Bowl Selection Shows Open Thread
December 2nd, 2012 at 8:30 PM ^
Outback Bowl!!!
December 2nd, 2012 at 8:31 PM ^
Thanks for ruining it for everyone!!
December 2nd, 2012 at 9:04 PM ^
Will Heather Cocks be there?
December 2nd, 2012 at 8:32 PM ^
I would watch this if they weren't gonna talk about Notre Dame the whole time.
December 2nd, 2012 at 8:36 PM ^
wooo ! we get to beat a top 10 team!
December 2nd, 2012 at 8:36 PM ^
Beat the 'cocks BLUE!
December 2nd, 2012 at 8:58 PM ^
Blue balled?
December 2nd, 2012 at 8:40 PM ^
Anyone think he'll ever get the Wolfpack to the BCS?
December 2nd, 2012 at 9:05 PM ^
Apparently he is going to stay and coach the bowl game. Edit: Maybe not.
December 2nd, 2012 at 9:06 PM ^
He's not going to be with them for the bowl game. Their QB didn't correct them.
December 2nd, 2012 at 8:41 PM ^
Clemson at 14? What have they done this season that is so impressive?
Northern Illinois is unimpressive as well, hadn't even heard of them this season until 2 weeks ago. They lost to Iowa and beat Kansas by only seven points. Hell, you could make an argument that Purdue is more deserving of a BCS spot.
~Herm
December 3rd, 2012 at 5:56 AM ^
Only 2 losses, I guess? Hey they beat auburn....
That's all I got.
December 2nd, 2012 at 8:46 PM ^
I hope northern Illinois beats the shit out of Florida state.
December 2nd, 2012 at 8:48 PM ^
And I hope I get Dolly Parton for Christmas; it isn't going to happen. Northern Illinois won't even have a real head coach for the game.
~Herm
December 2nd, 2012 at 9:00 PM ^
Dolly Parton? Herm, she's like 75.... Ohhhh right
December 3rd, 2012 at 7:49 AM ^
When I think of dolly I visualize a softball in a tube sock X 2.
December 2nd, 2012 at 8:49 PM ^
So how long will it take until the Cocks jokes are no longer funny around here?
Ok never mind, we still talk about Mike Cox
December 2nd, 2012 at 8:50 PM ^
MGoBlog: where jokes go to (never) die
December 2nd, 2012 at 8:52 PM ^
eating apples during the entire duration of that game.
Might have to eat 4th quarter apples in the bathroom after throwing up 2nd quarter apples. That's a lot of apples!
December 2nd, 2012 at 8:56 PM ^
that'll show Discover!
December 2nd, 2012 at 8:57 PM ^
That game is gonna be a gigantic steaming road apple
December 2nd, 2012 at 8:55 PM ^
over NIU, laughable, this is the system you bestowed us with...so glad this crap will end in 2 years
December 2nd, 2012 at 8:58 PM ^
I'm just sad that NIU gives its location in its name. I think it would've been quite the chuckle to listen to Southerners / Left Coast folks try to figure out where Kent State was.
~Herm
December 2nd, 2012 at 9:11 PM ^
Left coast.
~DIABEETUS
December 2nd, 2012 at 9:01 PM ^
In the new system, the highest ranked conference champion of the Big East, MWC, CUSA, Sun Belt, and MAC get an auto-bid to one of the six bowls.
The only thing that would have changed is that two other teams would have been included. Someone still would have had to played NIU
December 2nd, 2012 at 8:57 PM ^
OK, I'm an idiot and I just took one quick look at the BCS rankings and considered a few things like conferences and if they played each other before and made this lineup. Why can't we come up with a lineup like this? It would be so much more entertaining.
#1 Notre Dame vs #2 Alabama
#4 Florida vs #5 Oregon
#3 Georgia vs #6 K-State
#7 LSU vs #8 Stanford
#9 Texas A&M vs #11 Oklahoma
#10 South Carolina vs #13 FSU
#12 Nebraska vs #14 Clemson
#15 Oregon St vs #18 Texas
#16 UCLA vs #19 Michigan
December 2nd, 2012 at 9:00 PM ^
I found the flaw--that makes way too much sense.
December 2nd, 2012 at 9:01 PM ^
No, no, no. You're doing it all wrong. That system makes sense. If there is one thing we've come to know about college football is that nothing is allowed to make sense. If something would appear simple, it must be confused. If a conference features schools in geographically sensible states, it must add schools at random. If a recruit appears to be a perfect fit for a school, he must choose the opposite. If an administrator states that he is looking out for competetive balance and tradition, he must only seek money and notoriety.
~Herm
December 2nd, 2012 at 9:04 PM ^
Why in the world they split this show into two half hour blocks?
December 2nd, 2012 at 9:05 PM ^
I know the weekly program is 30 mins, maybe some sort of contractual requirement regarding that.
Question: Does anyone know who the last unranked team to play in the Rose Bowl was? I have no clue.
