NCAA Football '12-13

[katmai]

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[katmai]

What
In
The
Fuck
Seriously??? Sun (Dec. 31, El Paso, Texas): USC (7-5) vs. Georgia Tech(6-7)

[Valmy]

Yeah well it is the ACC.  That 6-6 team came very close to being their champion for Godsake.

[Valmy]

And the Sooners get bent over the couch and taken from behind by the Northern Illinois Huskies. 

It sets up the Satan Bowl for a Texas fan.  We can only hope for a Sodom and Gomorrah type disaster occuring on Jerry World during that game.

[Valmy]

Texas gets Oregon State in the Alamo Bowl.  Texas has always won at the Alamo right?

[katmai]

Yeah well it is the ACC.  That 6-6 team came very close to being their champion for Godsake.

I really have hard time defendingthe 6-6 teams going to bowl games, but a sub .500 team? i mean sure if this was basketball and they had won the conference tourny, but this nonsense.

[dps]

Yeah well it is the ACC.  That 6-6 team came very close to being their champion for Godsake.

I really have hard time defendingthe 6-6 teams going to bowl games, but a sub .500 team? i mean sure if this was basketball and they had won the conference tourny, but this nonsense.

They had to get an exemption.  The reasoning was something like this--the only reason that they were in the ACC title game was because Miami self-imposed a postseason ban.  Had Miami not done so, the Hurricanes would have been the ones playing Florida State in the title game, not Georgia Tech, and Tech would have been in a bowl game at 6-6.  If you didn't give Georgia Tech the exemption, in effect you would be penalizing them for Miami's actions.  Same thing basically happened last year with UCLA--they got an exemption after losing the PAC-12 title game, which they wouldn't have been in in the first place if USC hadn't been banned from the postseason.  I don't much like it, but I see the point.

[dps]

In other bowl news, you guys heard about how La Tech's AD screwed them out of a bowl game?  He turned down an invite to the Independence Bowl because he thought the team would get a bid to the Liberty Bowl.  But when Northern Illinois got into a BCS game, it knocked Oklahoma down to the Liberty Bowl, and La Tech was left without a bowl game.

Good way to start your campaign to keep the head coach who got you to 9-3 from leaving for a more prestigious program, Mr. AD.

[Valmy]

Yeah that was funny.  WAC membership screwed them one final time on the way out.  It was kind of an old school way to blow it though.  Miscalculations like that used to be common around Bowl Time before conferences started negotiating these things.

[Grey Fox]

I didn't know there was THAT many bowls. For example, the BBVA Compass bowl, why is two 6-6 teams playing in them?

[MadBurgerMaker]

I didn't know there was THAT many bowls. For example, the BBVA Compass bowl, why is two 6-6 teams playing in them?

Because those were the SEC and Big East teams available when that bowl made their selection.  That particular bowl is pretty far down the list for both of those conferences, so you're going to get the ones that are just barely bowl eligible a lot of the time.  If they didn't have enough eligible teams, you would have probably had a C-USA team with a much better record in there instead.  Not necessarily a better team, but with a better record.

[Valmy]

Yeah alot of Bowls have an agreement with the conferences to take a team from that league if available.  So if there is a 6-6 team leftover that is who they are obligated to take.

[Grey Fox]

How are Bowls administrated? I'm confuse by the BCS bowls vs the none BCS bowls.

[Valmy]

How are Bowls administrated? I'm confuse by the BCS bowls vs the none BCS bowls.

They are independent actors.  The BCS bowls are the traditionally elite bowls (minus the Cotton Bowl which got left out for various reasons) that formed an alliance back in the 90s with the TV networks to coordinate their games to ensure that #1 played #2 so we have a clear national champion.  The non-BCS Bowls scramble to put on the best matchup they can for their sponsor, and in order to make sure they have a big school with lots of fans matching up they form alliances with the conferences giving them the #1 to #9 pick (or whatever) in that league.  So if it comes to their choice and all they have is a 6-6 team that is what they are stuck with.

[Grey Fox]

How is this going to work next year with the 4 team playoffs?

Man, NCAA football is hard.