***College Football 2012 Bowl Thread***

[tk13]

The CFB Bowl selections are tonight, 8:30 on ESPN.

Reason I started this thread... New York Times' Pete Thamel is reporting that a source tells him Northern Illinois slipped into the top 16 and will play in the Orange Bowl against Florida State. ESPN's BCS guru Brad Edwards says he thinks NIU is in too.

Either way, bowl selections are starting to leak this afternoon.

[frazod]

Originally Posted by Raiderhader

It seems like we ask this every week of every season but, HTF does Texas continue to be ranked in the BCS?

$$$$$$$

[BWillie]

Really amazed S Illinois got a BCS bid. That is a team that got beat by the worst Iowa team in over a decade, and barely beat a 1 win Kansas team. They are not good. The Boise States of the world at least passed the eye test but the Salukis look mediocre.

[tk13]

Originally Posted by BWillie

Really amazed S Illinois got a BCS bid. That is a team that got beat by the worst Iowa team in over a decade, and barely beat a 1 win Kansas team. They are not good. The Boise States of the world at least passed the eye test but the Salukis look mediocre.

It's Northern Illinois. Southern Illinois isn't FBS.

[Coach]

Originally Posted by warpaint*

#1 ND vs #4 Ore
#2 Ala vs #3 Fla

The best team in the country is one of those 4. Probably #2 or #3.

#5 got bombed by an also ran and dutifully exposed relatively speaking.

Not that we need to worry about that. Don't forget to set your DVR for what should be an epic OB! Not to mention what it does to the Sugar Bowl, swapping out what would be Fla/OU for Fla/Louisville <--------zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

The BCS is a laughingstock.

I'd never watch that, I'll tell you that much.

[Saulbadguy]

Originally Posted by BWillie

Really amazed S Illinois got a BCS bid. That is a team that got beat by the worst Iowa team in over a decade, and barely beat a 1 win Kansas team. They are not good. The Boise States of the world at least passed the eye test but the Salukis look mediocre.

My god, you are stupid.

[warpaint*]

Originally Posted by Saulbadguy

My god, you are stupid.

I 'd

I don't really blame him. It's Northern Ill. No one knows who they are. What do you think they draw....15kish to most games.

Couldn't be more irrelevant.

[frazod]

Originally Posted by warpaint*

I 'd

I don't really blame him. It's Northern Ill. No one knows who they are. What do you think they draw....15kish to most games.

Couldn't be more irrelevant.

I do. They play about 45 minutes from my house.

But yeah, they're pretty irrelevant.

[RustShack]

Jesus ****. Northern Illinois might be the worst team to EVER make a BCS Bowl.

[RustShack]

Kirk Herbstreit- "NIU lost to Iowa, the worst team in the Big10."

[BWillie]

Originally Posted by tk13

It's Northern Illinois. Southern Illinois isn't FBS.

Ya ya ya...im dumb cuz I dont know the mascot name. I know and u know the team im talking about. Doesn't change my point. Still the team Iowa beat and Kansas quite frankly should have beaten

[RustShack]

