[NU Sports] Will Iowa leap us?

[Hakirsch at aol.com]

In a message dated 11/23/2008 9:36:26 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
jleonard518 at yahoo.com writes:

> Fellow Wildcat Faithful,
> 
> This has been a great season and now we can all look forward to the bowl 
> game. As I see it now, Minnesota and Wisconsin are 7-5 and we are 9-3, so 
> neither of them can be chosen over us. We have no 6-6 teams (does Notre Dame count? 
> :-) so that part of the mystery is resolved. 
> 
> With Utah and Boise State unbeaten, it seems all but certain that the 
> Buckeyes go to Orlando, the Spartans go to the Outback, and we might be fortunate 
> enough to have Iowa picked over us to go to San Antonio. I just can't get 
> excited about the Alamo Bowl. I'm fine with the Champs Sports or Insight. Both 
> warm destinations and more favorable match ups. 
> 
> Victory &Honor,
> Jim
> 

Some of the discussion here suggests that the Insight Bowl (and Motor  City) 
may not be under any requirement (beyond the NCAA rules) as to who they take 
from the BT--and if true, certainly would be horribe if Wisky somehow booted us 


Regarding Iowa,--trying to be  a nuetral observer here (and it is not 
easy)--I can see the argument about them going higher than us,even forgetting how 
well they travel

The finish is alwyas considered more important than the start in post season 
selection (hoops too!)--Sure they lost to us early, but they knocked PSU out 
of a potential championship late in the season while also clobbering Minny on 
the road--   While we did have a better over-all record (though an easier 
non-conf schedule) we did tie in BT play--

If it was down to the 2 of us for the Rose Bowl and we both had one  or two 
losses losses, then we would look to head to head as the first tie-breaker--Now 
not being a neutral observer, how the hell could they overtake us when we 
beat them on the road ?

I am still PO'd for what happened in 2000 going to the 4th Bowl when we were 
BT Tri-Champs

Harry



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