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**Ladies and Gentlemen...it's the FR College Football 2007-08 Bowl Games Thread**

Posted on 12/19/2007 1:19:19 PM PST by GOP_Raider

It's the most wonderful time of the year...With my Utes winning bowl games and BYU losing so I'll be of good cheer...it's the most wonderful time of the year...

--Ow! Tomatoes hurt you know. Sheesh...

During the regular season, I would normally do my fancy and mildly humorous graphical elements and those of you who would like me to feature their school's games, I would oblige. However, since we've got miles to go before we sleep, I'll re-ping the list as we go along and include said graphics. Sound like a deal? Excellent.

Tomorrow the fun will begin. (For me, at least). :)


TOPICS: Sports
KEYWORDS: bowlgames; collegefootball
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To: GOP_Raider

Have you NO sense of proportion? There are 3 games on Saturday. At least take her to a sports bar so you can watch the game over her shoulder.


21 posted on 12/19/2007 3:45:52 PM PST by PAR35
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To: GOP_Raider
I can't help but notice the predominance of Red in that photo and the absence of Baby Blue.

UCLA makes it to the Rose Bowl once every 10-12 years, and wins one every 20 or so, you would think that they would at least show up for the damn game, instead of selling their tickets to Badgers.

22 posted on 12/19/2007 4:08:28 PM PST by Michael.SF. ("democrat" -- 'one who panders to the crude and mindless whims of the masses " - Joseph J. Ellis)
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To: PAR35

Considering that the late game that day is the Las Vegas Bowl featuring a team I despise with every fiber of my being (BYU) I’ll have to miss that one. :)


23 posted on 12/19/2007 4:09:26 PM PST by GOP_Raider (Don't panic, folks. Rush Babies Will Save America.)
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To: GOP_Raider
BTW, I, for one, want to say: Merry Christmas and Happy New Year and thanks for doing a great job keeping these threads so interesting and informative.

Good luck to your Utes and go LSU!

24 posted on 12/19/2007 4:17:30 PM PST by Positive (Nothing is sadder than to see a beautiful theory murdered by a gang of brutal facts.)
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To: Michael.SF.

That and I can’t help but think that Pasadena in January is probably a lot better than Wisconsin in January.


25 posted on 12/19/2007 4:18:52 PM PST by GOP_Raider (Don't panic, folks. Rush Babies Will Save America.)
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To: GOP_Raider

True. I can’t help but imagine how many times on New Year’s day when it is 4 degrees outsideand snow is three feet deep in the driveway that some man in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Iowa, N.D. etc. turned on the Rose Bowl where it is 78 degrees, sun is shining and turned to his wife and said: “Myrtle, that’s it. This year we are movin to California, just like those Dodger’s did last year!”


26 posted on 12/19/2007 4:29:37 PM PST by Michael.SF. ("democrat" -- 'one who panders to the crude and mindless whims of the masses " - Joseph J. Ellis)
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To: Bat_Chemist

So you’d have TWO 2-loss teams playing for the title?

Is that so absurd when you’ve got a 2-loss team in the BCS Title game?

I’d just like to see Les Miles carry on like the cry baby he’s been since the pre-season when the AP trophy goes somewhere else. Les earned the cry baby title in the pre-season when he complained about SC having a soft schedule and an easy road to the NC game (not so easy in hindsight)

And Les complains about SC’s schedule when LSU is facing teams line Miss State, Mid Tennessee, Tulane and LA Tech. What a joke.


27 posted on 12/19/2007 4:34:36 PM PST by rockthecasbah (He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat.)
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To: GOP_Raider

Good thing you didn’t go to an SEC school. Rest assured, if South Carolina was in a bowl game this year, I’d be watching and cheering for the opponent.


28 posted on 12/19/2007 4:35:51 PM PST by PAR35
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To: rockthecasbah
"It’ll be a joke if a two loss team wins the national championship - a National Title with an asterisk"

First, I will acknowledge that there will be no National Championship in Division 1A College Football. There will be the winner of the "BCS Championship Game" which determines the "champion" of the two team league formed each year by a convoluted combination of popularity, public relations, and some degree of analysis of the quality of the teams based on their performance during the season.

Having said that, most fans would like to see a playoff, say like the NFL and/or the Division 1AA, Division 2 and Division 3 schools. Keep in mind that the only true NCAA Division 1 College Football Champion lost two games, that would be Appalachian State (13-2).

Also both teams in the 2007 Super Bowl lost 4 games during the regular season and nobody seems to be demanding an asterisk after thier names in the record book.

