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Holiday Bowl

Fire_Marshall_Bill
Fire_Marshall_Bill Member Posts: 25,793 Standard Supporter
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That's where ESPN projects us to go.

yawn

http://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/21469893/week-12-college-football-bowl-projections-2017
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  • Houhusky
    Houhusky Member Posts: 5,537
    whatshouldicareabout said:

    San Diego > San Antonio > El Paso

    also

    Big 10 opponent > Big 12 opponent > ACC opponent

    IMO If we are going to try the recruit Texas/South bullshit than its significantly better to play in San Antonio against Texas or Oklahoma State
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  • Tequilla
    Tequilla Member Posts: 20,144
    Pretty sure that the Alamo Bowl is the 1st choice for the conference after the Group of 6 Bowls or whatever the hell they are called ... the winner on Saturday will be going there ... although there's an outside chance I could see us in the Cotton Bowl if we beat the Cougs.
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  • DeepSeaZ
    DeepSeaZ Member Posts: 3,901
    Dennis_DeYoung said:

    I would love the Holiday Bowl against a team we can beat.

    This team is probably legitimately the #15 team in the country. With better talent at WR, OL and OLB, a decent OC and a good QB - we are probably top 5.

    Ultimately, what's good for the program is for us to get a lot of visibility in SoCal for a week and get a nice win. Sad that we boned the season on a dumb fuck bunch of shit at the Farm, but ultimately it's going well under Pete.

    This offseason will determine how we go forward.

    We better do something good with recruiting this year. I see 8-4 next year.
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  • whatshouldicareabout
    whatshouldicareabout Member Posts: 12,994
    Miley_Cyrus said:

    Looks like the Alamo and Holiday bowls are on at the same time? Is that a typo? What the fuck Pac12?

    Fox is trying to compete with ESPN for college football in the west, specifically the Pac-12 and Big 12.

    Last year was the first year Fox had a bowl game (Foster Farms). This year they have 2 bowls (Holiday and Foster Farms), and they're trying to run them against ESPN bowls. Hopefully this translates into good match-ups.
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  • TierbsHsotBoobs
    TierbsHsotBoobs Member Posts: 39,680
    Dennis_DeYoung said:

    I would love the Holiday Bowl against a team we can beat.

    This team is probably legitimately the #15 team in the country. With better talent at WR, OL and OLB, a decent OC and a good QB - we are probably top 5.

    Ultimately, what's good for the program is for us to get a lot of visibility in SoCal for a week and get a nice win. Sad that we boned the season on a dumb fuck bunch of shit at the Farm, but ultimately it's going well under Pete.

    This offseason will determine how we go forward.

    CHRIST.

    SoCal won't give a shit about this dreck.
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  • Fire_Marshall_Bill
    Fire_Marshall_Bill Member Posts: 25,793 Standard Supporter
    edited November 2017
    Tequilla said:

    Pretty sure that the Alamo Bowl is the 1st choice for the conference after the Group of 6 Bowls or whatever the hell they are called ... the winner on Saturday will be going there ... although there's an outside chance I could see us in the Cotton Bowl if we beat the Cougs.

    Correct

    I see the Holiday and Alamo as equal, middle tier yawn bowls, but it would be nice to get more exposure in Tejas.

    I don't get how the group of six even works now since it changes every two years, but somehow getting an at large to the Cotton would sort of salvage the season a little. It seems like a long shot without many quality wins, but they probably like the way we travel and the fact Suckattle-Tacoma is the 12th biggest media market.
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  • Pitchfork51
    Pitchfork51 Member Posts: 27,668
    PAC 12 always loses the holiday bowl because it's a let down game
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  • whlinder
    whlinder Member Posts: 5,297
    I don't think travelability plays into getting selected for the New Years 6 bowls anymore.

    It's your conference's contracts for guarantees, and then once those are taken they take teams ranked by the CFP in order until they have 12 teams (4 for the playoff and 8 for the other bowls). Then they figure out the best matchups and locations.

    We were 18th and Ok St lost in front of us. Cuog is in front of us. That can get us to 16, so still need a bunch teams in the 6-18 CFB rankings to lose.
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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,449 Founders Club
    This will make up for the times we got bids to the Holiday and Alamo bowls under Sark because we got pulled up by Stanford and Oregon making BCS bowls.
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  • Baseman
    Baseman Member Posts: 12,369
    RoadDawg55 said:

    DeepSeaZ said:

    Dennis_DeYoung said:

    I would love the Holiday Bowl against a team we can beat.

    This team is probably legitimately the #15 team in the country. With better talent at WR, OL and OLB, a decent OC and a good QB - we are probably top 5.

    Ultimately, what's good for the program is for us to get a lot of visibility in SoCal for a week and get a nice win. Sad that we boned the season on a dumb fuck bunch of shit at the Farm, but ultimately it's going well under Pete.

    This offseason will determine how we go forward.

    We better do something good with recruiting this year. I see 8-4 next year.
    If you see 8-4 now, the recruiting class won’t change that. How many impact true freshman have we had this year? Two. Ahmed is the only guy that has had any impact at all.

    Edit: Forgot about Hunter Bryant.

    The year before? TAYLOR RAPP Nick Harris and Fuller. They at least played a role.

    We need a good class, but it’s not going to help much next year. Maybe one of the WR’s coming in can have an impact. That’s about it.
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  • theknowledge
    theknowledge Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 5,683 Founders Club
    BearsWiin said:

    Worst. 11-2 season. EVAR.

    I'd prefer to be 5-7 or 6-6. That's actually what I would prefer, to be 5-7 or 6-6.
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  • MikeSeaver
    MikeSeaver Member Posts: 5,800
    Houhusky said:

    whatshouldicareabout said:

    San Diego > San Antonio > El Paso

    also

    Big 10 opponent > Big 12 opponent > ACC opponent

    IMO If we are going to try the recruit Texas/South bullshit than its significantly better to play in San Antonio against Texas or Oklahoma State
    I can’t believe people still think this is a thing.

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  • BearsWiin
    BearsWiin Member Posts: 5,072
    whatshouldicareabout said:

    BearsWiin said:

    Worst. 11-2 season. EVAR.

    You mean Cal 2004 when they picked Texas over Cal for the Rose Bowl and Cal went to the Holiday Bowl?
    That was a 10-2 season. Pisses me off still, since that Cal team was absolutely made to derstroy the likes of Michigan. Instead we go to a bowel we didn't want to be in, and get mauled by a gimmick offense because Gregory insisted on only rushing three, and Tedford/Cortez forgot to RUN THE FUCKING BALL.

    Two years later we took out our H-Day Bowel frustration on A&M, another 9-3 team that lost their three games by a total of six poonts, plungering them 45-10 in Marshawn's last game as a Golden Bear.

    But yeah, 11-2 is unrealistic for UW anyway since I expect WSU will win next weekend and the team won't bother to show up for they're Disinterested Bowel
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  • Kaepsknee
    Kaepsknee Member Posts: 14,913
    WeakarmCobra said:

    Swaye said:

    What a waste of a season. Totally fucked it away. Thanks Downsox.

    babushka really fucked us this year. It is not like we got manhandled or something. All we need to do was run the fucking ball.
    Kreist. You guys did run the ball against Stanford. But they stoned you. You had to pass the ball to have any chance to win. Your OLine isn’t very good this year, that’s why your on the outside looking in to everything.
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