Big 10 Bowl Games

[skatingtripods]

March down the field running the ball and then try to throw for 2. Idiotic.

[FUDU]

March down the field running the ball and then try to throw for 2. Idiotic.

Agreed, although the guy was pretty much wide open, IMO a great play by the defender, but I would have run it like you.

[skatingtripods]

Tank Carder's played the game of a lifetime tonight.

[FUDU]

Badgers early FG and the missed one really are the difference right now, the first simply b/c of the early dropped pass, they looked poised to score a TD at that point.

[Fire Marshall Bill]

lol

Whatever OSU fan who lost to Wisky and needs a W tonite to sleep well

Forget the fact the oddsmakers had TCU the fave...you guys are right and they were all wrong and thier billion $ casinos prove it...

...and no, I'm not talking about the same "Wiseguys"? that someone upthread spoke of who predicted the Gator players to lay down vs PSU

Ya'll crack me up

Great game and props to TCU. That #43 kid could play on my team any day

[FUDU]

Why do you assume "we" don't credit for TCU for the win, they beat Wisconsin tonight, and I personally don't need a W from them to make me sleep well. Buckeyes were over rated this year, they proved it, so did Wiscy when they beat us.

[skatingtripods]

Whatever OSU fan who lost to Wisky and needs a W tonite to sleep well

Has nothing to do with it.

Forget the fact the oddsmakers had TCU the fave...you guys are right and they were all wrong and thier billion $ casinos prove it...

Oddsmakers also had Miami (FL) favored, along with Hawaii, West Virginia, SMU, Nebraska, Clemson, South Carolina, and Georgia. So what's your point?

...and no, I'm not talking about the same "Wiseguys"? that someone upthread spoke of who predicted the Gator players to lay down vs PSU

Ya'll crack me up

Great game and props to TCU. That #43 kid could play on my team any day

Sorry, next time I'll copy and paste what I read about the PSU/UF game from a well-respected sharp on Chad Millman's blog.

Sometimes games don't work out the way the oddsmakers expect them to. The purpose of setting a line is not to predict the game's outcome. It's to balance the money on both sides as best as possible.

[Madre Hill, Superstar]

lol

Whatever OSU fan who lost to Wisky and needs a W tonite to sleep well

Whatever to Auburn's bitch- ERR- Bama fan who had to settle for the Big Ten's second string in the Cap One Bowl.

[mattvan1]

As much as I would like to crow about power football bitch slapping the Big 12, not sure how well the rest of the conference fares against the SEC/TCU

As I feared. What a buttfuck of a day for the Big 10. Ouch. No way to spin this abortion of a crapfest into a positive. No way.

[leadpipe]

A few randoms;

TCU was favored in that game in part because coaching is part of the team. Brett Bielema? Please. TCU wins this game 7 of 10. Especially if there's a month off to prepare.

Christ Cousins was the most overrated player in the nation this year. Every announce/analysist talking about his "rebound" from last season. Did you they somehow miss the 9,000 dropped interceptions from this year.

God Bless Michigan, now officially LP's best "bet against" team in his gambling career. Remember a few weeks back when I wonderered if the lines were ever going to catch up, and they were so pathetic I was just going to bet against the rest of the season. One game, Purdue I believe, that was even in question in the second half. Greg Robinson forever. By the way, that line opened at MSU -6, and moved to -3. Is anyone watching the f'in games? Christ. 2-12 ATS. Fantastic!!

Gotta think they'll be talk of a coaching change at Georgia, but damn, I'm real interested in Aaron Murray.

The Patero thing is moving from funny to pathetic. I mean the jokes about him falling asleep still make me chuckle, but he's put Happy Valley on hold. Guy can't even hear.

One way the game has changed at the collegiate level, is you HAVE to be able to get some large chunks to score quickly at times. This is what seperates Wiscy from the elite ILO. Without this, against good competition, you REALLY have to be almost perfect. And they almost got thru the season with only one team biting them, but it's awful tough. Against well coached, disciplined teams with pretty equal talent....they're going to lose some games.

[Triple-S]

Can I ramble on about something?

I truly believe this "Conference Pride" pissing contest perpetuated by ESPN and the media, is stupid.

Do I cheer on Big Ten teams in OC-games and Bowl Games? Yeah, but it really depends on the team or if I like the coach or their style of play. I hate Michigan, because frankly, I am supposed to hate them, same with IU, and I'm not really big on Brett Bielema at Wisky, dude comes off as a douche and don't dig the way he runs up the score.

