College football Bowl projections

CatsbyAZ · Post by **CatsbyAZ** » Thu Dec 03, 2015 11:41 am

Chicat wrote:But it's not like those that are 2nd or 3rd string, and/or are juniors or below, and would ostensibly move into starters roles the next season don't also get to practice.

I'm with Harvey, I think the touted Bowl benefits are overblown, however, far less so when it comes to the 2nd/3rd stringers getting time in a higher capacity with the first stringers. It's best for the younger classes to end the year on a highly contributory note. Sets things in motion for the spring and onward.

azcat49 · Post by **azcat49** » Thu Dec 03, 2015 12:18 pm

Well I would rather be known as a perennial bowl program so going every year is important I think to recruits. It may not sway them but we already struggle with the stigma of a non rose bowl program and it is used against us in recruiting so for me, scheduling 3 cupcakes and getting 6 wins and going to some dogshit bowl works for me at this time

97cats · Post by **97cats** » Thu Dec 03, 2015 12:45 pm

azcat49 wrote:scheduling 3 cupcakes and getting 6 wins and going to some dogshit bowl works for me at this time

this is one of the greatest things ive read on the internet in a while.

take a bow, John

azcat49 · Post by **azcat49** » Thu Dec 03, 2015 1:21 pm

Pathetic I know but man I hate losing and we are what we are. Doesn't seem to matter when it comes to AZ football unless someone will raze the litterbox and build a taj mahal for the program.

Harvey Specter · Post by **Harvey Specter** » Thu Dec 03, 2015 3:23 pm

azcat49 wrote:Well I would rather be known as a perennial bowl program so going every year is important I think to recruits. It may not sway them but we already struggle with the stigma of a non rose bowl program and it is used against us in recruiting so for me, scheduling 3 cupcakes and getting 6 wins and going to some dogshit bowl works for me at this time

And I thought I was the only one who viewed it this way... Or maybe you were suggesting that those of us who characterized it that way were too harsh.

It's our reality.

CatsbyAZ · Post by **CatsbyAZ** » Thu Dec 03, 2015 6:31 pm

azcat49 wrote: scheduling 3 cupcakes and getting 6 wins and going to some dogshit bowl

And way too many people think this is the approach that will pave RichRod's way to some big job out East.

ASUHATER! · Post by **ASUHATER!** » Sun Dec 06, 2015 9:49 am

Getting away from the whiny tantrums, currently announced bowl matchups:

Sugar-Oklahoma state/Ole miss

Stanford is already in the rose obviously and Alabama will be in the cotton bowl semi-final and Clemson the Orange bowl semi-final

Gilbertcat · Post by **Gilbertcat** » Sun Dec 06, 2015 10:00 am

Final projection for me: crappy bowl in NM or Independence. Hopefully Arizona or atleast Dallas so it's not in a total missery location and we get the full practice for Scoob and company.

dmjcat · Post by **dmjcat** » Sun Dec 06, 2015 10:11 am

Perusing all of the bowl projections out there it breaks down like this for the UA:

New Mexico 40%
Independence 40%
Arizona 20%

azcat49 · Post by **azcat49** » Sun Dec 06, 2015 10:28 am

Players definitely do not want to be holed up in Tucson for the holidays. One of them said they think it is ALB which he said was not the greatest experience.

When someone said it had to beat Shreveport, he responded that Shreveport was a fantastic bowl. Well run and very entertaining for the players

Gilbertcat · Post by **Gilbertcat** » Sun Dec 06, 2015 10:37 am

Independence or Dallas for the players. Arizona for me. New Mexico for no one.

ASUHATER! · Post by **ASUHATER!** » Sun Dec 06, 2015 11:32 am

5-7 Nebraska playing 8-4 UCLA in thr Foster farms bowl

CatMG · Post by **CatMG** » Sun Dec 06, 2015 12:48 pm

So are all the Bowl announcements made today?

