[NU Sports] FW: Bowl Update from Mark Murphy/NAA

[John Labbe]

This is excellent analysis from Mark Murphy.

I believe our chances of winding up in the Music City Bowl are slim.  
It appears that the Sun Bowl wants to take us, as suggested in Murphy's 
article.

Also, I haven't seen it posted to the list, but the Sun Bowl appears to 
have narrowed its sights to Iowa and Northwestern.  On the Sun Bowl's 
website (http://www.sunbowl.com), they used to have Iowa, Northwestern, 
and Minnesota highlighted in the Big Ten standings.  They now just have 
Iowa and Northwestern highlighted.  It's not clear that they're 
interested in Iowa, however, as Murphy suggests in his article.  I also 
read in the Tribune today that the Sun Bowl had indicated before the 
NU-Iowa game that it intended to take the winner of that game (if 
available).  So it appears that the Sun Bowl plans to take 
Northwestern, unless we're selected by the Alamo Bowl, in which case it 
would take Iowa.

That means to me that we're either going to the Alamo Bowl (should Iowa 
State be the Big XII team in that bowl and OSU gets an at-large BCS 
bid) or otherwise the Sun Bowl.

I guess I once again won't be using those Nashville plane tickets that 
I already purchased (would be the 2d year in row that I made that 
mistake) (fully changeable with no charge, however, on Southwest).


On Nov 22, 2005, at 6:22 PM, NEONRye at aol.com wrote:

> A typically articulate, informative piece from Mr. Murphy, who has  
> impressed
> me enormously on his two visits to NYC the last 2 Summers.  We  are 
> truly
> fortunate to have him.
>
> I think we are better off in the Music City Bowl, but believe OSU will
> make--and deserves to make (Oh how it galls me to say this!) a BCS 
> Bowl, so we  may
> end up down El Paso way.
>
> Paul Levinson
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