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Fiesta Bowl - Oklahoma 42, Boise St. 43 (OT-Final, Jan. 1, 2007)

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forty6and2;702731; said:
I knew boise state would win this game. Everyone was saying that boise state cannot handle the "big boys" but they dont know anything. i go to boise state, and you guys should have seen what was going on here in boise. it was incredible. this is exactly what boise state needed to show EVERYONE that they are in the top 5 teams in the country.:biggrin:
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Hey pal, you're not playing with the big boys until you torch a few couches after a big win. You're definitely on the way up, but you have a few things to learn.

BTW, Great victory!
 
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Good point by Robert Smith today on Gameday... This type of game and a 2-point call in OT are a good proof that teams from non-BCS conferences would not do well in Playoffs. Since they are not physical enough to play 3-4 games of this magnitude.

I don't know that's the reason they went for 2 points or not. But it's a valid point. It may or may not apply to all the non-BCS conference teams... but it certainly do apply to most teams.
 
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bkochmc;702931; said:
Someone needs to do a drug test on Washington's AD... that man's on crack! Of course, if some miracle happens and they end up 5-1 or 6-0 through that stretch they'll be next year's version of the GOAT.
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In his defense, of course the conference games are completely out of his control, and Syracuse hasn't been very good for several years, and playing Boise State at home didn't look all that bad as recently as last year when Georgia lit them up, and I don't know when they scheduled our game, but if it was around 1999 or 2000 we weren't all that spectacular every year, so I have to say it probably didn't look all that bad at the time. It's kinda like the inverse of Notre Dame's schedule last year, which would have been tough had it been 1990.
 
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Greatest Bowl Game Ever?


http://msn.foxsports.com/cfb/story/6329878


<H4>10. 1970 Cotton Bowl: Texas 21, Notre Dame 17

After already being declared the national champion by President Richard Nixon, Texas still had to win it on the field against a great Irish team in Notre Dame's first bowl game in 45 years. The Irish seemed determined to prove Nixon wrong, going up 10-0 thanks to a Joe Theismann 54-yard touchdown pass, while the defense was keeping the Longhorn wishbone attack in check.
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fourteenandoh;703130; said:
Greatest Bowl Game Ever?


http://msn.foxsports.com/cfb/story/6329878


<H4>10. 1970 Cotton Bowl: Texas 21, Notre Dame 17

After already being declared the national champion by President Richard Nixon, Texas still had to win it on the field against a great Irish team in Notre Dame's first bowl game in 45 years. The Irish seemed determined to prove Nixon wrong, going up 10-0 thanks to a Joe Theismann 54-yard touchdown pass, while the defense was keeping the Longhorn wishbone attack in check.
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Pete is a good writer but man...they always bring up the PI call but never touch on the Gamble 'no hold' call. Not to mention that Chris was inbounds when he caught the pass...the Buckeyes run out the clock and then win in regulation 17-14.

ARGH!!! :mad2:
 
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Bucklion;703115; said:
In his defense, of course the conference games are completely out of his control, and Syracuse hasn't been very good for several years, and playing Boise State at home didn't look all that bad as recently as last year when Georgia lit them up, and I don't know when they scheduled our game, but if it was around 1999 or 2000 we weren't all that spectacular every year, so I have to say it probably didn't look all that bad at the time. It's kinda like the inverse of Notre Dame's schedule last year, which would have been tough had it been 1990.
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I don't think anyone scheduling Ohio State expects a mediocre team when they do so. Even in the Cooper era. Anyway, next year's trip to Seattle is a slightly delayed home-and-away after they visited us in 2003. We beat them 28-9 then, and I expect a similar result next year.

PAC-10 teams are pretty solid at scheduling quality OOC games. They'll even give some of the upstart mid-majors a shot ... and even travel away to midmajors -- Cal is going to Colorado State next year. Most BCS teams are loathe to schedule a Boise State or TCU -- if you win it was expected anyway, and if you lose you'll catch a lot of flak for it at a major program. It's really a no-win situation.

After USC, gutsy scheduling is the only thing I respect about the P10.
 
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buckeye99;703166; said:
Pete is a good writer but man...they always bring up the PI call but never touch on the Gamble 'no hold' call. Not to mention that Chris was inbounds when he caught the pass...the Buckeyes run out the clock and then win in regulation 17-14.

ARGH!!! :mad2:
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I don't like Pete. He stirs the pot way too much for my taste.
 
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I stopped reading CFN last year. Their "new" and "unique" content is always the same rehashed crap, their reviews are three days too late, their previews are three months too late, and I don't think I've ever read an article on their site that hasn't contained a gross factual error, or several of them, and often times these go uncorrected for days or even months.

