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If true, I guess they don't see a scenario where USC loses to UCLA and Florida jumps the Weasels. Or they don't want a scUM-USC match up.

Stewart Mandel of SI actually gave a pretty good rationale for why it should be LSU over the Domers:

It's no secret that the large majority of college football fans no longer embraces the bowl system. They want a playoff. The BCS and the bowls themselves have spent considerable time and resources over the years defending their system against hordes of critics. If the Rose Bowl, the oldest and most revered of the bowl games, deprives the public of a potential No. 3 vs. No. 4 matchup in favor of a regular-season rematch that I'm not even sure the participants themselves want to see played, the bowl system will lose whatever credibility it had left with the public. Bowl people will no longer be able to argue with a straight face that they're serving the greater good of college football.
No pressure, Rose Bowl.
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http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/writers/stewart_mandel/11/28/mailbag/index.html
 
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I think it's probably a stretch to say that a large majority of college football fans would prefer a playoff system.

I did a quick search and didn't find anything about it on BP, but I think that would make an interesting poll. I find it hard to believe that it hasn't been discussed though so I won't start anything myself so I don't risk getting smacked down by the "search for things first you dumbass" powers that be. :tongue2:
 
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Mandel said:
It's no secret that the large majority of college football fans no longer embraces the bowl system. They want a playoff.
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That is a blatant exagerration--while certainly the sports media would largely prefer a playoff, the only polls I've ever seen say about 54% of fans (near the bottom on the link below) would prefer a playoff. Hardly a "large" majority.

http://newmediasphere.blogs.com/nms/sports/index.html
 
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Buckeye86;674105; said:
I think it's probably a stretch to say that a large majority of college football fans would prefer a playoff system.

I did a quick search and didn't find anything about it on BP, but I think that would make an interesting poll. I find it hard to believe that it hasn't been discussed though so I won't start anything myself so I don't risk getting smacked down by the "search for things first you dumbass" powers that be. :tongue2:
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No poll, but lengthy dicussion here:
http://www.buckeyeplanet.com/forum/showthread.php?t=404

Here's your poll:
http://www.buckeyeplanet.com/forum/showthread.php?p=674131#post674131
 
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Thank GOD if this is true...I'm no dUMb fan as everyone knows, but it would be crap if they were relegated to kicking the crap out of a vastly overrated Notre Dame team...again, especially after they spanked them in South Bend. UM/LSU would be a really good game. Let Notre Dame go play Wake Forest or Boise State.
 
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After the USC-ND game Satrurday night, where ND once again clearly showed they weren't competitve against an elite team, I was appalled at the ABC/ESPN guys shamelessly hyping ND for the Rose Bowl shot, with talk of the Four Horseman, etc.

The TSUN-ND rematch in the Rose Bowl would suck, and the only reason they were hyping the ND-Rose Bowl thing was for their own pockets. ABC will televise the Rose Bowl this year, but Fox has the Sugar Bowl, which is ND's likely destination if the Rose Bowl wisely chooses to avoid the TSUN-ND rematch.

The TV talking heads for ABC/ESPN were clearly instructed by the corporate types to hype the ND-Rose Bowl thing - I dont think even Corso really wants to see TSUN-ND again. I believe ABC/ESPN damaged the credibility of their own analysts in order to try to arrange a Rose Bowl with ND for their own TV ratings.

I don't intend for this thread to be another ND-basher - this is about the lack of integrity of ABC/ESPN in their coverage of college football.
 
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LSU has NOT accepted an invitation to the Rose Bowl yet, FWIW. In fact, until the SEC championship game, LSU won't accept an invitation to any bowl. However, this hasn't stopped LSU fans from buying 32,000 Rose Bowl tickets. :biggrin:

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=2680928

Report: LSU to play in Rose Bowl
ESPN.com news services

BATON ROUGE, La. -- LSU fans are buying Rose Bowl tickets in droves, gobbling up 32,000 pre-sale orders at $135 per ticket even though their Tigers have not yet been officially invited to the game.

Baton Rouge television station WAFB reported that No. 5 LSU will play in the Rose Bowl presented by Citi on Jan. 1 in Pasadena, Calif. The station, citing information from a member of the Rose Bowl Board who spoke on the condition of anonymity, reported the Tigers will play either Michigan or Southern California.

"That's not true," Rose Bowl CEO Mitch Dorger told the Shreveport Times on Wednesday night. "We have not made any final decisions at all. I think some people have gone out on a limb and are making assumptions. We will make our decision on Sunday."

LSU athletic director Skip Bertman also would not confirm the report.

But none of that seemed to matter to LSU fans itching for a trip to Pasadena. More than 16,000 tickets for the Rose Bowl were pre-sold between Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday night, LSU ticket manager Brian Broussard told the Shreveport Times, bringing the total of LSU Rose Bowl pre-sales to 32,000.

The school said on its athletics Web site that it is also taking orders for the FedEx Orange Bowl and the Capital One Bowl. On its athletics Web site, the school said it has 19,500 ticket requests for the Orange Bowl and another 17,000 for the Capital One Bowl.

LSU, which went 10-2 in the regular season but finished tied for second in the Southeastern Conference West Division, would become the first SEC team to play in the Rose Bowl since Alabama in 1946.

If the second-ranked Trojans beat UCLA on Saturday, they almost certainly would finish second in the Bowl Championship Series standings and play No. 1 Ohio State in the national championship game in Glendale, Ariz., on Jan. 8.

A USC victory would also relegate third-ranked Michigan to the Rose Bowl, where it was thought the Wolverines might get a rematch with No. 12 Notre Dame.
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A big game here by Russell would drastically help his draft stock seeing as how most sites have him going pro this year...regardless i really like this move by the rose bowl committee...and would LOVE to see ND lose to a powerhouse boise state team
 
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OSUsushichic;674417; said:
That is bullshit. The Domers don't even deserve a sniff at a BCS bowl.

You heard the UNC crowd last night -- OVERRATED!
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Shhhsh sushi, don't ruin the fun.

It ain't a New Year until I get to watch the Domers get blown out by 3TDs in a nationally televised bowl game. :biggrin:
 
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