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NickRoweFillea posted:Tennessee playing Penn State and loving that bald fraud James Franklin would be awesome This would likely end up in my stepfather and I never speaking again. We didn't talk for like 3 weeks after the last time UT and PSU played.
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Our first official bowl matchup has been announced. Western Michigan will play Middle Tennessee in the Popeyes Bahamas Bowl.
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Posture Pal posted:Our first official bowl matchup has been announced. Man what a sweet rear end bowl to get to go to. Do the players have to pay any part of their way or is it all paid for by the school/popeyes?
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Dec 1, 2015 19:13
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Alaois posted:Elliott Smith Bowl Spearing is the only form of tackling allowed.
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Joey Freshwater posted:Man what a sweet rear end bowl to get to go to. Do the players have to pay any part of their way or is it all paid for by the school/popeyes? The schools pay for it.
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Dec 1, 2015 19:28
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Joey Freshwater posted:Man what a sweet rear end bowl to get to go to. Do the players have to pay any part of their way or is it all paid for by the school/popeyes? I found this from last year. I'd assume it's paid for by the school.
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yeah it's the schools, and they have to announce it quick because it's a logistical nightmare with travel and getting everyone cleared for passports.
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Well I meant that it's more awesome from the kids standpoint. Free trip to the Bahamas? Hell yeah. I know it's not a 'prestigious' bowl but I'd rather go there than like Tampa or wherever.
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Dec 1, 2015 20:45
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Oh poo poo yeah it's gotta be awesome as hell for the kids
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If I got to spend a week or so in the Bahamas eating Popeye's, that would be the best time of my life.
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It's even better than that - they get to chill at Atlantis for a week and nail tons of island girls while eating Popeye's. Beats the poo poo out of Mobile or Detroit. Hell, the bowls are the one good thing CUSA has going for them. You can go to the Bahamas, or South Beach, or New Orleans, or Arizona, even New Mexico isn't so bad as long as you got cheap tequila. The only bowl that really looks to suck is the Heart of Dallas because Dallas at the end of December straight up sucks. dirty shrimp money fucked around with this message at 21:43 on Dec 1, 2015 |
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Dec 1, 2015 21:30
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Tremendous reaction from WMU  Last year's from Central was great too
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Meanwhile the SEC gets such scenic locales as Tampa and Shreveport
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HOTLANTA MAN posted:Meanwhile the SEC gets such scenic locales as Tampa and Shreveport We get Boise and Albuquerque
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Dec 1, 2015 22:29
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SEC really needs to find a bowl to share with the PAC 12.
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chaoslord posted:SEC really needs to find a bowl to share with the PAC 12. I've been begging for this for ages. Every tie in is B1G and the same six teams play each other basically every year
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Spencer Hall posted:Please recall that this is going to be a game between MTSU and Western Michigan, and will probably be like 43-42 at the bell, and is the only bowl game on foreign soil, and the only one sponsored by a legendary fried chicken chain. There is nothing about this bowl game that is not essential, and that is before you remember that it takes place on Christmas Eve, when you're posted up at your house drinking an entire bottle of wine and desperately looking for ways to avoid human interaction. This game is a superhero; treat it accordingly. 
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chaoslord posted:SEC really needs to find a bowl to share with the PAC 12. If the SEC can send 10 teams bowling, it should be able to have games against the other nine conferences - at LEAST four bowls against the other four majors.
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The downside of the Bahamas Bowl is that it's relatively difficult for family and loved ones to tag along. Even if they could afford a road trip + ferry/flight + hotels going to be outside of a lot of peoples' budgets. I'd be a little bummed if I had a relatively big moment like this and couldn't share it.
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DJExile posted:yeah it's the schools, and they have to announce it quick because it's a logistical nightmare with travel and getting everyone cleared for passports. Bahamas require a passport? When I went on a cruise you just needed an ID and birth cert. I imagine people who aren't citizens would still need one, but they should already have one, right? E: unless the laws for cruises are different. I 100% have no idea.
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Cole posted:Bahamas require a passport? When I went on a cruise you just needed an ID and birth cert. I imagine people who aren't citizens would still need one, but they should already have one, right? Sea entry rules aren't the same as air entry rules. And getting into a foreign country isn't usually the hard part. It's getting back into the US. That said I have no idea if The Bahamas require a passport. It's probably smart to have one, and you can get em pretty fast if needed. My gf got one in 3 days once.
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Bahamas is great for the players, who get the trip of a lifetime and hopefully aren't saddled with a killjoy coach who treats this like the second championship and locks them in their rooms with nothing but tape and protein shakes. It's murder on staff and logistics, to get all these people cleared for overseas travel and getting all your stuff overseas and to try and sell fans and boosters on a travel package with what's literally no notice, and when they somehow don't sell all these seats the school had to pay full price for they get blamed. Someone's going to lose their job because MTSU/WMU went to the Bahamas and it sucks for them.
