Texas vs ASU in San Diego?
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krispydude
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ugh...man, what an opportunity wasted against usc. to go from bcs chamionship game to the holiday bowl.
Evil Ash
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Can someone please get the Rose Bowl selection committee out of the dark ages? USC vs. Illinois for the Rose Bowl? Because of Ohio State being in the championship game, the Rose Bowl had a free pick on who they wanted and they chose ILLINOIS!
What a joke
Diamondback Jay
Psalms 23:1
Well, I'll be the first to admit when I was wrong.. And in this, I was wrong.
It's a farce that ASU got shortchanged by the Fiesta Bowl, but again I was wrong.
It's a farce that ASU got shortchanged by the Fiesta Bowl, but again I was wrong.
What - did you expect them to take Arizona State to play USC?
Illinois is just as deserving as ASU - actually, more deserving that ASU. Illinois beat the #1 team in the nation. ASU beat nobody. The only team with a winning record that ASU beat was Oregon State. Illinois beat 5 teams with winning records...
Brian
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I'm not upset about Illinois over ASU.
I'm just upset at Illinois and Kansas getting in. Illinois doesn't deserve to be mentioned with USC. That should be the most lop-sided game.
Actually LSU-Ohio State doesn't look that good, and neither does Georgia-Hawaii.
howlincoyote2k1
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I honestly don't think anyone here expected ASU to be chosen for the Rose. I think they wanted the Rose committee to take some other team (like Kansas), put WVU in the Orange Bowl, and ASU in the Fiesta.
Which is just homerism, which I understand. ASU is at the same level as Illinois.
Evil Ash
Henchman Supreme
And if ASU played Missouri OOC instead of Colorado, they'd have 3 losses as well.....ASU lost to the only good teams they played.
DWKB
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Are you saying ASU should have gotten in over Kansas or some other team should have jumped them both?
ASU 2 losses, KU 1 loss
ASU ranked below Kansas in BCS
Neither team beat anyone of significance and both lost to the only good teams they've played so far.
And if they played in the Big 11 they'd again have two losses since the only team even close to the same level as a healthy Oregon and USC team in the Big 11 is Ohio State, and the Buckeyes are the worst of the 3. We also took care of business against inferior teams, unlike Illinois, losing to lowly Iowa.
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Illinois lost with an injured QB, in crappy weather, in a close game.
Big 10 >>> Pac 10. ASU would have lost to Wisconsin, Michigan and Penn State, as well as Illinois and Ohio State. ASU - 6th best team in the Big 10.
MaoTosiFanClub
The problem
Can someone please bump this when the Buckeyes and the Illini both get respectively trounced by USC and LSU?
Voice of reason.
Let's see - ASU got trounced at home by USC, and LSU is not in the Pac 10...
Is U of A going to win their bowl game?
Oops...
LOL
Now THAT is some good stuff. The Big10, this year, might be the worst BCS conference EVER.
ASU probably would have won the Big 10.
Now you are making things up.
Brian
PANEM ET CIRCENSES
No, that's not what I'm saying. Re-read my post. I never alluded to Kansas instead of ASU. I said I was upset about Illinois getting in. They don't deserve it, and are only there because of the outdated traditions of the Rose Bowl folks. Mizzou should be in the Rose Bowl. 3 teams from a conference be damned.
That said KU sucks, plain and simple. They have played NO ONE except Mizzou and got beat. The KU football program is a joke, as it has been for the last decade.
To play the 109th strength of schedule out of 119 teams, get beat by the team with the 26th ranked strength of schedule, and then JUMP THAT TEAM, is a joke. OU would have rolled KU just like they rolled Mizzou. KU just benefited from losing to the only real team they played all year.
ASU doesn't deserve it either. They caught lightning in a bottle this year, and are not deserving to be mentioned with the top teams. ASU would lose to all of the BCS teams except KU and Hawaii in my opinion.
Playing Texas in the Holiday Bowl is right where ASU should be, or playing Illinois.
KU should beat a high school JV team before they start squawking. If you look at their season objectively, they have done nothing.
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Not likely, since ASU could only beat one team with a winning record...ASU's record was puffed up with Weak schools.
Brian
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Jon, you are letting your homerism blind you. The Big-10 was terrible this year. Ohio State's record was puffed up BIG TIME. Michigan lost to App State.
I'm not touting ASU here, but Illinois just does not deserve to be in a BCS bowl, plain and simple. They will find that out when they play USC. Mizzou does.
ASU does not either.
As long as that is acknowledged, I am fine with that. Mizzou is the team that really got screwed by all of this.
Of course, if you want to blame someone, blame USC losing to Stanford. If USC had beaten Stanford, most like the MNC game is USC-OSU, with ASU-Illinois in the Rose Bowl...
