Bowl thoughts

Let me start by saying that this is NOT another "we need a playoff" blog. Nope not going to happen. Maybe in 6 years when Fox's BCS contract is up, but I doubt it will happen then. So let's just deal with a system that ENSURES WE GET A #1 v #2 Bowl Championship game.

But some thoughts thus far.......
The Texas A&M "get JoePa a coffin" joke was great. Why the school thought it needed to apologize for what a booster said at a pep rally, I have NO idea. But come on, that was funny. The guy is in TERRIBLE shape. He is 81 and he looks 181. I thought it was funny. People take things too seriously.

Any bowl where you end up PAYING more to play in it that you make, THEN YOU GO ON TO LOSE, maybe you should have just said, "That's ok, we won't go bowling this year." Georgia Tech, I'm talking to YOU here. You LOST money going to Boise, Idaho for a crappy New Year's Eve TO LOSE. You lost to Fresno State. You did your PROGRAM NO FAVORS THERE. I think maybe the team would have been better off letting Paul Johnson take over and get practice going. Oh, the bowl is a reward for the seniors? That is their reward? New Year's Eve in Idaho? Really? I think they would have rather been in Buckhead of VaHi for the ball dropping. Just saying....

The Music City Bowl was won by UK, but they certainly TRIED to give that one away at the end. After blowing a huge lead with little time left, they intercepted a ball which SHOULD have won the game, but the UK guy tried to make Sportscenter by running it back and FSU stripped the ball and got a few more cracks at it. UK eventually won, but if the guy just falls to the ground (see: Tennessee player) then UK then take three knees and end the game. Stupid. I ALMOST started rooting for FSU to win that game JUST to teach that guy a lesson.

Arkansas was REALLY bad. The Cotton Bowl showed you how good a coach Houston Nutt was, to have his team as competitive as it was. Arkansas was terrible in that game against a Mizzou team that felt jobbed. If Run DMC had gotten off at all early, then maybe Mizzou packs it in, angry at the system. But they don't and Mizzou makes a statement. Oh well.

Auburn going against Clemson, Tommy Bowden, fresh off an extension and off the hot seat immediately loses. Hmmmmmm Never saw THAT ONE COMING.

USC dismantles Illinois, but the Illini had a chance in the third before the men of Troy shut the door. Final was 49-17 or something. Yeah, good call traditionalists, saying Illinois v USC was the match-up you wanted. Good call

OU v West Va, I though it would be a blowout, but the other way. WOW, OU really stunk it up. Maybe they WON'T be top 3 preseason next year. HA. West VA WILL be top 5 though. Well, except for their coach who went 8-21 at VMI. VMI! And he gets handed the keys to a potential national champion? Paging Steve Fisher!

KU v VaTech. Wow. VaTech lost to a team that played BeamerBall. Scoring on INTs and blocked FGs....Rock Chalk JayHawk giving the castrated Turkeys a taste of their own medicine. NICE. One nice thing, i barely heard ANYTHING about VaTech being America's team during the Fox broadcast, maybe because I was watching in mute. I don't know. I also liked how in addition to gatorade, Mangino ordered the training staff to keep au jus in little cups. He apparently WASN'T holding a playsheet, but in fact a food menu from one of the upstairs club level suites. But his refusal to let the players dump gatorade on him was crazy. "Act like you've been there before?" this is Kansas. it has been HOW LONG since you were in the Orange Bowl? the 1960s? how long since a January Bowl? Sorry man-gina, they HAVEN'T been there before.

Finally, UGA v Hawaii. For all of the people who said, "the bowl just didn't turn out the way they were expecting," maybe that is because a SANE person would realize that UGA is just a TAD faster than anyone Hawaii has seen all year. I knew going in that if UGA could contain Tim Tebow, then Colt Brennan wouldn't be a problem. Georgia was just plain better than Hawaii. I loved how they just dominated the game on offense, they way the experts thought they would, but I also loved how the D dominated the ha'a warrior o-line. Speed kills baby! Colt, you aren't very good. and finally someone exposed him. Good for UGA and we are looking at a top 5 preseason ranking. With this win + Florida's loss to michigan, that TO ME means UGA will be maybe #3 with Florida @ #4. Just they way I see it.

Finally apparently after the game Colt Brennan was so confused by the pounding he took(8 sacks plus 2 fumbles and 3 INTs), he sexually assaulted a GUY, instead of the girls he is used to. BTW, Fox's pregame segment on his sexual predator history, if I was Colt, I MAY have turned down the interview. That isn't something he should be celebrating, how he has changed. I would want that buried, never to be brought up again. But that's just me....the NON-Sexual predator.