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CaptainYesterday posted:If the SEC can send 10 teams bowling, it should be able to have games against the other nine conferences - at LEAST four bowls against the other four majors. THIS... The five power conferences should have their top 4 available teams (non CFP or NY6) play each other in bowls. This can still work with other regional games such as the Vegas bowl where Pac12 #5-6 plays the MWC #1 and it still works out to a decent game. Rose - Pac1 vs BIG1 (NY6) Sugar - BXII1 vs SEC1 (NY6) Orange - ACC1 v SEC2/BIG2 (NY6) Alamo - PAC2 vs BXII2 Citrus - BIG2/SEC2 vs ACC2 Outback - BIG3 vs SEC3 Russell Athletic - BXII3 vs ACC3 Holiday - PAC3 vs SEC4 Texas - BXII4 v BIG4 Sun - ACC4 v PAC4 The top 4 teams available for each conference play the other 4 power 5 conferences first. The only real swap is the BIG & SEC swapping placed in Texas & Holiday bowls. After these then you get to your lower level & regional bowls. You can of course get rid of the 2nd Orlando & El Paso games to other locales too.
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C. Everett Koop posted:Bahamas is great for the players, who get the trip of a lifetime and hopefully aren't saddled with a killjoy coach who treats this like the second championship and locks them in their rooms with nothing but tape and protein shakes. The financial component to it definitely is going to be a challenge for WMU. The fan culture is either long suffering (me) and/or still in its infancy. Mid-major teams like Houston are able to pull on a legacy or historical period of success, WMU hasn't had that, we've been largely mediocre at best for a pretty long time. Even this year, as exciting a finish as it was, there were games that I though the team under-performed. Fortunately the big names on the team this year are almost all juniors and likely to come back, so as long as WMU can desperately cling to PJ Fleck, this could be the beginning of something like that. Also, I'm stoked as poo poo about the Bahamas Bowl
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I am angry about the Bahamas Bowl because it didn't exist when my sister was on the WMU dance team. I want an excuse for a Bahamian vacation dammit.
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Henchman of Santa posted:I am angry about the Bahamas Bowl because it didn't exist when my sister was on the WMU dance team. I want an excuse for a Bahamian vacation dammit. how about "because I want to go to the Bahamas" for an excuse?
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Thoguh posted:Missouri just announced they aren't interested in a bowl this year. Wrong of them to deny Pinkel the "coached the most bowls in Shreveport" title imo
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So I was going to do two scenarios, one where everything went chalk and one where chaos reigned, but when I started the first one I realized it basically echoed my predictions from this past weekend, so no need to rehash that. Instead, I'd like to present to you a little thing I like to call APAWWWWWWLLLLLLOCALYPSE NOW (note telling MV to make this the GDT title tia) In this scenario: #10 UNC defeats #1 Clemson in the ACC Championship Game #18 Florida defeats #2 Alabama in the SEC Championship Game #4 Iowa defeats #5 Michigan State in the B1G Championship Game (Sparty's favored) #20 USC defeats #7 Stanford in the Pac-12 Championship Game Texas defeats #12 Baylor #22 Temple defeats #19 Houston in the 'Murica Championship Game From there, the committee starts to drink heavily, and comes up with this: Cotton Bowl: #1 Iowa (B1G Champs) vs. #4 Clemson (ACC Rep) Orange Bowl: #2 Oklahoma (Big 12 Champs) vs. #3 Ohio State (B1G Rep) Iowa's the only undefeated team, and having finally proven themselves, get the number one spot. You'd think they'd go to the Orange, but instead choose the Cotton as they're ranked against #4 Clemson, who stay afloat by virtue of crashing down upon everyone else's bodies. The committee decides with their only loss being to a Top 10 team (thanks UNC!), it keeps them ahead of Notre Dame (whom Clemson beat), Alabama (2 losses), Sparty (2 losses), and TCU (not as good with Doctson out). Oklahoma would have rather had the Cotton, but they'll settle for the Orange and the #2 seed. They get Ohio State, who the committee have no choice but