OT: College FB/ Bowl Game thread
Posted: Tue Jan 1, 2008 8:16 pm
Lots of great action. Although it's now old news, I salute Howard Schnellenberger and Florida Atlantic on their bowl game victory. Schnellenberger is a neat story, having coached one of the greatest upsets in Bowl history (Miami over Nebraska in the early 80s), turned the Louisville football program around, but still wound up out of football and selling bonds in the late 90s. Now he's coached FAU to a bowl victory. Very cool.
I don't expect my Michigan Wolverines to beat Florida but as of right now they're actually playing with the #9 team in the country-- and darn, Tebow is actually very good. Once again, I get an opportunity to rail against the Bowl system that frequently puts one team in a home-team advantage over the other. Florida's essentially playing a home game they're getting home team reffing as well. Michigan just had a touchdown reversed and put on the 1 yard line, but there was no good video evidence to reverse it. This has been going on all day. But at least we finally got rid of Lloyd Carr and replaced him with Rich Rodriguez, so I hope that within a couple of years we can actually compete with OSU again.
Ah, UM scored from the 1. So now they're winning. I still don't expect them to pull it out, b/c Florida is quite good and UM isn't all that terrific-- and it's a home game for Florida-- but I'm cool with Rodriguez going forward.
Big 10 monitor (since I'm a big Big 10 fan): 2-3 right now.
Wisconsin loses a tough game to Tennessee. Cr*p.
Michigan State (formerly 6-6) almost beats a much more highly regarded Boston College team (formerly 10-3).
Indiana plays close with OK St. but loses.
Purdue beats Central Michigan in a great game (51-48). Anyone see it?
Penn State beats Texas A&M. Go Joe PA!
Pac 10 monitor (since I hate the Pac 10, my best friend from grad school being a huge Pac 10 homer): 3-2 right now.
But they haven't looked very good. Best performance has come from Oregon, a team that was great before their starting QB went down for the year, stomping the (formerly) ridiculously overraged USF Bulls. Cal narrowly beat Air Force, UCLA lost to BYU, a ridiculously overrated ASU team got creamed by Texas, and Oregon State beat a 6-6 Maryland team that shouldn't have been in a bowl.
Thoughts on the bowl season (other than that we should have a 4 or 8 team playoff)???
I don't expect my Michigan Wolverines to beat Florida but as of right now they're actually playing with the #9 team in the country-- and darn, Tebow is actually very good. Once again, I get an opportunity to rail against the Bowl system that frequently puts one team in a home-team advantage over the other. Florida's essentially playing a home game they're getting home team reffing as well. Michigan just had a touchdown reversed and put on the 1 yard line, but there was no good video evidence to reverse it. This has been going on all day. But at least we finally got rid of Lloyd Carr and replaced him with Rich Rodriguez, so I hope that within a couple of years we can actually compete with OSU again.
Ah, UM scored from the 1. So now they're winning. I still don't expect them to pull it out, b/c Florida is quite good and UM isn't all that terrific-- and it's a home game for Florida-- but I'm cool with Rodriguez going forward.
Big 10 monitor (since I'm a big Big 10 fan): 2-3 right now.
Wisconsin loses a tough game to Tennessee. Cr*p.
Michigan State (formerly 6-6) almost beats a much more highly regarded Boston College team (formerly 10-3).
Indiana plays close with OK St. but loses.
Purdue beats Central Michigan in a great game (51-48). Anyone see it?
Penn State beats Texas A&M. Go Joe PA!
Pac 10 monitor (since I hate the Pac 10, my best friend from grad school being a huge Pac 10 homer): 3-2 right now.
But they haven't looked very good. Best performance has come from Oregon, a team that was great before their starting QB went down for the year, stomping the (formerly) ridiculously overraged USF Bulls. Cal narrowly beat Air Force, UCLA lost to BYU, a ridiculously overrated ASU team got creamed by Texas, and Oregon State beat a 6-6 Maryland team that shouldn't have been in a bowl.
Thoughts on the bowl season (other than that we should have a 4 or 8 team playoff)???