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fezzador

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Re: Bowl Games SoC
« Reply #154 on: December 29, 2017, 10:07:28 AM »
Isn't the B1G favored in pretty much all of its games?  Most years the B1G are dogs (and often sizably so) in the majority of the bowls.

I don't think they'll keep up the pace and go 8-0, but I think 6-2 is realistic.
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Re: Bowl Games SoC
« Reply #155 on: December 29, 2017, 10:28:43 AM »
Quote from: fezzador on December 29, 2017, 10:07:28 AM
Isn't the B1G favored in pretty much all of its games?  Most years the B1G are dogs (and often sizably so) in the majority of the bowls.

I don't think they'll keep up the pace and go 8-0, but I think 6-2 is realistic.
Yes.  I posted about it the other day (last post on page 4 of this thread, updated here to include MSU's win):
Quote from: medinabuckeye1 on December 28, 2017, 09:17:22 AM
I hadn't really noticed this until now but Ohio State missing the CFP may have really helped the B1G overall in bowl match-ups.  

The conference is already 3-0 and I believe that both were favored.  For the remaining games (lines from the Worldwide leader):
  • #21 NU is favored by 7.5 tomorrow afternoon against n/r UK
  • #5 tOSU is favored by 7.5 tomorrow night against #8 USC
  • #9 PSU is favored by 2 Saturday afternoon against #11 UW
  • #6 UW is favored by 4.5 Saturday night against #10 Miami, FL
  • n/r Michigan (no line given yet) Monday afternoon against n/r USCe

The B1G team is higher ranked and favored in all of our games and I think that missing the CFP has a lot to do with that.  If the Buckeyes had made the playoff and everyone rotated up one slot we might be underdogs in all of our bowls.  

Here is hoping for an 8-0 bowl record!  
A lot of it is due to not getting a team into the CFP.  In the first three years of the CFP we had a team in.  Those three teams (tOSU 2x and MSU) went 1-2 in their semi-final games and I believe they were all underdogs.  
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Re: Bowl Games SoC
« Reply #156 on: December 29, 2017, 10:44:34 AM »
Quote from: grillrat on December 29, 2017, 12:33:17 AM
Wow.  I'm actually starting to feel bad for the Pac.  They are gettinbg killed this bowl season.
Yeah it's not good but all things considered it's not that bad either.
Boise State over Oregon - head coach gone and star RB sat out
Utah over WVU - decent win for Pac
KState over UCLA - head coach fired and star QB sat out
Purdue over uofa - good win for B1G, uofa has no excuse

Mich St over Wazzu - QB, best WR, and best Def. player out. (I still think MSU woulda won but not a blowout)

TCU over Stanford - close game, evenly matched teams, could have gone either way.
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Re: Bowl Games SoC
« Reply #157 on: December 29, 2017, 11:42:48 AM »
Quote from: medinabuckeye1 on December 29, 2017, 10:28:43 AM
Yes.  I posted about it the other day (last post on page 4 of this thread, updated here to include MSU's win):A lot of it is due to not getting a team into the CFP.  In the first three years of the CFP we had a team in.  Those three teams (tOSU 2x and MSU) went 1-2 in their semi-final games and I believe they were all underdogs.  
Yep. It's been one of my regular gripes since the BCS started. There were a lot of years where the B1G would have a representative in the BCS championship and then the next team up gets slotted up into the Rose against the PAC champion, and every other B1G team would be slotted against one level higher of competition. 
It gets even worse when you start getting into the "Big Six" bowls and the years when the B1G got three teams into those. Bowls which wouldn't normally have had a B1G affiliation take one of our top teams (in addition to the CFP semifinal AND the Rose), and then you might have teams slotted 2-3 levels higher in competition than they should have been.
Getting snubbed for the CFP probably helped us by making sure our bowl matchups were even or potentially even in the B1G's favor as other conferences are being forced to slot into higher-end bowl games than they otherwise would.
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Re: Bowl Games SoC
« Reply #158 on: December 29, 2017, 02:59:18 PM »
Belk Bowl is going to take 6 hours.  Enjoy Northwestern-Kentucky online
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Re: Bowl Games SoC
« Reply #159 on: December 29, 2017, 04:30:05 PM »
Wake Forest totally collapsing after dominating the first half.
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« Reply #160 on: December 29, 2017, 04:36:40 PM »
As much as I hoped ASU would send Graham out with a win, they're living up to their abysmal 0-3 record in bowl games with lame duck coaches:

Bruce Snyder lost the 2000 Aloha Bowl, Dirk Koetter lost the 2006 Hawaii Bowl, Dennis Erickson lost the 2011 Vegas Bowl, and short of a miraculous comeback Todd Graham will likely lose the 2017 Sun Bowl.

I wonder what bowl Herm Edwards will lose after he's fired following a 6-6 season in 2022...
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Re: Bowl Games SoC
« Reply #161 on: December 29, 2017, 04:47:23 PM »
ASU with an onside kick dumb enough to make me think Herm has already taken over.
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« Reply #162 on: December 29, 2017, 04:48:49 PM »
Quote from: ELA on December 29, 2017, 04:47:23 PM
ASU with an onside kick dumb enough to make me think Herm has already taken over.
ASU has actually converted 3 onside kicks this season, on 4 attempts. Given the success rate I can't be too mad.
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Re: Bowl Games SoC
« Reply #163 on: December 29, 2017, 04:53:29 PM »
Kentucky looks good so far ... ~???
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« Reply #164 on: December 29, 2017, 04:56:02 PM »
Quote from: ELA on December 29, 2017, 02:59:18 PM
Belk Bowl is going to take 6 hours.  Enjoy Northwestern-Kentucky online
it's on espn2
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« Reply #165 on: December 29, 2017, 05:03:01 PM »
WF and A&M love some defense, huh?

Part of me thinks that A&M will get a FG to send this to overtime, but that assumes Wake can stop them from scoring a TD in 2:18. I don't think anyone can make that assumption.
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Re: Bowl Games SoC
« Reply #166 on: December 29, 2017, 05:11:17 PM »
down goes A&M

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Re: Bowl Games SoC
« Reply #167 on: December 29, 2017, 05:13:29 PM »
giving 3.5 points to the Aggies didn't quite work

funny how Vegas can guess on those spreads
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