I am OK I guess with non-AQs getting in … if they are ranked high enough. But James Madison and Tulane in but Notre Dame, BYU, Utah, and Vandy out? It’s a shame. I don’t see James Madison as 2004 or 2008 Utah or 2009 or 2010 TCU or 2006 or 2009 Boise St.
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THIS.
Including non-AQs with zero wins against P4 teams (or anyone in the top 50) and that are ranked 25+ is absurd.
James Madison’s best win is over a 5-6 Wazzu and they lost the only P4 game they played by two TDs. Tulane’s best win is over an 8-5 Duke and they got utterly pasted in their other P4 game (45-10 loss to Ole Miss).
A 12-0 Utah, Boise, or TCU that beat multiple ranked teams would have deserved to get in if the same system had been in place back then. GTFO with James Madison and Tulane.
(Now that I say that, watch them take down Oregon. 
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IMO JMU was a better team 3 years ago under Cignetti, but Oregon shouldn’t sleep on them. I don’t think JMU will be Oregon, but it could be too close for comfort.
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So now Oregon needs to unload their Top Shelf and a box of El Presidente’s to Jobu.
Way to drop a hex @SkinyUte
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Alamo is TCU vs. USC
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Where does that drop BYU to?
Nvm, just saw they’re in the Pop Tarts Bowl against Ga Tech.
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I would say all the non CFP bowls are now a total joke but with James Madison and Alabama I can’t even say that.
Burn it all down and start over.
Also I really hope we win the Vegas Bowl.
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Looking over the bowl schedule is posted on the ESPN site at this point, I have to ask after seeing the Utah state is just taking that short jaunt up to boise, how the hell is it possible that that trash heap of a stadium in dead end Boise Idaho has had a so-called bowl game for a decade now?
I mean not that Provo is a huge draw, but Lavell Edwards stadium is sure as hell a lot nicer, and the reality is salt lake as a destination for something like that along with our very highly rated and acknowledged stadium should be a huge draw for one of these smaller tier bowls. I do not understand.. is it our athletic department and Powers it be in this area refused to even consider such a thing, or is it simply a case that they are so desperate up in Boise they’re willing to go through this farce year after year?
I mentioned in an earlier Post in the last week or so that I have to keep reminding myself that the Las Vegas bowl is no longer a joke, now that it’s being played in that amazing stadium. We have some wonderful memories of that stadium thanks to our championships there. Although I do feel kind of bad for Sam Boyd stadium lost out there on the edge of the Metro area.
All my grousing aside, if we did actually try to throw something like that together here in salt lake city, what would be our theme… What would be the name of the bowl? I mean we have got to come up with something better than one of these idiotically named after some stupid company type names. I still remember the Poulan Weedeater bowl some years back. One of my favorite names actually. I have to admit that one of the long gone names that I always thought was very classy was the Astro Bluebonnet bowl.
I invite all of you who have bothered to read this far too go ahead and drop a comment below mine about your favorite named current or past ridiculous bowl name.
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Pretty sure the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl in Boise is some kind of adjunct to the Stanford Torture Experiments. It’s in the fine print on the tickets.
It’s like Boise turns into a less nice version of the zombies on Pluribus. It’s on the opposite end of the spectrum from Burning Man.
The concessions people, the ushers, everyone in Boise is smiling but there’s an anger underneath, and they communicate subliminally weird, hostile messages while appearing to be cheerful.
- “If you didn’t come to this game, we’d all be back home, warm and relaxing and getting ready for Christmas”.
- “After you didn’t come to a full stop that one time, maybe Jesus doesn’t love You.”
- “This bowl game will cease if Notre Dame ever comes to this game”
If there is ever a full-on blizzard during the game, Stephen King will walk out of a mens restroom, smiling.
Seriously, it’s a mystery why they keep playing that game. Punishment for the lowest ranked broadcast crews?
There was a bowl game at RES for 1, maybe 2 years, for JCs. “The Top of the Mountain Bowl”.
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Points for the Pluribus mention.
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The days of the Bowl is slowly coming to an end. If your team is not playing in the CFP, why would you want to play? …and why in the subtropical paradise of Boise in December?
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Now that Whitt’s retiring, I’m definitely going to the game. Just got a room at the Orleans. Too bad the Luxor is sold out, that would be a nice stroll across the street to the stadium.
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Schmidt’s Pastry Cottage Bienenstich Bowl?
Utah Woolen Mills Bespoke Blazer Bowl?
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The Ivory Homes First Down Bowl
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The Love Sack Ballroom Bowl
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So, I managed to stream a live feed from RES on game. I kept hearing “That’s an Ivory Homes 1st Down.” The live feed didn’t last long enough for me to decide if it was ESPN or the stadium announcer. You solved that mystery.
FWIW that was/is a pretty awful sponsorship.
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Mr. Mac’s Two for One Bowl.
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Nah. Would have to be Vosen’s Bread Paradise Bienenstich Bowl.. Schmidt’s is a hollow shell of what it used to be itn the Trolley Square days.
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My brain stil has Mike Runge yelling out about Larry H Miller, “AFTER ALL, YOU KNOW THIS GUY!” and god almighty I wish I didnt hahahahahaha
Does anyone know if Mike still walks this earth? He was getting up there in age by the time he left FOX13 and our announcer job.
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If it weren’t New Year’s Eve I would have pursued further, but I do NOT want to be in Vegas on NYE.. Nosirreee.
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