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December 1, 2006

(Belated) Bowl News -- LSU to Rose

LAISSEZ LES BONS TEMPS ROULER!

The Boston Globe and Fox Sports are both reporting that LSU is a near lock to hit the Rose Bowl; although LSU officials say a deal isn't firm. Depending on the outcome of the USC vs. UCLA game, the BCS picture looks like this:
    National Title: OSU vs. USC/Michigan
    Rose: USC/Michigan vs. LSU
    Sugar: SEC Champ vs. Notre Dame
    Orange: ACC Champ vs. Big East Champ
    Fiesta: Big 12 Champ vs. Boise
Apparently, the Cajuns have already requested 32,000 tickets to the Rose Bowl. Very impressive.

In other Bowl news, NBCSports has a columnist who has the brilliance audacity to suggest that Notre Dame isn't worth of a BCS bid. I'd argue that if Georgia Tech or Wake Forest "deserve" an automatic BCS bid, then it's awfully hard to justify Boise or Notre Dame not getting in...or Villanova for that matter.

The Big 12 has confirmed that the loser of their title game will hit the Cotton Bowl (source: Dallas Morning News via the Mercury News). Nebraska hasn't been to the Cotton Bowl since Jan. 1, 1980. The Dallas Morning News also reports that Arkansas is headed to the Cotton if they lose the SECC Game. A move that makes a ton of sense for the Razorbacks.

Also, the Pac-10 schools have confirmed most of their bowl destinations.

PWD

Hat Tips: Orson and Brian.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Notre Dame deserves no BCS game; who have they beaten? I don't agree that Tech/Wake are "worthy", but winning a conference is winning a conference, and that is how the BCS is setup, unfortunately. I highly doubt ND could win ANY conference. Hell, I doubt they win 8 games if they played a quality schedule.

Anonymous said...

I believe the last time the Cornhuskers were in the Cotton Bowl the great I.M. Hipp was their I-back. A name that stands the test of time.

Anonymous said...

I agree with the writer, for the most part, and Anonymous @ 12:25. Notre Dame hasn't beaten anyone in the past two years. Their biggest win is over GT.

That's astonishing. They've lost almost every bowl they've played in the past 10 years, they haven't beaten a top 10 team in 2 years and they're being considered for a BCS slot?

Like the above poster said, Wake and GT will have earned it. If ND played in a conference and won their conference they'd deserve their spot, but when your season comes down to playing only 3 good teams, and one (GT) shouldn't even be ranked and you got blowned out by the other 2, you don't deserve anything.

Anonymous said...

Anon 4:14. You state that ND has lost almost every bowl game it's played in the last ten years. That implies that they've won a bowl game over the past ten years. They haven't.

The last bowl game they won was the 1993-94 Cotton. That's right, the 1993-94 Cotton.

I believe their current 8 game bowl losing streak is tied for the longest in the history of college football.

They've been a lot worse the past decade than people realize.

 
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