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Is that it for the Pac-12?
Tailgater
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As a traditionalist, I'm not a big fan of the collegiate post season proliferation and to me, most if not all the prestigious bowl games are still played on New Years Day or a few days after. With the Sugar, Cotton, Orange, and BCS championship yet to be played, the Pac-12's bowl season was done, kaput, with Stanford's heroic defeat yesterday at the Granddaddy. Just one defeat in a big bowl game, is that it?
Where is the respect for a Pac-12 that many experts here on the Internet and in the West Coast mainstream media have recently proclaimed to be the second best football conference behind the SEC..... at least that's what I've been hearing? Second best in football playing athletes, coaching, and I'm sure a few other meaningless things, but not where it truly counts in invitations to NYD or post NYD big bowl games.
Per my count, invitations to the six traditionally biggest bowls (Rose, Fiesta, Sugar, Cotton, Orange, and BCS) were awarded for the 2013 season by conference as follows: SEC-3; Big12-3; ACC-2; BigTen-2; Pac12-1; AAC-1. Of the five major conferences, the Pac-12 was last in big bowl invitations with just the one and I wonder if Stanford would have been invited had not our conference been locked into the Rose Bowl by contract. Where were 10-win Oregon and ASU when big bowl invitations were sent out? Sucking hind tit behind Oklahoma and Oklahoma State, the two football powers the Pac-12 expansion tried to annex and got Colorado and Utah instead.
The BCS is over after this post-season and can't be used as an excuse for the Pac-12 struggling to keep-up with the four other major conferences when comes time each year for invitations to the big-money bowls. The 4-school NCAA championship playoff will affect the bowl schedule somehow, but the Pac-12 shouldn't count on having a member program finishing the regular season undefeated. That will in future be the only way our conference could edge-out SEC/Big-12/ACC schools plus Notre Dame to be one of the select four.
Where is the respect for a Pac-12 that many experts here on the Internet and in the West Coast mainstream media have recently proclaimed to be the second best football conference behind the SEC..... at least that's what I've been hearing? Second best in football playing athletes, coaching, and I'm sure a few other meaningless things, but not where it truly counts in invitations to NYD or post NYD big bowl games.
Per my count, invitations to the six traditionally biggest bowls (Rose, Fiesta, Sugar, Cotton, Orange, and BCS) were awarded for the 2013 season by conference as follows: SEC-3; Big12-3; ACC-2; BigTen-2; Pac12-1; AAC-1. Of the five major conferences, the Pac-12 was last in big bowl invitations with just the one and I wonder if Stanford would have been invited had not our conference been locked into the Rose Bowl by contract. Where were 10-win Oregon and ASU when big bowl invitations were sent out? Sucking hind tit behind Oklahoma and Oklahoma State, the two football powers the Pac-12 expansion tried to annex and got Colorado and Utah instead.
The BCS is over after this post-season and can't be used as an excuse for the Pac-12 struggling to keep-up with the four other major conferences when comes time each year for invitations to the big-money bowls. The 4-school NCAA championship playoff will affect the bowl schedule somehow, but the Pac-12 shouldn't count on having a member program finishing the regular season undefeated. That will in future be the only way our conference could edge-out SEC/Big-12/ACC schools plus Notre Dame to be one of the select four.
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Next year, the Playoffs Committee will hand-select the Access Bowls (Rose, Sugar, Orange, Fiesta, Cotton, Peach). That means that 12 teams will go to Dec31/Jan1 bowls against good opponents. If we had the Playoffs this year, Oregon would've been picked and maybe ASSU. If that were the case, the Pac-12 would have 3 teams in major bowls, UCLA would've bumped to the Alamo, USC to the Holiday, us to the Sun, etc.
We're fortunate moving forward with the new Playoffs, not because it means we're finally having some fucking playoffs but because it opens 2 other bowls to the Pac-12 that were previously closed before (Cotton was SEC 3 vs. Big 12 2, Peach was SEC 4 vs. ACC 2). It also means the Fiesta will probably be taking a Pac-12 team every year so long as they finish in the Top 15.
I never said the system would be fair or broad but there are 11 bowl slots for 5 conferences. Just looking at it from a numbers perspective, one conference will have at least 3 every year and that'll probably be the limit side the other conferences would advocate against it (unless they're all in the top 7 or something ridiculous).
Either way, with 11 slots for AQ teams, there's virtually no fucking way the Pac-12 puts 1 team into the Access Bowl every year. It'll be 2 with a chance for 3 if we're lucky.
If it is going to be considered a "big boy bowl" then it should be changed back to the Peach Bowl.
Fuck the Chic Fil A Bowl ...
It's a step in the right direction. Now if only the media would call it the "Peach Bowl"