Alamo Bowl to replace Big Ten with Pac 10?
- Thread starter tejasclone
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My humor button works just fine - my realism button is pushed in further than usual today, however... :wink:
Fair enough.
I have been giving my Hok friends crap this morning that their "automatic" alamo bowl might be going away.
Looks like the Big 10 is close to sealing a deal with the Gator Bowl. If so bowl lineup would look like this...
1. Rose/Pac10
2. Cap One/SEC
3. Outback/SEC
4. Gator/ACC
5. Insight/Big 12
6. Texas/???
Big Ten set to send conferences scrambling for new bowl marriages - Stewart Mandel - SI.com
I say go with the white pants option....football uni's were made for contrast and white pants and red jerseys make for a very good midwestern contrasting colors....
CycloneErik
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Don't hurt me for this, but that's a shame. I really enjoyed the Holiday Bowl, and that back-to-back run of thrilling games that Iowa had there back in the late 80s were two phenomenal games.
CycloneErik
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That's a real, real strong lineup. Minimum of four bowl games to national tv audiences from historical January bowl games...Insight, the fifth or sixth pick depending on how many Big Ten teams to the BCS, is going to be at the same competition level of the Alamo with regards to team.
Why dont they give more money to the winners of bowl games? Why 50/50? WHy not 60/40 or something like that? 40% is more than plenty to pay for the travel. Maybe it would inspire the Big Ten to win a few bowl games and or want to play past Thanksgiving to get prepared for them.
+1
I've been saying this for years except I have always thought you would use the BCS formula to rank the teams and if there are 30 bowl games then take the BCS rankings for the top 60 teams and they play in the bowls (1v2, 3v4, 5v6 etc...).
Even with this you would still have the same 2-3 teams going to the same bowls every year because the highest bids would go to teams the reps know will sell tickets (not that this doesn't happen anyway). The bowl reps don't care about unique match ups. It would be a pretty unfair way to select the bowl games.
Actually, I think that it's crap. IF the Big 11 gets two teams into the BCS (which is usually possible with no title game), that would mean 6 teams playing on NYD or later. That's more than half the conference. As much as I dislike the Big 11 getting more money and rep, more than that, I like watching NYD football. And watching 6-6 WI, IA or NW get tromped on NYD is disgusting.
CycloneErik
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Kind of like watching a badly-done movie. It's not good, but you can't turn away from the train wreck.
It's been going this way for a while, but I think this makes it official, "New Years Day Bowl, don't mean what it used to."
I don't care what conference they are from, the #6 team in any conference doesn't deserve to play on New Years Day.
I don't care what conference they are from, the #6 team in any conference doesn't deserve to play on New Years Day.
I don't think it's to that point yet, is it? And even if it is it's obviously because there are so many bowls. If it happens I can't see many fans tuning in.
Really? When's the last time you watched a 6-6 team from the Big 10 get tromped in a NYD bowl?
