Rose Bowl Needs to Grow Up

More Big Ten/PSU hate.

With the BCS bowls fast approaching the match ups are starting to form but one seems to lack that sparkle and it is time for change. No I'm not talking about a playoff, this time... The Big-10 vs Pac-10 tradition of the Rose Bowl needs to be abolished.

With USC winning the Pac-10 again, baring any miracles from UCLA, we will see them in the Rose Bowl for the 4th year in a row, the third against the Big-10. How many times do we have to watch them beat up on the same conference? If we can't have a playoff can't we see match ups that we would rarley watch during the regular season (we were close to a USC Ohio state repeat)? What about a USC vs Florida/Alabama or Texas/OU, depending on outcome of this weekend? These are games that rarely happen and would pit some of the best teams in the country against one another.

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I tend to agree

tradition is nice and all, but bowl tie-ins get boring pretty fast, especially if you keep going to the same bowl every year against basically the same opponent.

by The JuggerNitt on Dec 4, 2008 5:55 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

But he's missing the point.

The reason we don’t have USC playing against Fla/Bama/TX/OU is because THEY LOST TO FRICKIN OREGON STATE!

(sitting back down in my chair)

They are getting what they deserve. Last year it was an awful Stanford team, and so on. The problem is not the bowl tie in. It’s that people are stupid.

USC v PSU will be the best BCS matchup that is not the MNC game, period. I don’t know what else people want. If you went to a free for all, it would work like a draft and you would never get the top teams against each other b/c each bowl would pick down the line when it was their turn.

Kevin @ Black Shoe Diaries

by Kevin HD on Dec 4, 2008 6:13 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

I don't think he was saying USC should face them in the MNC game

but that he’d rather see USC face one of those teams that doesn’t go to the MNC game. I’m not saying it would be a better matchup (since I think that PSU vs USC is probably going to be the best matchup of any of the bowl games, including the MNC game, where Florida will probably destroy OU if that’s the matchup), but I can see how USC would like a little bit more variety than playing Big 10 teams every year. Of course Penn State isn’t a team they’ve really played in a long time (and no, Penn State of 2000 wasn’t a real Penn State team, nor was that a real USC team for that matter)

by The JuggerNitt on Dec 5, 2008 9:15 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

God

I just don’t see how we can lose this game. I just don’t see it. Everyone is discounting us. Is USC, though? Sure sounds like it from some of the comments we’ve heard.

JoePa for governor

by ReadingRambler on Dec 4, 2008 9:55 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Is anyone keeping a running list. . .

Of PSU/BigTen bashing writers? Of writers who say they are tired of “USC crushing the BigTen for the third year in a row” before it happens? That list is going to come in handy on Jan. 2nd. And a side note that I hate is never mentioned. . .

IN THE PAST 2 YEARS USC DIDN’T PLAY A BIG TEN CHAMPION

by The IC Lion on Dec 5, 2008 9:16 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

I don't remember where

but recently I read an article talking about how big the PSU-USC matchup would be if it was in any other bowl game. The writer made a good point by saying that the simple fact that these 2 teams are locked into the matchup that it degrades the game.

by whiteoutonly on Dec 5, 2008 6:54 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

then

the BcS should cut ties with the winner of the ACC going to the Orange Bowl, and the winner of the Big lEast going to the Fiesta. its gotta be tit for tat, not just one bowl because your prissy ass doesn’t want to see it happen. man up and make changes across the board

For the glory

by lionalum05 on Dec 6, 2008 12:21 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

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you have to have the bowls that people fans can get to… as much as I dislike the BCS no one will back a game that cant put fans in the seats…. Having the ACC tied into the Orange bowl gives fans of teams in the south a much more accessible venue… this about money first and foremost… don’t forget that

by superman60616 on Dec 6, 2008 1:37 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

well i realize that

and throw no argument in your direction, however A) distance doesn’t really play a factor in my mind since the BigTen has to travel across the country to play in the Rose Bowl, and B) i was just making a generalized statement saying that if they’re going to piss and moan to try and cut Big Ten/Pac 10 ties to the Rose Bowl, they have to man up and cut ties with everyone, not just cut ties with the one they see fit to accompany their desires, i.e. showing favoritism

For the glory

by lionalum05 on Dec 6, 2008 3:33 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs