NCAA Licenses 35 Bowls for 2010-14
The NCAA announced today that it has licensed 35 postseason games for the period 2010-14.
NCAA news release.
AP story (from ESPN.com).
Nokia Allstate Sugar Bowl anymore?
• New Era Pinstripe Bowl. Yankee Stadium -- bundle up.
• Valero Alamo Bowl, amigo.
• AdvoCare V100 Independence. Get your multivitamins!
• UDrove Humanitarian. UDrove replaces in-cab paperwork. Cool.
• Dallas Football Classic. #7 Big 12 vs. #6 Big 10. I hope this isn't Michigan's next New Year's Day bowl game, but I guess I'll take it.
...the bowls were licensed on a four-year cycle for the first time, though they will be reviewed each year. The move puts the licensing schedule -- from 2010-11 through 2013-14 -- in line with the length of bowl conference agreements.The Bowls:
• AdvoCare V100 Independence • AT&T Cotton • AutoZone Liberty • BCS National Championship • Beef ‘O’ Brady’s - St. Petersburg • Bell Helicopter Armed Forces • Capital One • Champs Sports • Chick-fil-A • Dallas Football Classic • EagleBank • Franklin American Mortgage Music City • GMAC • Gator • Holiday • Insight • Kraft Fight Hunger • Little Caesar’s Pizza • MAACO Bowl Las Vegas • Meineke Car Care • New Era Pinstripe • New Mexico • Orange • Outback • Papajohns.com • R+L Carriers New Orleans • Rose • San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia • Sheraton Hawaii • Sugar • Sun • Texas • Tostitos Fiesta • UDrove Humanitarian • Valero Alamo• Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl. With processed foodstuffs. • Sugar Bowl. [ed.] Not the
April 23rd, 2010 at 11:44 PM ^
Rule of thumb: Any time something is named the Something Classic, it isn't.
Also, good job Kraft. Your bowl is now, forever and ever, the Hunger Bowl. You know that's what it's going to be called in shorthand for the rest of time.
April 23rd, 2010 at 11:52 PM ^
When can we expect the MGoBlog Bowl?
April 23rd, 2010 at 11:56 PM ^
...with the Roady's Humanitarian Bowl as you would have had to have been one hell of a humanitarian to attend a game involving the MAC #3 get pwned by some random Big East team annually.
April 24th, 2010 at 12:10 AM ^
into spots for a 16 team tournament. I hope we get a playoff in college football before I die. That would be nice.
April 24th, 2010 at 12:17 AM ^
This is getting ridiculous. Pretty soon teams with sub .500 records will be bowling.
April 24th, 2010 at 12:34 AM ^
Sugar bowl has been allstate for a few years now.
...see the edit.
April 24th, 2010 at 12:40 AM ^
A 16 team playoff would destroy the regular season, could you imagine UM and OSU sitting Troy Smith and Chad Henne in '06 because they wanted to rest them for the playoffs? I think a plus-one system would be fine, without taking away the 12-week playoff that is the current regular season.
Yeah, right. Playoffs sure have "destroyed" the NFL's regular season.
I'll admit I'm not a huge pro football fan (Thanks Millen!) but the last two weeks of the NFL regular season is boring. The best thing people can talk about is which starters are going to rest. Once a team clinches a playoff spot or home field, they just mail in the rest of the games. I think this is was OP's point.
Michigan and Ohio State would rather kill each other on the field than give the other team an easy win.
I may laugh about that one for days.
My son's name is Brady (wife's idea, to her credit, not mine). He may have a new nickname for a while.
But seriously, who or what is a Beef O' Brady?
I was about to comment on how hilarious I thought this was.
I fear I may be pulling for Michigan to change conferences/lose games/relocate if it means we get to play in such a ridiculously named contest.
What is UDrove? That bowl sure sounds full of accusations to me.
They got it backwards. You smoke the bowl first, then get hungry, and lastly, proceed to crush a box of Kraft Mac and Cheese.
Michigan will never just let OSU win a game. EVER. Second, There are over 115 teams in Div 1, instead of 32. This means you still have to be undefeated if you want to get a top seed in the playoffs. Every year there are 2-3 undefeated teams unlike the NFL where we've only ever had 1 undefeated team. If you decided to lose a couple games to "rest up" you might not be in the top 16 teams in the nation any more. At the very least your seed in the tourney would suck.
You people have been sold by a group of elitist bastards who want nothing other than the maximum ticket sales/Q rating/advertising dollars/travelling fan base/big market teams in the national championship. This same line of thinking is why under the current system TCU will NEVER be in a championship game. Any system that doesn't let the best teams in that particular year fight for a title is complete nonsense. Anyone who tells you different is either selling something or a moron/zombie that has bought into sucking Satan's nether region (See Bill Hicks).
