OT: Why not have a BCS bowl game in the Big House?
January 2nd, 2012 at 11:44 PM ^
because since the fiesta bowl was created, the four now bcs games have been in pasadena, phoenix area, new orleans, and miami. silly question. you could make the case about any stadium, any area...
January 3rd, 2012 at 1:33 AM ^
...the BCS is bullshit. We can have the national championship game here when it is hosted by the highest ranked team selected by playoff.
January 2nd, 2012 at 11:44 PM ^
It's in the north.
January 3rd, 2012 at 8:26 AM ^
So is Lambeau Field.
January 3rd, 2012 at 9:20 AM ^
Great point, because I can count the number of BCS bowls held at Lambeau Field using, oh, about zero fingers.
January 2nd, 2012 at 11:45 PM ^
It would be 10 degrees outside!
January 2nd, 2012 at 11:45 PM ^
its 20 out and snowing right now, thats why.
January 2nd, 2012 at 11:51 PM ^
Games in snow are the best.
January 3rd, 2012 at 12:00 AM ^
But there's no chance in hell that the SEC would agree to playing up north this time of year.
January 3rd, 2012 at 1:18 AM ^
However, would it not be somewhat of a balance to oversigning? This is obviously nothing that would ever happen, and you can also read my second sentence to yourself with some snark in its tone.
January 3rd, 2012 at 7:33 AM ^
This has always been talked about as a way to offset homesite advantages that the west coast teams have always had in the Rose Bowl or the SEC teams in the southern Bowls. It will never happen, no matter how fun it would be to see Florida playing in Chicago on the first of January it will never happen.
January 2nd, 2012 at 11:46 PM ^
...Because the SEC cabal won't allow their pretty boy ensembles to play in tempertures under 65 degrees.
January 3rd, 2012 at 1:28 AM ^
So purty
http://cdn.bleacherreport.net/images_root/slides/photos/000/656/008/ter…
(sorry still don't know how to embed)
January 3rd, 2012 at 1:52 PM ^
SEC teams refuse to travel more than 2 hours away from campus?? (srsly, can BIG teams get extra money for mileage????)
January 2nd, 2012 at 11:47 PM ^
Teams would not be able to get enough fans to the game to fill up all of the seats.
January 3rd, 2012 at 12:35 AM ^
local college football fans would eat those tickets up.
January 3rd, 2012 at 1:07 AM ^
If warm weather games in bigger cities cannot sell out their BCS games, what is the likelihood that a smaller city will sell out a much larger stadium in colder weather?
January 3rd, 2012 at 10:20 AM ^
The south is oversaturated with bowl games. It's a big reason that they don't sell out a lot of the smaller bowls. Having one or two Major Bowls in the North would sell locally especially since Big Ten teams would have a much shorter commute. A shorter commute would likely mean larger groups of fans traveling to the games.
January 3rd, 2012 at 1:18 AM ^
Only in years Michigan was in that bowl.
January 2nd, 2012 at 11:49 PM ^
i dont think SEC ppl like snow~ just saying
January 3rd, 2012 at 10:21 AM ^
Just saying.
January 2nd, 2012 at 11:50 PM ^
Ann Arbor is an excellent college campus but not a vacation destination, nor near any vacation destinations.
January 2nd, 2012 at 11:53 PM ^
January 3rd, 2012 at 1:02 AM ^
Then build a ski resort. Then host a BCS game on top of the mountain in a replica of the Big House. It all makes perfect sense, I don't understand why it hasn't been done before.
January 3rd, 2012 at 8:23 AM ^
I love Sports Science! Impressive stuff
January 2nd, 2012 at 11:52 PM ^
Not sure if serious...
January 2nd, 2012 at 11:53 PM ^
Said so. Or the Big Ten effectively did. Same thing, really.
January 2nd, 2012 at 11:53 PM ^
January 2nd, 2012 at 11:58 PM ^
I like it. Once we get to a 64 team playoff, we can have the NC game in the Big House in May.
