[NU Sports] football and brains

[cherron604 at aol.com]

The pecking order is

1 Rose Pasadena
2 Citrus Orlando
3 Outback Tampa
4 Alamo San Antonio
5 Champs Orlando
6 Insight Tempe
7 Motor City Detroit

(Sponsor names may have changed)

Which fuels my next question - I've read two reporters (Herb Gould in Monday's Sun-Times and Bob Asmussen (Sunday's Champaign News-Gazette)) 

http://www.illinihq.com/blogs/fourthandblog/2008/11/09/back_to_detroit

that had Illinois going to the Insight in Tempe with 6 wins.  It would appear that if Illinois even got to 6 wins, there would still be 7 teams ahead of them with at least 7 wins.  For the Gould/Asmussen scenario to work, that means 8 Big Ten bowls, meaning 2 in the BCS.  Then, when it's Tempe's time to choose, don't they have to choose the 7 win team before the 6 win team ?

Asmussen did mention that both CBS Sportsline and collegefootballnews.com had a potential 6 win Illini team in Detroit.  That also implies that both organizations think a team that lost to Western Michigan will beat us...

On a brighter note, it's nice that you no longer have to pay to see content on the News-Gazette...

Chuck Herron   Tech '85




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SI.com, in the person of alum  Stuart Mandel, projects us to the second
rlando bowl against Miami, but he says it is the Big Ten's fourth bowl,
head of the Alamo and behind the Outback.  Is that right - I thought the
lamo came ahead of the Champs Bowl, but maybe that changed in the last
ontract go-around when the Champs Bowl was added.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/stewart_mandel/11/10/bowl-projections/index.html
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On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 10:18 PM, SjT (Stephen J. Truog)
sjtruog at yahoo.com>wrote:
> Well, I could see a silver lining there in that it would send us to
 Phoenix! An Insight Bowl vs. Kansas would be a fun game (I don't think
 anyone plays defense in the Big XII this year) and much better than an Alamo
 bid against Mizzou or playing Miami in Orlando.

 I do think that we really wrecked Minny's confidence, though, with that
 last interception return. They just haven't had the swagger since.

 Too bad we couldn't do it to MSU and send them into a self-doubting
 tailspin a few weeks earlier!

 GO CATS!!!
 -SjT

 * * * * * * * * *
 STEPHEN J. TRUOG
 sjtruog at yahoo.com
 GO CATS!!!


 --- On Tue, 11/11/08, CHerron604 at aol.com <CHerron604 at aol.com> wrote:


 > On a more puzzling note...would we call it irony if our
 > great win over
 > Minnesota shattered them so totally, that they lost out for
 > the season - giving
 > Michigan needed confidence for this week's game ?
 > Helping Iowa to 8  wins and
 > Wisconsin to 7 wins ?  Dropping us from the Alamo bowl to
 > the  Insight bowl ?
 >
 > Chuck Herron   Tech '85
 >
 >
 > In a message dated 11/11/2008 7:59:27 P.M. Central Standard
 > Time,
 > MHRJGScott at aol.com writes:
 >
 > First of  all I would like to thank all the listers for not
 > getting into
 > politics during this happy time in America, but I would
 > like to comment  on
 > a SI
 > article which talked about "the revenge of the
 > nerds"  eggheads, and other
 > wimp-like braniaks which were having good  season, CATS!!,
 > Duke, Stanford,
 > Rice,
 > Vandy, etc. Just where does it  say that a person with a
 > high IQ can not kick
 >
 > some butt.
 > I hope  our new Chicago guy can do what he says and from
 > the NYT:
 >
 > "Maybe, just  maybe, the result will be a step away
 > from the
 > anti-intellectualism  that has long been a strain in
 > American life. Smart and
 >  educated
 > leadership is no panacea, but we've seen recently that
 > the converse —  a
 > White House
 > that scorns expertise and shrugs at nuance — doesn't
 > get very far  either.
 > We can't solve our educational challenges when,
 > according to polls,
 > Americans
 > are approximately as likely to believe in  flying saucers
 > as in evolution,
 > and  when one-fifth of Americans  believe that the sun
 > orbits the  Earth."
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