[pincemob]

The Pac 12 announced some changes to its bowl ties today.  We re-upped with the Holiday Bowl, which will take our #3 team.  Instead of playing the Big-12 we now face the Big-10. 

Meanwhile the Fight Hunger Bowl is now the #4 Pac-12 bowl, supplanting the Sun Bowl (starting in 2014 when the new 49er stadium is ready).  It too has partnered with the Big 10.

The interesting and potentially irritating part of this is that the Big 10 will not commit to slot a top team but will instead assign a team based on some kind of "tiering" system, which sounds to me like code for "stick them with Indiana or Minnesota, whichever is closer".   

Is this the best we can do?  I personally prefer the Big 12 match-ups over the Big 10, outside of the Rose of course.  I am guessing they have decided to go in a different direction given that we've now lost the Sun and Holiday match-ups. 

[pincemob]

The Pac 12 announced some changes to its bowl ties today.  We re-upped with the Holiday Bowl, which will take our #3 team.  Instead of playing the Big-12 we now face the Big-10. 

Meanwhile the Fight Hunger Bowl is now the #4 Pac-12 bowl, supplanting the Sun Bowl (starting in 2014 when the new 49er stadium is ready).  It too has partnered with the Big 10.

The interesting and potentially irritating part of this is that the Big 10 will not commit to slot a top team but will instead assign a team based on some kind of "tiering" system, which sounds to me like code for "stick them with Indiana or Minnesota, whichever is closer".   

Is this the best we can do?  I personally prefer the Big 12 match-ups over the Big 10, outside of the Rose of course.  I am guessing they have decided to go in a different direction given that we've now lost the Sun and Holiday match-ups. 

[washingtonismoney]

The interesting and potentially irritating part of this is that the Big 10 will not commit to slot a top team but will instead assign a team based on some kind of "tiering" system, which sounds to me like code for "stick them with Indiana or Minnesota, whichever is closer".   

We'll see, but I don't think that's the intention at all. Basically, the old bowl setup had like, four bowls in Orlando and Tampa. So unless you went to the Rose Bowl, fans ended up going to the same couple of destinations every year, which naturally dampens enthusiasm. I believe the idea here is to rotate more frequently so that fans don't end up having to go to the same destinations year after year.

[washingtonismoney]

The interesting and potentially irritating part of this is that the Big 10 will not commit to slot a top team but will instead assign a team based on some kind of "tiering" system, which sounds to me like code for "stick them with Indiana or Minnesota, whichever is closer".   

We'll see, but I don't think that's the intention at all. Basically, the old bowl setup had like, four bowls in Orlando and Tampa. So unless you went to the Rose Bowl, fans ended up going to the same couple of destinations every year, which naturally dampens enthusiasm. I believe the idea here is to rotate more frequently so that fans don't end up having to go to the same destinations year after year.

[CowboyIndian]

I thought I read we just re-upped with the Sun Bowl, too. The ACC is contracted with the Sun through 2013 but beyond that, quien sabe? The Big Whatever would like to get in there, too, I believe.

[CowboyIndian]

I thought I read we just re-upped with the Sun Bowl, too. The ACC is contracted with the Sun through 2013 but beyond that, quien sabe? The Big Whatever would like to get in there, too, I believe.

[Bruce Wang]

It's too bad there aren't bowl ties with the SEC.  The Pac-12 has the best shot of demystifying the self-fulfilling prophecy that is the Southeastern Conference.

Something else I'd like to see is the Nerd Bowl, which would only include the academically strong schools ie Kal, UCLA, Northwestern, Michigan, Duke, UVA, Vanderbilt, Rice, and the Service Academies. The obvious omission is deliberate.

[Bruce Wang]

It's too bad there aren't bowl ties with the SEC.  The Pac-12 has the best shot of demystifying the self-fulfilling prophecy that is the Southeastern Conference.

Something else I'd like to see is the Nerd Bowl, which would only include the academically strong schools ie Kal, UCLA, Northwestern, Michigan, Duke, UVA, Vanderbilt, Rice, and the Service Academies. The obvious omission is deliberate.

[needle]

They sure are, norcalcard. They sure are.

http://www.woodenbowties.com/

[needle]

They sure are, norcalcard. They sure are.

http://www.woodenbowties.com/