January 3rd, 2012 at 12:29 AM ^
springmadness
January 3rd, 2012 at 12:00 AM ^
Weather, tradition, and I don't think A² is big enough in terms of size.
January 3rd, 2012 at 12:00 AM ^
Snow. That's why not. Now stop asking nonsensical questions and go to bed to rest up for a big day tomorrow
January 3rd, 2012 at 12:04 AM ^
In addition to the weather, the size of the individual seats at Michigan Stadium are ludicrously small. It's something the school has been able to get away with because a lot of UM fans put a premium on the largest stadium title, but most outsider fans would think it completely sucks.
January 3rd, 2012 at 12:28 AM ^
No, questions are fine. But this board doesn't like STUPID questions. And this is proof positive and exhibit A that there are stupid questions.
January 3rd, 2012 at 12:36 AM ^
January 3rd, 2012 at 8:18 AM ^
There are no stupid questions, but there are a lot of inquisitive idiots.
January 3rd, 2012 at 12:32 AM ^
The Missouri Compromise stated that no BCS bowls could be played north of 36° 30′.
January 3rd, 2012 at 12:50 AM ^
Yeah, let's host a BCS bowl game! I can't think of anyone outside of the University of Michigan who would need to approve that!
January 3rd, 2012 at 12:52 AM ^
Not sure why,but for some reason, sunny Detroit is not a great tourist attraction, in the first week of January. I don't know, probably has something to do with the forecast, "still and clear", snow clear up to your butt and still falling. hypothetically if you have USC and Fla in the NC game do you see the fans coming to the Big House.
January 3rd, 2012 at 12:54 AM ^
That is why, and the grey hairs would freeze their dentures to their gums. Anymore brain busters?
January 3rd, 2012 at 12:56 AM ^
And snow.
<br>
<br>But mostly dude it has to be in a place big enough for the hospitality industry to accomodate the guests.
<br>
<br>Geez Louise.
January 3rd, 2012 at 2:57 AM ^
Yeah, pretty much the only reason bowls exist in the first place is to put tourism dollars into the cities that hold them. (Pasadena was WAAAYYY ahead of the curve)
If they could get 30-80,000 people into their city at once some other way, they'd do that too. And they do. (gambling usually helps)
If you have good weather in the winter then you're halfway there. A2 doesn't have the good weather or any of the support system to host a big game. sadly. I mean, I'd go.
January 3rd, 2012 at 12:57 AM ^
Don't give Brandon ideas, or he'll put a $20 surcharge on tickets to build a retractable roof.
January 3rd, 2012 at 9:12 AM ^
Brandon would never do that. He wouldn't saddle the ticket holders with the cost of building a retractable roof. He would have one permanently installed instead.
January 3rd, 2012 at 1:09 AM ^
Another main reason is that they don't play college football up north in January. College football is a fall sport ...not a fall/winter sport like the NFL While you will have your snow game once every few years, they are obviously rare. If the NCAA wanted to deter fans and increase risk of injury for players, they'd push games later in December to get more than one snow game every 5 years.
I'm not so sure Michigan would do well in cold games either. I haven't been forced to wear more than a sweatshirt in years, let alone see a game at the big house where cold would actually affect somebody running around. The only teams that play in consistently crappy conditions are the northern Pac 10 teams. 45 degree night games in the rain and wind are far far worse and would prepare you more for the snow games than the 45-60 degree sunny noon games at the Big House.
January 3rd, 2012 at 10:01 AM ^
Isn't that what is already happening? Army v. Navy was played on December 10th. Not to mention it was played in Washingtion D.C. which I beileve would be considered a cold climate. The Pac 12 Championship game was played in Eugene, OR on Dec 2.
The reason College football is a "fall sport" has much more to do with how the game started 100+ years ago and the length of the season than the weather.
I would like Michigans chances in the cold much more than any SEC or Big 12 teams.
January 3rd, 2012 at 10:07 AM ^
So I take it that you sat out for this game, because I still wear my fandom endurance badge after freezing my ass off for 3 hours.
January 3rd, 2012 at 1:22 AM ^
Because..its cold. brrrr