Of course, I think there will be two 2 loss teams in the BCS Championship game at the end of the day, 12-2 LSU and 11-2 Ohio State Stinking Fruits...if you catch my meaning.

29 posted on 12/19/2007 4:39:34 PM PST by Positive (Nothing is sadder than to see a beautiful theory murdered by a gang of brutal facts.)
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To: Repeal 16-17
I understand your feelings on Hawaii and how that would put another crack in the broken
Bc S, but I am pulling for the Dawgs!
30 posted on 12/19/2007 5:11:47 PM PST by FreeAtlanta (Search for Folding Project - Join FR Team 36120)
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To: Michael.SF.

Or they could have done what my team’s former owner, Horace Stoneham did and moved where the summers are cold. ;)


31 posted on 12/19/2007 5:21:21 PM PST by GOP_Raider (Don't panic, folks. Rush Babies Will Save America.)
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To: Positive
First, I will acknowledge that there will be no National Championship in Division 1A College Football. There will be the winner of the "BCS Championship Game" which determines the "champion" of the two team league formed each year by a convoluted combination of popularity, public relations, and some degree of analysis of the quality of the teams based on their performance during the season.

Absolutely right. Before the BCS, each year their was an elected champion of whatever the hell the top level of college football is called. Now there's two teams elected to a BCS National Championship Game. No more elections! The champion of any sports league should in no way be determined by an election. Just as the next President shouldn't be determined by a poker game. Until the NCAA realizes that this is college football, not college student government, there has never been, and never will be, a true National Champion of the top level of college football.

32 posted on 12/19/2007 5:38:03 PM PST by Repeal 16-17 (Let me know when the Shooting starts.)
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To: Michael.SF.
True. I can’t help but imagine how many times on New Year’s day when it is 4 degrees outsideand snow is three feet deep in the driveway that some man in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Iowa, N.D. etc. turned on the Rose Bowl where it is 78 degrees, sun is shining and turned to his wife and said: “Myrtle, that’s it. This year we are movin to California, just like those Dodger’s did last year!”

That's basically why Pasadena exists...it was the Indiana Colony of California - which in turn probably contributes to why the Tournament of Roses Committee chose to invite the Big-10 to its exhibition game..

33 posted on 12/19/2007 5:46:23 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: lepton
That's basically why Pasadena exists...it was the Indiana Colony of California

I recall growing up in Long Beach, where the "Iowa Picnic" was an annual event at Recreation Park well into late 60's. I am sure there are other towns that had localized ExPat populations that all came from the same area.

34 posted on 12/19/2007 5:51:07 PM PST by Michael.SF. ("democrat" -- 'one who panders to the crude and mindless whims of the masses " - Joseph J. Ellis)
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To: GOP_Raider

35 posted on 12/19/2007 6:36:07 PM PST by Zuben Elgenubi
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To: GOP_Raider
Gator Bowl Texas Tech vs Virginia...

Michael Crabtree's List of honors getting longer

Go Red Raiders!

36 posted on 12/19/2007 6:51:12 PM PST by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (GaTTor Bowl Bound!!)
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To: Bat_Chemist
I’ll take some pics of your team for you, since you can’t make it.

Thanks Bat _Chemist! Merry Christmas!
37 posted on 12/19/2007 7:18:32 PM PST by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it! Duncan Hunter is a Cosponsor.)
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA

That will be a game I’ll have to make an effort to watch—the benefit of having our bowl game as the very first one. :)

Any of the TTU FR Contingent planning on making the trip to JAX?


38 posted on 12/19/2007 7:29:42 PM PST by GOP_Raider (Don't panic, folks. Rush Babies Will Save America.)
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To: GOP_Raider
Go Navy!!!! Call me crazy but if I could pick one upset to shock the world Illinois will beat USC. People are really underestimating Illinois.

Also if Michigan can get healthy (they've been banged up for most of the season) maybe they can beat Florida. Especially if Tebow gets fat and happy in his post-Heisman tour. If that doesn't work we'll have to send Jessica Simpson to the game. LOL!

39 posted on 12/20/2007 5:03:30 PM PST by fkabuckeyesrule
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To: ABG(anybody but Gore); aft_lizard; Archie Bunker on steroids; Auntbee; Bad~Rodeo; Bat_Chemist; ...
Otay Buckwheats, it's time for the bowl season to commence. Tonight's bowl game is...

UTAH vs. Navy. In a few minutes on ESPN regular. Let the games begin...

40 posted on 12/20/2007 5:56:34 PM PST by GOP_Raider (Don't panic, folks. Rush Babies Will Save America.)
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