2010-2011 Bowl Matchups

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2010-11 College Football Bowl Schedule
Bowl Location Date/Time Network


New Mexico
BYU vs. UTEP Albuquerque, N.M.
University Stadium Dec. 18
2 p.m. ESPN

uDrove Humanitarian
Northern Illinois vs. Fresno State Boise, Idaho
Bronco Stadium Dec. 18
5:30 p.m. ESPN

R+L Carriers New Orleans
Ohio vs. Troy New Orleans
Louisiana Superdome Dec. 18
9 p.m. ESPN


Beef 'O' Brady's St. Petersburg
Southern Mississippi vs. Louisville
St. Petersburg, Fla.
Tropicana Field Dec. 21
8 p.m. ESPN


MAACO Las Vegas
Utah vs. Boise State Las Vegas
Sam Boyd Stadium Dec. 22
8 p.m. ESPN


S.D. County Credit Union Poinsettia
Navy vs. San Diego State San Diego
Qualcomm Stadium Dec. 23
8 p.m. ESPN


Sheraton Hawaii
Hawaii vs. Tulsa Honolulu
Aloha Stadium Dec. 24
8 p.m. ESPN


Little Caesars
Florida International vs. Toledo Detroit
Ford Field Dec. 26
8:30 p.m. ESPN


AdvoCare V100 Independence
Air Force vs. Georgia Tech Shreveport, La.
Independence Stadium Dec. 27
5 p.m. ESPN2


Champs Sports
West Virginia vs. NC State Orlando, Fla.
Florida Citrus Bowl Dec. 28
6:30 p.m. ESPN


Insight
Missouri vs. Iowa Tempe, Ariz.
Sun Devil Stadium Dec. 28
10 p.m. ESPN


Military Bowl Presented By Northrop Grumman
East Carolina vs. Maryland Washington, D.C.
RFK Stadium Dec. 29
2:30 p.m. ESPN


Texas
Illinois vs. Baylor Houston
Reliant Stadium Dec. 29
6 p.m. ESPN


Valero Alamo
Oklahoma State vs. Arizona San Antonio
Alamodome Dec. 29
9:15 p.m. ESPN


Bell Helicopter Armed Forces
Army vs. SMU Dallas
Gerald J. Ford Stadium Dec. 30
Noon ESPN

New Era Pinstripe
Kansas St. vs. Syracuse Bronx, N.Y.
Yankee Stadium Dec. 30
3:20 p.m. ESPN


Franklin American Mortgage Music City
North Carolina vs. Tennessee Nashville, Tenn.
LP Field Dec. 30
6:40 p.m. ESPN


Bridgepoint Education Holiday
Nebraska vs. Washington San Diego
Qualcomm Stadium Dec. 30
10 p.m. ESPN


Meineke Car Care
South Florida vs. Clemson Charlotte, N.C.
Bank of America Stadium Dec. 31
Noon ESPN


Hyundai Sun
Notre Dame vs. Miami El Paso, Texas
Sun Bowl Dec. 31
2 p.m. CBS


AutoZone Liberty
Georgia vs. UCF Memphis, Tenn.
Liberty Bowl Dec. 31
3:30 p.m. ESPN


Chick-fil-A
South Carolina vs. Florida State Atlanta
Georgia Dome Dec. 31
7:30 p.m. ESPN


TicketCity
Northwestern vs. Texas Tech Dallas
Cotton Bowl Jan. 1
Noon ESPNU


Outback
Florida vs. Penn State Tampa, Fla.
Raymond James Stadium Jan. 1
1 p.m. ABC


Capital One
Alabama vs. Michigan State Orlando, Fla.
Florida Citrus Bowl Jan. 1
1 p.m. ESPN


Gator Bowl
Mississippi State vs. Michigan Jacksonville, Fla.
Municipal Stadium Jan. 1
1:30 p.m. ESPN2


Rose Bowl Game presented by VIZIO
Wisconsin vs. TCU Pasadena, Calif.
Rose Bowl Jan. 1
5 p.m. ESPN


Tostitos Fiesta
Connecticut vs. Oklahoma Glendale, Ariz.
U. of Phoenix Stadium Jan. 1
8:30 p.m. ESPN/ESPN3D


Discover Orange
Stanford vs. Virginia Tech Miami
Sun Life Stadium Jan. 3
8:30 p.m. ESPN