December 2nd, 2012 at 9:09 PM ^
In 15 years Wisconsin only 4th unranked BCS team to earn BCS bowl berth. 3 of 4 got automatic bids to Rose Bowl
@McMurphyESPN 13 minutes ago 14 retweets | 2 replies
December 2nd, 2012 at 9:11 PM ^
1/1/99 Wisconsin 38 UCLA 31
1/1/00 Wisconsin 17 Stanford 9
1/1/01 Washington 34 Purdue 24
1/3/02 Miami (Fla.) 37 Nebraska 14
1/1/03 Oklahoma 34 Washington State 14
1/1/04 USC 28 Michigan 14
1/1/05 Texas 38 Michigan 37
1/4/06 Texas 41 #-USC 38
1/1/07 USC 32 Michigan 18
1/1/08 USC 49 Illinois 17
1/1/09 USC 38 Penn State 24
1/1/10 Ohio State 26 Oregon 17
1/1/11 TCU 21 Wisconsin 19
1/2/12 Oregon 45 Wisconsin 38
December 2nd, 2012 at 9:12 PM ^
Answered my question: 1984 UCLA. They were 6-4-1, but were 6-1-1 in the conference. They ended up beating #9 Illinois by 36.
December 2nd, 2012 at 9:09 PM ^
you know how cute they like to be, what, with the camera angles and showing the crowd while the play is going on.
They are too cool for school man, you gotta know that by now.
December 2nd, 2012 at 9:13 PM ^
David Pollack with racist comment of the day with a reference to Denard in a comment about niu's qb, "looks a little different than him too"
December 2nd, 2012 at 9:24 PM ^
I see nothing in that statement that expressed racial superiority or disdain for another ethnic group.
December 2nd, 2012 at 9:33 PM ^
if your bent on looking for that kind of thing. I find, more times than not, that the who brings accusations of racism is typically the racist.
December 2nd, 2012 at 9:58 PM ^
no I just hate David Pollack.
December 3rd, 2012 at 6:13 AM ^
sorta hurhur way. Get's everyone's antennae up ABOUT race, but can't be accused of racISM. Old, tired trope of people generally uncomfortable about the whole mess but not capable of surrmounting their discomfort with insight. There's a lot of it around. Aherm.
December 2nd, 2012 at 9:14 PM ^
Because no one knows if those teams are really the best, since they only play each other. Force everyone to play tough out of conference games and then you can just put in the "best" teams.
December 2nd, 2012 at 9:18 PM ^
Just thinking of it again now, and as a disclaimer, I fully understand what these two schools did are very bad. But does anyone find it strange that the two schools suffering the most from NCAA sanctions are in the Big Ten? They both brought it upon themselves (in different ways), but I find it surprising that, apparently, the two worst "offenders" in college football are in the same division in college football, while, who else... USC.... has even minor sanctions against them? Just very bizarre that the NCAA saw smoke in the Big Ten and came down excessively (in the football sense) in one case and relatively hard in the other, while I can list off a variety of other programs which have been smoking and smoldering for years with minimal consequences. UNC has basically been home-schooling its athletes (and by that I mean they stay at home while they get A's in their classes), Miami has been basically run by outside nefarious individuals for decades, Oregon has shown obvious signs of problems, Auburn buys... I mean recruits... one player and has its only success in a decade, and nothing!
I'm not saying there is some sort of conspiracy, but what is the situation? Were the Big Ten schools too forthcoming?
~Herm
December 2nd, 2012 at 9:31 PM ^
Herm, what do you think about Michigan having a chance to trot out another special uniform?
http://www.mgoblue.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/072312aab.html
Michigan may consider designing a special bowl game jersey if the opportunity presents itself. However, a final determination will be made later in the year.
December 2nd, 2012 at 9:40 PM ^
Wear purple for all I care. College football is going to hell in a handbasket anyways.
Pretty soon it will be a game of two-hand touch grab-ass between Michigan and some garbage school with a television market, played in front of 15,000 East Coast tea drinkers with sparkles and fur on the uniforms, strip-teasers on the sidelines and rap stars yelling into microphones at the "fans".
~Herm
December 2nd, 2012 at 9:48 PM ^
Can I nominate this for post of the year?
December 2nd, 2012 at 9:54 PM ^
I am for the strippers. when does that start?
December 2nd, 2012 at 10:14 PM ^
I love this guy.
December 2nd, 2012 at 10:51 PM ^
I will leave my wife for you herm 3 no homo
December 2nd, 2012 at 11:11 PM ^
I've literally been watching this gif for about 16 minutes straight.
See Homeland this is what you do to me!!!!! Damn you Carrie!!!!!!
December 2nd, 2012 at 9:34 PM ^
Not to defend the NCAA, which has let some programs get away with murder, but I would say Ohio State got off light, directly compatred to USC. I think Ohio State deserved worse. Then again, I think USC deserved worse as well. And Miami still has yet to get hit, with people assuming they'll get hit hard.