Bowling For LOLers

With PSU, tOSU, Iowa, and NU all winning. I’m also expecting Sparty to do okay.

Optimism can’t hurt, can it?

Ohio State has played in 4 Fiesta Bowls. And one of their NC game losses, in 2007 was in Arizona. So in 7 bowl seasons they have played 5 games in Arizona. Are Buckeyes fans just buying time share condos in Phoenix at this point?

Just makes me think of the, “THEY SAID IT WAS OVER”/“We TOLD YOU SO VIDEO”.

I’m so jacked for the bowl games. Big Ten against the world, lets go.

…PSU +10 seems like a gift to me.

I’m preaching to the choir here, but we need a strong showing this year to push the conference respect meter up towards the B12 and SEC and not further towards the ACC.

http://ncaafootball.fanhouse.com/2008/12/07/rose-bowl-first-look-usc-vs-penn-state/

The more I think about it, the more I realize the conference’s hopes for a winning bowl record this year are dim.

I, for one, think tOSU is to blame. If their large and involved fanbase weren’t a consideration for the BCS selection crew, they wouldn’t be in it. But now everyone underneath them is bumped up a rung on the ladder and is going to be underdogs. There is an excellent possibility that the conference will look like shit again in the bowls and tOSU will be to blame one more time.

Best chances for wins are our trip to the Rose Bowl, and Iowa in the Outback. I see intriguing match-ups with MSU v Georgia (2 teams with basically identical seasons) and Wisconsin v FSU. Wiscy started looking better down the stretch, and FSU can struggle against the run.

As for that slate of the BigXI v BigXII games, well, that might be more of a struggle. Ohio State doesn’t match up extremely well against Texas – they’ll need to control the ball and keep the Texas offense off the field as much as possible. Northwestern should be able to hold their own against Mizzou – Oklahoma found a way to shut down that offense, so it might not have to be a shoot-out of offenses. Which NU would lose. And congrats to Tim Brewster on getting the Gophers into a bowl game. It’s not to say KU is a tough team, but that whole backwards slide into the bowl game doesn’t make me excited for Minny’s chances.

So, in conclusion, this could be a long bowl season for the Big Ten or a successful bowl season. Or something in between. And if any of this made sense to anyone – feel free to pass that bowl you’re smoking from my way.

the entire conference has what WE were hoping for: a favored opponent and a chance to dump a large bucket of STFU on the rest of the CFB world.

It may not happen, but the only way to garner respect is to be a significant dog, and rise up and punch that team in the face.

If we can only win 4 of them, I’d take us, OSU, MSU and NU beaing USC, Texas, Georgia and Mizzou.

THAT would be a statement.

The Rose and Fiesta Bowl are all people will notice. Nobody is going to care if Northwestern loses to Missouri or Kansas beats Minnesota. Our best teams have to beat their best teams.

Obviously I like our chances against USC, though it’s going to be tough. I also like Ohio State against Texas. We’ll see how McCoy does when he has to face a pass rush and defensive backs with pulses.

Personally, I’ll be routing for all Big 10 AND Pac 10 teams in the bowls this year. The more games the Pac 10 wins, the better Penn State looks for beating Oregon State and (hopefully) USC.

Better be ready for USC’s running game, they are big and fast.

Better yet, I hope our young LB are ready if needed to help. I just don’t want to look like a slow Big Ten team that gives up big drives.

We need to be aggressive…very aggressive and let Dirty Sanchez beat us.

Missouri cannot tackle. They don’t appear to even teach it. They don’t even seem to care that it’s become nationally apparent that they don’t teach it. Talk about Little Brother. Of the pathetic kind. Chase Daniel and Gary Pinkel want soooo much to be gunslingers like Colt & Mack and Sam & Bob and Mike & Graham. Ohhh, how they want it. They want it so bad, they give absolutely no consideration remotely to any other fundamental in the game of football. I’m telling you now that CJBacher will look like worldbeater in the alamo that night. And Fitz will have the lads shutting down them some tigers. Chalk Daniel up for 2overzealous-caused turnovers and Maclin for 1, maybe two extraordinary ’I’m the best athlete on the field’ touchdown plays, and JNU wins 31-17.

Don’t know who to root for in that one. I hate Bobby Bowden and the endless comparisons to JoePa. He’s not even fit to roll up Joe Paterno’s pants cuffs on gameday. I also hate the fact that his Samford wins are counted in his “Division I” wins – as if those are as impressive as JoePa’s wins ALL AT PENN STATE!!

I hate Bret Bielema (or Bulemia as I like to call him) because of the stunts he pulled in 2006 with the kickoffs and the perpetual smirk on his face that we finally erased this year.

I swear, this is a lose-lose bowl game for me.