Question: How do Bowls designate the "home" team?
I've been really curious about this for a long time now. Is there any special criteria bowls use to designate the home teams? I had a theory that Michigan alternates from Home to Away each year, but then I realized Michigan was the home team in both the Rose Bowl Games from the 2003 & 2004 seasons.
Do they do it by record, ranking etc?
December 2nd, 2011 at 4:14 PM ^
It's a coin flip.
December 2nd, 2011 at 4:14 PM ^
Mascot vs. Mascot. We usually win.
December 2nd, 2011 at 5:37 PM ^
Oh please please please be Ohio(NTO) vs Ohio (YTO) in the Pizza bowl...
December 2nd, 2011 at 5:51 PM ^
Just keep them both out of the state of Michigan.
December 2nd, 2011 at 11:24 PM ^
Ohio just lost the MAC Championship to Northern Illinois after blowing a 20 point lead.
December 2nd, 2011 at 4:16 PM ^
I believe they just rotated Big Ten and Pac Ten back when it was schools from those conferences every year. I believe that you saw Michigan as the home team in 2004 b/c the BCS disrupted the old way of doing it. With Texas, obviously, you didn't have a Pac Ten team.
December 2nd, 2011 at 4:18 PM ^
Why would this matter? Do you really care who gets to pick "heads" during the coin toss?
December 2nd, 2011 at 4:22 PM ^
We get to wear our blue jerseys, which is a better look.
December 2nd, 2011 at 5:11 PM ^
It's the offseason, yo.
Personally, I think it's an interesting question. I've wondered this myself.
December 2nd, 2011 at 5:28 PM ^
Michigan gets to wear its blue jerseys, sure, but it also gets to have a team of interior decorators show up at the stadium two weeks before the game and make it look absolutely fierce.
December 2nd, 2011 at 4:18 PM ^
With the BCS it's the host team (conference champion or replacement). I have no idea about the Rose, and the BCS title game does #1 as home, #2 is away.
December 2nd, 2011 at 6:00 PM ^
That can't be right because in 2007 ohio wore white
December 2nd, 2011 at 6:22 PM ^
According to LSU's Scout board, the higher ranked team in the BCS title game chooses. Also, if you look at ESPN's box scores it's always presented as #2 at #1; OSU must have chosen to wear white for that game.
December 2nd, 2011 at 4:21 PM ^
This is probably a dumb question, but what advantage is there to being the home team?
Is the home team's athletic department given more tickets to sell than the away team?
December 2nd, 2011 at 4:24 PM ^
Home jerseys. In our case, that's a huge (style) advantage.
December 2nd, 2011 at 4:26 PM ^
I'm just curious so I wear the correct jersey.
December 2nd, 2011 at 5:07 PM ^
be a competitive advantage, but I wonder if there is any difference in the locker room facilities.
December 2nd, 2011 at 11:39 PM ^
Everybody knows the heads side of a coin weighs slightly more than the tails side, so it is not a 50-50 chance, thereby giving the home team a competitive advantage!
December 3rd, 2011 at 12:45 AM ^
that the home team gets to choose which of the two hotels/resorts it stays at.
December 3rd, 2011 at 12:32 PM ^
You have an awesome username. That is all.
December 2nd, 2011 at 4:23 PM ^
are we the replacement for the big ten champion then?
December 2nd, 2011 at 4:28 PM ^
If a team goes to the BCS title, their conference BCS tie-in needs a replacement. If we got the Sugar with the first pick, we'd be replacing LSU, so we would be the SEC champion replacement, the Big Ten champ will be in the Rose Bowl.
December 2nd, 2011 at 4:56 PM ^
Replacing LSU. I like the sound of that. Especially for next year's NC game.
December 2nd, 2011 at 10:20 PM ^
on the putrid ALSUNC (Alabama-LSU NC). Bama didn't deserve the shot and it's our chance to prove it with the deck stacked against us.
December 2nd, 2011 at 4:28 PM ^
They grease up a pig and let it run wild. First to catch the pig decides whether they want to be the home or away team
December 2nd, 2011 at 5:01 PM ^
December 2nd, 2011 at 8:27 PM ^
LOL that's brilliant.
It always amazes me how people always seem to have the perfect captioned pic handy for some of the really obscure references (like catching a greased pig) that are made on the board.
Do some of you guys just spend your spare time scouring the internet for funny pics, so you have them handy just in case a reference is made that fits?
December 2nd, 2011 at 5:06 PM ^
they get an ohio cheerleader to each bowl game?
December 2nd, 2011 at 4:29 PM ^
I need not remind anyone that while we are undefeated in the blue jerseys, we are a mere 2-2 in the whites. Obviously this is the only factor and it is of the utmost importance we wear blue.
December 2nd, 2011 at 4:33 PM ^
I'll take it a step further, I'd wager that every team in Div 1 football has a better record while wearing their home jerseys. The coin flip basically wins the game.
December 2nd, 2011 at 4:40 PM ^
I'm pretty sure it has more to do with being away from home than the jerseys themselves.
December 2nd, 2011 at 4:53 PM ^
Nope. Correlation implies causation.
December 2nd, 2011 at 8:02 PM ^
Oh, literal juggernaut.
December 2nd, 2011 at 5:00 PM ^
Alabama has more losses in their home jerseys than their road jerseys.
December 2nd, 2011 at 5:09 PM ^
Source? I don't believe that for a second.
December 2nd, 2011 at 5:23 PM ^
I have several unnamed sources that can confirm this.
December 2nd, 2011 at 5:43 PM ^
For the 2000s, only Georgia had a better record away from home than at home.
December 3rd, 2011 at 12:02 AM ^
Yea, even Ohio went 5-2 at home...
December 2nd, 2011 at 4:37 PM ^
We are actually 2-1 in the whites, and 0-1 in the away bumble-bee explosion uniforms.
December 2nd, 2011 at 5:00 PM ^
Which I wouldn't put it past the Dave Brandon Marketing Machine to put in the bags for the trip, so I suggest the word "winless" be emphasized.
December 2nd, 2011 at 5:45 PM ^
It should be like soccer where if one team wears say Red, then the other team can wear their home Blues if there is that color clash.
December 2nd, 2011 at 4:33 PM ^
i think
December 2nd, 2011 at 4:46 PM ^
Best 3 out of 4.
December 2nd, 2011 at 8:48 PM ^
Damn. We've been practicing odds or evens all year...
December 2nd, 2011 at 4:49 PM ^
Michigan is 9-11 when wearing Blue jerseys in bowls all-time and are 9-10 while wearing the White jerseys.
December 2nd, 2011 at 4:57 PM ^
If we wear white with blue?
December 2nd, 2011 at 4:58 PM ^
Wow, we spread the suck pretty equally.
December 2nd, 2011 at 5:26 PM ^
It shouldn't be surprising. Either way we're playing on a neutral field. The jersey color alone does not confer homefield advantage.