to put in after ranking them ahead of Notre Dame. The other three conference champs (UNC/Florida/USC) aren't as highly regarded as the Buckeyes, although UNC is crying bloody murder. Peach Bowl: North Carolina (ACC Champs) vs. Temple (G5 Rep) Sugar Bowl: Florida (SEC Champs) vs. Oklahoma State (Big 12 Rep) Fiesta Bowl: Notre Dame (At-Large) vs. Florida State (At-Large) Rose Bowl: USC (Pac-12 Champs) vs. Michigan State (B1G Rep) Rose gets USC, which even in a down year they're happy for, and Sparty somehow fails up into the Rose Bowl. Sugar swallows hard and ends up taking Florida, who match up with Oklahoma State who win a tiebreaker over TCU via H2H, but would lose a three-way if Baylor's involved. UNC ends up at #5 even after beating Clemson, and goes to the Peach Bowl where they face Temple, the G5 rep. Notre Dame and FSU don't play and somehow aren't affected, and move their matchup across the country to the Fiesta. From there the bowls shake-out like this: pre:Cactus Bowl Jan. 2 Tempe, Ariz. Big 12 vs. Pac-12 Nevada vs. Cal Alamo Bowl Jan. 2 San Antonio, Tex. Big 12 vs. Pac-12 TCU vs. Stanford Liberty Bowl Jan. 2 Memphis, Tenn. Big 12 vs. SEC West Virginia vs. Arkansas TaxSlayer Bowl Jan. 2 Jacksonville, Fla. ACC/Big Ten vs. SEC Miami vs. Ole Miss Citrus Bowl Jan. 1 Orlando, Fla. ACC/Big Ten vs. SEC Michigan vs. Alabama Outback Bowl Jan. 1 Tampa, Fla. Big Ten vs. SEC Northwestern vs. Georgia Holiday Bowl Dec. 30 San Diego, Calif. Big Ten vs. Pac-12 Wisconsin vs. Oregon Music City Bowl Dec. 30 Nashville, Tenn. ACC/Big Ten vs. SEC Penn State vs. Tennessee Belk Bowl Dec. 30 Charlotte, N.C. ACC vs. SEC Virginia Tech vs. LSU Birmingham Bowl Dec. 30 Birmingham, Ala. American vs. SEC Houston vs. Mississippi State Texas Bowl Dec. 29 Houston, Tex. Big 12 vs. SEC Texas Tech vs. Texas A&M Arizona Bowl Dec. 29 Tucson, Ariz. C-USA vs. Mountain West Illinois* vs. Colorado State Russell Athletic Bowl Dec. 29 Orlando, Fla. ACC vs. Big 12 Pitt vs. Baylor Armed Forces Bowl Dec. 29 Fort Worth, Tex. Big Ten/Big 12 vs. Mountain West Akron vs. Air Force Quick Lane Bowl Dec. 28 Detroit, Mich. ACC vs. Big Ten Central Michigan vs. Nebraska* Military Bowl Dec. 28 Annapolis, Md. ACC vs. American NC State vs. Navy Foster Farms Bowl Dec. 26 Santa Clara, Calif. Big Ten vs. Pac-12 Indiana vs. UCLA Independence Bowl Dec. 26 Shreveport, La. SEC vs. ACC Auburn vs. Arizona Pinstripe Bowl Dec. 26 New York, N.Y. ACC vs. Big Ten Duke vs. Washington Heart of Dallas Bowl Dec. 26 Dallas, Tex. Big Ten/Big 12 vs. C-USA Arizona State vs. Western Kentucky Sun Bowl Dec. 26 El Paso, Tex. ACC vs. Pac-12 Louisville vs. Utah St. Petersburg Bowl Dec. 26 St. Petersburg, Fla. American vs C-USA Memphis vs. Marshall Hawaii Bowl Dec. 24 Honolulu, Hawaii American vs. Mountain West/BYU Cincinnati vs. BYU Bahamas Bowl Dec. 24 Nassau, Bahamas C-USA vs. MAC Middle Tennessee vs. Western Kentucky GoDaddy.com Bowl Dec. 23 Mobile, Ala. MAC vs. Sun Belt Bowling Green vs. App State Poinsettia Bowl Dec. 23 San Diego, Calif. Mountain West vs. Army Boise State vs. Kansas State* Boca Raton Bowl Dec. 22 Boca Raton, Fla. American vs. MAC UConn vs. Northern Illinois Idaho Potato Bowl Dec. 22 Boise, Idaho MAC vs. Mountain West Toledo vs. New Mexico Miami Beach Bowl Dec. 21 Miami, Fla. American vs. C-USA South Florida vs. Southern Miss New Orleans Bowl Dec. 19 New Orleans, La. C-USA vs. Sun Belt Louisiana Tech vs. Arkansas State Camellia Bowl Dec. 19 Montgomery, Ala. 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Arkansas State to the New Orleans Bowl, Georgia Southern to the GoDaddy and App State to the Camellia Bowl per ESPN. If Georgia State and South Alabama win next week they'll go to the Cure and Arizona Bowls
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Regardless of how the MAC Championship goes, BG seems to be all but a lock for the GoDaddy. I think they usually get first pick of the MAC teams and they'll let us shoot the lights out with App State or someone
