When teams from the South have to play a bowl game in the North

Submitted by vulture on December 26th, 2018 at 11:50 PM

they lose.  Badly.  AS WE HAVE BEEN PREDICTING FOR DECADES.  The thought of snow and ice messes with their heads before they make the trip up.  Once they get here, the bone-chilling cold hits them and just want to get the heck back on the bus and not even play the game. 

Case in point, Minnesota v. G-Tech at Ford Field.  Appears from the score G-Tech's offense didn't come out of the locker room until the first quarter was over.  By the end of the third quarter they were so cold they left and didn't even play in the fourth quarter.  

Let's have more B1G vs. SEC/ACC bowl games up North.  I propose Lambeau Field and Soldier Field no matter what, and Ford Field only if they play with the roof retracted.

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MGoGrendel

December 27th, 2018 at 11:11 AM ^

70 is still kind of cold for them.  I’ve seen people with hats, scarves, and gloves when it’s 55 in Atlanta.

Last week I was in Michigan and it was 29.  I left my coat open and put my face to the breeze so could feel the winter.  I do miss it.  Conversely, when kids from the south get hit in the face with 40 degree wind, they literally freeze up.   I agree with the OP that these kids were in a hurry to get back South.

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M Ascending

December 27th, 2018 at 3:34 PM ^

I would love to see a GM Big House Bowl, with the second best B1G team (or third, if one makes the CFP) hosting a similarly seeded SEC team. We would often be hosting a home game, and years when OSU, MSU, or PSU are in the game, we could show up en masse totroot against them.  Meanwhile, the SEC team would freeze their balls off.  Nirvana.

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NittanyFan

December 27th, 2018 at 1:17 AM ^

Georgia Tech just isn't very good this year.  #74 in S&P+ and they looked the part.  Minnesota was 16 places higher in those rankings.

Simple as that.  Not the weather.

I wouldn't be shocked if the ACC went 3-7-1 this Bowl season.  Not very many good teams in that conference.  The ACC is 1-1-1 thus far.  Boston College the team with the "tie."

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Qmatic

December 27th, 2018 at 1:29 AM ^

There needs to be a NY6 bowl in big ten country (most likely Indy).All the other power 5 conferences are represented. The bulk of the ACC isn’t, so I wouldn’t be opposed to a major bowl in Charlotte as well

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Laser Wolf

December 27th, 2018 at 6:34 AM ^

Yes this one meaningless bowl game between two crap teams that was actually played indoors is incontrovertible proof that southern teams don’t want it up here. A+ work here. 

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mgobleu

December 27th, 2018 at 7:10 AM ^

So you're saying there's a legit reason that high profile recruits should avoid going to play for a school in the north and their performance actually will suffer? Cool. 

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xtramelanin

December 27th, 2018 at 7:31 AM ^

when i lived in socal i used to say that about the rose bowl all the time.  it is an actual home game for USC and UCLA, and huge percentages of the rosters of then-existing PAC 10 were from cal.  they were used to the area, the attractions didn't take their mind off of football nearly as much.  for instance, they'd all been to disney world and the beach.  plus the fan attendance greatly favored the PAC 10.

make them play that game in the big house, no matter the B10 team, and we'll see how the warm weather teams run in the snow and cold.  over time i'd guess it would be a huge swing toward the B10.  

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grumbler

December 27th, 2018 at 8:14 AM ^

It would be interesting to poll the former Michigan players who played in the Rose Bowl and see if they'd rather have played that as a home game.  I'm thinking they would want that Rose Bowl/California experience even if it meant they won fewer Rose Bowls.

And it's all about the players, isn't it?

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xtramelanin

December 27th, 2018 at 8:57 AM ^

i know they had fun, those were our friends and fraternity brothers.  indeed, ask me why i think we lost the '83 rose bowl?  we had a ton of fun out there and it also didn't help matters that a certain starting quarterback got caught in bed with a certain starting cheerleader, and bo almost sent him home.  but the call of the OP's semi-serious post was about how different the game results would be if the games were played up here.  answer:  significantly different results, imo. 

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JFW

December 27th, 2018 at 12:03 PM ^

I do wonder how it would work. 

Would a hard core spread it out team be affected by 30-40 degree temps and maybe rain/snow that much? 

Part of me thinks that they would be greatly affected. Part of me thinks that talent would prove out when Alabama  or Clemson 5 stars face UM 4-5 stars. 

It would be awesome to see. 

I do think that it would be harder given that we don't have the same attractions. 

maybe we could have them have a nice bowl in a stadium in TC or Marquette, and have them go to a local waterpark. ;-)

 

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xtramelanin

December 27th, 2018 at 12:39 PM ^

i think a trip to the ski slopes for those southern boys would be a fine idea.  very enlightening, expansive life experience.  and a snowmobile trip.  maybe some tubing and ice fishing.  heck, its bow season through january 1st, so we could take them hunting, too.  marquette mountain, here we come.  

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xtramelanin

December 27th, 2018 at 11:17 AM ^

tough crowd around here.  to be more precise, disney land would be the typical rose bowl trip for the players.  

i cannot tell you how many murders/drive-by shootings/robberies, etc. that i prosecuted back in the day, all of the occurring within a couple of miles of disney land.  it is surrounded by parolees, prostitutes and gangsters.  (bat light to ST3).  

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Reggie Dunlop

December 27th, 2018 at 8:39 AM ^

While this appears to be a joke, this does bring to mind my biggest reason to support an 8-team playoff: First Round games on campus.

How wonderful it would be to host a quarterfinal game in December in Ann Arbor and drag a southern team up here for 30 degree weather. Mmmmm, the thought warms my heart.

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