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These 21st century bowl game names are really becoming a race to the bottom.
So does that mean it matches the fourth-place (or, possibly fifth-place) Big East team with the seventh-place (possibly eighth-place) Big 12 team?
If the Big East does their bowl assignments like most (all?) other conferences, they aren't locked into the fourth place finisher. It just means they get fourth choice.
Wow. There's a matchup to make you drool.
So what are looking at? Baylor v. UCONN? Whoopee... [/snark]
It's a strategy that's worked for the bowl games in Boise and Detroit, anyway. (Although Detroit admittedly has a dome.)
Baylor and UConn played two pretty good games in 2008 and 2009. I will always watch UConn play and as long as Robert Griffin is healthy, Baylor is worth watching as well.
Heck, any BCS vs. BCS matchup with .500 or better teams is something I will watch at this point. Last year was such a suck fest when it came to OOC scheduling. I am looking forward to much higher number of big time cross conference matchups this year.
And of course, this is good for the Big East because it adds another BCS bowl opponent. No more playing the #3 MAC team or whatever the International Bowl was.
Nah, it's been pretty much the same for 20 years. The Poulan Weed-eater Independence Bowl ran from 1990 to 1996.
Nah, it's been pretty much the same for 20 years. The Poulan Weed-eater Independence Bowl ran from 1990 to 1996.
And let's not forget the Bluebonnet Bowl, the Aviation Bowl, the Aluminum Bowl, the Refrigerator Bowl, the Bean Bowl, the Salad Bowl, and the Vulcan Bowl with I would assume matched Sargon Tech against Pan Mokar State.
And let's not forget the Bluebonnet Bowl, the Aviation Bowl, the Aluminum Bowl, the Refrigerator Bowl, the Bean Bowl, the Salad Bowl, and the Vulcan Bowl with I would assume matched Sargon Tech against Pan Mokar State.
Yeah, but at least those earlier bowl games weren't cluttered up with the specific sponsor's name. There were some weird bowl games in the late 40's that died off (Cigar, Oleander, Burley, Bean, Iodine, Texahoma, etc.), but when you combine a sponsor's name with a connection that is associated with a baseball team, you're really digging yourself into a bottomless pit.
You can at least call this one the Pinstripe Bowl in casual conversation. I preferred Yankee Bowl though: a nod to the fact that some cornhusking or ####-kicking Big 12 team will have to come to the Northeast, where they almost never play.
They'd have to be giving out gold bars wrapped in hundred dollar bills for me to sit out in the Bronx in December
What if you were a fan of the team? I assume you'd sit in Giants Stadium to watch pro football in December: tens of thousands of people do it happily.
With a football configuration, this game will probably have a capacity of about 35-40k or so. They should have no problem filling the seats with Rutgers/UConn fans plus a typical Big 12 traveling contingent of 10k or so.
I loved the Bluebonnet Bowl. New Year's Eve in the Astrodome. Purdue and Mark Herrman knocking off Tennessee and Jimmy Streater on a last-minute score as the minutes ticked away on the 1970s. Great stuff.
And no, I'm not kidding.
I would love to go if it were snowing. Otherwise, probably not, but I'd still consider going.
(Sorry, had to.)
That would have been a better joke if you'd said SEC. They don't even try to hide it down there.
technically, it was the Astro-Bluebonnet bowl by then
Best. Bowl name. Ever.
I prefer the Poulan Weedeater Bowl.
By the way Shooty, we're getting together at Tonic tomorrow night 6:30-7, you should stop by if you can.
Duly noted. A very good chance I'll stop by.
I've always wondered why American Standard or Kohler never sponsored a Bowl Game.
Assuming it comes with New Years eve in NYC, I don't think the players will complain too much. If they're flying back home on the 31st, then, yeah, that pretty much sucks.
And, what, you'll stand outside for hours on Dec 31 to watch a ball drop but you won't sit outside for hours on Dec 30 to watch a clash of two major college football titans?
I would not stand outside to watch the ball drop. That's for tourists and B & T teenagers.
We did that once, just by chance when we found ourselves near Times Square on New Years near midnight. WOOOOOOOOOO. Then, at roughly 12:00.30, you realize you're standing, jammed between thousands of idiots in the middle of the ####### street.
In addition to being the Poulan Weed-eater Independence Bowl, wasn't is held in Shreveport? Good God. My brother went one year; it's the type of thing that makes me happy to have attended a D3 school where students wouldn't walk across the street to watch a football game.
That's not really true (not the shitty bowl comment, that is true). The two teams that tied for second played in Jacksonville and Charlotte. Of the three teams that tied for fourth the least "desirable" played in Toronto. South Florida was the equivalent of the sixth place team (in an eight team league), not the third place team.
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