Will keep this locked until all the bowls are official. The teams that are listed below have already accepted their bowl bids. Will update this main post after the results of each of the bowl games. All game times are eastern. 2004-05 Bowl Schedule Wyndham New Orleans at New Orleans, La. North Texas 10 Southern Mississippi 31 Champs Sports at Orlando, Fla Syracuse 14 Georgia Tech 51 GMAC at Mobile, Ala. Memphis 35 Bowling Green 52 PlainsCapital Fort Worth at Fort Worth, Texas Cincinnati 32 Marshall 14 Pioneer PureVision Las Vegas at Las Vegas UCLA 21 Wyoming 24 Sheraton Hawaii at Honolulu Hawai i 59 Alabama-Birmingham 40 MPC Computers at Boise, Idaho Fresno State 37 Virginia 34 Motor City at Detroit Toledo 10 Connecticut 39 Independence at Shreveport, La. Iowa State 17 Miami (OH) 13 Insight at Phoenix Oregon State 38 Notre Dame 21 EV1.net Houston at Houston, Texas Colorado 33 UTEP 28 MasterCard Alamo at San Antonio, Texas Ohio State 33 Oklahoma State 7 Continental Tire at Charlotte, N.C. Boston College 37 North Carolina 24 Emerald Bowl at San Francisco, Calif. Navy 34 New Mexico 19 Pacific Life Holiday at San Diego, Calif. California 31 Texas Tech 45 Silicon Valley at San Jose, Calif. Troy 21 Northern Illinois 34 Gaylords Hotels Music City at Nashville, Tenn. Alabama 16 Minnesota 20 Vitalis Sun at El Paso, Texas Arizona State 27 Purdue 23 AutoZone Liberty at Memphis, Tenn. Louisville 44 Boise State 40 Chick-fil-A Peach at Atlanta, Ga. Miami 27 Florida 10 Outback at Tampa, Fla. Georgia 24 Wisconsin 21 SBC Cotton at Dallas, Texas Texas A&M 7 Tennessee 38 Toyota Gator at Jacksonville, Fla. Florida State vs. West Virginia Jan. 1 12:30 p.m. NBC Capital One at Orlando, Fla. Iowa vs. LSU Jan. 1 1 p.m. ABC Rose at Pasadena, Calif. Michigan vs. Texas Jan. 1 4:30 p.m. ABC Tostitos Fiesta at Tempe, Ariz. Utah vs. Pittsburgh Jan. 1 8:30 p.m. ABC Nokia Sugar at New Orleans, La. Virginia Tech vs. Auburn Jan. 3 8 p.m. ABC FedEx Orange at Miami, Fla. Oklahoma vs. Southern California Jan. 4 8 p.m. ABC
Bowl Schedule is set. And the thread is opened back up. This is a bowl discussion thread. Not a thread about saying which school got screwed in the selection process. Thanks. Other Sports Mods
Silicon Valley at San Jose, Calif. Troy vs. Northern Illinois Dec. 30 11 p.m. ESPN2 The MAC has now gotten their chance.Its all up to NIU to put the smack down on Troy if they wish to continue getting mutliple bowl bids.
Top 5 Bowls Here are my Top 5 most intriguing bowls this year. What are yours? 1. Orange Bowl - USC vs. Oklahoma Say what you will about the BCS, this is rightfully the marquee event of the bowl season. Poor Auburn just picked the wrong season to be perfect. 2. Liberty Bowl - Louisville vs. Boise State I can't believe it either. The Liberty Bowl trumps the rest of the BCS with this match-up between two electric offenses. 3. Sugar Bowl - Virginia Tech vs. Auburn Don't be suprised if Auburn stumbles here to a very good VT. If they don't, we'll here about it for YEARS to come. 4. Capital One Bowl - Iowa vs. LSU The Bowl formerly-known-as the Citrus Bowl features two teams who stumbled early on but have finished as two of the best teams in the nation. 5. Fiesta Bowl - Utah vs. Pittsburgh The BCS problem exemplified. An undefeated Utah team is given the indignity of having to face an unintriguing and uninteresting Pitt side.
Re: Top 5 Bowls Anyone interested in a bowl season prediction league? Mod note: go here https://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showthread.php?t=155470
Re: Top 5 Bowls Top 5 in entertainment quality - Not Improtance 5. Syracuse vs. Georgia Tech 4. Michigan vs. Texas 3. Ohio State vs Oklahoma State 2. USC vs. Oklahoma 1. Colorado vs. UTEP (I guarantee a must see - Go Miners!)
Someone start a thread for one. List all the games and then have people pick their games with scores. Should be interesting. I will participate. CNNSI.com ranks all the bowl games in order of interesting games.
Possibly the best game might be Texas vs Michigan.Texas has to prove something here in this bowl they need to prove that they belong in the BCS bowls.Braylon Edwards is a senior and has had a great season and would surely want to leave Michigan with a Rose Bowl.This could be a great game. Also the Sugar Bowl. This game might be one of the best performances by any team. Auburn might absolutley dominate the game. They have the most to prove in any of the bowl games. The most exciting game could be Louisville vs Boise State. This game could be a 56-49 game. Both teams can score.
