Sugar Bowl Open Thread

Good God... What was that "national anthem"?

Florida fans are a bunch of brats. They were talking about Florida not selling most of their tickets pregame. Because their fans think they're too good for the Sugar Bowl. That's ridiculous. How about you win more games if you think that's the case?

That's the SEC's Rose Bowl. You think Georgia wouldn't want to be there?

Hell, I'd love to see Michigan play in this game against louisville!

Also: Muhammed Ali!!

Worse turnout than last year...

WOOOOO! Driskel, you noodle arm! Pick 6!

Makes me want a grenade.

Go Teddy Bridgewater and Co.. I thoroughly enjoyed New Orleans last year and can't wait to go back (Bowl game or not).

Refs have missed a blatant facemask and a helmet to helmet hit on Florida already.

Louisville is coming to play today!

SEC SEC SEC!!! Oh wait.

Louisville playing a little mooseball!

Greaaaat start for Louisville. Love seeing these teams who think they're superior looking around like they don't know what hit them. Now they're reviewing this but save for a ultimate debacle Louisville will be up two tuds.

ESSS EEEEE SEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!

LOL it's the 2009 Sugar Bowl all over again. SEC team thinking they're better and not being motivated and laying an egg right off the bat.

What a wonderful start to this game.

Wtf is up with the delay??!

Is a stud. Picked apart against an excellent Florida defense. MOAR BRIDGEWATER!!!!

I wish somebody would slap these SEC kids who chirp after play they make (even when some of the plays are advantageous to the opposing team)...It happened all day yesterday by the SC players.

needs to get their money back.

Every time I hear Trey Burton I keep thinking they're saying Trey Burke. Too used to Trey dominating the game of basketball.

That drive included runs of 13, 9 (twice), 8, 6, 5 (twice) yards, and two passes of over 10 yards, and Florida gets the field goal.  That's a lot of work for a field goal, in my opinion, but the closer they got to the goal line, the more mentally unaware they seemed to get. 

Might have to look into that all-sunflower seed diet.

I can't stand these SEC punks. Sticking your finger in a refs face would buy you a few hours of stadium steps at Michigan. 

Bo would be absolutely livid if a player did that and to be honest, I don't think a player on his teams would have. Bo put fear into those guys. 

Where can I get a sweet gold chain like the one Tebow is wearing?

I did not expect this at all. That being said, I'm enjoying this game very much.

has got to be getting considered for NFL HC jobs.

we can safely enjoy a little schadenflorida.

Did you all just see ESPN use the Michigan VT helmets on their Sugar Bowl logo instead of Florida and Louisville? 9:29 for those with DVR.

Wow it's amazing how bad Louisville is at running, yet they are dominating.

Anyone else notice Morrison, a starting freshman linebacker for Florida playing out there?  Wasn't he being recruited by us last year?  

S E C !

Nice!

the Gators look more like the guys from "Varsity Blues" after the strip club all-niter. Too much time on Bourbon Street, mayhaps?

Please let this be the year that everyone realizes the SEC isn't that great, rather just a little bit better than the rest.

SEC SEC SEC!

And we had wound up with a title game between Bama and this awful Florida team? And no one would have questioned the SEC's supremacy...

If I'm not mistaken, this was the second biggest spread of the bowl season at Florida -14.5. 

I have no idea what Florida is doing but hopefully Louisville can continue to shut up some of the SEC homers.

Stupid prevent!! Just keep doing what was working!

Lousiville for BIG expansion? They are beating the unbeatable SEC with their amazing speed (faster than grandma with a cheetah strapped to her back).

/s

Strong should know better than to go into soft zone at the end of the half. 

Patrick Omameh sighting on the Good Works Team! 

losing it's shit.

Personal Fouls and an ejection for a tap to the face mask.

Both Enforced.  Starting the SECond half on the Twenty is Louisville.....score!!!

And again it occurs, the stupidity of punching a guy in the helmet with a bare fist.

Tonight, we are all Cardinals.

an es

About time they started reigning in these jackasses

That was entirely satisfying

There's that SEC educationz with muschamp's brilliant call.

Heard on Florida sideline: "Exactly as we practiced it except for everything about it...". I find myself chuckling at the Gators right now as they try everything including personal fouls to prevent themselves from being in this game. 

Is that it is only with SEC speed that it is possible to give up touchdowns SO FAST.

Why Florida ball?! Didn't louisville defer?!

mmmmmmmm soooo gooood!

I'd enjoy having Louisville in the BIG if they had better academics...oh and they have to keep Charlie Strong forever to stay admitted.

