Peach Bowl Open Thread

Submitted by Padog on

Ole Miss Rebels vs. TCU Horned Frogs at 12:30.

At the Georgia Dome.

Ole Miss Leaders:

Passing: Wallace - 219-358, 3085 yds, 22 tds

Rushing: Walton - 98 car, 583 yds, 5 tds

Receiving: Sanders - 39 rec, 696 yds, 6 tds

TCU Leaders:

Passing: Boykin - 279-461, 3714 yds, 30 tds

Rushing: Green - 111 car, 854 yds, 8 tds

Receving: Doctson - 59 rec, 959 yds, 9 tds

It is on ESPN.

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Team 101

December 31st, 2014 at 12:35 PM ^

Drop the "Chick-Fil-A"  - we don't want to sponsor the sponsor.  Does anybody care?  After yesterday all these bowl games are irrelevant tributes to the past.

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The_Mad Hatter

December 31st, 2014 at 12:40 PM ^

And I'm not a fan of the corporate sponsorship either.  Although, TCU does seem like a good fit for this particular sponsor.

Going to a bowl game used to mean something.  

/my lawn, off of it

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mgowill

December 31st, 2014 at 12:53 PM ^

My list of things to gripe about would have sponsors of bowl games fairly low on that list.  While some of the games take all the air out of your lungs to pronounce, I just don't get upset about it as much as some.  I choose to watch the games and I know they're going to be sponsored.

Now if you could stop people from calling me randomly to sell me useless shit, now that would be fabulous.  

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The_Mad Hatter

December 31st, 2014 at 1:08 PM ^

I'm firmly in the meh camp with you.  I guess the main thing I don't like is that a 6-6 team can play in a bowl game now.  That's a crap record.  If there were fewer bowls bad teams wouldn't be getting rewarded for beating 6 even worse teams.

Got rid of the land line, no more marketing/politics calls.  

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LSAClassOf2000

December 31st, 2014 at 12:54 PM ^

Summary matchup stats (via TeamRankings):

Offense
 Mississippi TCU
Yards/Play 5.8   6.8
Points/Play 0.396   0.583
Rush Play % 50.31%   47.79%
Pass Play % 49.69%   52.21%
Completion % 60.32%   59.95%
3D Conv % 39.61%   41.67%
RZ Scoring % 75.00%   83.93%
Defense
 Mississippi TCU
Opp Yards/Play 4.6   4.9
Opp Points/Play 0.207   0.269
Opp Completion % 58.84%   48.99%
Opp 3D Conv % 32.35%   28.26%
Opp RZ Scoring % 71.88%   86.21%

 

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Noble Blue

December 31st, 2014 at 12:57 PM ^

Looks like they've started strong. Hopefully they can continue the pace they're running & curb-stomp the semi-professional team from Mississippi. BOOM. 14-0 Horned Frogs.

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OccaM

December 31st, 2014 at 1:18 PM ^

I think the committee wanted TCU in the whole time but just could not validate it since they lost in that fluke to Baylor... 

If both Baylor and TCU romp their opponents and OSU loses to Bama, I'm gonna laugh. 

The playoff would be just as bad as the BCS

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michfanisbacka…

December 31st, 2014 at 1:27 PM ^

This is why I don't understand why Bama is considered the number one team. They lost to this mediocre Ole Miss team. They barely squeaked one out against an LSU team that lost to ND. They beat Arkansas by one point. It's just fucked up how much bias there is towards the SEC West.

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Njia

December 31st, 2014 at 1:32 PM ^

There's only one team in the SEC West head and shoulders above most other teams in the country and that's Alabama, obviously. Ole Miss is being curb stomped and the other teams have mostly looked average to beatable.

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Tater

December 31st, 2014 at 1:40 PM ^

I have to admit that I may have been grossly wrong about Bret Bielema.  I really thought he was riding the coattails of Barry Alvarez.  I thought he would suck at Arkansas until he got fired.  At this point, though, it looks like he has Arkansas ready to do some serious damage next year.

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