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2007-08 (College Football) Bowl Schedule
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Posted on 12/02/2007 6:06:55 PM PST by GOP_Raider

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To: Dan Middleton
So not only does LSU get a shot at the national title on what’s essentially their home field...it’s their second shot IN LOUISIANA in four years!

Do you really think that the folks in La. want to go to Columbus in January?

81 posted on 12/02/2007 7:58:27 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: GOP_Raider

Thank you Pitt for exposing WVA before they made a shambles of the national championship.


82 posted on 12/02/2007 8:03:35 PM PST by AGreatPer ("The Democrats don't give a rats ass about this country"....Rush Limbaugh, 11/15/07)
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To: wrcase
Every year I create a mythical 16 team tournament using the 11 conference champions and the top 5 BCS non winners. Using the BCS rankings for seeding purposes. #s 14,15,16 are not in the top BCS 25 so I used geographical proximity.

One big problem with this type of format is that it omits several teams good teams who were not conference champions and had better records than some of those in this playoff system. It would be more appropriate to select the 16 best without the requirement all conference champions are included and would be based solely on the regular season, sans the BCS or conference championship BS. Just for kicks my 16 would be as follows:

#1 Ohio State vs #16 Virginia
#8 Virginia Tech vs #9 Kansas
#5 Georgia vs #12 Oklahoma
#4 West Virginia vs #13 LSU
#3 Hawaii vs #14 BYU
#6 USC vs #11 Florida
#7 Tennessee vs #10 Illinois
#2 Missouri vs #15 Boston College
83 posted on 12/02/2007 8:04:44 PM PST by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it! Duncan Hunter is a Cosponsor.)
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To: GOP_Raider

BCS put C in BS. Missouri get’s the shaft.


84 posted on 12/02/2007 8:15:35 PM PST by Apercu ("A man's character is his fate" - Heraclitus)
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To: GOP_Raider

I watched them win the NT in 1984 Holiday Bowl! Michigan invited me down.

That was a good year, went to see Washington/Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl too.


85 posted on 12/02/2007 8:16:04 PM PST by BurbankKarl
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To: traditional1

“Yes, and 7 of 11 Big Ten teams have Bowl games.”

8 of 11. Only Minnesota wasn’t bowl eligible.

2007-08 College Football Bowl ScheduleBowl Game Date/Time Site Matchup Network

Motor City Dec. 26
7:30 p.m. Detroit, Mich. Purdue vs. Central Michigan ESPN

Champs Sports
Boston College vs. Michigan State Orlando, Fla. Dec. 28, 5 p.m. ESPN HD

Alamo Dec. 29
8 p.m. San Antonio, Texas Penn State vs. Texas A&M ESPN

Insight Dec. 31
TBA Tempe, Ariz. Indiana vs. Oklahoma State NFL

Outback Jan. 1
11 a.m. Tampa, Fla. Wisconsin vs. Tennessee ESPN

Capital One Jan. 1
1 p.m. Orlando, Fla. Michigan vs. Florida ABC

Rose presented by Citi Jan. 1
4:30 p.m. Pasadena, Calif. USC vs. Illinois ABC

BCS National Championship Jan. 7
8 p.m. New Orleans, La. Ohio State vs. LSU FOX


86 posted on 12/02/2007 8:18:57 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: BurbankKarl

If UW could have ran the table that year I’d never have to hear from BYU fans about their National Championship. It really strikes a nerve. :)


87 posted on 12/02/2007 8:20:02 PM PST by GOP_Raider (Television is all Tommy Westphall's fault, damn it!)
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To: Lakeshark

“My point was, they (Hawaii) didn’t really deserve that bowl game, right?”

You’re the same guy who last year was telling everybody how Ohio State and Michigan were the top two teams in the country and should play for the national title. And they both laid their annual bowl game egg once they finally got out of that mediocre conference and actually played somebody. So lay off Hawaii, they would probably kick Michigan’s ass the same way USC did last year and the way everyone else seems to do every year in the bowl games.


88 posted on 12/02/2007 8:54:37 PM PST by raptor29
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To: lepton

Did I ever say anything that remotely implied I did? I want neutral sites.


89 posted on 12/02/2007 9:08:08 PM PST by Dan Middleton (Starting an anti-Ron Paul ping list, FReepmail me to be added or removed.)
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To: raptor29

90 posted on 12/02/2007 10:07:46 PM PST by indcons
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To: hinckley buzzard

Well, yes, but that’s the point. Georgia is in a lose-lose situation. If they win big, then everyone will say, “Oh, that is just what is expected of them.” But if they lose, then they really look bad.