But, it's stupid. SEC-Honk may have been a Tennessee Vols fan all his life, but he cheers for the Gators in the Nat'l title game because "it's good for the conference"? SCREW THAT, if the shoe was on the other foot, I would not be rooting on Michigan in any situation. And you're measuring it on the basis of one game? really? So, say, TOSU goes undefeated, whoops on USC, Pitt and Texas in the regular season, all of that doesn't matter because they lose to "x-SEC team", who probably scheduled a bunch of hack D-1-AA teams in the Sugar Bowl?

Which comes back to why a playoff could fix all of this, because much like in March Madness, I believe "Who has the best conference" talk would matter less and less. I mean, do you see, when that times come around, some random guy who's a Florida St. fan rant on about how great the ACC is, because of UNC and Duke?

TCU, Utah (X2), Boise St. all have proved that what conference you're in, it really shouldn't matter, individual teams do.

[hermanfontenot]

As I feared. What a buttfuck of a day for the Big 10. Ouch. No way to spin this abortion of a crapfest into a positive. No way.

Why should we care about what the rest of the Big Ten does as long as Ohio State handles its business? It doesn't matter. Ohio State will play for the MNC every time it goes undefeated, will get a BCS bid every time it goes 10-2 or 11-1, irregardless of what the rest of the conference does.

Big Ten is 3-5? Doesn't concern me. All that concerns me is that Ohio State goes 1-0. If Michigan and Michigan State pisses down their leg it's their problem, not ours.

I don't root for the Steelers and Rats in the playoffs because they're in the same division as the Browns. Why should college football be any different?

[Triple-S]

As I feared. What a buttfuck of a day for the Big 10. Ouch. No way to spin this abortion of a crapfest into a positive. No way.

Why should we care about what the rest of the Big Ten does as long as Ohio State handles its business? It doesn't matter. Ohio State will play for the MNC every time it goes undefeated, will get a BCS bid every time it goes 10-2 or 11-1, irregardless of what the rest of the conference does.

Big Ten is 3-5? Doesn't concern me. All that concerns me is that Ohio State goes 1-0. If Michigan and Michigan State pisses down their leg it's their problem, not ours.

I don't root for the Steelers and Rats in the playoffs because they're in the same division as the Browns. Why should college football be any different?

preach on brother, preach on.

[pup]

Dear Big 10,

Tell us how our ass tastes.

Regards,

Everyone but the French 12

[JoJo White]

Legends and Leaders FTW!

And if only the Big 12 could play defense like they do in the Big 10...

[mattvan1]

As I feared. What a buttfuck of a day for the Big 10. Ouch. No way to spin this abortion of a crapfest into a positive. No way.

Why should we care about what the rest of the Big Ten does as long as Ohio State handles its business? It doesn't matter. Ohio State will play for the MNC every time it goes undefeated, will get a BCS bid every time it goes 10-2 or 11-1, irregardless of what the rest of the conference does.

Big Ten is 3-5? Doesn't concern me. All that concerns me is that Ohio State goes 1-0. If Michigan and Michigan State pisses down their leg it's their problem, not ours.

I don't root for the Steelers and Rats in the playoffs because they're in the same division as the Browns. Why should college football be any different?

Apples vs. Oranges. The NFL Championship is determined on the field, not in the media. I want the Big 10 to do well because the perceived strength of the conference is a factor, and I would think a large one, in how OSU is viewed nationally and how they are ranked. Hell, Dr. Gordon Gee feels the same way, or have you forgotten his little tirade - "it's like murderer's row every week for these schools. We do not play the Little Sisters of the Poor. We play very fine schools on any given day. " Not really, Doc. At least not this year.

Why did Boise State not get enough respect - because they were a good team from a crap conference who didn't play anybody. I'd rather not have to go down that road with the Bucks.

There is is also another reason - an on the field one that may be more important. If and when OSU gets back to a National Championship game, I would hope they will have been tested against stiff competition - and be prepared to play an elite team. Sleepwalking through 80% of your schedule does nothing to get a team ready to play in a bowl game let alone the NC.

[googleeph2]

Ooh, piling on. That was unexpected.
Doesn't bother me either, although it was sure nice and quiet this time last year when the children went to bed.

Responding to several points above:

1) When Wisc was driving down the field by running the ball, I was yelling, "Keep running it. Don't get cute." Shoot, the announcers were anticipating the Wisc line wearing down the D all game. When they dropped back for the conversion, you could easily see the TE wide open but I half appreciated the ball getting swatted away. They deserved that for not running again. I would have enjoyed the storyline of the traditional Big 10 power game winning the Rose Bowl in 2011, too.

2) I do want the Big-10 to be strong- not to keep the pups and JoJos from hurting my tender feelings, but to help keep The Ohio State University football team strong. They need a better conference test every year.

