BCS/Bowl Game Selection Shows Open Thread

Submitted by M-Wolverine on

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).

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JT4104

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

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MGoTarHeel

December 4th, 2011 at 7:51 PM ^

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marco dane

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.

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MGoCooper

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.

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M-Wolverine

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.

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JClay

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.

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Cope

December 4th, 2011 at 8:41 PM ^

I plussed this because I read this as sarcasm. You are joking right? I thought this was really well written satire. Please say every exclamation is a cleverly ironic statement meant to show how ridiculous that viewpoint is!

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UMxWolverines

December 4th, 2011 at 8:26 PM ^

If Alabama wins they are the most undeserving national champion ever. It's like a bunch of schools claiming bs national championships in the 50s when they didn't even win their conference.

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ccdevi

December 4th, 2011 at 8:52 PM ^

They will have won the championship game. That's how it works. The Packers can go undefeated but if a team who lost 5 times beats them in the super bowl, that team is the champ. Again if we are ever lucky enough to win the bcs title game I hope everyone has the respect to call us champ.

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M-Wolverine

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?

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ccdevi

December 4th, 2011 at 9:13 PM ^

First of all of course the system changes so what? This isn't one guy making the decisions who you call out for changing the rules, this is a group of 180 voters and 6 computers, the voters aren't even all the same and I'd guess the computers get tweaked all the time. Regardless their job every year is to pick the teams they believe are 1 and 2, that's what they did in 2006 and that's what they did this year. They had no obligation to give us a rematch and going forward they have no obligation to give anyone else a rematch or not. They should all teams on their merits.

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