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BIRMINGHAM IN JANUARY

Started by bluelightstar, Nov 25 2012 08:23 PM

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Posted 26 November 2012 - 01:36 PM

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cocky4ever, on 26 November 2012 - 01:31 PM, said:

You say dropping all the way down like there are a ton of bowl eligible SEC teams you're ahead of. Other than Ole Miss, every other SEC team that's going bowling has a better conference record than you. And Ole Miss is 3-5 while yall are 4-4....and like I said the Rebels played a tougher schedule, looked more competitive in their losses, and beat yall head to head. Don't act like a bowl taking them over yall is some giant travesty.

This is what State fans need to hear right now. It isn't fun, they are just better than we are this year. We don't deserve anything better than the MCB, IMHO. Besides, fellas, do we want to play in a better bowl and likely get our brains beaten out?

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Posted 26 November 2012 - 01:48 PM

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Gator Bowl would not take a hit in the wallet for a lower bowl..... They are already financially strapped and need at least one team that will travel in decent amounts.

1dawgfan09, on 26 November 2012 - 01:36 PM, said:

This is what State fans need to hear right now. It isn't fun, they are just better than we are this year. We don't deserve anything better than the MCB, IMHO. Besides, fellas, do we want to play in a better bowl and likely get our brains beaten out?

I agree.

IMO we would travel better to BHam anyway. Just not likely we will be in AL for a bowl. Vandy would have to be taken by Gator. Gator wants at least one team that will travel decently. They are financially strapped and cant take a large hit in the wallet.

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Posted 26 November 2012 - 02:07 PM

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something would have to be going on behind the scenes. No way someone takes a 6-6 team over and 8-4. There is a pecking order to follow if memory serves.

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Posted 26 November 2012 - 02:36 PM

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A10Rebel, on 26 November 2012 - 02:07 PM, said:

something would have to be going on behind the scenes. No way someone takes a 6-6 team over and 8-4. There is a pecking order to follow if memory serves.

There is a tentative one. Bowls aren't bound by it though. And with the way we finished, along with the enthusiasm the Ole Miss fans have shown the last few weeks (rushing the field after beating an unranked team and what-not) I think it is a safe bet to think that the Rebels will travel better and spend more money on whatever bowl that MSU will this year. It is a no-brainer for any bowl to pick Ole Miss over us this season.

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Posted 26 November 2012 - 02:51 PM

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Meo Stansbury, on 26 November 2012 - 02:36 PM, said:

There is a tentative one. Bowls aren't bound by it though. And with the way we finished, along with the enthusiasm the Ole Miss fans have shown the last few weeks (rushing the field after beating an unranked team and what-not) I think it is a safe bet to think that the Rebels will travel better and spend more money on whatever bowl that MSU will this year. It is a no-brainer for any bowl to pick Ole Miss over us this season.

interesting. I didn't think the bowls had that much control. I mean it's their bowl so they should I guess have the right to offer whatever to whomever but for some reason I thought they couldn't take a team with a lower record over a team with a higher one.

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Posted 26 November 2012 - 02:57 PM

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A10Rebel, on 26 November 2012 - 02:07 PM, said:

something would have to be going on behind the scenes. No way someone takes a 6-6 team over and 8-4. There is a pecking order to follow if memory serves.

Kind of, but not really. The Capital One Bowl must take the non BCS SEC team with the best record, or within one game of the best record. After that it's generally assumed the Cotton takes a West team and the Outback takes an East. Then the Chik-Fil-A picks...then Gator. And so on and so forth. Besides the BCS bowls and a few others it's not like bowls are required to pick certain teams. If that was the case there would be a lot less speculation.

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Posted 26 November 2012 - 02:58 PM

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cocky4ever, on 26 November 2012 - 02:57 PM, said:

Kind of, but not really. The Capital One Bowl must take the non BCS SEC team with the best record, or within one game of the best record. After that it's generally assumed the Cotton takes a West team and the Outback takes an East. Then the Chik-Fil-A picks...then Gator. And so on and so forth. Besides the BCS bowls and a few others it's not like bowls are required to pick certain teams. If that was the case there would be a lot less speculation.

okay. That makes sense.

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Posted 26 November 2012 - 03:30 PM

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A10Rebel, on 26 November 2012 - 02:51 PM, said:

interesting. I didn't think the bowls had that much control. I mean it's their bowl so they should I guess have the right to offer whatever to whomever but for some reason I thought they couldn't take a team with a lower record over a team with a higher one.

They can but depending on the circumstances the SEC may or may not allow it. There have been instances where the SEC front office stepped in and said no...

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Posted 26 November 2012 - 03:39 PM

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1dawgfan09, on 26 November 2012 - 01:36 PM, said:

This is what State fans need to hear right now. It isn't fun, they are just better than we are this year. We don't deserve anything better than the MCB, IMHO. Besides, fellas, do we want to play in a better bowl and likely get our brains beaten out?

If we played Northwestern in the Gator I believe we'd beat them.

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Posted 26 November 2012 - 03:54 PM

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JDawg, on 26 November 2012 - 03:39 PM, said:

If we played Northwestern in the Gator I believe we'd beat them.

I didn't thin about that.

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Posted 26 November 2012 - 04:09 PM

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JDawg, on 26 November 2012 - 03:39 PM, said:

If we played Northwestern in the Gator I believe we'd beat them.

northwestern will give us all kinds of trouble. they are a good team with some very close losses.

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Posted 26 November 2012 - 04:11 PM

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a bowl game"......seems pretty prophetic at this point.

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Posted 26 November 2012 - 04:19 PM

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shamoan, on 26 November 2012 - 04:11 PM, said:

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a bowl game"......seems pretty prophetic at this point.

We'll take your bowl game if you don't want it.

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Posted 26 November 2012 - 04:22 PM

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Mizzou_Fan, on 26 November 2012 - 04:19 PM, said:

We'll take your bowl game if you don't want it.

that was what our all sec db said before the bama game....back when we thought we could compete for a national championship....snicker....man were we way off.

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shamoan, on 26 November 2012 - 04:22 PM, said:

that was what our all sec db said before the bama game....back when we thought we could compete for a national championship....snicker....man were we way off.

The way off still involves a bowl game, better than we can say.