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Best non elite bowl games

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Only a few here. My number one

The Military bowl. Navy/Oklahoma all those years when Texas had to play in the Alamo,Houston, or Holiday bowl while Oklahoma got play in an elite bowl. Well now the tables have turned. And right now Oklahoma fb is hot mess not just on the field but with their nil as well. I've also read that their athletic department is losing money. But I don't have the nerve to pick Navy so I have to go with the sooners.

Michigan/.Alabama in the Tampa bowl. I think Michigan may have found themselves. Going with the wolverines.

The Houston bowl. I hope Baylor kicks LSU's ass.

Liberty bowl. Arkansas/Texas Tech. Tossup


Finally the Alamo bowl. BYU/Colorado. BYU is my second favorite team and I want them to succeed but I have my doubts. Going with Colorado.

If you have others please tell us and you know when it comes to non elite bowl games it depends on which team really wants to be there.
 
Only a few here. My number one

The Military bowl. Navy/Oklahoma all those years when Texas had to play in the Alamo,Houston, or Holiday bowl while Oklahoma got play in an elite bowl. Well now the tables have turned. And right now Oklahoma fb is hot mess not just on the field but with their nil as well. I've also read that their athletic department is losing money. But I don't have the nerve to pick Navy so I have to go with the sooners.

Michigan/.Alabama in the Tampa bowl. I think Michigan may have found themselves. Going with the wolverines.

The Houston bowl. I hope Baylor kicks LSU's ass.

Liberty bowl. Arkansas/Texas Tech. Tossup


Finally the Alamo bowl. BYU/Colorado. BYU is my second favorite team and I want them to succeed but I have my doubts. Going with Colorado.

If you have others please tell us and you know when it comes to non elite bowl games it depends on which team really wants to be there.
Tough to predict these.

I’ll take Navy against blowU. I have no idea if Arnold will play or not

GT vs Vandy: My gut says GT, but I don’t want to pick against Pavia. I’ll take Vandy

Tech ve Arky. I’ll take Arky. Tech’s D is too porous

USC vs Aggy. Aggy

Iowa St vs Miami: ISU

BYU vs Col: I will hesitantly take Col. BYU has a little better quality wins
 
Tough to predict these.

I’ll take Navy against blowU. I have no idea if Arnold will play or not

GT vs Vandy: My gut says GT, but I don’t want to pick against Pavia. I’ll take Vandy

Tech ve Arky. I’ll take Arky. Tech’s D is too porous

USC vs Aggy. Aggy

Iowa St vs Miami: ISU

BYU vs Col: I will hesitantly take Col. BYU has a little better quality wins
I forgot about aggies/trojans. Man talk about a clash of cultures. Rick kids against a cow college. Future Hollywood stars vs future veterinarians. Is Lincoln Riley going to make it? And I think Elko may succeed where Jimbo failed. I'm going with the aggies.
 
That hurts....the boy-child is here for Christmas. After a long day on the tamale production line, he assures me that the Ramblin' Wreck's nerds are more athletic than the Vanderbilt nerds....
freeper, everyone is more athletic than Vanderbilt. Westlake high is more athletic than Vanderbilt.
 
That hurts....the boy-child is here for Christmas. After a long day on the tamale production line, he assures me that the Ramblin' Wreck's nerds are more athletic than the Vanderbilt nerds....
Well, i am sure rooting for GT👍🏻
 
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I forgot about aggies/trojans. Man talk about a clash of cultures. Rick kids against a cow college. Future Hollywood stars vs future veterinarians. Is Lincoln Riley going to make it? And I think Elko may succeed where Jimbo failed. I'm going with the aggies.
USC will be lucky to field a team. Never thought Riley would step in sh!t as badly as he has at USC. Dude could have built a fvcking monster there.
 
Well he swung and missed.
You get a small window to operate and you can swing and miss with the wrong people. C Strong, besides himself squndered his opportunity with Shawn Watson, Tom Herman squandered his with Tim Beck and Lincoln had Alex Grinch. Lincoln squandered the great Caleb Williams’s tenure by having the worst possible defense you could imagine. It eliminated any momentum he had to get toprecruits and build a program. Mid tier programs are different imo because the blue blood programs give you money to hire the best. JMHO
 
You get a small window to operate and you can swing and miss with the wrong people. C Strong, besides himself squndered his opportunity with Shawn Watson, Tom Herman squandered his with Tim Beck and Lincoln had Alex Grinch. Lincoln squandered the great Caleb Williams’s tenure by having the worst possible defense you could imagine. It eliminated any momentum he had to get toprecruits and build a program. Mid tier programs are different imo because the blue blood programs give you money to hire the best. JMHO
Agreed. Riley is the next Lane Kiffen. He’ll likely bounce around and then find some continuity with a mid tier team somewhere because he grabs a decent QB in the process. I’m convinced the talent makes the coaches more than the coaches make the talent. Riley ran out of luck on the talent.
 
