Game Thread: Bowl Games | Sat Dec 28 | 8 games (ABC/ESPN starting at 10am CST)

bamaga

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I'm pulling for BYU. Neon can lose every game and I will be happy.
I don’t mind coach Prime, Nick likes him, better yet, Miss Tery loves him. he can coach. Colorado was a horrible program when he took over. I don’t like his methods either, but I can’t argue with how he turned it around.
 

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If they didn’t play during the regular season, I don’t see the big deal. And that’s especially true today, in which conferences have moved teams around so much. BYU and Colorado have never been in the same conference until the past year.
same here. I actually forgot they were both in the big 12 until someone mentioned it here.
 

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Maybe so, but it's still a horrible practice, and completely misses the point of a bowl game.
What is the point of a bowl game?

They began with Pasadena wanting to add a feature to its Tournament of Roses Parade, featuring a top team from the East traveling to play a top team from the West. The game was a means of showcasing Pasadena.

Fast forward to the 1930s. New Orleans, Miami, Dallas, and then El Paso did the same thing. The games were about showcasing the cities. They were glorified exhibitions, as the NC wasn’t even awarded after the bowls until the 1960s for the AP poll and 1973 for the UPI poll.

Today they are even less about showcasing a city and more about made for tv ad dumps for ESPN. So if the match up is thought to draw tv dollars, that’s all that matters to the entities that put the games on.
 

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I really don’t like BYU, for a lot of reasons many of which I can’t go into without getting banned from the football board. But one of them is that they play with a massive chip on their shoulders which often manifests in an arrogant demeanor and dirty play.

So I’m not surprised they are taking it to Colorado early.
 

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The Military Bowl on ESPN is pretty good. ECU just got jobbed by the refs big time! They are down by one to NC State and have the ball with under 2 minutes left.....
 
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