[NU Sports] Bad day for the B(C)S ...

[Jonathan Hodges]

We'll see where Penn State and Iowa end up in today's BCS rankings but I
would imagine they'll both be on the cusp of BCS at-large eligibility (if
not in the top 14 already) and as long as they take care of business next
week one of them will be going to a big money bowl.

Jonathan

On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 6:00 PM, SjT (Stephen J. Truog)
<sjtruog at yahoo.com>wrote:

> While Iowa probably played their way into the Fiesta Bowl today, the
> overall result is a bad day for the B(C)S ...
>
> * USC, the best Pac 10 at-large candidate in years got crushed by Stanford
> * Miami, who while not big on fans would bring a name, lost at UNC
> * And unfortunately for them, they cannot take a third SEC or Big Ten team
> to fill seats and get ratings
>
> So filling in the blanks after the auto-bids are in and the Sugar takes
> Bama and the Fiesta snaps up Iowa with their compensatory pick ...
>
> Title: Florida vs. Texas
> Rose: Ohio State vs. Oregon
> Sugar: Alabama vs. ???
> Fiesta: Iowa vs. ???
> Orange: Georgia Tech vs. ???
>
> This leaves them with few options ...
>
> - The Orange picks first and could take the Big East "title game" loser,
> Cincy/Pitt, knowing that they bring few fans or ratings and that Cincy was
> there last year ...
> - Or they could pray that Arizona somehow loses close to Oregon and crushes
> SC so the Fiesta takes them and Iowa is left ...
> - Maybe pull some shenanigans to get Okie State eligible?
> - Hope for upsets of heavily favored GaTech or Texas in their title games
>
> Or eat the tickets and give both Boise and TCU at-large bids.
>
> Aaaaaah, the schadenfraude continues!:)
>
> GO CATS!!!
> -SjT
>
> * * * * * * * * *
> STEPHEN J. TRUOG
> sjtruog at yahoo.com
> GO CATS!!!
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