The Other Sports Thread (Titans, Vols, Dores, etc) - Part VI

[Drake744]

Kentucky vs Northwestern in the Music City Bowl.

Marquee matchup

 

[PredsV82]

Marquee matchup

Eh, if you want a lot of fans in town spending money you can do worse than invite UK.

 

[Viqsi]

And this is why everyone else around the country chuckles just a bit every time Ohio State chokes.

We get a bowl game against USC, anyways, which is nice and traditional-like even if it's not happening in Pasadena. So there's that.

 

[Armourboy]

We get a bowl game against USC, anyways, which is nice and traditional-like even if it's not happening in Pasadena. So there's that.

Gratz for playing in a game that has no meaning?

 

[Legionnaire11]

Happy to be wrong!

MTSU in the Camellia Bowl (lol?)
Dec 16 in Montgomery, AL
Vs Arkansas State

Of course it's short notice and I have a prior commitment...

 

[Drake744]

Happy to be wrong!

MTSU in the Camellia Bowl (lol?)
Dec 16 in Montgomery, AL
Vs Arkansas State

Of course it's short notice and I have a prior commitment...

It's in Montgomery. You're better off.

 

[Viqsi]

Gratz for playing in a game that has no meaning?

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Happy to be wrong!

MTSU in the Camellia Bowl (lol?)
Dec 16 in Montgomery, AL
Vs Arkansas State

Of course it's short notice and I have a prior commitment...

Awesomeness. Will be pulling for 'em (have a cousin who's also an alumnus).

 

[PredsV82]

Happy to be wrong!

MTSU in the Camellia Bowl (lol?)
Dec 16 in Montgomery, AL
Vs Arkansas State

Of course it's short notice and I have a prior commitment...

So did any bowl eligible team get left out?

 

[Legionnaire11]

So did any bowl eligible team get left out?

I think two teams had to be left out, but I haven't checked to see which ones.

 

[Drake744]

I think two teams had to be left out, but I haven't checked to see which ones.

Buffalo, Texas-San Antonio, Western Michigan

 

[Legionnaire11]

I was just coming back in to post that :p

 

[jumb0]

Also Mississippi State would have been a much better win but that got chunked when Ole Miss intentionally took out their QB

FIFY

 

[TitansVolsPreds615]

They got the 4 right. As much as I hate Bama they are more deserving than OSU. Should have beat Wisconsin handily and the loss to Iowa basically guaranteed they weren't getting in.

 

[Viqsi]

They got the 4 right. As much as I hate Bama they are more deserving than OSU. Should have beat Wisconsin handily and the loss to Iowa basically guaranteed they weren't getting in.

Not so sure about the Wisconsin game there - I think the margin of victory would have been sufficient as is if it wasn't for that damned Iowa embarrassment. Maybe if we'd beaten Wisconsin by, like, 50 points or something, then we could have overcome Iowa. Maybe. Very unlikely, but maybe. But that would have required that the team be good enough that the Iowa cluster**** probably wouldn't have happened in the first place. (How JT Barrett has managed to set so many records while being singularly unable to manage any pass longer than 10-15 yards or so will forever be a mystery for the ages.)

Oh well. Next year.

 

[jumb0]

I wonder how much the last 2 years played into the committee taking Bama over OSU?

Clemson blasted OSU last year
Bama blasted Michigan State the year before that

 

[LCPreds]

I hate a lot about a 4 team playoff that is based on a choice of "opinion" but what I hate most is that a team like Alabama (OSU last year) can lose their last regular season game and sit at home while other teams play what is basically a play in game. It's basically a bye week given for losing.

Maybe in 2020/21 we'll have an 8 team format with 5 auto bids from the "power 5" and 3 at large. That would at least remove the opinion/bias factor from 5 of the team selections. I'd also prefer the other 3 get chosen by computer rankings but the folks who currently enjoy the power of voting would never give that up.

