Ranking the Bowl Games

[Brock Landers]

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/stewart_mandel/12/08/bowl.rankings/1.html

The bottom ones are hilarious..

31. St. Petersburg (Dec. 20): USF (7-5) vs. Memphis (6-6). Give this inaugural game credit for one thing: It caused me to look up what exactly "magicJack" (the game's title sponsor) is. Ladies and gentlemen: This bowl is sponsored by a phone jack.

32. Motor City (Dec. 26): Central Michigan (8-4) vs. Florida Atlantic (6-6). Bowl director Ken Hoffman said choosing FAU from among four 6-6 teams was "a very difficult decision because all were very close in terms of what they had to offer" -- as in, almost nothing.

33. New Mexico (Dec. 20): Fresno State (7-5) vs. Colorado State (6-6). Fresno coach Pat Hill has long prided his program on its mantra of playing "anyone, anywhere, anytime." Do you think he envisioned that to include playing a 6-6 team in Albuquerque?

34. Independence (Dec. 28): Louisiana Tech (7-5) vs. Northern Illinois (6-6). The Shreveport, La., game has deals to land the No. 7 team from the Big 12 and No. 8 team from the SEC. Some years, that gets you Alabama-Colorado, some years, that gets you ... this.

[Willie Bee]

That's some funny stuff Brock. Even funnier are the people I've heard say they want a 64-team playoff, which means you'd have teams like Northern Illinois and Fla Atlantic in the mix after all.

[Chi_archie]

no, nothing too appealing there.

wow a 64 team playoff would mean we would have about a 5 game regular season....

[CaneDawg]

any early leans on these toilet bowls

[turnip]

They could spin the PapaJohns.com bowl better, even though it's a Monday afternoon game. NC State has covered the last 7 games, Rutgers has covered the last five. Rutgers QB Mike Teel is on fire, and Wolfpack QB Russell Wilson has gone 226 pass attempts without a pick.

[Brock Landers]

the early bowl games, as a rule, tend to be HIGH scoring...

[TPowell]

Should have been Louisville/Washington State for the Toilet Bowl. I just thought about how embarassing that would be for a team to play in a bowl named the Toilet Bowl lol.

[wal66]

That's some funny stuff Brock. Even funnier are the people I've heard say they want a 64-team playoff, which means you'd have teams like Northern Illinois and Fla Atlantic in the mix after all.

I might be wrong but wasn't that mentioned as 64 teams in 8 conferences that would produce 8 teams for a playoff at the end of the year?

[guru-t]

Actually,I really like LATECH+2 in this shit bowl.LaTech has a potent offense and will run away from NILL in Shreveport.I agree,these bowls suck,but these are the type of games that gives us mismatches.You just got to do some work.Cashing in on Latech or Florida.Whats the difference?$$$$$$$-----is-----$$$$$$$$$.Rice -3 over W-MICH is a mismatch too guys.