Jan 1st Bowl game thoughts - so far

Technically, UT returns 10 starters (lose Nate Jones, Tony Hills) on offense and 4 on defense (lose Lokey, Okam, Derry, Killebrew, Jackson, Griffin, Foster) for a total of 15. However, the replacements at LB and perhaps even at S and CB should be upgrades over this year by game 3, so UT may play more like they have 18 starters returning.

You can't take KU to the BCS over Mizzou.  Just can't.

Look at these games today.  

UTenn vs. the Vadge-ers:
OK, I hate Wisconsin for reasons I don't fully understand, but that doesn't mean I can't appreciate the game.  Both teams played well and the game came down to the last play.  Good game.

Meatchicken vs. Flo-rIdah:
Wow!  Even though this completely killed my Bowl Pick 'em ballot, (I picked Florida, 31 confidence) this was a great game.  I found myself rooting for Michigan once I saw how bad they wanted to win that game.  Henne and Hart played a hell of a game, and Michigan's defense, while outclassed in the speed category (They're still chasing Percy Harvin, sorry Big 10), developed a devilish pressure package that, coupled with the Heisman curse, bottled up Tebow for good chunks of the game.  Great game, Hart fumbled twice.

Just Va vs. Lubbock Buccaneers:
Any other team and this is a stunning comeback win.  But after the Minnesota comeback last year, this seems a little cheap.  Good game, though.  You don't often see two safeties in one game.  And that Chris Long kid is the real deal.  Super disruptive.

Mizz-used vs. Run DMC and co:
Dominance from Mizzou.  Definitely deserved to play in the...

Rose Bowl
Spoiled Children U vs. The Juice (from Concentrate):
Waste of everyone's time.  The Rose Bowl is in the bowl doghouse for passing up Mizzou for what amounts to a really good Aggie team.  Total dominance from USC, sigh.  This just shows how far behind the Big 10 is.  Run a spread-esque running game in that festering heap of a conference, beat the conference champion, get to the Rose Bowl, get destroyed by a defense from the modern era.  Granted that defense is a really good one, but let's throw something challenging into its teeth, please?

Sugar Bowl or WAC Super Bowl
Rainbow Brights vs. Chainsaw-Dicked Stormtroopers from Hell:
I'm writing this in the first third of the fourth quarter, if that tells you how good a game this was...  Can't really blame the Sugar Bowl, though, as they were forced to take Hawaii.  This game just made you feel bad to watch.  Touchdown Hawaii! 41-10!  Oh... then UGA almost runs back a TD on the kickoff.  What a beating.  UGA's DEs just run around Hawaii's tackles on every play.  I think they're holding some kind of contest to see who can launch Brennan the farthest when they get there.

So basically, the worst two games on TV are the Rose Bowl and the Sugar Bowl.  Thank you Rose Bowl selection committee, and thank you WAC for letting Hawaii pillow fight you to death all year.  Those were sarcastic thank yous.  Just letting you know because you're both obviously retarded.

tech did some pretty nasty shit in their 06 bowl game too, and Texas still whipped their ass.

Look, they're a fine team. Crazy offense that would probably upset a lot of BCS teams from other conferences. But we just freakin own that team.

Even this year, the final score doesn't tell you how much we dominated them. Until their defense decides to do anything consistently productive, they are not an issue to me. Same goes with Oklahoma State.

Harrell is a douche bag and karma is a bitch.

Whoops, my call for Hawaii to be in the title game is not looking so good today...even worse, the BCS feels justified that it has fixed the problem (or at least appeased it) by designating a token bowl for any Mid-Major who finishes undefeated without ever really giving them a legit shot at the title. I'm not going to defend Hawaii's SOS or any mid-major team for that matter, but if you don't even have a shot, what's the point?

Boise State made huge strides for Mid-Major legitimacy last year and Hawaii just set them back 20 years...I wasn't surprised that Georgia won the game, but I figured it would be like a 42-38 type game.

Regardless, is anybody going to be satisfied that the winner of the OSU (lost to an Illinois team that just got handled by USC who probably should have been in the title game) vs. LSU (Lost to an Arkie team at home that was without their coach for the Mizzou game but still looked painfully inept) is true National Champion?

I'll be interested to see how the AP votes when it's all said and done. They love sticking it to the BCS.

You get your ass handed to you by Georgia. Then word gets out that SMU is willing to pay $1.7M to steal your coach. Sucks to be a Rainbow Warrior right now.

BTW, how sad is it that both Coach Fran and Larry Coker interviewed for the SMU job and didn't get it?

The No. 7 Trojans are better than both No. 1 Ohio State and No. 2 LSU, which will play for the BCS championship Monday night in the Louisiana Superdome. The Buckeyes couldn't even beat No. 13 Illinois, which was so clearly overmatched by USC. It's a shame the Trojans can't play the winner of the BCS title game in two weeks.

By that logic, Stanford is the best team in the nation, as they beat USC, who beat Illinois, who beat Ohio St.  Later in the article, USC's linebacker even said that was stupid:

"It's hard to say what would happen," USC offensive tackle Sam Baker said, when asked how the Trojans would stack up against the Buckeyes or Tigers. "You can't really do that. You can't say Illinois beat Ohio State and we beat Illinois. That's not how football works. I just know this team was peaking at the right time."