Allstate Sugar
Ohio State vs. Arkansas New Orleans
Louisiana Superdome Jan. 4
8:30 p.m. ESPN


GoDaddy.com
Middle Tennessee vs. Miami (Ohio) Mobile, Ala.
Ladd-Peebles Stadium Jan. 6
8 p.m. ESPN


AT&T Cotton
LSU vs. Texas A&M Arlington, Texas
Cowboys Stadium Jan. 7
8 p.m. FOX


BBVA Compass Bowl
Pittsburgh vs. Kentucky Birmingham, Ala.
Legion Field Jan. 8
Noon ESPN


Kraft Fight Hunger
Nevada vs. Boston College San Francisco
AT&T Park Jan. 9
9 p.m. ESPN


Tostitos BCS National Championship Game
Auburn vs. Oregon Glendale, Ariz.
U. of Phoenix Stadium Jan. 10
8:30 p.m. ESPN/ESPN3D
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The bowls have pretty much expanded to their maximum. Now pretty much every team with 6 wins gets into a bowl. You have a bunch of teams that finish 6-7 after losing their bowl game. The whole thing is ridiculous. There is little difference in the payout of about 20 of these bowls, so there isn't as much incentive to do well to get in one over another. I think we passed the respectable number of bowl games about 20 years ago.

Having said all that, I look forward to seeing the Holiday Bowl, the Armed Services Bowl, the New Mexico Bowl, and the Poinsettia Bowl.
 
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And how about the names of these Bowls?!? Beef O' Brady's St Petersburg Bowl--say what?! Advocare V100 Independence Bowl?? Alrighty then...

Also looking forward to seeing Nebraska, Northwestern, and Stanford in their respective Bowl games, especially Nebraska and my boy Rex! He's at 912 yards and has a legit shot at 1,000 for the season.
 

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I agree Colonel, the number of bowl games is getting ridiculous. Pretty soon teams at 5-7 will be getting in at this pace.
 

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Not too many real interesting match ups. Miami- ND will be kind of retro. That's cool.
Wisconsin vs TCU I'm curious about...that could be a real doozy.

Oregon winning would be better from a Caste perspective..yet, not by that much. Mostly because of the Cam Newton love fest. And that his Dad and him are typical Southern preacher crook scum.
Auburn has a talented White TE and a couple of athletic White OL. However...it's still Auburn and the SEC.

Go Ducks!
 

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I came across this article by Dan Wetzel in regards to the oft-discussed, dreamed about FBS playoff system. It is thoughtfully written and addresses many of the arguments that bowl-system proponents often bring up. Although any playoff system would not be perfect, one such as this would be workable and still leave room for as many bowl games as they feel like having. Aw heck, I'll just paste it below.....


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Oregon and Auburn will play for the BCS title five weeks from now. It is, undoubtedly, an intriguing and potentially excellent game every fan should want to see. Unfortunately it's part of a system that robs college football of the excitement, opportunity and drama that a playoff would create.
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<DIV ="related_news">TCU finished its second consecutive undefeated regular season and never stood a chance. Neither did Boise State â€" so please forgive kicker Kyle Brotzman, all he cost the Broncos was the right to complain the BCS had screwed them.


Freezing those schools out is only a small part of the problem though. The bigger one is the lack of excitement to end the season and then the inexplicable 37 day layoff before a mid-January conclusion.


Rather than get weeks of intriguing, high-stakes playoff games played in raucous on campus stadiums, we get one-off bowl games in rarely sold-out municipal stadiums with curious matchups based on ticket sales, potential TV ratings and all sorts of other things that don't involve actual on-field accomplishment.


We miss Wisconsin barreling along as a matchup nightmare. Or TCU having to prove itself. Or the excitement of LSU at Oklahoma, the winner to visit Oregon. Or Andrew Luck, Terrelle Pryor and Ryan Mallett shining on a national stage. We miss out on endless subplots, storylines and upsets. We get a sport where it isn't proven on the field.


It's part of the reason why in an ESPN the Magazine poll last summer, 62.2 percent of players said they wanted a playoff.


Instead college football continues to outsource its postseason. No other team sport, and really no other business, would let someone else run their most important and profitable product. And they would really, truly never hand it over to people who readily admit are motivated by something other than what's best for the sport. That's what college football does with bowl games.


Bowl games are businesses and, understandably, they do what's best for their bottom line. That isn't the same as what's best for college football.