I really got fed up with them after an email exchange with that pompous twit Zemek last year (pre-2005 season), whose overly word-smithed prose miraculously takes three days to read while simultaneously containing nothing unique or insightful, that his prediction that Marshall would finally compete for MAC titles again was a problem, given that Marshall had both left the MAC and had Snyder as a coach, who would brilliantly find ways to lose at least two pivotal conference games a season by running prevent far too early or with too slim a lead.

The pop-up ads are beyond being a nuisance anymore, too. There is nothing on CFN that can't be found by any one of a hundred different outlets, theirs is just a different wording of the same story lines I already know, plus 100 pages of Fiu's personal lists that (again) often contain factually incorrect annotations or recounts of a game.

The site is an even bigger mess now that it has moved to Scout, and that's quite an achievement given what it was before with the homepage having 7000 links.

It dawned on me while reading one of Zemek's typical long winded columns ... Am I seriously reading a 10,000 word essay on the merits of ABC's broadcast teams? Why on Earth do I care?

/rant
 
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From King Kaufman, the Salon.com sports writer: (I'm not quoting his entire column here, just the part I found most interesting/humorous)

What I want to do is nip in the bud this idea that Boise State deserves a shot in the title game not because the top handful of teams should get a chance to play each other, but because of this sequence of events, which I've seen spelled out in various places, including the aforementioned USA Today article, which I'll just quote:

"The Broncos beat Oregon State, which beat Southern California, which beat Michigan, which narrowly lost at Ohio State, which is a favorite against Florida." Ergo, I guess, Boise State deserves to play Ohio State. Or Florida, I'm not sure. This argument would have been better if Michigan had beaten Ohio State. Of course, then USC wouldn't have beaten Michigan.

Doesn't matter, though. The real champion, by this way of argument, is Central Washington.

The Wildcats finished tied for fifth with Western Washington and Augustana in the Division II North Central Conference. They were 3-5 in the league, 6-5 overall. They missed the Division II playoffs, and football is so important on campus that the official Web site hasn't been updated since before the last game of the season.

In case you're wondering, Central Washington lost that Nov. 11 finale to Nebraska-Omaha, 48-14.

But Central Washington did beat Eastern Washington, which beat Montana State, which beat Colorado. And Colorado beat Iowa State, which beat Missouri, which beat Mississippi, which beat Vanderbilt. And Vanderbilt beat Georgia, which beat Auburn. And Auburn beat Florida, which gets to play Ohio State for the championship.

Since Ohio State's too chicken to play Central Washington, we should declare the Wildcats your 2006 national champions.

OK, I'm kidding.

Really, the champion is Grand Valley State.

You see, Nebraska-Omaha did make the Division II playoffs after its season-ending win over Central Washington. The Mavericks got a bye in the first round but lost a humdinger in the second to North Dakota, 38-35. North Dakota in turn lost in the next round to Grand Valley State, which then beat Delta State in the semifinals and Northwest Missouri State in the title game for the Division II championship.

See? A tournament would work. Division II's tournament crowned a champion that, using the Boise State argument, beat Florida. Go Lakers!
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http://www.salon.com/sports/col/kaufman/2007/01/03/wednesday/index.html
 
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Anybody want some Oklahoma Fiesta Bowl merchandise? In downtown Tempe they're selling them at 3-for-1. I can't believe the Land Thieves didn't clean out the shelves on the day after the game. :tongue2:
 
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BB73;704259; said:
Anybody want some Oklahoma Fiesta Bowl merchandise? In downtown Tempe they're selling them at 3-for-1. I can't believe the Land Thieves didn't clean out the shelves on the day after the game. :tongue2:
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Sure. I'll take a Rhett Bomar jersey!
 
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fsn chicago just aired a commercial stating that they're re-airing this year's fiesta bowl after tonight's zona/wash game, which will be ending shortly.

this is good news to hear in light of our game.

edit: apparently, they lied. they're airing "nba action" and then "pro football weekly." they definitely aired a commercial for a re-airing of the game, so perhaps it'll be on later?

thanks for getting my hopes up, fox, only to dash them.
 
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OSU_Buckguy;706306; said:
fsn chicago just aired a commercial stating that they're re-airing this year's fiesta bowl after tonight's zona/wash game, which will be ending shortly.

this is good news to hear in light of our game.

edit: apparently, they lied. they're airing "nba action" and then "pro football weekly." they definitely aired a commercial for a re-airing of the game, so perhaps it'll be on later?

thanks for getting my hopes up, fox, only to dash them.
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It is on abunch of FSN's right now. 28-10 Boise.
 
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