You get a small window to operate and you can swing and miss with the wrong people. C Strong, besides himself squndered his opportunity with Shawn Watson, Tom Herman squandered his with Tim Beck and Lincoln had Alex Grinch. Lincoln squandered the great Caleb Williams’s tenure by having the worst possible defense you could imagine. It eliminated any momentum he had to get toprecruits and build a program. Mid tier programs are different imo because the blue blood programs give you money to hire the best. JMHO
My question is “how did Reilly f$&k this up???” Like it or not, USC is a blue blood. They’ve got money, girls, and celebrities. Pete Carroll killed it there.
 
Agreed. Riley is the next Lane Kiffen. He’ll likely bounce around and then find some continuity with a mid tier team somewhere because he grabs a decent QB in the process. I’m convinced the talent makes the coaches more than the coaches make the talent. Riley ran out of luck on the talent.
Dude had 3 Heisman trophy winners and a runner-up inside of what, 5-6 years?
No reason he couldn't have kept that talent train going. Just the QBs and WRs he should have pulled would have been enough to win him 11 games a year.
 
It seems as if he doesn't care about his running game at all. The key to his offense is having a qb who can run with the ball and he didn't have that this year.

When it comes to recruiting all he does is sign receivers and qbs. He's kind of like Deion Sanders at Colorado it's like a Greyhound bus station there.

And I've always believed that Big XII zebras went easy on his teams. Never more than a few penalties a game. Now he's in the Big X and his ol is getting called for holding at least a couple of times a game. Not a coincidence think about that when you remember all those close games we lost to him.
 
My question is “how did Reilly f$&k this up???” Like it or not, USC is a blue blood. They’ve got money, girls, and celebrities. Pete Carroll killed it there.
SC is a different animal. I remember on my trip to UCLA, they made fun of SC being in the ghetto. This was 30 years ago. And..... it is in the ghetto. It's got the 110 to the east and an industrial park over there. To the north is I-10 and Pico Union and West Adams..... gheeeeeeeetto.
To the south you've got MLK blvd.... and South LA.... more ghetto. Amd to the west you've got Exposition Park where crackheads stab USC students like it's a fvcking sporting event.

Then over in Westwood you've got UCLA. On one side, Beverly Hills. On the other, Bellaire. On the other, Brentwood. Wilshire BLVD keeps all the cholos on their side of west LA.
The problem is, UCLA fvcking sucks.
Swap those campuses and USC might never lose a game.
 
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SC is a different animal. I remember on my trip to UCLA, they made fun of SC being in the ghetto. This was 30 years ago. And..... it is in the ghetto. It's got the 110 to the east and an industrial park over there. To the north is I-10 and Pico Union and West Adams..... gheeeeeeeetto.
To the south you've got MLK blvd.... and South LA.... more ghetto. Amd to the west you've got Exposition Park where crackheads stab USC students like it's a fvcking sporting event.

Then over in Westwood you've got UCLA. On one side, Beverly Hills. On the other, Bellaire. On the other, Brentwood. Wilshire BLVD keeps all the cholos on their side of west LA.
The problem is, UCLA fvcking sucks.
Swap those campuses and USC might never lose a game.
Oklahoma fans were too greedy. They expected more than Riley could deliver at least 2 years ago. Had the fans backed off and 25% more rushing plays added to the OU offense, they could be winning or competing for the SEC title this year. There is no doubt that they wouldn't be the crap show they are now. Don't get me wrong, I am laughing. I wish Bell were here to see it.

Edit: I could see Riley coming back to a place like Arkansas after next season. I would not like to see it. He is a natural fit for Texas High School talent. He would do well there. He needs to understand that owning the line of scrimmage and slowing the game down a bit would help his TEAM win games.
 
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Oklahoma fans were too greedy. They expected more than Riley could deliver at least 2 years ago. Had the fans backed off and 25% more rushing plays added to the OU offense, they could be winning or competing for the SEC title this year. There is no doubt that they wouldn't be the crap show they are now. Don't get me wrong, I am laughing. I wish Bell were here to see it.

Edit: I could see Riley coming back to a place like Arkansas after next season. I would not like to see it. He is a natural fit for Texas High School talent. He would do well there. He needs to understand that owning the line of scrimmage and slowing the game down a bit would help his TEAM win games.
I believe it was the Alex Grinch hire and sticking with him
 
Dude had 3 Heisman trophy winners and a runner-up inside of what, 5-6 years?
No reason he couldn't have kept that talent train going. Just the QBs and WRs he should have pulled would have been enough to win him 11 games a year.
Well that was my point, he didn’t.
 
