Which Bowl for M? Against Whom?
Things have come into focus since the last CFP ratings were released. It's looking like the Rose or the Peach are the most likely results, despite what the ESPN Bowl Projections say (Fiesta). UCF is essentially blocking Michigan from the Fiesta Bowl right now. So...let's assume the favorites win. Here's how it works this year.
Step 1: The CFP takes the top 4 teams, and will arrange them something like this--Alabama v Oklahoma in the Orange, Clemson v Notre Dame in the Cotton.
Step 2: The Rose and Sugar get their picks, and must use their conference tie-ins. So Ohio State v Washington in the Rose and either Texas or West Virginia (ugh, who do you pick?) v the highest-ranked SEC team in the Sugar. I have Texas v Georgia.
Step 3: The Peach and Fiesta get the top G5 team plus the next 3 highest ranked teams. To me, that's going to be UCF, Michigan, Florida and LSU. Now ordinarily you would say that UCF-Florida in the Peach would be obvious. I disagree--UCF went to the Peach last year, and there is an agreement to keep the G5 team rotating as much as possible so they're not going to the same bowl over and over. So UCF to the Fiesta. Since the 2 SEC teams have to go to 2 different bowls, that puts Michigan in the Peach. Something like this--Michigan v Florida in the Peach and UCF v LSU in the Fiesta.
Do you want Michigan in the Rose against the Washington/Utah winner? Cheer for Texas over Oklahoma. That puts OSU in the top 4 and obligates the Rose to pick the next best Big Ten team.
Do you want Michigan in the Fiesta against Oklahoma? Cheer for Texas and Northwestern; that might get UCF into the top 4.
Do you want Michigan in the Fiesta against Central Florida? Cheer for Georgia; that pushes Georgia into the playoff, Florida to the Sugar and Penn State to the Peach.
November 28th, 2018 at 11:37 AM ^
If everything goes like it’s supposed to this weekend, it’s gonna be the Peach Bowl against Florida (sigh).
November 28th, 2018 at 11:49 AM ^
Nope. More like it LSU.
November 28th, 2018 at 12:45 PM ^
Likely Florida in the Peach if all the favorites win this weekend...
"Three days ago, LSU was ranked higher than Florida and looked to be on its way to the Peach Bowl. That has now changed with the Gators pegged to play in Atlanta on Dec. 29 against an at-large opponent and the Tigers likely needing to travel out to Arizona for the Fiesta Bowl against the Knights."
November 28th, 2018 at 1:34 PM ^
According to a Florida site I have never heard of.
November 29th, 2018 at 12:39 AM ^
I'd much rather have Michigan or Florida play UCF. I seriously doubt they allow Florida vs. UCF because while that would be a HUGE rivalry for Central Florida, I doubt it'd be a very big national draw.
November 28th, 2018 at 12:04 PM ^
Rose Rose Rose. Not going to say anything bad about the Peach but it's no comparison to the Rose and SoCal that time of year.
November 28th, 2018 at 12:09 PM ^
Give me the Rose Bowl 10/10 over the Peach bowl but I don’t see Oklahoma losing which means they are in the CFP and the B1G champ will be in the Rose Bowl (OSU). A Washington/Michigan Rose bowl (and we win) would be at least a decent way to end the season.
November 28th, 2018 at 12:58 PM ^
I wouldn't necessarily count Texas out. They've already beaten Oklahoma once this year.
November 28th, 2018 at 12:34 PM ^
Username checks out.
November 28th, 2018 at 1:22 PM ^
Providing you can breath.
November 28th, 2018 at 2:07 PM ^
You’re really pulling for us Rose Bowl
November 28th, 2018 at 12:04 PM ^
Seriously... I want to play ANYONE except Florida. We've played them multiple times too recently.
Actually, the only team I want to play less than Florida is UCF. That would be a no-win situation right there.
November 28th, 2018 at 12:29 PM ^
Yes and yes. Neither one. UCF No hell no.
November 28th, 2018 at 12:38 PM ^
Well, i mean we would win, so there's that.
November 28th, 2018 at 12:57 PM ^
I hope so but I hear they run crossing routes...
November 28th, 2018 at 12:59 PM ^
Game over
November 28th, 2018 at 10:13 PM ^
We are lucky we are going to a bowl game at all! Any win in a game that is not the Championship Game, is a no win situation. I could careless if we played Florida or LSU.
November 28th, 2018 at 11:37 AM ^
Possible game times:
Peach: Saturday, December 29, noon EST
Fiesta: Tuesday, January 1, 11 am MST / 1 pm EST
Rose: Tuesday, January 1, 2 pm PST / 5 pm EST
November 28th, 2018 at 2:40 PM ^
If it’s Peach Bowl verse Florida I’ll probably skip watching that game and just start tailgating early for Michigan’s MASSIVE basketball match-up against Binghamton the next day.
November 28th, 2018 at 11:40 AM ^
Obviously I’d like the Rose Bowl. We haven’t been there in forever.
Next would be the Peach, but not against Florida, would prefer LSU.
Don’t really want to play UCF, nothing to gain and everything to lose in that bowl.
November 28th, 2018 at 12:02 PM ^
I'd love to be the team that finally makes UCF people shut the fuck up. Plus, Milton is done, so they're significantly less potent. I'd be fine with playing them in the Fiesta bowl if we can't get to the Rose.
November 28th, 2018 at 12:04 PM ^
Nothing to gain by playing UCF. I wouldn't even watch. No appeal.
November 28th, 2018 at 12:09 PM ^
You wouldn't watch Michigan play in a NY6 bowl? You're either lying or you're not a Michigan fan.