Awkwaaaaaaarrrrrd...

This game keeps getting better and better. Lets go Cardinals! Punch it in again boys

This is greater than SEC speed.

1) Why do the announcers love UF?

2) Why is Vance Bedford not credited by being a M man? Announcers are citing his experience with Meyer. That's BS!

When it rains it pours...

C'mon Louisville...you had it at the 3 yard line...

Well that was the worst possession ever...

What have we learned this bowl season? If anything, its that the SEC can bleed. South Carolina needed a last minute TD, UF is getting made an example of by a Big East team, LSU loses to Clemson, Georgia couldn't pull away from Nebraska until the 4th quarter, Miss State got handled by Northwestern.



Not saying its not still the best conference in football, because it is, but these teams can be beaten.

ESS EEE CEE

I can't decide which analyst I hate more--Spielman or Millen.  And they had Tebow on the pregame show.  Why must you forever troll me ESPN?

For whatever reason he seems to struggle controlling his emotions.

This is it. TD or FG, this is it. Running clock, still throwing effectively...making UF look like complete chumps.

Another missed Louisville FG. I'd rather bite into a raw beet than go back to that era of special teams at Michigan.

Louisville desperately trying to let Florida back in it.

That was an awesome play by the safety...I wish ours could do that

Wow, the Florida offense is awful. If you can stop the run or get up on them they have no answer at all.

Alright...20 points down and 15 minutes of regulation play left. Brent Pease (Florida OC) has Louisville right where he wants them, right? 

Florida still needs 2 scores even if they get a TD here.  Louisville has been doing a good time of killing the clock. 

Why does Driskell suck so much?

Damn that was ballsy to take it out.

Blouses.

Did anyone else see the Vatech and Michigan helmets used in that graphic before the commercial?

I can't express how much this game this pleasures me to watch (get your head.out of the gutter). Ess. Eee. See. I now bow to your greatness.

Did anybody else noticed that they used Michigan and Virginia Tech helmets with the Sugar Bowl logo after that last interception before they went to commercial break?

In the classroom, in the wieghtroom, in the community.

Pretty sure gator blogs are gonna crucify Willy Muschamp. Brian, can we get a special TWIS specifically devoted to this ensuing freak out?

I see you Florida. 

Charlie Strong...this is a bad idea.

Did Louisville set some kind of a record by scoring in the first play from scrimmage of both halves?  I've never seen that before.  It's got to be a bowl record at least.

Esssseeeeeceeeeeee!!!!! Woooooo!!

Only Muschamp tries a sneak from the 3...clock running, uses time out.

Coaching Genius.

Right now, somewhere in Texas, Mack Brown is laughing.

Damn. We should have invited Louisville to the big ten. Academics be damned!

 Hopefully the SEC will be semi fairly ranked next season. You start them off with 5-6 teams in the top ten let them play a weak non conference schedule and then drop them 1-2 places when they get blown out by 40-50 points and then act surprised when they perform like they have in the bowls.

 Nebraska and Michigan where mediocre teams and took Georgia and SC to the end... Michigan should have won. LSU got beat by Clemson , Mississippi state got beat down by NW and now Florida ia getting smacked by Louisville. Hopefully ND lays a whipping on Alabama and we can put this SEC dominance to rest for atleast one year.

 I just wonder where the bandwagon 'SEC" fans will go..... Nevermind i answered my own question. They'll just go back to being ND fans

What will the ESPN/media narrative be? Big East dominance? The fall of the SEC? Charlie Strong, who turned down the Tennessee job, deals another blow to the conference he spurned?

If only...

Amazing display of clock management by the Gators. Just pathetic.

Well, at least Florida still has their fans.

clap clap clap-clap-clap

EVERYONE LOVES PILING ON THE BIG EAST, BUT THEIR BCS BOWL RECORD IS PRETTY GOOD.

APOLOGIES FOR THE ALL CAPS...POSTING FROM CELL PHONE AND THERE DOESN'T SEEM TO BE A WAY TO TURN IT OFF.

Did Strong just shake the troopers hand?

You've gotta appreciate a sideline reporter who shoves his way in between a coach and the family he's trying to hug in order to ask a few meaningless questions.

Charlie Strong seems like a really good guy.

LSU Freek captures Muschamp's capacities well.

Louisville!

ESSSS EEEEE SEEEEE dominance at its finest.

Big East > SEC ?

If only Rutgers had pulled it out, the Big Easy would have a clean sweep.