| FTBL Bowl Games Date & Times and discussions thread...

[XXL TideFan]

Tried posting the actual schedule but it was too long, forum wouldn't let me. I haven't watched any bowls games yet due to lack of interest. They are just starting to get interesting to me


http://espn.go.com/college-football/overview/_/week/17

Bowl	Location/Tickets	Date/Time	Network
Gildan New Mexico Arizona 49, Nevada 48	Albuquerque, N.M. University Stadium	Dec. 15 1 p.m.	ESPN/ESPN3
Famous Idaho Potato Utah State 41, Toledo 15	Boise, Idaho Bronco Stadium	Dec. 15 4:30 p.m.	ESPN
S.D. County Credit Union Poinsettia BYU 23, San Diego State 6	San Diego Qualcomm Stadium	Dec. 20 8 p.m.	ESPN
Beef 'O' Brady's St. Petersburg UCF 38, Ball State 17	St. Petersburg, Fla. Tropicana Field	Dec. 21 7:30 p.m.	ESPN
R+L Carriers New Orleans Louisiana-Lafayette 43, East Carolina 34	New Orleans Mercedes-Benz Superdome	Dec. 22 Noon	ESPN
MAACO Las Vegas Boise State 28, Washington 26	Las Vegas Sam Boyd Stadium	Dec. 22 3:30 p.m.	ESPN
Sheraton Hawaii SMU 43, Fresno State 10	Honolulu Aloha Stadium	Dec. 24 8 p.m.	ESPN
Little Caesars Pizza Central Michigan 24, Western Kentucky 21	Detroit Ford Field	Dec. 26 7:30 p.m.	ESPN
Military Bowl Presented By Northrop Grumman San Jose State 29, Bowling Green 20	Washington, D.C. RFK Stadium	Dec. 27 3 p.m.	ESPN
Belk Cincinnati 48, Duke 34	Charlotte, N.C. Bank of America Stadium	Dec. 27 6:30 p.m.	ESPN
Bridgepoint Education Holiday Baylor 49, UCLA 26	San Diego Qualcomm Stadium	Dec. 27 9:45 p.m.	ESPN
AdvoCare V100 Independence Ohio 45, Louisiana-Monroe 14	Shreveport, La. Independence Stadium	Dec. 28 2 p.m.	ESPN
Russell Athletic Virginia Tech 13, Rutgers 10 (OT)	Orlando, Fla. Florida Citrus Bowl	Dec. 28 5:30 p.m.	ESPN
Meineke Car Care of Texas Texas Tech 34, Minnesota 31	Houston Reliant Stadium	Dec. 28 9 p.m.	ESPN
Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Rice vs. Air Force	Fort Worth Amon G. Carter Stadium	Dec. 29 11:45 a.m.	ESPN
New Era Pinstripe West Virginia vs. Syracuse	Bronx, N.Y. Yankee Stadium	Dec. 29 3:15 p.m.	ESPN
Kraft Fight Hunger Navy vs. Arizona State	San Francisco AT&T Park	Dec. 29 4 p.m.	ESPN2
Valero Alamo Texas vs. Oregon State	San Antonio Alamodome	Dec. 29 6:45 p.m.	ESPN
Buffalo Wild Wings TCU vs. Michigan State	Tempe, Ariz. Sun Devil Stadium	Dec. 29 10:15 p.m.	ESPN
Franklin American Mortgage Music City NC State vs. Vanderbilt	Nashville, Tenn. LP Field	Dec. 31 Noon	ESPN
Hyundai Sun USC vs. Georgia Tech	El Paso, Texas Sun Bowl	Dec. 31 2 p.m.	CBS
AutoZone Liberty Iowa State vs. Tulsa	Memphis, Tenn. Liberty Bowl	Dec. 31 3:30 p.m.	ESPN
Chick-fil-A LSU vs. Clemson	Atlanta Georgia Dome	Dec. 31 7:30 p.m.	ESPN
TaxSlayer.com Gator Mississippi State vs. Northwestern	Jacksonville, Fla. Everbank Field	Jan. 1 Noon	ESPN2
Heart of Dallas Purdue vs. Oklahoma State	Dallas Cotton Bowl	Jan. 1 Noon	ESPNU
Outback South Carolina vs. Michigan	Tampa, Fla. Raymond James Stadium	Jan. 1 1 p.m.	ESPN
Capital One Georgia vs. Nebraska	Orlando, Fla. Florida Citrus Bowl	Jan. 1 1 p.m.	ABC
Rose Bowl Game presented by Vizio Wisconsin vs. Stanford	Pasadena, Calif. Rose Bowl	Jan. 1 5 p.m.	ESPN
Discover Orange Northern Illinois vs. Florida State	Miami Sun Life Stadium	Jan. 1 8:30 p.m.	ESPN
Allstate Sugar Louisville vs. Florida	New Orleans Louisiana Superdome	Jan. 2 8:30 p.m.	ESPN
Tostitos Fiesta Oregon vs. Kansas State	Glendale, Ariz. U. of Phoenix Stadium	Jan. 3 8:30 p.m.	ESPN
AT&T Cotton Texas A&M vs. Oklahoma	Arlington, Texas Cowboys Stadium	Jan. 4 8 p.m.	FOX
BBVA Compass Pittsburgh vs. Ole Miss	Birmingham, Ala. Legion Field	Jan. 5 1 p.m.	ESPN
GoDaddy.com Kent State vs. Arkansas State	Mobile, Ala. Ladd-Peebles Stadium	Jan. 6 9 p.m.	ESPN
Discover BCS National Championship Notre Dame vs. Alabama	Miami Sun Life Stadium	Jan. 7 8:30 p.m.

