Ready for the Triple-Header?
So the Big Ten signed on for the Gator Bowl to match-up its 3rd/4th non-BCS selection against the 2nd non-BCS selection of the ACC. Guess who crashed the party?
"The Konica Minolta Gator Bowl is on the verge of announcing a deal that will bring a Southeastern Conference team vs. a Big Ten team to the New Year's Day bowl game at the Jacksonville Municipal Stadium, from 2010-2013."
So the Gator Bowl will now feature Big Ten non-BCS Team 3 or 4 (it rotates with the Insight Bowl) versus SEC non-BCS team 5 (after the CapOne, Outback, Cotton, and Chick-Fil-A). Based upon the Big Ten 3/4 and SEC 5 selection spots, last year's matchup would have been Northwestern/Wisconsin versus Vanderbilt. This will be three New Year's Day matchups between the Big Ten and the SEC.
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Oh noes
3 games for OMG SEC SPEED to crush our conference.
I tremble in fear.
It never gets to be easy
Could be a great opportunity to sway public/media opinion about the Big11Ten conference by winning a couple of those matchups, or it could be a complete and utter disaster.
Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss. -- Lou Mannheim, Wall Street
Um, no
The media (read: ESPN) has made it clear that they will only take BCS bowls into account, unless of course the lesser bowls are evidence of the SEC’s superiority. In other words, were f*cked either way: we win all 3 bowls but an SEC team wins the title/beats a Big Ten team in a BCS bowl/Big Ten loses Rose Bowl, then the media will declare the SEC as dominant and/or the Big Ten “down”. These bowls will only be used to support the pre-conceived ideas or memes the media puts out.
I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.
Exactly.
See: Florida vs Michigan, PSU vs Tennessee, Iowa vs South Carolina,etc
Black Shoes. Basic Blues. No Name. All Game.
"Everyone has a plan, until they get punched in the mouth."
Damn.
And the problem will probably only be exacerbated now that the SEC’s alliance with the Four-Letter has been officially formalized.
Now the jokers over at ESPN have even more of a vested interest in promoting the SEC (except Lou Holtz, who will ALWAYS continue to blindly expound the merits of Notre Dame Football, no matter how blatantly ridiculous).
Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss. -- Lou Mannheim, Wall Street
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