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2008-09 College Bowls/Postseason thread
Congrats to Mount Union, which won another D3 championship today over UW-Whitewater in Stagg Bowl XXXVI. They win so much, they ought to be in their own division, as it's just not fair, winning 31-26. This was their 10th championship in their 12th appearance, all occurring in the last 16 seasons. (1993 was their first title.)
This was the fourth straight year the two schools met in the D3 championship game, Whitewater finally broke through last year and won it and it's the 5th time in six years that Mt. Union has made it to the title game. In other action today: Wake Forest beat Navy in the EagleBank Bowl, 29-19 Colorado State notched a W for the Mountain West in a win over Fresno State 40-35 And South Florida is showing the difference between the Big East and Conference USA in their drubbing of Memphis in the St. Petersburg Bowl, being played at the Trop, home to the AL champion Tampa Bay Rays. Tropicana Field looks a lot better as a football stadium than it does a baseball stadium. Just sayin'.... It's postseason football. Love it or hate it, it's here! Last edited by Young Drachma : 12-20-2008 at 06:41 PM. |
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12-20-2008, 06:40 PM
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Kudos again to the Richmond Spiders claiming the first national title in school history in any sport last night, beating Montana in the Division I/FCS national championship game, 24-7. Just an all-out dominant effort by the Spiders in that victory.
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12-20-2008, 06:47 PM
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Go Bulls.
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12-20-2008, 10:35 PM
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BYU is currently embarrassing the Mountain West, down 31-21 to Arizona. I'm guessing the Cougs were pissed to be here, while Arizona is happy to be playing postseason football. BYU recovered the on-side kick and with about 3 minutes to go, are trying to score and narrow Arizona's lead.
Even with another score, they're gonna be down, but at least they look like they have a shot to win.
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12-20-2008, 10:40 PM
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Missed field goal. Choke city and that ought about seal the deal for Arizona. Arizona is just murdering the BYU quarterback tonight.
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12-21-2008, 03:57 PM
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Good for Arizona, winning a bowl game. Its nice to see teams break through like that.
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12-21-2008, 04:06 PM
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That was one hard hitting game. BYU and Arizona were bringing the lumber for all 4 quarters. |
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12-21-2008, 04:15 PM
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Vic, did you go to the game?
I did not go to the Albuquerque Bowl this year, but I may go to the Sun Bowl. |
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12-21-2008, 04:29 PM
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I didn't go, but I watched it on TV. I thought about going, but I didn't feel like sitting in freezing weather for four hours. |
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12-21-2008, 07:19 PM
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Southern Mississippi forfeits a time out for wearing yellow jerseys as the visiting team in the New Orleans bowl.
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12-21-2008, 07:47 PM
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Any reason why the decided to wear the yellow jerseys? |
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12-21-2008, 07:53 PM
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BYU is always real physical, lack of athleticism on D killed them this year against teams with lots of speed on Offense. It is amazing the difference between 4.6 - 4.7 guys who have straight ahead speed and 4.5 - 4.6 guys that have great agility too. BYU has a real good incoming recruiting class, that will be great if they can land Manti Teo, but they need to hit the JC's for one or two great athletic corners. BYU also had problems with smaller, athletic Defenses like U of A as they do not have backs that can run laterally and for whatever reason they have been unable to blow teams off the ball, even with the big, talented line they have. I have a theory here that they suffer from trying to run two distinct Offensive styles. Their run game is smash mouth and their passing game is spread finesse. To me you can't excel at either style if you have to plsit practice time working the other. Either hang your hat on a smash mouth, Pro style offense or recruit shiftier backs that fit into the spread philosophy better. |
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12-21-2008, 07:59 PM
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That's been generally true of most teams, with the notable exception of Oklahoma this year. |
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12-21-2008, 08:04 PM
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Wow that injury to USM WR Deandre Brown was disgusting.
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12-23-2008, 07:44 PM
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Anyone watching the Boise State/TCU game?
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12-23-2008, 07:45 PM
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Yeah, I have it on, but I'm not watching attentively yet.
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12-23-2008, 07:49 PM
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ditto
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12-23-2008, 07:56 PM
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I'd like to see Boise State win it, though. I'm all about the undefeated season.
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12-23-2008, 09:42 PM
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The commentating isn't that great. But the game is a grind-it-out affair.
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12-23-2008, 09:51 PM
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I'm pulling for TCU here.
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12-23-2008, 10:11 PM
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Just got home in time for the final 2 minutes of TCU/Boise.
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12-23-2008, 10:12 PM
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Not a good throw for the Boise St qb. Throw it away!
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12-23-2008, 10:14 PM
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It's been a good game, but the pundits will just use it as a chance to slam Boise.
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12-23-2008, 10:16 PM
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TCU gets the win. The only thing that could make it better will be if Ian Johnson grabs the stadium microphone after the game to announce that he's divorcing his wife.
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12-23-2008, 10:18 PM
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They shouldn't because TCU has lost to two teams with a combined 1 loss. |
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12-23-2008, 10:19 PM
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We know that. But they'll just say "OMGZ they're not SEC?! They suck. Play better teamz!?"
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12-23-2008, 10:26 PM
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I'll gladly avoid any slam ... as long as we don't hear anymore whining about how Boise ought to be in the big show. These two teams got pretty much the level bowl they're entitled to, and produced an entertaining game in it. No more than that is needed for them nor should more than that be asked of them.