3) A national playoff might soften the conference smack, but I think too many non-Big 10 fans are envious of them for whatever reasons (money, attention, size). They won't give that up. And yes, it is media-driven. Southern pride factors into the equation to some extent, too. ***

4) I think that eventually the pro-playoff sentiment will be moot. The power conferences will keep consolidating until there are only a handful remaining- and each will have their own playoff. At some point, perhaps a 4-school playoff among the power conferences will be all that's left to play to determine an undisputed champ. So 3 games, and it wouldn't be 'mythical' any more. (And for those who lament the viability of the mid-major football schools if a playoff is instituted, they will fade further from the national stage with the conferences merging anyway.)

Also, it's been covered but I like to repeat: What a nice group of northern Ohio head coaches at the college level.
Tressel
Zook
Pelini
Meyer
Stoops
Who'd I forget?


*** EDIT- by the way, they don't like it when you call their conference the "Ass-Ay-Say". Not that I'm warning you not to. ha

[Bayou Tribe]

Gotta go with herm here. Conference toughness in the voter's eyes is legit but also a little overrated. If you are in an auto-qualifier and you take care of business you are going to be there, especially having a conference title game in your back pocket. I like seeing the SEC win and all, but watching Miss St wax Michigan won't make my lunch taste any better if A&M beats LSU. Just not happening for me.

*** EDIT- by the way, they don't like it when you call their conference the "Ass-Ay-Say". Not that I'm warning you not to. ha

[Fire Marshall Bill]

Legends and Leaders FTW!

And if only the Big 12 could play defense like they do in the Big 10...

Ouch!

[Fire Marshall Bill]

lol

Whatever OSU fan who lost to Wisky and needs a W tonite to sleep well

Whatever to Auburn's bitch- ERR- Bama fan who had to settle for the Big Ten's second string in the Cap One Bowl.

Huh?

[Fire Marshall Bill]

Why do you assume "we" don't credit for TCU for the win, they beat Wisconsin tonight, and I personally don't need a W from them to make me sleep well. Buckeyes were over rated this year, they proved it, so did Wiscy when they beat us.

Because the whole freaking game not a one of you was giving credit to TCU for the multitude of plays and head cracking hits they delivered on D and esp for the times they planted the Wisky QB like fucking Daffodil

It was fitting the game ended on a pass delfelction by a DL as it was a DL pass deflection that kept TCU from garnering a first down on the prior series and Wisc would never have touched the ball again. Some criticize the play call but, the revrs WAS wide open, just like TCU's prior possession

All ya'll did was criticize Whisky for not running over under around and through a team not a one of ya has likely watched all season and their smashmouth D after that first play from Wisky shoulda clued ya's in that this was not going to be the bloodbath so many of you predicted and/or assumed it would be

Absofuckinglootley a great game! for college foorball

Crunch time..... and Cinderella gutted up vs "The Hottest" team in the country

[googleeph2]

it was a DL pass deflection that kept TCU from garnering a first down on the prior series and Wisc would never have touched the ball again

True.

All ya'll did was criticize Whisky for not running over under around and through a team not a one of ya has likely watched all season

Right- never did watch TCU all year. Did they play their very best game of the year?

But it's a legit criticism that Wisc should have run the ball on the conversion.

[Fire Marshall Bill]

...traditional Big 10 power game winning the Rose Bowl in 2011.....

Fallacy ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

[googleeph2]

Oops, you lost a little credibility there.

[mattvan1]

Gotta go with herm here. Conference toughness in the voter's eyes is legit but also a little overrated. If you are in an auto-qualifier and you take care of business you are going to be there, especially having a conference title game in your back pocket. I like seeing the SEC win and all, but watching Miss St wax Michigan won't make my lunch taste any better if A&M beats LSU. Just not happening for me.

Easy to say when your team plays in the SEC. Let's not take this too far out of context - never wrote that it doesn't matter what OSU does - but I would like to see a better showing by the Big 10 in a risng tide lifts all boats type of thing.

According to the POV by you and Herm, you'd be OK with LSU and OSU in a shit conference like the Big East as long as that conference has AQ status? UConn looked lost last night against a pretty average Oklahoma team. One because they suck, and two because Oklahoma was by far far far the best team UConn has seen all year. Maybe ever.

I want a stronger Big 10. One way to measure that strength is by how well your conference plays in post season bowls. I understand that it doesn't matter to everyone, but the only way OSU wins another NC is by being tested throughout the season, not sleepwalking through the conference schedule and then beating a crappy Michigan at the end of the year.

[dmiles]

When Utah was matched up against Bama a couple years back they didn't curl up in the fetal position. UConn put up a better fight against a vastly more talented team. I confess to not watching most of the Michigan game, but McLovin was flat out an embarrassment. I didn't think there was a major D1 QB worse than Brantley but I was proven wrong once again.

