th, 2012 at 1:42 PM ^
I can't believe any Pitt fans showed up. Even if they bought a ticket early, that's a sunk cost. There's no reason to subject yourself to this travesty in person when you can mock it from afar. At least SMU is going to win the game.
January 7th, 2012 at 2:06 PM ^
Even the pretty fanatical guys I know are on their couches doing just that. At this point, what else is there to do? It's like rewatching certain games in the 2008 schedule where I just wish it could be over without much embarrassment and get on with the next season already.
January 7th, 2012 at 1:46 PM ^
21-0 with 0:34 left in the first quarter. Is West Virginia's nearly four day old record safe?
January 7th, 2012 at 1:50 PM ^
SMU is BACK!! Resurrected!!!
<br>/s
January 7th, 2012 at 1:53 PM ^
That just happened! First down Pitt. Great job guys.
Edit: Love kicking that field goal on 4th and 3 from about the 20 when you haven't come close to stopping the other team and are down 21 in a nothing to lose, no coaches get retained bowl game.
January 7th, 2012 at 2:11 PM ^
Well, Sunseri actually did something pretty decent...nice. Maybe, just maybe, this game could turn into something respectable.
January 7th, 2012 at 2:28 PM ^
Pitt had Dan Marino and SMU had the Pony Express (before the death penalty).
We'll probably hear about that eleventy billion times today too.
Go SMU and June Jones!
January 7th, 2012 at 2:29 PM ^
I really didn't think there would be a thread for this game
January 7th, 2012 at 2:31 PM ^
did they just compare smu's defense to the 85 bears?
January 7th, 2012 at 2:39 PM ^
should I turn this game on or just... not?
January 7th, 2012 at 3:28 PM ^
I turned it on anyway. I'm getting some enjoyment out of watching the 5th-string espn crew try to act like they actually care about this game.
January 7th, 2012 at 4:15 PM ^
I have a law school classmate that went to Pitt and was actually pretty good friends with Tino Sunseri. He said, and I quote "Tino is so incredibly stupid that the OTHER PLAYERS made fun of him for how stupid he is."
I can't imagine the number of times he's had his head re-introduced to the astroturf has helped today, my lord. Somewhere, Wandtstache is laughing and sobbing at the same time.
January 7th, 2012 at 4:20 PM ^
does anyone really care about this bowl?
January 7th, 2012 at 4:30 PM ^
There's a bowl on today?
January 7th, 2012 at 5:59 PM ^
is killing a hooker ...
January 7th, 2012 at 7:19 PM ^
That you guys had given up on these things.
January 7th, 2012 at 11:59 PM ^
Pitt, epic fail. Luckily I and my trusty EyeballSlicer313 still have 21 correct picks on the bowl season so I'm guaranteed a winning record, so ha ha, suckers!