 

[drwpreds]

I hate a lot about a 4 team playoff that is based on a choice of "opinion" but what I hate most is that a team like Alabama (OSU last year) can lose their last regular season game and sit at home while other teams play what is basically a play in game. It's basically a bye week given for losing..

That's why I would like to both expand the playoffs and completely eliminate conference championship games.

 

[Viqsi]

I hate a lot about a 4 team playoff that is based on a choice of "opinion" but what I hate most is that a team like Alabama (OSU last year) can lose their last regular season game and sit at home while other teams play what is basically a play in game. It's basically a bye week given for losing.

Maybe in 2020/21 we'll have an 8 team format with 5 auto bids from the "power 5" and 3 at large. That would at least remove the opinion/bias factor from 5 of the team selections. I'd also prefer the other 3 get chosen by computer rankings but the folks who currently enjoy the power of voting would never give that up.

If Bama gets the same kind of shellacking we got last year, then I suspect/hope that sort of "bye week" will go away.

 

[Armourboy]

That's why I would like to both expand the playoffs and completely eliminate conference championship games.

Conference championship games aren't going anywhere, they make too much money.

 

[drwpreds]

Conference championship games aren't going anywhere, they make too much money.

Oh, I agree with that- especially the SEC- no way they are giving that up. But it still would be a better system without them in my opinion....

 

[PredsV82]

It's not just the lost revenue that keeps them from doing away with conference championships, it's the fact that the conferences have too many teams anymore to be able to name a conference champ just on regular season results.

 

[Lumpy66]

I hate a lot about a 4 team playoff that is based on a choice of "opinion" but what I hate most is that a team like Alabama (OSU last year) can lose their last regular season game and sit at home while other teams play what is basically a play in game. It's basically a bye week given for losing.

Maybe in 2020/21 we'll have an 8 team format with 5 auto bids from the "power 5" and 3 at large. That would at least remove the opinion/bias factor from 5 of the team selections. I'd also prefer the other 3 get chosen by computer rankings but the folks who currently enjoy the power of voting would never give that up.

I have always agreed with this as well. It is completely illogical to claim to have 5 power conferences yet only allow 4 teams into the playoffs.

I agree with having an 8 team playoff. The 5 conference winners, the highest ranked non power 5 conference champ (somewhat controversial, but it's what I would do) and two at large bids.

 

[Legionnaire11]

I agree that there should be some path for non-power 5 conferences to participate. As it is right now, most teams don't actually have any hope to ever win a national title now matter how well they play. A team in the Sun Belt conference can go undefeated for five years and not get a bid to the playoffs.

If the NCAA were open to really radical ideas, they could go to 8 geographically aligned conferences of 16, with the 8 champions making the playoffs. Essentially it creates a 16 team playoff when you factor in the conference championship game. The small schools would still be a long shot to win it all because they'd have to win their division and then four rounds of playoffs. But at least every team would start the season knowing that it was possible.

There's no way the big schools and conferences would ever allow something radical like that, but it's fun to play "what if"

 

[NSH615]

I agree that there should be some path for non-power 5 conferences to participate. As it is right now, most teams don't actually have any hope to ever win a national title now matter how well they play. A team in the Sun Belt conference can go undefeated for five years and not get a bid to the playoffs.

If the NCAA were open to really radical ideas, they could go to 8 geographically aligned conferences of 16, with the 8 champions making the playoffs. Essentially it creates a 16 team playoff when you factor in the conference championship game. The small schools would still be a long shot to win it all because they'd have to win their division and then four rounds of playoffs. But at least every team would start the season knowing that it was possible.

There's no way the big schools and conferences would ever allow something radical like that, but it's fun to play "what if"

Cause they would get out right smoked and it would be an embarrassment. The only fair way of doing it though would make the playoffs long and invite every single conference champ.

 

[Armourboy]

Cause they would get out right smoked and it would be an embarrassment. The only fair way of doing it though would make the playoffs long and invite every single conference champ.

Yeah remind those teams that ran into those good Boise State teams.

The big schools wouldn't do it because they risk losing the market they have gained if one of those smaller schools did end up winning.

It's all about the money.