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Post by nowhereman on Jan 2, 2023 12:02:56 GMT -5
in a college,football thread some posters commented that only the bowls for all the marbles matter and the rest are meaningless. tell that to pittsburgh. the way they celebrated after kicking the game winning field goal against ucla.........you cannot fake that. and the reason the bowls are still around is because they are still a reward for a solid season.
sure the bowls have drawbacks - way too many 6-6 or 7-5 teams.
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Post by vbbetterthanbb on Jan 2, 2023 15:48:39 GMT -5
This has turned out to be an exciting bowl season, so many games down to the final minutes, and so few mis-matches. I am even warming up to the 6-6/7-5 bowls. Some of these teams were just some luck away from a major bowl invite, and players obviously want to play.
IMHO, the understandable opt-outs by top NFL bound players might have decreased the amount of impressive plays, but had not changed the outcome of almost any game. The only game that I felt could have gone a different direction was the Texas-Washington game without Bijan Robinson running for Texas.
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Post by vbbetterthanbb on Jan 4, 2023 14:21:30 GMT -5
2022-23 bowl rankings (based on actual game excitement)Fun reading. Only a handful of the games turned out to be duds. The rest were interesting at least in some fashion. That's why prediction was not easy. I made a summary listing in this format: Final Excitement Rank, Pregame Excitement Rank, Bowl, Result 41 20 Citrus #17 LSU 63 Purdue 7 40 7 Las Vegas #14 Oregon State 30 Florida 3 39 41 First Responder Memphis 38 Utah State 10 38 17 Music City Iowa 21 Kentucky 0 37 19 Sugar #5 Alabama 45 #9 Kansas State 20 36 8 LA Fresno State 29 Washington State 6 35 23 New Orleans Western Kentucky 44 South Alabama 23 34 14 Fenway Louisville 24 Cincinnati 7 33 26 Military Duke 30 UCF 13 32 31 Armed Forces Air Force 30 Baylor 15 31 12 Orange #6 Tennessee 31 #7 Clemson 14 30 39 Myrtle Beach Marshall 28 UConn 14 29 37 Birmingham East Carolina 53 Coastal Carolina 29 28 15 Texas Texas Tech 42 Ole Miss 25 27 30 Potato Eastern Michigan 41 San Jose State 27 26 3 Rose #11 Penn State 35 #8 Utah 21 25 29 Pinstripe Minnesota 28 Syracuse 20 24 35 Quick Lane New Mexico State 24,ing Green 19 23 25 Guaranteed Rate Wisconsin 24 Oklahoma State 17 22 10 ReliaQuest #22 Mississippi State 19 Illinois 10 21 9 Alamo #12 Washington 27 #20 Texas 20 20 4 Cure #24 Troy 18 #25 UTSA 12 19 28 Gasparilla Wake Forest 27 Missouri 17 18 32 Independence Houston 23 Louisiana 16 17 38 LendingTree Southern Miss 38 Rice 24 16 16 Duke's Mayo Maryland 16 #23 NC State 12 15 27 Boca Raton Toledo 21 Liberty 19 14 24 New Mexico BYU 24 SMU 23 13 34 Camellia Buffalo 23 Georgia Southern 21 12 40 Bahamas UAB 24 Miami OH 20 11 6 Holiday #15 Oregon 28 North Carolina 27 10 22 Gator #21 Notre Dame 45 #19 South Carolina 38 9 33 Hawaii Middle Tennessee 25 San Diego State 23 8 13 Sun Pittsburgh 37 #18 UCLA 35 7 36 Frisco Boise State 35 North Texas 32: 6 21 Arizona Ohio 30 Wyoming 27 5 2 Fiesta #3 TCU 51 #2 Michigan 45 4 11 Cheez-It #13 Florida State 35 Oklahoma 32 3 18 Liberty Arkansas 55 Kansas 53 2 5 Cotton #16 Tulane 46 #10 USC 45 1 1 Peach #1 Georgia 42 #4 Ohio State 41
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Post by vbbetterthanbb on Jan 9, 2023 23:14:45 GMT -5
Thank you for playing! What a let down of a championship game
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Post by nowhereman on Jan 9, 2023 23:25:37 GMT -5
Thank you for playing! What a let down of a championship game aren't you going to post the final results for the eight prognosticators......i think i finished back in the pack but would still like to see how we all did. Muchas gracias.
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Post by vbbetterthanbb on Jan 10, 2023 3:17:21 GMT -5
aren't you going to post the final results for the eight prognosticators......i think i finished back in the pack but would still like to see how we all did. Muchas gracias. 28 vbbetterthanbb 26 HappyVolley 26 nowhereman 23 geddyleeridesagain 22 nellynel 21 notwvb 18 maplespear 16 vbprisoner
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