The KState vs Rutgers game was a fvcking barn burner.
Rutgers was up 34-17 with 6 minutes to go in the 3rd and K state just went off. They scored 27 points in the next 20 minutes and won the game 44-41.
Big 12 Football Baby!!! BTW - bet the house on Baylor over LSU. The Tigers have 3 O-Linemen that dropped out to prepare for the draft. Sawyer Robertson has a cannon that appears to have found some touch. I would love to see what goes on behind the scenes - there has to be a ton of NIL money being thrown at him now. He's light years better than Will Howard, who parlayed mediocrity at K State into the starting QB at Ohio State.
 
Big 12 Football Baby!!! BTW - bet the house on Baylor over LSU. The Tigers have 3 O-Linemen that dropped out to prepare for the draft. Sawyer Robertson has a cannon that appears to have found some touch. I would love to see what goes on behind the scenes - there has to be a ton of NIL money being thrown at him now. He's light years better than Will Howard, who parlayed mediocrity at K State into the starting QB at Ohio State.
LSU is a bunch of punks.
 
Oklahoma fans were too greedy. They expected more than Riley could deliver at least 2 years ago. Had the fans backed off and 25% more rushing plays added to the OU offense, they could be winning or competing for the SEC title this year. There is no doubt that they wouldn't be the crap show they are now. Don't get me wrong, I am laughing. I wish Bell were here to see it.
I say this with love and respect, because I miss Belldozer. But - Blow U and Navy are tied in the 4th quarter. Can someone exhume him to see if you can actually turn over in your grave?
 
I say this with love and respect, because I miss Belldozer. But - Blow U and Navy are tied in the 4th quarter. Can someone exhume him to see if you can actually turn over in your grave?
I think he’d laugh at this one. Maybe he is.
 
Oklahoma just just to Navy. That's 2 losing seasons in three years. Oklahoma fb is a mess both on and off the field. Now they know what it's like to have a Charlie Strong or a Tom Herman for a coach
 
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GA Tech and Vandy are fighting and trash talking each other. Dudes are being ejected.

What kind of nerd tech trash do they talk to each other?
"Your mom can't solve non-equivalent linear equations!"
 
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Oklahoma just just to Navy. That's 2 losing seasons in three years. Oklahoma fb is a mess both on and off the field. Now they know what it's like to have a Charlie Strong or a Tom Herman for a coach
At this point, Tom Herman>Vegetables. TH was above average: 7-6, 10-4, 7-5, 7-3 and 4-0 in bowls and 1-0 in practice whatever that fkn means. Vegetables is more Charly level.
 
GA Tech and Vandy are fighting a trash talking each other. Dudes are being ejected.

What kind of nerd tech trash do they talk to each other?
"Your mom can't solve non-equivalent linear equations!"
"You're so dumb you couldn't even get into Mississippi"
 
Only a few here. My number one

The Military bowl. Navy/Oklahoma all those years when Texas had to play in the Alamo,Houston, or Holiday bowl while Oklahoma got play in an elite bowl. Well now the tables have turned. And right now Oklahoma fb is hot mess not just on the field but with their nil as well. I've also read that their athletic department is losing money. But I don't have the nerve to pick Navy so I have to go with the sooners.

Michigan/.Alabama in the Tampa bowl. I think Michigan may have found themselves. Going with the wolverines.

The Houston bowl. I hope Baylor kicks LSU's ass.

Liberty bowl. Arkansas/Texas Tech. Tossup


Finally the Alamo bowl. BYU/Colorado. BYU is my second favorite team and I want them to succeed but I have my doubts. Going with Colorado.

If you have others please tell us and you know when it comes to non elite bowl games it depends on which team really wants to be there.
You forgot to mention the Vegas Midnight Madness Bowl… 8-4 aTm vs 6-6 USC. Start time 9:30 CT. 😝

Pulling for USC, but aggie should prevail…in front of a half empty stadium.
 
Well three cheers for the Charlie Brown all stars,aka the Vanderbilt Commodores. They topped off a winning season with a bowl win today. They pulled off the upset of the century, won for the first time at Auburn and caused a complete meltdown from Paul Finebaum.

A salute to Vandy.

Ps did you know Mack Brown played there for a couple of seasons?
 
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Oklahoma just just to Navy. That's 2 losing seasons in three years. Oklahoma fb is a mess both on and off the field. Now they know what it's like to have a Charlie Strong or a Tom Herman foDic you forget John Blake
Oklahoma just just to Navy. That's 2 losing seasons in three years. Oklahoma fb is a mess both on and off the field. Now they know what it's like to have a Charlie Strong or a Tom Herman for a coach
Did you forget John Blake?
 
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