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[TerryP]

You picked the wrong schedule to try and copy and paste. Avoid the graphics...those are read as characters and are read as a lot of space.

AZ vs Nevada was a good game. I enjoyed the Boise State game, BYU fourth quarter was a good one (which I missed after watching first three,) WKU was interesting, Va Tech game was just weird.

The Rice / Air Force game isn't overly exciting now...just two teams playing "let's change possession."

Here's my thought.

Enjoy every game you can now. We're 10 days away from NO college football for months.

 

[TerryP]

Today? I wonder how sloppy WVU game will be.

Oregon State vs Texas should be interesting.

TCU vs Michigan State should be the best game of the day I suspect—defensive slug-fest, I hope.

 

[Bamabww]

Enjoy every game you can now. We're 10 days away from NO college football for months.

Yeah, major bummer dude!

 

[PhillyGirl]

Bowl Games Date &amp; Times and discussions thread...

I was at the gym watching the Rice-Air Force game. Pretty dull but some nice runs by Air Force. Just happy to have football!

Looking forward to seeing WVU throw all over the place in a high scoring game with the Orange. WVU is another team that had loads of hype and came crashing down .. Looking forward to Texas-Oregon State but I agree that the MSU-TCU game will be the most entertaining. TCU started to shape up more near the end of the season.

 

[XXL TideFan]

The Rice/Air Force game is such a snoozer that I let the wife have the tv to watch super nanny while I surf the net. I can't watch bad football and a lot of games just have zero interest for me.

 

[TerryP]

The Rice/Air Force game is such a snoozer that I let the wife have the tv to watch super nanny while I surf the net. I can't watch bad football and a lot of games just have zero interest for me.

On the bright side, when I hear Beth Mowins I immediately remember softball is 41 days away... :icon_thumright:

 

[XXL TideFan]

After CFB season is over I am in a sports desert until it kicks off again. Surfing around today thinking about adding a couple of new Linux distros to the laptop to play with.

 

[TerryP]

I'd be changing sets if I was attending this WVU v 'Cuse game...just sayin'

 

[BamaFan615]

Next game up Vandy will kick off the SEC's bowl season against NC State in the Music City Bowl. Nashville has had some snow the last few days, and the Titans have a game on that field this afternoon, so by the time this bowl starts I would imagine that field is going to be in pretty bad shape.

BTW, side note that's not being talked about, but is a big deal for Vandy...they're currently building an indoor practice facility. Somehow James Franklin has talked them in to spending money on athletics all of the sudden.

LSU plays Clemson tomorrow night. If LSU shows up, and plays smart they should win fairly easily. But that might be a problem, being that LSU has been notorious under Miles for playing up/down to their competition. This is the first of the bowls that I'm actually really looking forward to watching.

 

[TerryP]

Next game up Vandy will kick off the SEC's bowl season against NC State in the Music City Bowl. Nashville has had some snow the last few days, and the Titans have a game on that field this afternoon, so by the time this bowl starts I would imagine that field is going to be in pretty bad shape.

BTW, side note that's not being talked about, but is a big deal for Vandy...they're currently building an indoor practice facility. Somehow James Franklin has talked them in to spending money on athletics all of the sudden.

LSU plays Clemson tomorrow night. If LSU shows up, and plays smart they should win fairly easily. But that might be a problem, being that LSU has been notorious under Miles for playing up/down to their competition. This is the first of the bowls that I'm actually really looking forward to watching.

It's a strange year for them.

A few weeks ago one of their beat writers put out an article about how the football team was getting disrespected because they ended up in the Chick-Fil-A bowl instead of one of the better bowl games for SEC teams. That's still on the minds of a lot of LSU fans. I had one tell me last night he was considering going night fishing instead of watching the game and that's a statement coming from him. Huge statement.

It's being reflected in ticket sales as well. LSU has always been one of the better fan bases for buying bowl tickets. The tickets for their game against A&M two years ago in the Cotton set records for selling out as quickly as they did. Yet, as of this weekend, they've only sold around 10,500 of their 18,000 school allotment.

If their fan base is this apathetic towards this game, I can't help but wonder what the mind set of the team has been lately. Once again, there's a picture of Tommy Moffit's office window listing guys who haven't been putting in the work the last few weeks.

