[NU Sports] Chaos Theory

[Jeff Beamsley]

My wife mentioned that if the Rose Bowl does turn out to be Cal and 
Mich, it will probably be the most combined intelligence on the field 
for a post season contest in quite a while since they both are generally 
regarded as the top public institutions in the country.

Anyone else dredge up some historical bowl meetings between similarly 
high ranked academic institutions?

Jeff

Eric West wrote:

> At 12:24 AM 11/21/2004, SjT (Stephen J. Truog) wrote:
>
>> BCS chaos could rule and Boise State or Louisville could jump into 
>> the top
>> six along with Utah! TWO "mid-major" BCS busters? Don't laugh!:)
>>
>> And who would lose with that? Cal. With the two automatic bids gone, 
>> all of
>> a sudden, Pasadena is left without their Golden Bears.
>>
>> Throw in upsets from the ACC, Big Least and title games and a ND or UCLA
>> upset of $C and you could get the BCS Chaos Theory ...
>>
>> ORANGE: Utah vs. Boise State
>> ROSE: Michigan vs. USC
>> SUGAR: Tennessee vs. Virginia
>> FIESTA: Iowa State vs. Pitt
>
>
> You're right about Boise State and Louisville inching toward the BCS 
> Top 6; I'm surprised nobody mentioned this possibility on ESPN's 
> college football wrap-up shows. (Then again, as far as I could tell 
> they didn't even mention the NU-Illinois result, so there you go.) 
> However, in your Chaos scenario: if the Top 3 all lose and Cal 
> doesn't, there's a good chance they would be one of the BCS Top 2 
> teams, so they would be in the Orange. Maybe you were including a Cal 
> loss to Southern Miss, though. That would be funny.
>
> Eric West
> e-west at northwestern.edu
>
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