Here is what would be â€" the annual edition of my proposed 16-team playoff solution. Many playoff plans â€" six, eight, 12 teams â€" would be superior to the current system. This just happens to be my favorite.





A seeded 16-team field





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Automatic bids





Just like the wildly popular and profitable NCAA men's basketball tournament, champions of all 11 conferences earn an automatic bid to the playoff.


Yes, all 11, even the lousy conferences. While no one would argue that the Sun Belt champ is one of the top 16 teams in the country, its presence is paramount to maintaining the integrity and relevancy of the regular season. Teams that put together exceptional season deserve to be rewarded. If you just take the top eight or 16 teams and match them up on a neutral field then there is no advantage to being No. 1 rather than No. 16.


The way to reward the best teams is two-fold. First is providing home-field advantage to the higher-seeded team until the title game (more on this later).


The second is by giving an easier first-round opponent â€" in this case No. 1 seed Auburn would play No. 16 Florida International. Earning a top two or three seed most years would present a school a de facto bye into the second round. FIU isn't in the tournament to win the title â€" they won't â€" but to make the regular season matter more. By winning the SEC championship game Saturday, Auburn gets FIU and home field to the title game. Had it lost and dropped to, say fifth, they'd have gotten 12-1 Nevada and then a likely road game in round two. It's a big difference.


Many wonder why bother with a de facto bye when you can just give the real thing. Leave the Sun Belt and the others out, hold a 12-team playoff and offer the top four teams a week off? That's certainly a simple â€" and acceptable â€" alternative. I'm not opposed to it and see the value in fewer games. I've just never seen the harm and allowing the smaller teams a moment of glory.


The FIU's of the world are harmless. And besides, maybe one of these teams â€" say 10-3 Central Florida, which isn't so bad â€" springs a first-round upset, adding the power of Cinderella to football.


Major conference championships would matter more also. Saturday night's Big 12, SEC and ACC title games held minimal national importance. They would now. They'd be knock-out games for the playoff â€" adding intensity and importance, making more games matter more and generating real drama, such as when UConn nailed a brilliant, title-winning, 52-yard field goal.


It's why nearly every television executive and marketing expert will tell you a playoff wouldn't hurt the regular season â€" no matter the BCS talking points. Instead it would dramatically increase interest, ratings and attention especially in November and early December.





At-large bids





In addition to the 11 automatic bids, there would be five at-large selections made by a basketball-like selection committee, i.e. a group of highly engaged people using common criteria to pick and set the field. (For the attached bracket we used the BCS standings to set and seed the field. We also chose Nevada as the WAC representative of a three-way tie).


No more flawed opinion polls where brand name, empty resumes and running up the score can count. No more computer formulas that have been deemed mathematically unsound by actual mathematicians. No more having teams punished for a lack of past success or major media markets. Michigan State gets in the playoff because it went 11-1 this year. It's not held out because it went 6-7 last year.


This is where independents, such as Notre Dame, would have access to the tournament if they were good enough. Most years, all six bids would come from the power conferences (ACC, Big East, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-10 and SEC). When divvying up the revenue, the major schools would still receive the lion's share (76.6 percent if seeds held this year) of an expanded revenue.


While the selection process would still draw complaints from the teams left out, those schools often would have two losses or significant flaws. In this year's case, the debate would come down to 10-2 LSU and 11-1 Boise State. Only one would go. Both could point to their failures. It isn't the same as leaving out an unbeaten squad or a one-loss major conference team that played an aggressive schedule getting edged out by a shiny, but hollow, unbeaten record.


There's no need to dignify the BCS ridiculous assertion that the argument would be more heated than multiple unbeatens vying for two title game spots.


Meanwhile, the standard to get in would still be incredibly high. One loss and you still risk it all. Just 16.6 percent of major conference teams (ND included) would have access to the tournament. The NFL lets 37.5 percent of teams in. The NCAA basketball tournament has room for 54.8 percent of major conference teams.





Ignore outdated bowls





I happen to like watching bowl games â€" or any game. Bowls are great experiences for players and fans. Outside of nostalgia a few games provide, they offer no value to a playoff system though. They began as fun exhibition games played after the final polls determined a mythical national champion. Over the last couple of decades, however, they have seized control of the postseason and became the tail wagging the dog.


