Remember the Alamo

by T Keaton on Nov 25, 2006 6:30 PM CST Comment 11 comments

With OU winning the Big 12 South, I think we are going to see:

Fiesta Bowl - OU/Nebraska winner
Cotton Bowl - A&M
Holiday Bowl - OU/Nebraska loser
Alamo Bowl - Texas

The Cotton Bowl will invite A&M on Monday, and tickets will promptly sell out in the time it takes an Aggie to tip a cow.

I also think we've seen the last of Colt McCoy in 2006, which means Jevan Snead will have the Backyard Bowl to impress the fans, and against Iowa he likely will.

What will happen next is inevitable.

Get ready for 2000 redux going into the spring, with compelling cases to be made for both guys.

Do you stick with the proven, older fan favorite who may or may not be fragile?

Or do you go with the younger, more talented player who has the potential to surpass the other, but with no guarantee he ever will?

Sounds familiar, doesn't it?

The cruelest irony is that no matter who Mack Brown picks (if he does pick one), he is going to be second-guessed by the fans. Because as fans, we can't resist fueling this controversy. It's great drama and water cooler talk, and it is beginning, oh, right about now.

Somehow the Florida Gators have managed to play two QBs without the team being torn apart, but I don't know how that's possible here.

The starting QB for any football team in Texas is just too big of a position to share. Even in high school football, fans want to know who "the guy" is.

It's deja vu all over again. Get ready everyone.

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Cotton wants Neb

I think we'll head to either the Holiday or Alamo.

by the other Andrew on Nov 25, 2006 6:44 PM CST reply actions

A&M to Holiday

See ya in San Antone

by Peter Bean on Nov 25, 2006 6:50 PM CST reply actions

That a guess or already invited?

They gonna play Cal?

Oh man, that'll be an asskicking of epic proportions.

by the other Andrew on Nov 25, 2006 6:57 PM CST up reply actions

Why would A&M

get a better bowl bid than Texas?

UT is still ahead of A&M by a game in the standings.

What's the point of conference standings, if not to distinguish a pecking order?

I think Texas goes to the Holiday bowl and faces either Cal or Oregon State.

A&M does not deserve a bowl bid ahead of Texas, because if they played an OOC team in the top 5 they would have 4 losses and just 3.

Cats and dogs sleeping together.

by EYESofBEVO on Nov 25, 2006 9:04 PM CST reply actions

BTW

Sportsline is the most moronic site reporting college football.

Last year, I believe they had Penn State or OSU playing USC in the Rose Bowl all the way up until the last week of the season.

CBS should stick to redneck football in the SEC.

Cats and dogs sleeping together.

by EYESofBEVO on Nov 25, 2006 9:08 PM CST up reply actions

It's not necessarily "who's better"

It's the order by which the bowls pick.

The bowls themselves want to make money, so when it's their turn to pick, they'll pick the team that will sell the most tickets and hotel rooms and give the other team the best game.

So the Cotton, with the second pick after the Fiesta might pick the #3 ranked Big 12 and the #4 ranked SEC team simply because it'll look good for the bowl to show butts in seats.

by the other Andrew on Nov 26, 2006 12:14 AM CST up reply actions

gotcha

I guess I never really pay much attention to the other bowls.

The Alamo wouldn't be soooo bad.

Ohio State just played there two seasons ago, under the same sort of circumstances of a year with QB injuries and flux on defense.
They kicked butt and it gave them momentum for last season.

Cats and dogs sleeping together.

by EYESofBEVO on Nov 26, 2006 12:30 AM CST up reply actions

Gator Bowl

We are all forgetting about the Gator Bowl. In my mind, it remains a real possibility.

Link has the picking order that most of us already know. Gator can pick a Big 12 team, after Holiday selects.
http://www.big12sports.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/bowl-affiliates.html

Assuming OU wins the Big 12,
Fiesta: OU
Cotton: Nebraska
Holiday: A&M
Gator: Texas
Alamo:

All the media reports say the Cotton wants Nebraska and the Holiday wants A&M.

If Texas is still there, the Gator Bowl would be foolish not to take the Horns. The arrangement says they can take a Big 12 team only twice in a four year span. There aren't going to be too many opportunities to take Texas. I think they would jump at this one.

The other option is to take a Big East team. The Gator gets the first selection of a Big East team after the BCS bowl. With West Virginia's loss, they are most likely out of BCS at-large consideration after their second loss. The automatic berth from the Big East is still undetermined. If Rutgers wins at West Virginia, they go and Louisville could be selected as an at-large team (other options will be LSU or Florida if they lose). If West Virginia wins, then Louisville goes to the BCS and most likely neither WVU nor Rutgers go to the BCS. In that case, the Gator could take WVU, Rutgers, or Texas.

WVU went to the Gator bowl twice in the last three years. Louisville went there last year.

If Nebraska wins the Big 12, then all bets are off. The Cotton may want A&M over OU b/c the Sooners play in Dallas every year and then we could be headed back to the Holiday b/c OU went there last year. OU could then slip to the Gator or even Alamo.

--AW--

by awiggo on Nov 25, 2006 9:43 PM CST reply actions