[NU Sports] Teddy G's Bowl Projections

Fri Nov 25 08:38:12 CST 2011

Thoughts:

1) All of these bowl predictions are somewhat irrelevant, in my view,  
until we know whether we beat MSU tomorrow, and I'm predicting that we  
will.  I think MSU will play all of its starters like a regular game,  
but they won't have the same motivation as usual to win a road game  
(not their senior day) when they've already got the division locked  
up.  Plus, we've got a lot of motivation to win to secure a bowl game  
and we've often done well on senior day (see Wisconsin 2009 etc.).  So  
for two teams that have been hot and cold at times this season, I  
think we'll be hot tomorrow and Michigan State cold.

2) I'd love to see the 'Cats play Louisiana-Lafayette in New Orleans,  
as I'm a native of Lafayette, Louisiana and my parents taught at ULL  
for many years..  The Cajuns haven't been to a bowl in 40 years.   
Unless we really screwed up, we would beat them handily.  But since  
we're going to win tomorrow, we won't fall that far (though I suppose  
the Pizza bowl remains a possibility even at 7-5 and I think we'd  
prefer to see us in the "Mercedes Benz Superdome" over "Ford  
Field" (that's really the new name of what used to be the "Louisiana  
Superdome")).

John

On Nov 24, 2011, at 5:08 PM, Charles Herron wrote:

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> According to my 17 'bowl projectors', they currently are saying:
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> 6 for Pizza in Detroit (ESPN - Edwards, CBS - Palm, BTN - Dienhart,  
> SI - Mandel, NBC, and Athlon)
> 3 are saying Ticket City in Dallas (ESPN - Rittenberg, Orlando  
> Sentinel, and Phil Steele)
> 3 are saying Texas in Houston (ESPN - Schlabach, Sun Times - Gould,  
> and Tribune - Teddy G)
> 2 are saying New Mexico in Albuquerque (Scout and College Football  
> News)
> and 3 are saying 'NO BOWL' (St Pete Times, College Bowl Projections,  
> and USA Today - Smith)
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> I hope that the Houston predictions are correct, though Dallas was  
> fun last year.
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> Chuck Herron   Tech '85
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> From: Scott Zeller, M.D. <scottzel at gmail.com>
> To: DPENDERG <DPENDERG at aol.com>
> Cc: nwu-sports <nwu-sports at tssi.com>
> Sent: Thu, Nov 24, 2011 2:43 pm
> Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Teddy G's Bowl Projections
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> Remember that in the B1G the bowl payouts go to the conference, not  
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> individual schools.
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> A google search of "bowl projections" has >50% of the sites  
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> in San Francisco on New Year's Eve. Also of interest, one site  
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> New Orleans in mid-December. That could be fun and certainly easier  
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> the flights and costs, being a little off-season.
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> On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 11:22 AM, <DPENDERG at aol.com> wrote:
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>> As much as I would like to see the Cats in Washington, I am not
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>> optimistic.  If they beat the Spartans, they will get invited to  
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>> two above the Military Bowl.  At 6-6, however, my gut instinct is   
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>> bowl.  Ultimately, the bottom line is that a school's post-season   
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>> is indeed governed by the bottom line.  I'd like to be wrong and   
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>> appearing in the Nation's Capital has a high profile and a connection
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>> large alumni base in the East.  I've, in fact, made the case to AD   
>> Jim
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>> Phillips in an email and others may wish to weigh in, too.
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>> In a message dated 11/24/2011 9:57:26 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
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>> Count me as one of those who'd love to see a 6-6 NU team in  DC. I  
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>> the Military Bowl two years ago when UCLA beat Temple. UCLA had   
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>> fans there than I thought, and Temple brought 10,000 down from   
>> Philly.
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>> UCLA
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>> won when Bernard Pierce left the game (knee?) and Temple had  trouble
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>> I believe NU played in Annapolis in 2002.   Navy at NU  was canceled
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>> because of 9/11.  I was there as well as my 8 year old  daughter, who
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>> 2 f-14's did a fly-over before kick-off. Coach Roy  was there to  
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>> the
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>> whole thing!  One of Baz's first starts, we won  49-40 over a bad  
>> Navy
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>> team; may have been Paul Johnson's first year. After  that game I  
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>> going to suck, just like the 2nd half of the 2001  season. They  
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>> the 2nd half of 2001 and 2002 "mini Dark Age",  but 2002 toughened  
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>> I don't expect to see NU in DC as we'll beat Team Green, but  in  
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>> Happy Thanksgiving List Gang!      Go CATS!!  Eric
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>> -----Original  Message-----
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>> From: DPENDERG <DPENDERG at aol.com>
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>> To: nwu-sports  <nwu-sports at tssi.com>
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>> Sent: Wed, Nov 23, 2011 12:18 pm
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>> Subject:  Re: [NU Sports] Teddy G's Bowl Projections
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>> You're right.  I remember now too since I was in fact there in   
>> Annapolis.
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>> Must have been close to ten years ago.
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>> In a message dated 11/23/2011 4:39:02 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
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>> _cherron604 at aol.com_ (mailto:cherron604 at aol.com)  writes:
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>> I remember  the game at Navy a few years back...
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>> Chuck Herron   Tech  '85
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>> From: DPENDERG <_DPENDERG at aol.com_ (mailto:DPENDERG at aol.com) >
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>> To: nwu-sports  <_nwu-sports at tssi.com_ (mailto:nwu-sports at tssi.com) >
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>> Sent: Wed, Nov 23, 2011 4:31 pm
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>> Subject: Re:  [NU Sports] Teddy G's Bowl Projections
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>> Unmentioned is the Dec 28 Military Bowl at RFK Stadium in Washington.
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>> Story in the WASH POST today indicated they are desperately now  
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>> bowl-eligible teams from a number of conferences because both Army   
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>> alumni base. Obviously, that is my preference as a  D.C. area  
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