FWIW, it is worth noting that Clemson hasn't done any better selling their allotment as well. There is a drop in ticket sales for bowl games this season that has to be taken into account with both teams.

 

[BamaFan615]

It's just another flaw in the BCS system that is currently in place, but LSU deserves to be in a BCS Bowl or at least the Cotton Bowl. I don't blame them for being disappointed or let down.

I knew ticket sales had been down for much of the bowl season, with the BCSNC game being one of the few exceptions, but that's pretty piss poor of Clemson's fanbase if they're having trouble selling tickets. Clemson's campus is about an hour and a half from the Georgia Dome, and let's face it, for Clemson being in the Chick-fil-a Bowl facing a team like LSU should be pretty exciting.

 

[TerryP]

It's just another flaw in the BCS system that is currently in place, but LSU deserves to be in a BCS Bowl or at least the Cotton Bowl. I don't blame them for being disappointed or let down.

I knew ticket sales had been down for much of the bowl season, with the BCSNC game being one of the few exceptions, but that's pretty piss poor of Clemson's fanbase if they're having trouble selling tickets. Clemson's campus is about an hour and a half from the Georgia Dome, and let's face it, for Clemson being in the Chick-fil-a Bowl facing a team like LSU should be pretty exciting.

LSU deserves to be in a BCS bowl? Over whom? Florida?

Here's the rub on the Cotton Bowl and I'm going back in time a bit to paint this picture.

In 2005 when we finished the season 10-2 with losses to Auburn and LSU Coach Moore starting pitching the Cotton Bowl officials to invite Alabama to play. At that point, LSU officials hadn't paid much attention to the Cotton Bowl. After all, with the head to head win over Alabama and Auburn they were slated to be in ATL for the SECCG.

What they didn't take into account was the possibility they would lose to Georgia in the SECCG. Which, they did. Considering Georgia comes out as the SEC Champion with a 10-2 record they weren't headed to the BCSNC game and took the remaining slot for BCS invitations with the Sugar.

Remember, back in 2005 there wasn't a "championship game," but one of the four bowls had that game.

With the loss LSU tried to get back into the Cotton Bowl discussions. In fact, they even had the SEC offices contact the Cotton Bowl officials trying to get them a last look. It was too little, too late. The invitation was already out for Bama.

Because of the way these upper tier bowl games work they are set up by invitation, not by standings. The only requirement the Cap One has in their agreement with the SEC is they select a team that is within one game of the SEC runner-up (based on one team being in the BCS. IF we have two, the next team in line) So, UGA's invitation to the Cap One is well within the parameters set up.

It was a decision made by the Cotton Bowl officials to invite the team of their choosing. A two loss LSU team or a two loss A&M team. Considering how quickly A&M sells ticket allotments—and there are still some available for the Cotton, OU isn't selling the number you'd think they would—A&M was a logical, and smart choice.

You can't fault the BCS for not inviting LSU when there are two teams that deserve it more. You can't fault the Cotton Bowl for choosing A&M over LSU because they thought it was a better business decision.

You can say LSU had their chance to make a good enough sales pitch to the Cotton Bowl officials to get an invite over A&M. But still, that was an uphill battle from the start considering they are both two loss teams.

Consider this. LSU could have been invited to the Outback. But, that would have put UofSC vs Clemson in ATL. Do you think the SEC offices (which do have input on the CFA game, wanted that?)

Now, there is one issue. The SEC offices did have contact with the Cap One bowl officials in effort to get them to chose UGA this year. Should a two loss UGA team get the Cap One over a two loss LSU team? There's the rub if you ask me...and I tend to think that UGA deserved that invitation.

LSU should have received in the invitation to the Cap One in 2005. However, Auburn beat them to the punch and had agreements set up with the Cap One before LSU lost the SECCG.

History tells me LSU screwed the pooch in 2012 just like they did in 2005. Invitations for SEC schools to the top three bowls are determined by committees of those bowls. It's up to the school to convince those committees they are the best choice.

 

[BamaFan615]

Not sure if I worded my statement weird or what, but the fact that the SEC can only put 2 teams in BCS Bowls has kind of screwed us a little bit. I mean, you can't tell me that Northern Illinois, Wisconsin and Louisville a better or more deserving (leaving their conference affiliation out of the equation) than LSU, Texas A&M or Georgia.

I understand why LSU's slotted to play where they are...I just think they're a better team than what their bowl status shows, and that the system is flawed.

 

[TerryP]

I'll have to admit. I'm proud of Vandy today.

I didn't realize it until it was mentioned an hour or so ago but this win will make the first time Vandy has had a 9 win season in their history.

 

[planomateo]

The folks in Knoxville can't be very happy.

Because of this, I'm happy.

 

[XXL TideFan]

I like anything that hairlips Terdersee

 

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[BamaFan615]

You gotta be happy for Vandy. I don't know if these kind of seasons will continue for them, but Franklin has done a hell of a job.

 

[TerryP]

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