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Gotta love ESPN quoting "sources" regarding bowls ESPN owns. Anywho, using my moon poll and a random number generator I predict the the will of Xort to be: pre:ACC Clemson 61.6% North Carolina 38.4% BigTen Iowa 62.3% Michigan State 37.7% Pac12 Stanford 67.8% USC 32.2% SEC Alabama 77.8% Florida 22.2% Big12 Oklahoma AAC Houston 75.6% Temple 24.4% CUSA Western KY 65.6% Southern MS 34.4% MAC Bowling Green 66.8% Northern IL 33.2% MWC San Diego St 79.5% Air Force 20.5% SunBelt Arkansas St 98.1% App State 1.8% GA Southern 0.1% The playoff committee looks on in horror at the chaos and makes their choice. Alabama makes it in obviously, Michigan State's playoff run continues, and the Big 12 gets a break for once in that their one true champion is already decided. #4 in this case comes down to: Clemson - ACC runner up, #1 all year, medium to big brand name, lost too late North Carolina - ACC champ, upset #1 Clemson, not a brand name for football Stanford - Pac 12 champ, sort of a brand name, beat brand names Notre Dame and USC Iowa - Big Ten runner up, not a brand name, lost too late Ohio State - Big brand name, didn't even win its own division Florida - SEC runner up, big brand name, three losses Because the CFP committee is a bad place, the committee picks Stanford on the strength of its conference title and brand name. Clemson is 5, North Carolina is 6. pre:CFP 1 Alabama CFP 2 Michigan State CFP 3 Oklahoma CFP 4 Stanford pre:Rose Ohio State USC Sugar Oklahoma St Florida Peach Clemson Iowa Fiesta Houston North Carolina pre:Alamo Oregon TCU Arizona San Jose State* Utah State Armed Forces Washington Air Force Bahamas Middle Tenn Western Michigan Belk Duke Arkansas Birmingham South Florida Auburn Boca Raton Connecticut Northern Illinois Cactus Nevada Arizona State Camellia Ohio U Appalachian State Citrus Wisconsin Georgia Cure Tulsa Minnesota* Foster Farms Kansas State* Washington State GoDaddy Bowling Green Georgia Southern Hawaii Memphis BYU Heart of Dallas Akron Nebraska* Holiday Michigan Utah Independence Virginia Tech Illinois* Las Vegas San Diego State California Liberty West Virginia Tennessee Miami Beach Cincinnati Louisiana Tech Military Navy NC State Music City Indiana LSU New Mexico Marshall New Mexico New Orleans Southern Miss Arkansas State Outback Northwestern Ole Miss Pinstripe Miami (FL) Penn State Poinsettia Toledo Boise State Potato Colorado State Arizona QuickLane Central Mich Louisville Russell Ath Florida State Baylor St. Petersburg Temple Western Kentucky Sun Pittsburgh UCLA TaxSlayer Notre Dame Mississippi State Texas Texas Tech Texas A&M dirty shrimp money fucked around with this message at 17:47 on Dec 2, 2015 |
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Dec 2, 2015 17:40
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Aw man I don't wanna go to the Liberty Bowl
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Korranus posted:For the record, the RNG for me has always hated Iowa. The computer was invented at Iowa State and subsequently deep down they are all intensely jealous of the University of Iowa.
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I really want SDSU to go to the Vegas Bowl or Cactus Bowl. Cactus Bowl pays out a lot more, so please Cactus Bowl
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The last time Northwestern played in the outback bowl, Mike Kafka threw 5 interceptions, led a comeback to take them into overtime, Northwestern's kicker got injured, and they lost on the World's Most Obvious Fake Field Goal.
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HOTLANTA MAN posted:Arkansas State to the New Orleans Bowl, Georgia Southern to the GoDaddy and App State to the Camellia Bowl per ESPN. If Georgia State and South Alabama win next week they'll go to the Cure and Arizona Bowls
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Ghost of Reagan Past posted:Huh, is South Alabama a competent team? Or at least entertaining? I might go to the Arizona Bowl if it looks remotely entertaining. Georgia State isn't beating Georgia Southern so its far more likely South Alabama goes to the Cure Bowl. There a 5-6 Sun Belt team which should tell you all you want to know
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R.D. Mangles posted:The last time Northwestern played in the outback bowl, Mike Kafka threw 5 interceptions, led a comeback to take them into overtime, Northwestern's kicker got injured, and they lost on the World's Most Obvious Fake Field Goal. truly a Kafkaesque perfor-okay i'm done
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Joey Freshwater posted:Aw man I don't wanna go to the Liberty Bowl Getcher rear end down here boy
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