College Football: Bowls

[drothgery]

Wow, that's great you got to go. I've never been to a bowl game, and wish they would have more cold weather ones.....

I thought about trying to grab tickets for the Holiday (Cal & Texas Tech here in San Diego), but tonight's D&D night...

Biggest surprises so far: Wyoming over UCLA, Fresno over VA, and Ohio State utterly dominating OK State.

My Orange lost, of course, but I didn't think they'd lose that badly to a mediocre Georgia Tech team. At least it managed to cost coach P his job. Crazy internet rumors say the new AD will bring Norm Chow to SU with him from USC, but that's amazingly wishful thinking. Still, with a new coach the Orange ought to be able to get back to respectability.

 

[Crothian]

ESPN when reporting the lose of the Orange coach said that Chow was who they were going after or some such.

Ya, small schools beating the big ones is the first big suprise. As for Buckeyes verse Cowboys, I knew the Ohio State defense would give them problems. I had no idea Zwick would come in and play great though.

I'd have moved or canceled one night of gaming to go to the Holiday Bowl Hell, I canceled my Tuesday game so I can watch the National Championship game on TV.

Todays games: Boston College over North Carolina
Navy over New Mexico
Cal over Texas Tech
Northern Ill over Troy

 

[Dimwhit]

Man, forget gaming! Go see Cal!

 

[fett527]

I have to admit I expected the BUCKEYES to win, but not dominate that much. I enjoyed it quite thoroughly though!! Expectations will be high next year as they should be.

UNC and BC are tied to start the second half as I type...

 

[Krieg]

Crazy internet rumors say the new AD will bring Norm Chow to SU with him from USC, but that's amazingly wishful thinking.

Hey there are a lot of non Syracuse folks rooting for this one as well.

Chow is the architect of USC's offense and Carroll will have a hard time maintaining it without him.

As for Buckeyes verse Cowboys, I knew the Ohio State defense would give them problems. I had no idea Zwick would come in and play great though.

Justin got worse as the year progressed because he was fighting an injury. The UC & Marshall (and Okie State) games are far more indicitive of what is he capable of than Northwestern, Wisconsin & Iowa. The Buckeyes will be fine with whomever ends up under center next year.

 

[Crothian]

Poor Texas Tech. It is almost a no win situation for them. Even if they win (and they have a 10 point lead as I write this) it will be becuase Cal was sad they didn't get a BCS bowl and weren't ready to play. It must be nice for the Bears to have a ready made excuse for this game.

I watched a bit of pre game analysis and they talked about if the Bears would be ready. If they aren't ready they have no excuse except to blame themselves. They have to get ready to play the game in front of them, if they couldn't do that they should have declined the bowl invitation.

 

[Krug]

Nah Texas Tech was flat out the better team, and the Bears D suddenly decided to break down and chalk up dumb penalties. Oh well... I'm just glad they won The Big Game this year.

 

[Dimwhit]

I agree with you, Crothian. I think Cal didn't want anything to do with the Holiday Bowl and they just weren't ready. Part of me doesn't blame them. Getting booted from the Rose Bowl was the final nail in the coffin of my hatred of the current BCS system.

Today is judgement day for Boise State. We'll see if the nation's longest win streak can hold up.

 

[Crothian]

So, down year for the PAC 10? UCLA and Cal lose to teams they should beat.

 

[Krieg]

So, down year for the PAC 10? UCLA and Cal lose to teams they should beat.

No just a typical one.