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Pick the BCS Bowl Results (deadline was Aug. 1st 2008)

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Name the winner and loser in each of the 2009 (end of the 2008 season) BCS Bowl games.

EDIT - I decided to change the scoring system, since nobody has picked yet.

5 points - for each of your 10 teams that make a BCS Bowl Game
2 points - for each team that you picked the correct BCS Game for
2 points - for each team that you correctly picked to be in the BCS Title Game (in addition to the 2 points just mentioned)
2 points - for each of your 5 winning teams that wins a BCS Game
2 points - for picking the winner of the BCS Title Game (in addition to the 2 points just mentioned)

So correctly picking the BCS Champion will result in points for each of the above reasons (13 total)

The contest will be open until August 1st.

The poster who scores the most points will receive $100,000 vCash after the bowls in January. This will be split if there's a tie.

Please make your picks look like this (these are NOT my picks :wink2:):

Rose: Minnesota over Stanford
Fiesta: Baylor over Idaho
Sugar: Vanderbilt over Indiana
Orange: Duke over Syracuse
BCS Title: Arizona over Army
 
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Can we have an option for season voided due to legal troubles? :)

Lawmakers want probe to determine if the BCS is an illegal enterprise.

Forget government corruption or corporate fraud. Three members of Congress want the Justice Department to investigate whether college football’s Bowl Championship Series is an illegal enterprise.
Reps. Neil Abercrombie, D-Hawaii, Lynn Westmoreland, R-Ga., and Mike Simpson, R-Idaho, are introducing a resolution rejecting the oft-criticized bowl system as an illegal restriction on trade. The resolution would require Justice’s antitrust division to investigate whether the system violates federal law.
The measure also would put Congress on record as supporting a college football playoff.
“Who elected these NCAA people? Who are they to decide who competes for the championship?” Abercrombie said at a press conference Thursday on Capitol Hill, gripping a souvenir University of Hawaii football.
Abercrombie said the matter is worthy of federal review because college football is big business with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake.

“It’s money. That’s what this is all about,” he said.
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Now, credit where credit is due - he did get the last part of that dead right.
 
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"I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace; that two are called a law firm, and that three or more become a Congress." .... and introduce legislation calling for the Justice Department to put aside criminal-catching, crime-investigation and the like, and look into those terrorists in the BCS.

I like this one especially:

“Who elected these NCAA people? Who are they to decide who competes for the championship?”
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Yes indeed. Who the hell does the NCAA think they are, setting up a system to determine the NCAA championship? What stupidity.

If anything, they ought to be investigating the NCAA for March Madness and leave the bowl system alone. Any group that comes up with enough funding and a location can apply to hold a bowl game. But the NCAA monopolizes the basketball championship. Down with the capitalist whore selection committees! Down with the corporate pigs!
 
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I believe there was already an antitrust lawsuit filed by a bunch of the non-BCS schools some years ago, which lead to the compromise that expanded the system and let at-large teams in. For all of his questionable judgment and articles, Mandel has a great book that goes into some depth on the topic.
 
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BB73;1124568; said:
Please make your picks look like this (these are NOT my picks :wink2:):

Rose: Minnesota over Stanford
Fiesta: Baylor over Idaho
Sugar: Vanderbilt over Indiana
Orange: Duke over Syracuse
BCS Title: Arizona over Army
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That doesn't seem fair! We have to enter those dogs for our picks, but you get to pick something else?

This contest is rigged!
 
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Dryden;1143035; said:
That doesn't seem fair! We have to enter those dogs for our picks, but you get to pick something else?

This contest is rigged!
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You can use those 10 teams in any combination - is that better? :tongue2:
 
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2009 BCS Bowl Game Projections

Rose Bowl Game Presented by Citi (Pasadena, CA)
USC (Pac-10 Champions) vs. Wisconsin (At-Large)
Winner: USC

FedEx Orange Bowl (Miami, FL)
Clemson (ACC Champions) vs. West Virginia (Big East Champions)
Winner: West Virginia

AllState Sugar Bowl (New Orleans, LA)
Georgia (At-Large) vs. Oklahoma (At-Large)
Winner: Georgia

Tostitos Fiesta Bowl (Glendale, AZ)
Missouri (Big XII Champions) vs. BYU Cougars (At-Large)
Winner: Missouri

FedEx BCS National Championship Game (Miami, FL)
Ohio State (BCS #1, Big Ten Champions) vs. Florida (BCS #2, SEC Champions)

Winner: Ohio State

Who ya got in next season's BCS bowl games?

Rose: USC over Wisconsin
Fiesta: Missouri over BYU
Sugar: Georgia over Oklahoma
Orange: West Va. over Clemson
BCS Title: tOSU over Florida
 
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Rose: USC over Wisconsin
Fiesta: Oklahoma over Arizona State
Sugar: Florida over Missouri
Orange: Clemson over West Virginia
BCS Title: Ohio State over Georgia

Tie breaker: :biggrin:
Toilet Bowl (aka Motor City): Toledo over scUM
 
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Alright, I put off picking these for nearly four months because I wanted to see some reports from spring ball and at least give the kids a chance to play for the Fulmer Cup in the off season.

Supposing I got the selection order correct, I'm going with this:

Rose: Southern Cal over Wisconsin
Fiesta: Arizona St over Oklahoma
Sugar: Florida over Missouri
Orange: Florida State over Connecticut
BCS Title: Ohio State over Auburn
 
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Dryden;1205223; said:
Alright, I put off picking these for nearly four months because I wanted to see some reports from spring ball and at least give the kids a chance to play for the Fulmer Cup in the off season.

Supposing I got the selection order correct, I'm going with this:

Rose: Southern Cal over Wisconsin
Fiesta: Arizona St over Oklahoma
Sugar: Florida over Missouri
Orange: Florida State over Connecticut
BCS Title: Ohio State over Auburn
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Oh how sweet would it be to kick Tuberville's Teeth in (metaphorically speaking)
 
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DaddyBigBucks;1205255; said:
Oh how sweet would it be to kick Tuberville's Teeth in (metaphorically speaking)
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I really struggled between UGA and Auburn for the SEC. I wound up going with Auburn because of the 15 returning starters, plus getting LSU, Tennessee, and Georgia all at home. I think they'll get some additional poll/style points by virtue of playing @West Virginia. WVU will be 6-0 and probably in the Top-5 when Auburn goes and thumps them. Of course, WVU will ultimately prove to be overrated too when they have their annual collapse over their last 3-4 games, but that won't matter in October when the Auburn/WVU game is played.

I guess I'm going with the scenario that Georgia (narrowly) beats Auburn in the regular season, then Auburn gets payback two weeks later in the SEC Championship, putting Auburn in the title game and handing Florida the SEC at large. Or something like that.

Besides, Georgia seems the fashionable pick, so picking them wouldn't be any fun.
 
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