Marquee matchupKentucky vs Northwestern in the Music City Bowl.
Marquee matchupKentucky vs Northwestern in the Music City Bowl.
Eh, if you want a lot of fans in town spending money you can do worse than invite UK.Marquee matchup
And this is why everyone else around the country chuckles just a bit every time Ohio State chokes.
Gratz for playing in a game that has no meaning?
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.
It's in Montgomery. You're better off.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...
Gratz for playing in a game that has no meaning?
Awesomeness. Will be pulling for 'em (have a cousin who's also an alumnus).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...
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?
Buffalo, Texas-San Antonio, Western MichiganI think two teams had to be left out, but I haven't checked to see which ones.
Also Mississippi State would have been a much better win but that got chunked when Ole Miss intentionally took out their QB
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.)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.
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..
If Bama gets the same kind of shellacking we got last year, then I suspect/hope that sort of "bye week" will go away.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.
Conference championship games aren't going anywhere, they make too much money.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.
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 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.