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12-23-2008, 10:36 PM
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Yeah, I'm guessing we don't hear anymore of the "Boise got robbed" stuff anymore.
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12-23-2008, 10:39 PM
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On the other hand, I guess we'll hear it replaced by "well, they were just flat for a meaningless bowl & would have been completely different if they had been force fed to a larger audience".
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12-23-2008, 11:24 PM
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12-24-2008, 12:06 AM
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Just found out I scored tickets to the Insight Bowl in Arizona. Kansas vs. Minnesota. Should be fun, even though I don't root for either team.
Edit: Also my first college football game, so I'm really excited. Last edited by JetsIn06 : 12-24-2008 at 12:06 AM. |
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12-24-2008, 02:35 AM
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Have a blast. It's good stuff, so long as it's a good game. The TV timeouts will annoy you, tho.
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12-24-2008, 11:11 AM
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I've been to dozens of NFL games, so I know the feeling. They definitely are annoying as hell. |
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12-24-2008, 08:09 PM
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Notre Dame up on Hawaii 21-7 in the 2nd quarter. If this holds up, it should secure a top 15 spot for the Irish in the final AP poll.
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12-24-2008, 08:29 PM
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Eh, probably doesn't help them that much. It's not even as good a win as the one they already have over Navy.
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12-24-2008, 08:46 PM
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And if we had a playoffs, they would had to have been included among the 8 teams, definitely the 16. |
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12-24-2008, 09:09 PM
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WAC looking good in the post-season.
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12-24-2008, 09:41 PM
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12-25-2008, 01:31 AM
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Screw you guys,
 we finally got ourselves a bowl win (over a terrible team.) Hawaii may have been FCS-caliber, but we just lost to Syracuse, so its nice to see the team playing to its talent level and blowing out a bad team. 6/7 FR/SO's getting sacks and 6 of the 7 TD's scored by FR/SO's, plus another called back. Golden Tate had yet another breakout game tonight - that called back PR was his best of the 4 TD's.2 for 2 in betting so far (TCU to win outright, ND to win - how was Hawaii favored again? Watching the ND press conferences showed they were taking this game very seriously, and they clearly had the talent edge.) Other picks I'm thinking of going with for now UNC EV to win vs. WVU Miami +8.5 vs. Cal Oregon/OK St under 76 (I feel like one team won't show up - don't know which, and if I'm wrong I get an exciting shootout) Iowa -3.5 vs. S.Carolina Clemson -2.5 vs. Nebraska Georgia -7.5 vs. MSU VaTech +115 vs. Cincy Utah +305 vs. Alabama Texas -8 vs. Ohio St. OU +130 vs. Florida Anyone else want to throw out some predictions? Last edited by BishopMVP : 12-25-2008 at 01:32 AM. |
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12-25-2008, 03:33 AM
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So far, I took the under (46.5) in the TCU-Boise State game, and I've got Florida Atlantic +7 against Central Michigan in the Motor City Bowl, although I'm starting to think that I didn't compensate enough for CMU's close proximity to Detroit. Hopefully, Howard Smellsofbourbon will have his boys ready to play. |
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12-26-2008, 10:14 PM
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Dola (from yesterday),
Howie had his boys ready to play tonight, and he moves to 6-0 all-time in bowl games. All of the so-called "smart money" was on Central Michigan, but my numbers made the game about even, so I'm happy with the win. Last edited by Vegas Vic : 12-26-2008 at 10:17 PM. |
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12-26-2008, 11:54 PM
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Greetings from Alabama, as Rutgers prepares for the prestigious Papa John's Bowl. For all the bowls I have worked, the fans here in Alabama have been the best and actually know who we are and that we are actually here to play football. That being said, we are looking forward to pounding NC State on Monday.
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12-27-2008, 01:36 AM
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One of my bigger plays for today is Cal -8.5 over Miami (although the line has jumped up to -10 now). Miami is starting a freshman QB, and has five starters out due to suspension. I think Cal rolls to a big win in this one. |
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12-27-2008, 08:48 AM
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I'm with you on this. I don't bet many games, but I put some money on Cal. Miami has too many guys out and Pac-10 Teams are going to have a good bowl showing overall. |
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12-27-2008, 11:56 AM
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I have no strong opinion on the side, but I'm going against the public again with under 48 in the WVU-UNC game.
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12-27-2008, 12:33 PM
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This one already looks like a loss. Three cheap TD's in the first quarter, defenses look like they're playing two hand touch. |
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12-27-2008, 01:05 PM
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I have not seen the Heels play this year but my son knows I want them to beat WVU. He told me that WR Hicks will be an impact player and sho'nuf. However, I got turned off on that first TD reception where he celebrated too early and almost lost the TD. I hate when players have to show off like that.
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12-27-2008, 03:13 PM
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Fantastic game between WVU and UNC. Eers hold on at the end with a nice interception on UNC's last-gasp drive to win the game.
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12-27-2008, 03:20 PM
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Sad to see Pat White's career at WVU end, but what a way to go out. 332 yards passing and 3tds in his 4th bowl win as a starting QB. He came a long way this year considering he was never really asked to make more than 1 read as passer prior to this season.
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