It's really to the point that rooting for the conference is futile and left a really bad taste in the mouth yesterday. Been said here many times but the coaching in the B10 is a real problem, and frankly I just don't know if I care. Suspensions or not the Buckeyes have to get up for the Wisky game next year to get to the B10 title game no matter what happens the first 5.

[Bayou Tribe]

Gotta go with herm here. Conference toughness in the voter's eyes is legit but also a little overrated. If you are in an auto-qualifier and you take care of business you are going to be there, especially having a conference title game in your back pocket. I like seeing the SEC win and all, but watching Miss St wax Michigan won't make my lunch taste any better if A&M beats LSU. Just not happening for me.

Easy to say when your team plays in the SEC. Let's not take this too far out of context - never wrote that it doesn't matter what OSU does - but I would like to see a better showing by the Big 10 in a risng tide lifts all boats type of thing.

According to the POV by you and Herm, you'd be OK with LSU and OSU in a shit conference like the Big East as long as that conference has AQ status? UConn looked lost last night against a pretty average Oklahoma team. One because they suck, and two because Oklahoma was by far far far the best team UConn has seen all year. Maybe ever.

I want a stronger Big 10. One way to measure that strength is by how well your conference plays in post season bowls. I understand that it doesn't matter to everyone, but the only way OSU wins another NC is by being tested throughout the season, not sleepwalking through the conference schedule and then beating a crappy Michigan at the end of the year.

I hear you, and I definitely understand your want for a stronger conference in terms of pride, but I wonder if UConn/Big East is the rule or the exception? ACC is terrible, but Florida St still came out and flexed their muscle against an almight, big and bad SEC team. And I really do believe that Va Tech will play well and beat Stanford tomorrow night also. I think your point is valid, I really do, I'm just not sure if I feel the same way.

[mattvan1]

I hear you, and I definitely understand your want for a stronger conference in terms of pride, but I wonder if UConn/Big East is the rule or the exception? ACC is terrible, but Florida St still came out and flexed their muscle against an almight, big and bad SEC team. And I really do believe that Va Tech will play well and beat Stanford tomorrow night also. I think your point is valid, I really do, I'm just not sure if I feel the same way.

Cool. I think I am having a difficult time making my point. It's not about bragging rights or pride- it's about, in the long run, developing a stronger program. A myriad of things need to happen, and one that helps is playing better competition week in and week out.

[FUDU]

Again I think the crux of the issue right now in hindsight of the Wiscy TCU game is not if TCU can beat a Wiscy, b/c obviously they can, but more does a TCU even get to that game if they played in a legit conference (where you might have to play 3-4 legit teams in a row every single year). I know TCU has had a good record against BCS schools or whatever the stat was last night, but IMO there is a big difference between having to prepare for one or two of those games a year as opposed to having to prepare for 3 of them in a row, and on the road in places like Death Valley, Madison or the Shoe, and at night.

[leadpipe]

Again I think the crux of the issue right now in hindsight of the Wiscy TCU game is not if TCU can beat a Wiscy, b/c obviously they can, but more does a TCU even get to that game if they played in a legit conference (where you might have to play 3-4 legit teams in a row every single year). I know TCU has had a good record against BCS schools or whatever the stat was last night, but IMO there is a big difference between having to prepare for one or two of those games a year as opposed to having to prepare for 3 of them in a row, and on the road in places like Death Valley, Madison or the Shoe, and at night.

Without question, but it applies more in regard to the TCU's or Boise's running the table and playing for a title. I've been on record as saying what a huge advantage a free regular season is.

However, specifically to the Rose Bowl. I don't see how this year's TCU couldn't go into this year's big ten and wind up on par with Wiscy, OSU or Michigan State. They just beat Wiscy, I think they are waay better than MSU, and have you seen Terrell Pryor's numbers this year against any decent defense with a pulse. Hell, people claiming the vest had the guy under wraps...look at those numbers, he was doin' what he had to do with that guy to get the wins.

[FUDU]

Eh hard for me to completely agree but I see your point. My thing about the Rose Bowl is simply that TCU won with almost picture perfect execution on their part and superior game day coaching. I'm not so sure that holds true enough for them to win that game more than 3 times if they played it ten. Wiscy dominated TOP and ran the ball down their throats, missing out on converting one drive for any points and another for 4 more points. Having said that I cannot see them pulling that off for 3-4 straight weeks in late Oct through November against teams like Iowa, Wiscy, OSU, PSU and Nebraska year in and year out.

This year I agree they most likely are in the mix come the last week of Big Ten play.