[NU Sports] Well, I hope you're right Alan! :) (fwd)

[Jonathan Hodges]

The Capital One Bowl is also shown on ABC, hence the ABC announcement
of the matchup (it is the only non-BCS game shown on ABC, I believe).

The #1 and #2 teams in the BCS automatically meet even if they are
from the same conference (hey, that's what the BCS is for - otherwise
they wouldn't have met, right?).  In any case, neither Texas or USC
was going to let that happen as we saw Saturday.  I think the BCS put
some good matchups on the board this year, considering FSU's upset.

Also, some of the early odds were in the papers today - UCLA favored
by 4.5 with the over/under at 74 - by far the highest of all the
bowls.  Here's to a shootout and a Wildcat victory!

Jonathan

On 12/6/05, cherron604 at aol.com <cherron604 at aol.com> wrote:
>
>
> On that note -
>
> Did anyone else notice that ABC made a strange mention of the Capital (?)
> Bowl (Orlando) match-up very late in the BCS selection show on Sunday?  It
> was the only non-BCS Bowl mentioned, and it was just put on the screen and
> mentioned for about 5 seconds.
>
> Also, it worked out that Penn State finished #3, and Ohio State #4.  Does
> that mean that in the event (impossible, apparently) that Southern Cal and
> Texas had lost on Saturday, would the BCS rules have allowed 1-2 from the
> same conference to meet in the Championship game ?
>
> Chuck Herron   Tech '85
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan Hodges <jonathanwhodges at gmail.com>
> To: Mike Nolan <nolan at romaine.tssi.com>
> Cc: nwu-sports at romaine.tssi.com
> Sent: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 06:41:03 -0600
> Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Well, I hope you're right Alan! :) (fwd)
>
>
> Note that this same rule allowed the non-BCS school Utah to compete in
> the Fiesta bowl last year, as they were in the Top 6. Next year many
> of the BCS rules are changing in order to accomodate the 5th BCS bowl
> and more than just the BCS conferences, go to bcsfootball.org to see
> more details, they are rather complicated, but go to underline that
> this is all about the money.
>
> Jonathan
>
> On 12/5/05, Mike Nolan <nolan at romaine.tssi.com> wrote:
> > > Ohio State was guaranteed a spot because they finished in the Top 4 of
> the
> > > BCS rankings; any team who does so is guaranteed a spot. ND is
> guaranteed a
> > > spot because they finished in the Top 6; only ND gets such
> consideration.
> > > As a result, there were no at-large teams in the BCS this year.
> >
> > Is that specifically worded to apply only to Notre Dame or does any
> > independent school get the same consideration?
> >
> > Not that there are any other independent schools likely to ever make
> > the top 6.
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