2012-13 Bowl Schedule

Date Bowl Location Time Network Combined Payouts
Dec. 15 Gildan New Mexico Bowl
Nevada vs. Arizona Albuquerque, N.M. 1 p.m. ESPN $912,500
Dec. 15 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl
Toledo vs. Utah State Boise, Idaho 4:30 p.m. ESPN $650,000
Dec. 20 San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl
San Diego State vs. BYU San Diego, Calif. 8 p.m. ESPN $1 million
Dec. 21 Beef 'O' Brady's Bowl St. Petersburg
Ball State vs. Central Florida St. Petersburg, Fla. 7:30 p.m. ESPN $1.075 million
Dec. 22 R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl
East Carolina vs. Louisiana-Lafayette New Orleans, La. 12 p.m. ESPN $1 million
Dec. 22 MAACO Bowl Las Vegas
Boise State vs. Washington Las Vegas, Nev. 3:30 p.m. ESPN $2.2 million
Dec. 24 Sheraton Hawaii Bowl
SMU vs. Fresno State Honolulu, Hawaii 8 p.m. ESPN $1.3 million
Dec. 26 Little Caesars Pizza Bowl
Western Kentucky vs. Central Michigan Detroit, Mich. 7:30 p.m. ESPN $1.5 million
Dec. 27 Military Bowl presented by Northrop Grumman
Bowling Green vs. San Jose State Washington, D.C. 3 p.m. ESPN $2 million
Dec. 27 Belk Bowl
Duke vs. Cincinnati Charlotte, N.C. 6:30 p.m. ESPN $3.4 million
Dec. 27 Bridgepoint Education Holiday Bowl
Baylor vs. UCLA San Diego, Calif. 9:45 p.m. ESPN $4.15 million
Dec. 28 AdvoCare V100 Independence Bowl
Louisiana-Monroe vs. Ohio Shreveport, La. 2 p.m. ESPN $2.3 million
Dec. 28 Russell Athletic Bowl
Virginia Tech vs. Rutgers Orlando, Fla. 5:30 p.m. ESPN $4.55 million
Dec. 28 Meineke Car Care Bowl of Texas
Minnesota vs. Texas Tech Houston, Texas 9 p.m. ESPN $3.4 million
Dec. 29 Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl
Rice vs. Air Force Dallas, Texas 11:45 a.m. ESPN $1.2 million
Dec. 29 Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl
Arizona State vs. Navy San Francisco, Calif. 3:15 p.m. ESPN or ESPN2 $1.675 million
Dec. 29 New Era Pinstripe Bowl
Syracuse vs. West Virginia Bronx, N.Y. 3:15 p.m. ESPN or ESPN2 $3.6 million
Dec. 29 Valero Alamo Bowl
Texas vs. Oregon State San Antonio, Texas 6:45 p.m. ESPN $6.35 million
Dec. 29 Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl
Michigan State vs. TCU Tempe, Ariz. 10:15 p.m. ESPN $6.65 million
Dec. 31 Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl
Vanderbilt vs. N.C. State Nashville, Tenn. 12 p.m. ESPN $3.725 million
Dec. 31 Hyundai Sun Bowl
Georgia Tech vs. USC El Paso, Texas 2 p.m. CBS $4 million
Dec. 31 AutoZone Liberty Bowl
Iowa State vs. Tulsa Memphis, Tenn. 3:30 p.m. ABC $2.875 million
Dec. 31 Chick-fil-A Bowl
Clemson vs. LSU Atlanta, Ga. 7:30 p.m. ESPN $6.9 million
Jan. 1 TaxSlayer.com Gator Bowl
Mississippi State vs. Northwestern Jacksonville, Fla. 12 p.m. ESPN2 $5.45 million
Jan. 1 Heart of Dallas Bowl
Purdue vs. Oklahoma State Dallas, Texas 12 p.m. ESPNU $2.2 million
Jan. 1 Capital One Bowl
Georgia vs. Nebraska Orlando, Fla. 1 p.m. ESPN $8.5 million
Jan. 1 Outback Bowl
South Carolina vs. Michigan Tampa, Fla. 1 p.m. ABC $7 million
Jan. 1 Rose Bowl presented by Vizio
Stanford vs. Wisconsin Pasadena, Calif. 5 p.m. ESPN $36 million
Jan. 1 Discover Orange Bowl
Northern Illinois vs. Florida State Miami, Fla. 8:30 p.m. ESPN TBA
Jan. 2 Allstate Sugar Bowl
Florida vs. Louisville New Orleans, La. 8:30 p.m. ESPN TBA
Jan. 3 Tostitos Fiesta Bowl
Kansas State vs. Oregon Glendale, Ariz. 8:30 p.m. ESPN TBA
Jan. 4 AT&T Cotton Bowl
Texas A&M vs. Oklahoma Arlington, Texas 8 p.m. FOX $7.25 million
Jan. 5 BBVA Compass Bowl
Pittsburgh vs. Ole Miss Birmingham, Ala. 1 p.m. ESPN $1.925 million
Jan. 6 GoDaddy.com Bowl
Kent State vs. Arkansas State Mobile, Ala. 9 p.m. ESPN $1.5 million
Jan. 7 Discover BCS National
Championship Game
Notre Dame vs. Alabama Miami, Fla. 8:30 p.m. ESPN $44-48 million

[Saul Good]

Louisiana Tech screwed themselves out of a bowl game by not immediately accepting their Independence Bowl offer.

[redhed]

Got a bowl pickem group started on yahoo, if anyone is interested.


http://football.fantasysports.yahoo....mb=JsdQJrVRQVd

Chiefsplanet
group# 8163
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[Saulbadguy]

Originally Posted by Saul Good

Louisiana Tech screwed themselves out of a bowl game by not immediately accepting their Independence Bowl offer.

Then the SID lied about it on twitter (more or less).

[Saul Good]

Being in the Orange Bowl means NIU must purchase 17,500 tickets. NIU's average attendance for the season was 15,670.