ASUHATER! · Post by **ASUHATER!** » Sun Dec 06, 2015 12:50 pm

Yeah we should know in the next two or three hours

ASUHATER! · Post by **ASUHATER!** » Sun Dec 06, 2015 1:15 pm

Rest of the big 6 bowls announced

Rose-Iowa/Stanford
Sugar-Oklahoma State/Ole Miss
Fiesta-Ohio State/Notre Dame
Peach-Houston/Florida State

Gilbertcat · Post by **Gilbertcat** » Sun Dec 06, 2015 1:23 pm

Fiesta would be fun if it didn't start at 11am...I'll enjoy at home when I wake up at that time....also lots of grumbling about NM bowl...what a gross bowl. Sums up this year. But what irony about dumping it from the Pac and now getting stuck there again. It's a bowl that needs to die.

ASUHATER! · Post by **ASUHATER!** » Sun Dec 06, 2015 1:28 pm

Miami vs. Washington state in the sun bowl
Usc is in the holiday bowl
Ucla in the foster farms bowl
Oregon likely in the Alamo bowl
Utah likely in the Vegas bowl vs. Byu

Gilbertcat · Post by **Gilbertcat** » Sun Dec 06, 2015 1:47 pm

No Independence. VT and Tulsa

ASUHATER! · Post by **ASUHATER!** » Sun Dec 06, 2015 1:48 pm

No poinsettia.. Boise state and northern Illinois

ASUHATER! · Post by **ASUHATER!** » Sun Dec 06, 2015 1:49 pm

At this point I'm thinking it's going to be the New Mexico bowl...which was the worst of all the options.

ASUHATER! · Post by **ASUHATER!** » Sun Dec 06, 2015 1:52 pm

Some other bowls.

Northwestern Tennessee in the outback bowl
Florida Michigan citrus bowl(rematch of the same bowl in 2009)
Oregon tcu in the Alamo bowl
Baylor north Carolina in the Russell athletic bowl

dmjcat · Post by **dmjcat** » Sun Dec 06, 2015 2:03 pm

Washington vs. Air Force in the Armed Forces Bowl

ASUHATER! · Post by **ASUHATER!** » Sun Dec 06, 2015 2:05 pm

dmjcat wrote:Washington vs. Air Force in the Armed Forces Bowl

Basically means it's heart of Dallas, Arizona or new Mexico for us.

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Sun Dec 06, 2015 2:10 pm

If it's the New Mexico bowl we play in less than 2 weeks.

ASUHATER! · Post by **ASUHATER!** » Sun Dec 06, 2015 2:13 pm

azgreg wrote:If it's the New Mexico bowl we play in less than 2 weeks.

Which sucks. Was hoping we'd have a good 4-5 weeks off to get healthy for a bowl, not 20 days. The new Mexico bowl is just awful. True road game against an amped up unm team that hates us in possibly the coldest bowl location besides Boise and it is literally the first bowl game. It's at noon Arizona time in 13 days. And going to a bowl in Albuquerque for the team is basically just going to a colder worse Tucson where everyone hates you.

ASUHATER! · Post by **ASUHATER!** » Sun Dec 06, 2015 2:15 pm

Confirmed byu Utah in the Vegas bowl. Going to be a lot of hate in that game.

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Sun Dec 06, 2015 2:16 pm

dmjcat · Post by **dmjcat** » Sun Dec 06, 2015 2:17 pm

WVU vs. scum in the Cactus Bowl

ASUHATER! · Post by **ASUHATER!** » Sun Dec 06, 2015 2:17 pm

Confirmed two losing big 10 teams in bowls.

Ucla Nebraska in the foster farms
Minnesota central Michigan in the quick lane bowl
Usc Wisconsin in the holiday bowl

Gilbertcat · Post by **Gilbertcat** » Sun Dec 06, 2015 2:18 pm

dmjcat wrote:WVU vs. scum in the Cactus Bowl

It's disgusting because I wanted to go but I can't stand their fans and it's an easy win.

ASUHATER! · Post by **ASUHATER!** » Sun Dec 06, 2015 2:19 pm

azgreg wrote:

Well that's not the new Mexico bowl...500 miles north is empty land south of salt lake city...