The most exciting game is going to be, hand's down, Biose State V Louisville. Two offensive top 10 powerhouse teams will go at it, light up the score board, and play an up tempo game. I think Louisville would end up winning the football game at the end.
Re: Top 5 Bowls It will be a good game. I can't wait. Im ready to go, I have my tickets and hotel reservations. Anytime the Miners make it to a bowl, you better be there. Fight! Miners! Fight!
Re: Top 5 Bowls It's the Pac-10's fault. Every bowl bid outside of the BCS is tied to a conference contract. The Cotton Bowl, for example, cannot hold a spot open for Cal, because it has a contract for a Big XII vs. SEC matchup. Capitol One is Big Ten vs. SEC. The Pac-10 has failed to make anay bowl contracts with January bowls outside of the BCS (I don't know how hard they tried), so the top Pac-10 team that doesn't reach the BCS is locked into the Holiday Bowl.
Every problem is the chancellors of the universities fault. No Playoff System - Chancellors Bad BCS System - Chancellors Conference tie-ins to particular bowl games - Chancellors The Chancellors suck all around. As Dan Patrick said on his radio show yesterday, why do Chancellors decide the fate of a football team? Football coaches are not being asked to help run the school, so why does a chancellor run the football program.
Please put predictions into another thread. This is not a prediction thread. Will try to move posts when get home from work tonight. Back to work. Mod note (and a reminder): go here https://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showthread.php?t=155470
Re: Top 5 Bowls FWIW, here are the Pac 10's bowl tie-ins, outside of the BCS: #1 Holiday Bowl #2 Sun Bowl #3 Insight Bowl #4 Las Vegas Bowl #5 Emerald Bowl #6 Silicon Valley Football Classic As you pointed out, none of them are in January. Part of the problem is that all of their non-BCS bowl tie-ins are geographically friendly (the easternmost bowl game is the Sun Bowl in El Paso), and as far as I can remember the only western bowl game that's played in January is the Rose Bowl. Outside of the Rose Bowl, the westernmost New Year's Day non-BCS bowl game is the Cotton Bowl. And before the SEC affiliation, the Cotton Bowl had a couple of Pac-10 participants and those schools never sold tickets very well, certainly not the way that Big XII and SEC schools do.
Re: Top 5 Bowls Gotcha. Then that's criminally stupid on the Pac-10's part, since everyone knew going into the season that USC and Cal were both going to be damn good teams. I mean hell, even the Big East has a tie-in with a very reputable bowl (probably one of the top 3 non-BCS bowls) for its top non-BCS team.
Re: Top 5 Bowls You forgot the Fiesta Bowl. I think none of the Floridian New Year's Day bowls want to deal with the Pac-10 because they're afraid of getting a crappy crowd from Oregon State or Arizona. And because of time zones, none of the western bowls such as the Holiday Bowl are willing or able to make the move to New Year's Day, because they would have to start their game early enough to be finished before the Rose Bowl kicks off at 2 pm. (The 6 BCS conferences prohibit their members from playing in any bowl scheduled against a BCS bowl.)
Re: Top 5 Bowls BCS bowl. I was only referring to the non-BCS bowls. Hence, you get the Cotton Bowl with its 10 AM CST kickoff on New Year's Day. Let me tell you, nothing puts a damper on the New Year's festivities like having to duck out at 12:30 because you have to get up early to be at the Cotton Bowl's 10 AM kickoff.
Re: Top 5 Bowls You said the only western bowl played in January was the Rose Bowl, so you weren't referrring to non-BCS bowls. Just a nitpick.
Re: Top 5 Bowls Has it always been that early? I went to the USC-Texas Tech Cotton Bowl in 1995 and I don't remember the game being that early. I do remember the tortilla-tossing and Keyshawn Johnson running all over the Red Raiders. Ah, good times
Re: Top 5 Bowls No, it used to be at a more reasonable hour -- noon or 1 PM. But as Noah points out, it can't conflict with a BCS bowl now because both of its conference affiliations are with BCS conferences.
Yes, you do have something to prove. Do you think you can just show up and win?? I already said it in the College Football thread that Texas is the overrated team you should be talking about. While I am not going to claim Michigan as the be all and end all of College Football, they are a pretty good team. Take your Texas and W 'lovin arse back to the Big 12 thread and stay there.
That Norte Dame loss was a fluke. We lost to Ohio State pretty bad but, Ohio State are better than there record and it was at Ohio State. Norte Dame beat Tennesee so does that mean they suck?Michigan also has 2 freshman at the most important places(QB and RB).Michigan are not the best in the country but, they do belong in the BCS and have nothing to prove.
Your team also almost got beaten by a 5-7 Michigan State team. How can thier QB run wild on a defense with all of those four and five star WR. Edawars saved Michigan in that game and your BCS Rose Bowl appearance.