Williams Blog: Bowl thoughts after yesterday's games

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LindenCy

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The big 12 really does suck in the bowl affiliation dept. One more reason to expand into the east, hopefully get a bowl in FL again or something.

Yeah, that was especially horrible for all involved. I actually would be fine with Dallas as a destination against a very beatable team.
 

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The big 12 really does suck in the bowl affiliation dept. One more reason to expand into the east, hopefully get a bowl in FL again or something.
The bowls don't really suck, the top few are pretty nice. After the Holiday bowl they suck, but that's kind of the point, right? Win more and get a better bowl?
 

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I guess that is nice but I don't really thing that is a huge deal with such a low prestige bowl.
I think it would be a lot better for ISU to be on ESPN as the only football on at night time around the holidays than being one of the many 11am games that is on ESPNU...give me the Meinke bowl!
 

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The bowls don't really suck, the top few are pretty nice. After the Holiday bowl they suck, but that's kind of the point, right? Win more and get a better bowl?

Sure, but even our top bowls are a bit lower than other conference's top bowls. Fiesta is probably the least of the BCS bowls. We have or have had a million bowls in texas and not a single florida bowl, which would be nice.
 

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I think it would be a lot better for ISU to be on ESPN as the only football on at night time around the holidays than being one of the many 11am games that is on ESPNU...give me the Meinke bowl!

11am on a day everyone has off, vs friday night where many are out and about.
 

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11am on a day everyone has off, vs friday night where many are out and about.

True. Also the MCC Bowl won't kick off until 8:00pm Central time. That's fine for us but there are a lot of eyeballs on the East Coast that won't bother tuning in to a game on a Friday night that starts at 9:00pm - If it's exposure you're interested in.
 

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We have or have had a million bowls in texas and not a single florida bowl, which would be nice.

For a couple years the Big 12 had a tie to the Tangerine/Champ Sports bowl, but your point remains. Wasn't the Orange Bowl a Big 8 bowl? Would have been nice to keep that one.
 

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True. Also the MCC Bowl won't kick off until 8:00pm Central time. That's fine for us but there are a lot of eyeballs on the East Coast that won't bother tuning in to a game on a Friday night that starts at 9:00pm - If it's exposure you're interested in.

11am on a day everyone has off, vs friday night where many are out and about.

Agreed. I think it is a little bit overblown. Like having somebody flip past ISU playing and thinking "oh I should be an ISU fan now". TV exposure is a marathon not a sprint when it comes to lower tier football games. You get exposure two ways:

1. Winning singular big games like us vs #2 OSU
2. Being on TV every single week even when playing inferior opponents.

If we wan't exposure we are going to have to go to actually relevant bowls that carry a little weight. At the point we are at I don't think it really matters.
 

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Since the Music City Bowl is also in discussion, here are all the vitals of all three.

***Meineke Car Care Bowl: Friday, Dec. 27 @ 8:00pm on ESPN vs. Big Ten (probably Minnesota) in Houston, TX at the Houston Texans' stadium

***Music City Bowl: Monday, Dec. 31 @ 11:00am on ESPN vs. SEC (probably Vanderbilt) in Nashville, TN at the Tennessee Titans' stadium

***Heart of Dallas Bowl: Tuesday, Jan. 1 @ 11:00am on ESPNU vs. Big Ten (probably Purdue) in Dallas, TX at the old Cotton Bowl (where Texas-Oklahoma is played)

If you want Music City Bowl for ISU, you're a TCU fan next Saturday against Oklahoma. To go to the MCC Bowl would just require their execs liking us more than Baylor. HoD would be if we get two in the BCS and MCC Bowl picks BU, probably. This is all just semi-educated speculation.
 
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Agreed. I think it is a little bit overblown. Like having somebody flip past ISU playing and thinking "oh I should be an ISU fan now". TV exposure is a marathon not a sprint when it comes to lower tier football games .

Well said. I think the best exposure of a lower-tier bowl is from the ISU and Cyclone Nation playing in Texas and Florida. The more games we play in those states, the better. I'd rather play in Dallas or Houston over anything other non-major bowls.
 
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For a couple years the Big 12 had a tie to the Tangerine/Champ Sports bowl, but your point remains. Wasn't the Orange Bowl a Big 8 bowl? Would have been nice to keep that one.

The Big 8 had the Orange Bowl for years. NU won their NCs in the Orange Bowl. That tie in was lost somewhere. My guess, and only a guess, was that the Big 12 made an effort to build up the Cotton Bowl and establish more Texas bowls for the state of Texas.

The Big 8 tradition was for the winning team fans to litter the field with oranges. Unhappily so, I watched NU fans do it at ISU.
 

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I would much rather have won...but will take some consolation that nine teams are tossing $ into the bowl pot. It still works that way, right?
 
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