Eliminating the middle man â€" bowls cut themselves in on 50-60 percent of gross revenue â€" will make the sport tens of millions of dollars even before you count in the additional revenue from higher television contracts, tickets sold for on campus stadiums, etc. that a playoff would generate.


The bowl lobby is a powerful one though, which is why just about every idea you'll hear or read will use these bowls for the quarterfinals and these for the semifinals and so on. The bowls' sole concern is keeping their grip on the system when reform inevitably comes.


A neutral site, bowl-based playoff would create ridiculous travel demands on teams and fans and devalue the regular season. A playoff that includes bowls is a poor idea.


The solution, however, is simple â€" ignore the bowls.


This isn't the same as eliminating them. The 35 bowl games can continue to operate outside of the playoff, just like any non-affiliated business. All the non-playoff teams can compete in them. The Rose Bowl on New Year's Day afternoon? It should be played forever. Notre Dame-Miami in the Sun Bowl? Who doesn't like that? Let it go on. Under the BCS, only one game matters now. Little changes.


A playoff would not kill off all the bowl games. Bowl games are good business, which is why they keep adding them. Smaller games will survive as long as two things continue. First, people keep watching football on TV. Second, colleges continue to subsidize the bowl system by paying all team expenses and guaranteeing (often at a loss) ticket and marketing revenue. Since the sport will be awash in cash to spend with a playoff, bowls may wind up healthier than ever.


If a lack of 6-6 teams caused the eight smallest bowls â€" most of which are owned by ESPN â€" to go under, how many fans would really care? The same number of teams would still reach the postseason.





Higher seeds get home games early





The playoff would stage the first three rounds at the home field of the higher-seeded team before shifting to a neutral site, a la the Super Bowl. As a nod to history, it could be a rotation of famed stadiums such as the Rose Bowl, Sugar Bowl. Or the Rose Bowl every year. This doesn't matter to me.


This allows the playoff to capitalize on perhaps college football's greatest asset â€" the pageantry, excitement and history of its legendary campus stadiums. There is nothing like a college game day and it doesn't matter whether you're in Columbus or Eugene or Madison or Baton Rouge. Each one is thrilling and adds tremendous value to the product.


So why does college football stage its postseason in antiseptic pro and municipal stadiums?


Hosting games would be a boon to the schools. College and universities could keep all the postseason money in-house.


Home games would pump up local economies too. It's not the job of Oklahomans to drop their disposable income in Arizona; they might consider doing it right at home. The entire "economic impact"Â￾ theory for bowl games makes no sense on a national scale (which this is) because it's just displaced spending. On a national scale, money spent at the Glendale Applebee's is no different than money spent at the Norman Applebee's.


Most importantly it would also reward the higher seeds (again placing value on the regular season) by providing the distinct advantage of playing at home. (The visiting team would get the same small ticket allotment it currently gets). Unlike with the bowls, all games would be sold out.


This would also placate complaints from northern teams who are seemingly always playing bowl games near the campus of their opponent. The Big Ten's been getting slaughtered of late in bowl games. Well, let's see Florida or LSU slide around in the snow of Happy Valley some time.


The BCS has all but killed intersectional games (there's no reward to playing a tough schedule), but the idea of them returning each December and January, famous jerseys in famous faraway stadiums (Oklahoma in Autzen; Virginia Tech in the Horseshoe and then the Buckeyes visiting TCU's little band box) can warm any college fan's heart.





The schedule





While the former Division I-AA plays all four rounds before Christmas â€" football's top division might be better served staging its entire playoff over holiday break. An entire four-week playoff could be held from the Saturday before Christmas to the date of the current BCS title game â€" Jan. 10 this year.


It allows time for rest and academics, even if "the academic effect, it's just not a credible argument,"Â￾ Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany said.


While the season would be lengthened for some teams, many high school state champions play 16-game seasons. The NFL plays longer years with just 53-man rosters. And college football could always move to lessen the number of actual plays in a college game (often 12 percent more than a NFL game) by switching to the professional clock that runs more freely.


This playoff plan is fairly simple. It was generated by following some of the principles of the other divisions of college football and by discussing it, through the years, with scores of coaches, players, athletic directors, conference commissioners, television executives and even bowl directors.


The combination of money and common sense is why the playoff continues to be inevitable. Just last month, no less than Ohio State coach Jim Tressel said on the Dan Patrick Show that progress is coming. "Within five years we will be in position for a playoff of sorts,"Â￾ Tressel said.