As a Sooner fan, I still get ill over the Boise St. game. Ugh.


91 posted on 12/02/2007 10:31:27 PM PST by Pining_4_TX
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To: OKIEDOC

Why don’t you go satilite dish, then you can get all the sports you want.


92 posted on 12/03/2007 3:10:07 AM PST by Biggirl (A biggirl with a big heart for God's animal creation, with 4 cats in my life as proof. =^..^=)
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To: Loud Mime

Not suprising, the sports writers are journalists, and the majority are Dems.


93 posted on 12/03/2007 3:13:24 AM PST by Biggirl (A biggirl with a big heart for God's animal creation, with 4 cats in my life as proof. =^..^=)
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To: Biggirl
I was with both Dish and Direct TV for some time before moving to this condo.

No dishes so says the lease.

I had satellite for the 5 plus years I lived in South America.

Yea Chavez got his butt whipped by democracy.

94 posted on 12/03/2007 3:18:34 AM PST by OKIEDOC (Kalifornia, a red state wannabe. I don't take Ex Lax I just read the New York Times.)
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To: OKIEDOC

Not suprising, typical condo lease.

Chavez has been warned not to mess with his own citizens!


95 posted on 12/03/2007 3:37:39 AM PST by Biggirl (A biggirl with a big heart for God's animal creation, with 4 cats in my life as proof. =^..^=)
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To: RetiredArmy
Okay. Thanks. I knew it had been a very long time. Didn’t Dick Butkus take them to the Rose?

Yeah, 1964.

96 posted on 12/03/2007 3:54:33 AM PST by Non-Sequitur (Save Fredericksburg. Support CVBT.)
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To: dufekin
#83 Notre Dame (3-9) didn’t have six wins (3 < 6 even in South Bend) and so wasn’t bowl-eligible.

You missed the sarcasm tag.

97 posted on 12/03/2007 3:55:50 AM PST by Non-Sequitur (Save Fredericksburg. Support CVBT.)
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To: So Cal Rocket

“And the #1 Reason I keep hearing for not having a true playoff for the national championship is that it would make the season last too long.”

It appears they’ll always find “reasons” for no playoffs. I’m pretty confident that the real reason, though, is that the weaker teams know they’d never make the finals; so they fight going to playoffs every year.

And, BTW, I also think the real reason that Georgia isn’t in the Rose Bowl is because they can’t upstage the championship game. The “tradition” reason is baloney.


98 posted on 12/03/2007 4:22:14 AM PST by tabsternager
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To: tabsternager

There is one and only one reason for not having a playoff. That reason is the NCAA would control the playoff which would be a disaster.

The major football powers fought to long and too hard to wrest control of the TV schedule (and money) from the NCAA to give that up now.

Only about 20 years ago, the NCAA controlled, in the interest of balance and fairness, what teams played on TV. The NCAA decreed that no team could appear on TV more than twice a season. This allowed more teams to be on TV and resulted in very poor TV schedules. We had a lot of really bad teams playing really bad teams in really bad games that no one cared about. The NCAA also took half the TV revenues for itself and redistribution to teams that didn’t get to play on TV. The smaller schools loved this systems since it gave them a cut of the TV money.

OU sued the NCAA on the basis that it’s TV rights were it’s rights and not the NCAA’s. The USSC upheld OU. This had three effects. One, this meant that the networks could schedule any team any time they wanted. Two, a lot more money for the big schools. Three, the NCAA manufactured a recruiting scandal and slapped OU on probation for two years.

The current BCS is managed outside the NCAA. Until you can figure out a way to keep the NCAA out of the playoffs, the playoffs will not happen. You must also figure out how to keep all the smaller schools from voting on the playoff and revenue. Otherwise, like good socialists, they will vote themselves a slice.

Quite frankly, everyone who spends time manufacturing various playoff brackets showing how easy it is are wasting their time. Everyone who spends time showing how to schedule the playoffs is wasting their time. Everyone who spends time ‘integrating’ their playoff with the bowl system is wasting their time. Those aren’t the issues.

The issue is that a NCAA playoff would be controlled by the NCAA and the major football powers will not let that happen since they know how the NCAA will screw them over.


99 posted on 12/03/2007 4:57:20 AM PST by DugwayDuke (Ron Paul - building a bridge to the 19th century.)
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To: wrcase
But Connecticut and West Virginia are technically the Big East “co-champs” this year - do we need another playoff game between those two to decide who gets the Big East birth? Or do the Mountaineers get it by default, as they beat UConn the other week?
100 posted on 12/03/2007 5:06:30 AM PST by CT-Freeper (Said the frequently disappointed but ever optimistic Mets fan.)
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