OT: All the Bowl match ups, dates and times
https://sports.yahoo.com/2019-college-football-bowl-schedule-with-dates-times-and-tv-channels-213217302.html
December 8th, 2019 at 5:29 PM ^
Nice to see 7 MAC teams get bowl invites ,including the three Michigan schools (EMU,CMU,Western)
Whens the last time all 5 DI schools in the state of Michigan went to bowl games,in the same season?
December 8th, 2019 at 5:53 PM ^
It’s a damn shame that Sparty wasn’t the only MI team not invited to a bowl. That would have been too great.
December 8th, 2019 at 6:14 PM ^
To answer your question - this is the FIRST time all 5 Michigan FBS schools will be bowling.
EMU has only gone to a Bowl 3 times. 2018, 2016 and 1987.
In 2018, it was 4 of 5. CMU missed.
In 2016, it was also 4 of 5. MSU (ha ha) missed.
1987 was a much different era, in that only 1 MAC team would generally ever go Bowling (U-M and MSU both went to Bowls that year).
December 8th, 2019 at 7:19 PM ^
Sharkey, u da MAN!!!!!?
December 8th, 2019 at 5:30 PM ^
The sheer number of bowl games combined with their corporate monikers is overwhelming. WTF is a Camellia? Nothing screams tradition louder than the Bad Boy mowers bowl. Tropical Smoothie bowl? Come on man
now, get off my lawn
December 8th, 2019 at 5:46 PM ^
Man, you ain’t kiddin’.
December 8th, 2019 at 5:52 PM ^
A camellia is a flower. It's an actual thing, like bowls used to be named for things--oranges and roses. It the goddamned Red Box Bowls that bug me.
December 8th, 2019 at 6:17 PM ^
+1. Also the state flower of Alabama - and that Bowl game is played in Montgomery.
A perfectly sensible name for that particular Bowl.
December 8th, 2019 at 7:00 PM ^
“Just rub some camellia on it and the genitalia warts will go away” said by every Alabama doctor every day.
December 8th, 2019 at 8:59 PM ^
Is it only available in Alabama? Asking for a friend....
December 8th, 2019 at 7:13 PM ^
In all honesty, surprised there hasn’t been some sort of team boycott. There’s so many useless generic bowls that it just takes one middling team in El Paso Tx to sit out.
December 9th, 2019 at 11:21 AM ^
My Tropical Smoothie Bowl brings all the boys to the yard?
December 8th, 2019 at 5:41 PM ^
Notre Dame 10-2 vs an unranked Iowa State 7-5. Huh?
December 8th, 2019 at 6:01 PM ^
Their fault. JOIN A CONFERENCE!!
December 8th, 2019 at 6:05 PM ^
Not having a conference sucks if you dont make the ny6
December 8th, 2019 at 5:57 PM ^
That New Years Day lineup isn't too bad... guess I'll continue drinking from the night before.
December 8th, 2019 at 6:02 PM ^
There are a lot of really bad bowls with 6-6/7-5 teams.
December 8th, 2019 at 6:12 PM ^
ESPN/Disney $$$$$
December 8th, 2019 at 6:15 PM ^
Ah, Michigan vs. Alabama on New Year's Day. I remember sitting in my Grandma's living room in 1988 watching Jamie Morris tear them up. Let's do it again but with Hassan Haskins...
December 8th, 2019 at 6:20 PM ^
Back when the Outback was the Hall of Fame Bowl.
December 8th, 2019 at 6:23 PM ^
I'm off work for the first time in my adult life. Severance package and another job lined up after the first of the year. I'm looking forward to really soaking in the bowl season for once. Go Blue!
December 8th, 2019 at 7:20 PM ^
Good man!
I just told my Millennial hipster boss to take my job and shove it before Thanksgiving!
December 8th, 2019 at 7:24 PM ^
but if he's a true millennial, he won't have a clue who johnny paycheck is, nor the song you refer to.
good luck in your next endeavor - frequently much good can come from change. go get it!
December 8th, 2019 at 7:34 PM ^
Nor any idea who David Allan Coe is.
December 8th, 2019 at 8:23 PM ^
Thank you xtramalanin!
I am trying to re-expatriate myself to my old job in North Africa for many good reasons.
Best of luck to you in your endeavors!
December 8th, 2019 at 8:45 PM ^
if its not too personal, what is the 'old job' in n. africa?
having been there, i don't know that i'd be itching to ever go back, but that's just me.
December 8th, 2019 at 10:04 PM ^
I built a factory to produce radios under license and trained our local customer how to produce and troubleshoot said radios.
I had a great life there. I used to party at the Ambassador's mansion. In the US I'm another cube-driving clown.
I don't mind your skepticism - no one else believes me either!
December 8th, 2019 at 10:15 PM ^
not the slightest bit of skepticism in my question.
thank you for sharing.
wish you very well in your next gig.
December 8th, 2019 at 10:50 PM ^
Can you provide more details about your resignation so we can live vicariously through your experience!
I'd love to able to tell some directors and their sycophant minions at my firm to go fuck themselves.
December 8th, 2019 at 6:29 PM ^
Does it make zero sense to anyone else that both semi final games are the 28th and the consolation bowls are the 1st?
December 8th, 2019 at 9:58 PM ^
Yes I agree it makes no sense. In years that the Rose/Sugar are the playoff games, it seems like the other bowls are all played before, and it's a big build up to the playoff games. Now it seems like they are randomly dropped in the middle of that week between Christmas and New Years, and it's not a special day for them.
I guess that it makes some sense that they're played on a Saturday, and I'm sure that the TV people figured out that it's better this way. And now the fan bases of the two teams going to the championship game have more than two weeks to prep for that trip, so that probably helps with attendance at that game.
December 8th, 2019 at 10:48 PM ^
I just wish we could have quarter final games next Saturday!
December 8th, 2019 at 6:42 PM ^
If we ever sink down to the level of the pinstripe/redbox/quick lane bowl I hope we have the good sense to just say 'nope. No way. Not going.'
December 8th, 2019 at 6:56 PM ^
I would agree (coming from a person whose team is going to one of those bowl games), except going to a bowl means you get a couple extra weeks of practices. Those extra practices can be really helpful for some of the younger players and help get them ready for future seasons. At this point this season's a waste and it's more about getting ready for next season, and those extra practices and an extra game can help with that.
Edit: there are also going to be seniors who won't get to play at the next level, and they've earned one more chance to put the uniform on and go play, no matter where it is.
December 8th, 2019 at 7:23 PM ^
i get that. i know there's a few reasons to go, it would just be hard to overcome the downer of a bad season. incidentally, your posts seem very reasonable and non-trolling and i hope you keep visiting.
December 8th, 2019 at 7:47 PM ^
Disagree with XM, agree with SIA2
Bowl practices and trips are good team development and bonding
December 8th, 2019 at 6:44 PM ^
Boise State has to feel galactically screwed.
Edit: And then I saw Notre Dame's draw....lol
December 8th, 2019 at 7:39 PM ^
I’d attend the Tropical Smoothie Cafe Frisco Bowl, but I’d probably gain 10 lbs before halftime.
December 8th, 2019 at 8:52 PM ^
The first 13 bowl games are almost unwatchable...
December 8th, 2019 at 9:45 PM ^
Which is to say, that the TV viewership is enough to be worth it to continue creating additional games. People love football that much, I guess.
Oops, meant this as a reply to the ESPN $$$$ comment above
December 9th, 2019 at 11:06 AM ^
I will be getting a New Era Pinstripe Bowl t-shirt for sure.....