November 28th, 2018 at 12:12 PM ^
Who wouldn't want to take on the defending national champs with a chance to finally outhit them?
November 28th, 2018 at 12:59 PM ^
Was that UCF's Last loss?
EDIT: Quick Google search shows Arkansas State bet them in their bowl game in 2016. Disregard.
November 28th, 2018 at 12:42 PM ^
Morons love meaningless bowl games.
November 28th, 2018 at 1:01 PM ^
"Surely this will win back the hearts of my fellow posters!"
Also, color me maximally skeptical that you haven't watched a single Michigan bowl game other than the 1997 Rose Bowl, you fucking cornball.
November 28th, 2018 at 1:08 PM ^
You think I give a shit about my fellow posters? Lol.
I used to watch the bowl games when I was a child. I've just grown since then. I don't waste time watching the epic battle to determine who will be crowned 14th best team in all the land. You know... because it's stupid. Also, I do watch the ones that mean something. It's just a shame Michigan hasn't played in one of those in over 20 years.
November 28th, 2018 at 1:23 PM ^
This is the unfortunate view the many people have taken about college football since the Playoff started. There are over 120 FBS college football teams. Only 4 of them go to the Playoff. Bowls are fun. It is also nice to be recognized by a particular sub-set of bowl game as being one of the better teams in the country.
"Bowl games are meaningless."
- Wise and fun people like His Dudeness and Mike Valenti.
November 28th, 2018 at 1:23 PM ^
This is illogical. It would mean that after, say, the second loss of a given year, you stop watching the team play.
But, I suppose you are in a bad mood - who wouldn't be, after Saturday?
:)
November 28th, 2018 at 1:38 PM ^
I kind of do stop watching, but only after the B1G championship is out of play. That's all I really care about.
I wouldn't say I'm in a bad mood after Saturday so much as I would say I'm in a bad life since 2006 or so, but that's just in regards to Michigan Football. Other than my Michigan Football fandom my life is a fucking peach. No complaints.
November 28th, 2018 at 1:26 PM ^
Here's a reason: it's the last time you'll get to see UM football for nine months.
November 28th, 2018 at 1:28 PM ^
Lmao sure, enlightened one. You don't waste time watching Michigan's bowl games, but here you are posting on this ever so meaningful message board. Your life decisions make us all look like backwards troglodytes.
November 28th, 2018 at 1:34 PM ^
You do understand the difference between the 30 seconds it takes to dunk on you and the over 4 hours it takes to watch two unmotivated teams battle it out for 26th place in the oh so meaningful final rankings, right?
November 28th, 2018 at 1:39 PM ^
What do you do on New Years Day?
Most people I know watch football. Do you like football? If yes, why don't you watch it when everybody else is?
November 28th, 2018 at 1:46 PM ^
If the last few years hold true I call people to apologize for whatever I don't remember doing the night before. Try to put out any lingering fires... I eat garbage food and try to sleep away the hangover.
After that I usually sit in silence and wonder if this is going to be the year I'm run off the road and die in a bent clump of vehicle or if it's going to be the big one that rips my soul from my body... then I cry myself to sleep thinking about the roughly 187 years I have to waste my life working for someone far more wealthy than me before I can finally embrace sweet retirement.
You guys watch football?
November 28th, 2018 at 1:50 PM ^
Well I do all that too (at least the first paragraph) but I do it with football on.
November 28th, 2018 at 6:21 PM ^
I envy you!!
November 28th, 2018 at 1:45 PM ^
Check the upvotes/downvotes and let me know when the dunking commences.
November 28th, 2018 at 1:49 PM ^
Majority rule don't work in mental institutions.
November 28th, 2018 at 2:10 PM ^
Speaking of mental institutions, do they know you aren't in your room there snowflake:)
November 28th, 2018 at 2:44 PM ^
I cant believe you're still here. I would have assumed someone with so little to say and with such profound witlessness would have found some dirt to play with somewhere, but here we are. Well done. May you and your family find countless puzzles to put together and frame in the coming years.
November 28th, 2018 at 4:53 PM ^
My biggest satisfaction here is just to be a thorn in your side you mental midget. This coming from someone who thinks mankind should follow the animal kingdom and have multiple sex partners...your words, not mine. But whatever buddy. Thanks for the public display of ignorance though. Speaking of family, one wonders if you have one, you sound like a miserable human being. Really hard to fathom you of all people could find someone to procreate with, unless you had to pay that person. Have a good evening you pathetic snowflake:)
November 28th, 2018 at 1:08 PM ^
All games are meaningless. So I don't understand why you draw the line here.
November 28th, 2018 at 1:49 PM ^
BYU and the Holiday Bowl might disagree. So for all the Rose, Orange, Sugar, and Cotton Bowls that did NOT decide a National Champion, that game was meaningless?
November 28th, 2018 at 1:54 PM ^
If you think they were so meaningful, what did they mean exactly?
Oh and FYI making some lonely fans' balls tingle a little doesn't count.
November 28th, 2018 at 1:55 PM ^
It absolutely does count.
November 28th, 2018 at 5:01 PM ^
Ma'am, it's just best you STFU!!!!!
You bring absolutely nothing here. You are nothing more than a petulant 3rd grader at the very least!
Sorry if any 3rd graders were offended by this.
November 28th, 2018 at 12:14 PM ^
More appeal than UF.
November 28th, 2018 at 12:55 PM ^
If it's not the playoffs, there's nothing to gain in any of these games, except a win. Bowl games no longer matter.