May not be TCU

[sportdawg]

Is that her stage name?

ESPN sidelin reporter Samantha Steele tweeted that she will call TCU in the Poinsettia Bowl with Lou Holtz and Mark May.

[jbizza]

Is that her stage name?

@Samantha_Steele

[arkansasbob]

That's what you have with RGIII. He's better at everything ... He's also ... much smarter ... I'm telling you, RGIII is a once in a lifetime ...

all true. i've heard it all my life.

[faninmonroe]

Palm has TCU out of the BCS mix......and Boise will likley not get an invite.....BSU to LV bowl....TCU ot San Diego

[PawDawg]

In Jerry Palm's projections this morning, TCS is only #18. If this holds true in the actual rankings, they won't be eligible for BCS Selection. Boise would be the only non-AQ eligible for At Large selection, but I am guessing they won't be selected for a BCS game ahead of Kansas State, Virginia Tech, or Michigan. There will be 8 automatic qualifiers, leaving only 2 at large spots. This is good for us as it leaves Boise and TCU in normal MWC bowls.

11:30 this morning. Get with the program FIM!

[TechDawgMc]

K-State beat Baylor 36-35 in Manhattan, KS this season. As a result, KSU finished 2nd in the Big XII and Baylor finished 3rd.

What I don't understand is why OU gets the Cotton Bowl bid and Baylor gets the Alamo Bowl, or some lesser bowl. Baylor and OU finished tied for 3rd in the Big XII this year, but Baylor owns the head-to-head win.



HD

For the Big 12 bowls, the bowls have an order in which they pick, it's not based on the order in which the Big 12 teams finish. The speculation is that the Cotton Bowl would rather have OU for the fans and the TV interest. Not sure that's right, mind you. Baylor would draw very well in Dallas and lots of people want to see RG3 play--who wants to watch a fading OU lose to Arkansas? Still, the Cotton Bowl people might make the bad choice.

OTOH, the Sugar Bowl folks could decide that Baylor would bring a better crowd and invite them over KSU. That'd be a bit unfair to KSU (just like the Cotton picking OU would be unfair to Baylor) but it wouldn't shock me. KSU is not known to travel well and Baylor is a lot closer to N.O.

[TechDawgMc]

Good grief. The Sugar took Va. Tech--two ACC schools in the BCS. The best conference in the country gets one team in the BCS, and they aren't in the title game even though they are 11-1. The most top-heavy conference gets two in the title game.

The BCS really, really sucks.

[TechAlum05]

Good grief. The Sugar took Va. Tech--two ACC schools in the BCS. The best conference in the country gets one team in the BCS, and they aren't in the title game even though they are 11-1. The most top-heavy conference gets two in the title game.

The BCS really, really sucks.

If you go 10-2, lose your conference championship game by 28 points, and finish the year ranked #11 in the final BCS standings, you get picked as a BCS at-large team and go to the Orange Bowl.

If you go 11-1, lose your de facto conference championship game by 1 point, and finish the year ranked #7 in the final BCS standings, you get snubbed by the BCS and go to the Las Vegas Bowl.

[PawDawg]

Good grief. The Sugar took Va. Tech--two ACC schools in the BCS. The best conference in the country gets one team in the BCS, and they aren't in the title game even though they are 11-1. The most top-heavy conference gets two in the title game.

The BCS really, really sucks.

Two seperate issues...

1. According to some the BCS sucks because they pitted 1 vs. 2 in the BCS NC.

2. BCS at large bowl games suck because they are selling hotel rooms. Va Tech is a bad team and does not deserve to be there.

[HogDawg]

Uhh HD I'm pretty sure you got some teams mixed up

I did. And I erased the post before you posted your copy of it. It was VA Tech that got bitch slapped 38-10 yesterday by Clemson. Same difference.....still an ACC team gaining a BCS Bowl bid that they don't deserve. The ESPN announcers even stated that the VA Tech head coach (Frank Beamer) "was embarrassed about it".





HD

[BoutThemDawgs]

*whistling* What copy?

[JuBru]

VA Tech got the bid because the Sugar Bowl wanted to make sure Michigan has an opponent they could beat handily. Michigan is a cash-cow.

[FishingBack]

2 ACC teams is a tragedy.......especially how Va Tech has been getting beaten around in big games the last 2 years.

They served up a cupcake for Michigan.