April 24th, 2010 at 11:39 AM ^
The point is that 16 is way too many. Last year, the #16 team in the AP poll at the end of the season was Wisconsin, with a 9-3 record. Do you really think they deserved a shot at the National Title? Get real. I'm not saying that OSU, UM, Alabama, or Auburn would just give the game away, but if you think they wouldn't rest their most important players for a while to prepare for the playoff push, you're not being realistic.
Any National Title controversy has never involved more than 3 or 4 teams. See, for example, this year when TCU and Boise wanted a shot, or 2004 when a 13-0 Auburn got left out of the title game. A plus-one does a much better job of settling some major disputes while still retaining the unique importance of the NCAA regular season. Again, I'll use 2006 UM-OSU as an example. If #1 OSU loses at home, they may very well drop out of the top 4, but they know almost for a fact they won't fall out of the top 16, ditto for UM. As a result, I highly doubt Henne or Smith play the whole game, and again the importance of the game is nearly gone because, oh, what the hell, we'll get another crack at OSU/UM in the playoffs.
I agree that the BCS could use some tweaking, but people need to be careful what they wish for, or the college regular season as we know it will be gone, and a 4-loss team will wind up as the national champion some day.
So a team that beats out the rest of the competition, proving itself as a top team shouldn't be the nat'l champ?
what?
In college football, no. It's a much different sport than most out there, and one of the things that separates it is that no team can go on a fluke run at the very end of the season, like the Arizona Cardinals sucking up the regular season at 9-7 and then reaching the Super Bowl. To me, winning a college football national championship has always been the holy grail of american sports championships, mostly because it is just so damn hard to do. Lose one single game, you're likely out of it, and unless it's a weird season like 2007, 2 losses definitely puts you out. Coach Rod himself said back in 2007 that college football already has a 12-week playoff, and he's absolutely right.
Running the table at 12, 13, or 14-0 in a conference like the SEC, Big 12, or Big 10 is an unbelievable accomplishment, a legendary experience that fans will talk about for a lifetime. Would the 1997 season have been as sweet if we had lost to Notre Dame and OSU but made a crazy run at the end in the playoffs to steal a championship? Would you even feel like a true champion then? On the flip side, how frustrating would it be to go 12-0 but lose a fluke game to an 8-4 team in the first round of the playoffs?
Finally, where would these playoff games be played? Would TCU fans travel week after week to various locales around the country if the Horned Frogs make a run? They can't even sell out their own home stadium.
Play two plus-one games the week after the conference championships, then go with the normal BCS bowl schedule; not the absolute perfect solution, but one that fits both sides of the debate.
that wins a tournament is the champion, regardless of their record in the season. YES! I would have been happy to give UM another shot in a year we lost to a couple rivals. No, I wouldn't feel like we didn't deserve it.
I guess you like the BCS system with all of the shady BS that comes with it. I wonder why EVERY other sport on the planet has tournaments? With your "and 1 scenario", the small schools would still get screwed even if they were undefeated. This doesn't really give an even shot to every team in Div 1 - I guess we should agree to disagree.
I guess we will, I'll just leave with a rough paraphrase from the great Colin Cowherd: "Boise State, TCU, be quiet. Alabama and Texas have better players, they play in better conferences...be quiet. We didn't have to give you any bowl game." I suggest Boise try to move to the Pac 10 or TCU to the Big 12.
...you just typed:
"...the great Colin Cowherd...".
I was starting to think you were headed to rehabilitated status, but now, not so much.
You don't like Colin Cowherd? Despite the fact that his radio show is just straight up awesome, he co-anchors Sportsnation, which again, is awesome. Not to mention, you know he has to be banging Michelle Beadle off-set. Again, this raises his awesomeness level. In all seriousness, you don't like him? I'd like to start a thread seeing what the community thinks.
April 24th, 2010 at 11:40 PM ^
...is the epitome of the jerk-ass WWL personality whose job it is to spout provocative loudmouth takes on the sports issues of the day for the sake of saying provocative things. It's tiresome.
Plus, he did this.
Dammit...
...no longer think it's a good idea to start a thread to gauge what the MGoBlogerati think of Cowherd.
Seroiusly some of those just sound stupid. As long as I get to see Michigan play in one of those bowl games next year though I'll be happy.
What in the hell is that all about? This is football were talking about, not baseball. There are some stupid ones here my God.