How does 4 - 5 / 7 - 5 Penn St. get the New Years Day Outback Bowl game and 7 - 2 / 10 - 2 Michigan St. gets Dec. 30th Peach Bowl?Here is the list of bowls that B1G teams will be involved in (all times Central):
-Guaranteed Rate Bowl (Dec. 28th, 9:15 PM, ESPN): Minnesota vs. West Virginia
-New Era Pinstripe Bowl (Dec. 29th, 1:15 PM, ESPN): Maryland vs. Virginia Tech
-TransPerfect Music City Bowl (Dec. 30th, 2:00 PM, ESPN): Purdue vs. Tennessee
-Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl (Dec. 30th, 6:00 PM, ESPN): Michigan State vs. Pittsburgh
-SRS Distribution Las Vegas Bowl (Dec. 30th, 9:30 PM, ESPN): Wisconsin vs. Arizona State
-Capital One Orange Bowl (Dec. 31st, 6:30 PM, ESPN): Michigan vs. Georgia
-Outback Bowl (Jan. 1st, 11:00 AM, ESPN2): Penn State vs. Arkansas
-Vrbo Citrus Bowl (Jan. 1st, Noon, ABC): Iowa vs. Kentucky
-Rose Bowl Game presented by Capital One Venture X (Jan. 1st, 4:00 PM, ESPN): Ohio State vs. Utah
Thoughts? Predictions?
Because the Peach Bowl is a "New Years Six" game The Outback is not a New Years Six game. PSU should not have gotten the Outback Bowl though.How does 4 - 5 / 7 - 5 Penn St. get the New Years Day Outback Bowl game and 7 - 2 / 10 - 2 Michigan St. gets Dec. 30th Peach Bowl?
It’s maddening. The CFP stinks of SEC favoritism. The Disney/ESPN entertainment profit machine is behind it, trying to build the SEC brand so they can pay TX and OU when they join the league. They’ve got to make sure current SEC schools look good since the TX and OU brands have taken a hit this year.I hate Georgia so much now. A playoff without Alabama would have been wonderful.
I also hate Auburn for choking away their lead with 2 minutes left and allowing Bama to win in the Iron bowl.
You can conspiracize all you want, but there's no doubt Bama is the favorite to win the CFP, let alone one of the top 4 and would be a favorite on a neutral site against any other team after that Georgia performance (albeit only a very slight favorite to Georgia).It’s maddening. The CFP stinks of SEC favoritism. The Disney/ESPN entertainment profit machine is behind it, trying to build the SEC brand so they can pay TX and OU when they join the league. They’ve got to make sure current SEC schools look good since the TX and OU brands have taken a hit this year.
I am not a fan of either school but it would be great if Michigan and Cincinnati win their games.
Yes, the fix is in....this whole thing is a charade, run by ESPN, for the benefit of the SEC. Everyone's in on it. All the other 10 conferences, and Swarbrick at ND. The committee actually never meets, they just ask Herbstreit who he wants in. Yesterday, Kirby and Nick's head sets were connected, allowing them to orchestrate the game for an Alabama win, therefore insuring two SEC teams get in. It was only a matter of margin of victory, to keep it from looking obvious. Fox and Joel Klatt are propped up as the alternate network and voice, but they're in on it too. Delaney agreed to this as his swan song, and told Warren to keep his mouth shut. Delaney will negotiate the next SEC deal, when they expand to 24 teams. Book it.It’s maddening. The CFP stinks of SEC favoritism. The Disney/ESPN entertainment profit machine is behind it, trying to build the SEC brand so they can pay TX and OU when they join the league. They’ve got to make sure current SEC schools look good since the TX and OU brands have taken a hit this year.
I am not a fan of either school but it would be great if Michigan and Cincinnati win their games.
Alabama belongs in the playoff. They somehow embarrassed a Georgia defense that hadn’t given up more than 17 points all year. But I think the committee deliberately made sure they don’t play Georgia again in the semi so that the SEC is in more CFP games. Georgia should be ranked 4 and arguably lower after getting routed by Alabama.You can conspiracize all you want, but there's no doubt Bama is the favorite to win the CFP, let alone one of the top 4 and would be a favorite on a neutral site against any other team after that Georgia performance (albeit only a very slight favorite to Georgia).
That's the poisonous logic of college football playoffs. Bama is the best team, meaning their dramatic, thrilling loss to Texas A&M meant nothing and everyone knew it at the time.
That added some juice to the Iron Bowl, admittedly, but again, in college football the Iron Bowl doesn't need any more juice than it already has!
Who else deserved a shot over that one loss Georgia team? Heck, they're already a touchdown favorite over Michigan.Bit annoying to see Georgia make the CFP, not surprised though. They already lost to Alabama in a neutral playoff setting, give someone else a shot.
ND since I haven't seen them get smoked by bama yet.Who else deserved a shot over that one loss Georgia team? Heck, they're already a touchdown favorite over Michigan.
ND got smoked by Cincinnati this year and they didn't have to play a conference championship game. They're body of work(I despise the term) makes them more worthy of a second crack at a team that beat them(Cincy) and a second chance at winning a national championship?ND since I haven't seen them get smoked by bama yet.
Pure speculation but if Ohio state hadn’t lost to Oregon they would have as good of a case as Georgia.Who else deserved a shot over that one loss Georgia team? Heck, they're already a touchdown favorite over Michigan.