Sounds good. The sooner the better.
 

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Oregon started 11 against Oregon State so I am cheering for them against the nearly all-black Auburn squad.
 

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I'll be updating each of the Bowl's teams depth charts, and linking to their threads from the matchups. I'm updating them in the order of the games. Today I did the New Mexico Bowl and Huminatarian Bowl. I'll do some more every day, and I'll have them done by bowl season.

A great caste matchup with BYU and UTEP.
A pretty balanced matchup between UNI and Fresno. Despite starting double digit white starters, they have nearly no whites in caste positions, with SS Mike Sobol of UNI being the only one. Hopefully, I'll be able to put Devon Wylie's name on the list before the game.
 

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Boy, did Boise State get screwed. They go 11-1 with their only loss coming in OT because their field goal kicker botches a couple of chip shots and they end up in the Las Vegas bowl. Meanwhile, Virginia Tech goes 10-2 and gets beat by Boise State, at home, yet they get a BCS Bowl birth in the Orange Bowl
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Thanks a lot PhillyBirds.
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I love doing this type of work. Should be a fun bowl season again!

Highlander, not to mention that Va. Tech lost to James Madison at home.
 

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BCS = Bull Crap System. Gotta love it baby!!!
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The system is so broken, but at least the Hokies go against Stanford.

When I update a team, could the topic creator please update the list at the top, so people don't have to look for it elswhere in the thread for it? Thanks.
 

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I would like to see Boston College use their big O-line and run all over Nevada!

I'm also interested in Alabama -vs- Michigan State. MSU was the only team to defeat Wisconsin..
 

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Jack Lambert said:
The system is so broken, but at least the Hokies go against Stanford.



When I update a team, could the topic creator please update the list at the top, so people don't have to look for it elswhere in the thread for it? Thanks.

Will do! Yeah, I forgot about Stanford's game. I'll be watching that one too. I hope Tyler Gaffney gets some carries in that game. I know plenty of White receivers will be used. Hopefully Marecic can get a TD as well.
 

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Highlander said:
Boy, did Boise State get screwed.  They go 11-1 with their only loss coming in OT because their field goal kicker botches a couple of chip shots and they end up in the Las Vegas bowl.  Meanwhile, Virginia Tech goes 10-2 and gets beat by Boise State, at home, yet they get a BCS Bowl birth in the Orange Bowl 
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Excellent point, hadn't thought of that one.
 

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The Bowl Tie-ins for the conferences are stupid too. Just look at Temple. They went 8-4, and beat UConn (who's going to the BCS) by double digits, yet they're not going to a a bowl because the MAC doesn't have a tie-in for them. The Holiday Bowl too. Washington shouldn't be close to the Holiday Bowl, which is usually meant for 9-3 or 10-2 teams, yet a 6-6 Huskies squad made it in, simply because the Pac-10 didn't have anybody else. They should put 11-1 Boise State in the Holiday Bowl, which would be a marquee matchup against Nebraska, and Washington in the Las Vegas Bowl, where Utah would be a better match.
 

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Colonel_Reb said:
The bowls have pretty much expanded to their maximum. Now pretty much every team with 6 wins gets into a bowl. You have a bunch of teams that finish 6-7 after losing their bowl game. The whole thing is ridiculous. There is little difference in the payout of about 20 of these bowls, so there isn't as much incentive to do well to get in one over another. I think we passed the respectable number of bowl games about 20 years ago. Having said all that, I look forward to seeing the Holiday Bowl, the Armed Services Bowl, the New Mexico Bowl, and the Poinsettia Bowl.

Absolutely! They need to scrap the bowls all together & do playoffs. Take the conference champs from FBS (D I-A) conferences plus an at large bid or 2. Bowls games have become a total joke...with the # thereof & these .500 &/or .500 + 1 teams getting bids.
 

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Two more Bowls updated with new white starters. A couple of matchups between fairly white teams.
 

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Looking at how the regular season played out.. If Stanford had beaten Oregon.. Wisconsin had beaten Michigan State.. and Alabama had defeated Auburn.....

wouldn't it be pretty much guaranteed that Stanford would face Wisconsin in the "National Championship" Game? We would no doubt hear the "Auburn plays in the SEC" argument, and shenanigans would certainly be possible. What I get from all this, though, is that Caucasian Football is on the rise. Just a few tough breaks..
 
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