Tempedevil · Post by **Tempedevil** » Sun Dec 06, 2015 2:23 pm

Abq is 450 miles north of Tucson. Enjoy!

ASUHATER! · Post by **ASUHATER!** » Sun Dec 06, 2015 2:25 pm

Tempedevil wrote:Abq is 450 miles north of Tucson. Enjoy!

Nope. Less that 400 miles northeast of Tucson.

Hansen is bad at geography

https://www.freemaptools.com/how-far-is ... ue_-nm.htm" target="_blank

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Sun Dec 06, 2015 2:28 pm

Greg Hansen wasn't a geography major so..................

Irish27 · Post by **Irish27** » Sun Dec 06, 2015 2:28 pm

It's New Mexico.

dmjcat · Post by **dmjcat** » Sun Dec 06, 2015 2:29 pm

Washington vs. S. Miss in Heart of Dallas Bowl

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Sun Dec 06, 2015 2:30 pm

One good thing about the NM bowl is it ends this miserable season earlier then the other bowls.

ASUHATER! · Post by **ASUHATER!** » Sun Dec 06, 2015 2:30 pm

I'd rather we played in the Boca Raton bowl than our second true road game at a mountain west school this year.

Gilbertcat · Post by **Gilbertcat** » Sun Dec 06, 2015 2:31 pm

Irish27 wrote:It's New Mexico.

It's official. Heart of Dallas gets Washington. I feel bad for the players and the parents that are forced to go. Terrible way to send out the seniors.

And how did cactus get Scummies? Thought you couldn't pick 6-6 teams over 7-5 in the picking order. Wasted my day keeping track of this.

cordera89 · Post by **cordera89** » Sun Dec 06, 2015 2:32 pm

What taken so long for them to announce what bowl game Arizona is going too.

dmjcat · Post by **dmjcat** » Sun Dec 06, 2015 2:33 pm

cordera89 wrote:What taken so long for them to announce what bowl game Arizona is going too.

We are at the bottom of the Bowl Pecking Order

cordera89 · Post by **cordera89** » Sun Dec 06, 2015 2:35 pm

ASU is playing the cactus bowl again WVU on Jan 2. What the hell.

dmjcat · Post by **dmjcat** » Sun Dec 06, 2015 2:36 pm

Confirmed............AZ vs. NM in the New Mexico Bowl

Tempedevil · Post by **Tempedevil** » Sun Dec 06, 2015 2:36 pm

ASUHATER! wrote:
Tempedevil wrote:Abq is 450 miles north of Tucson. Enjoy!
Nope. Less that 400 miles northeast of Tucson.

Hansen is bad at geography

https://www.freemaptools.com/how-far-is ... ue_-nm.htm" target="_blank

True, as the crow flies... however people don't drive that way. It is about 450 miles if you drive.

ASUHATER! · Post by **ASUHATER!** » Sun Dec 06, 2015 2:37 pm

Still not north or 500 miles.

dmjcat · Post by **dmjcat** » Sun Dec 06, 2015 2:39 pm

https://twitter.com/McMurphyESPN/status ... 1881509888" target="_blank

cordera89 · Post by **cordera89** » Sun Dec 06, 2015 2:45 pm

Well Playing against New Mexico wont be that bad. At least were in a bowl game.

krissyp · Post by **krissyp** » Sun Dec 06, 2015 2:52 pm

Tempedevil wrote:
ASUHATER! wrote:
Tempedevil wrote:Abq is 450 miles north of Tucson. Enjoy!
Nope. Less that 400 miles northeast of Tucson.

Hansen is bad at geography

https://www.freemaptools.com/how-far-is ... ue_-nm.htm" target="_blank
True, as the crow flies... however people don't drive that way. It is about 450 miles if you drive.

Okay great. But the real question is why are you here and why do you care about our bowl??!

scumdevils86 · Post by **scumdevils86** » Sun Dec 06, 2015 2:54 pm

So the Arizona bowl is the only one without any teams listed.

ASUHATER! · Post by **ASUHATER!** » Sun Dec 06, 2015 3:00 pm

One website I saw said Colorado state/Nevada...but that doesn't make sense since they are in the same conference

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