Bear Down Wildcats

Obviously we aren't playing in the Rose Bowl, but with the configuration of the playoff system including the Rose Bowl it makes it impossible for any PAC team to represent in years like this unless they are in the top 4

10-3 and a South Championship gets us there in years prior. If the rotation was different this year and the Fiesta was a playoff, we are playing in Pasadena...

Obviously not the same as actually being there but...

It's all about conference championships.

We still don't have one in the PAC. The monkey persists, though we have loosened its grip.

(1993 co-champion does not register w/ me...you can go have that argument w/ Bob Bowlsby.)

which monkey are you talking about?

the Rose Bowl monkey is definitely NOT off the back.
Doesn't matter that now it's more difficult to get there due to CFP, fact is we've still never been.

The Fiesta bowl is no Rose Bowl

If the Rose Bowl was not part of the playoffs this year, would Boise State still be one of the opponents?

ALASKACAT wrote:If the Rose Bowl was not part of the playoffs this year, would Boise State still be one of the opponents?

No, it would have been Arizona vs. Michigan St. or Wisconsin I believe.

BAREDOWN wrote:Obviously we aren't playing in the Rose Bowl, but with the configuration of the playoff system including the Rose Bowl it makes it impossible for any PAC team to represent in years like this unless they are in the top 4

10-3 and a South Championship gets us there in years prior. If the rotation was different this year and the Fiesta was a playoff, we are playing in Pasadena...

Obviously not the same as actually being there but...

no.

PieceOfMeat wrote: The Fiesta bowl is no Rose Bowl

Yeah but the Fiesta bowl has better seats to rest my back

Monkey is halfway off Arizona's back if they win the P12(this would have been the ticket to the Rose Bowl pre-CFP)
Completely off Arizona's back if they win the a CFP semifinal (which replaces the Rose Bowl in importance with the new rotating Bowl Structure)
And Sucking Arizona's c@(k of they win the NC. Who cares about the Rose Bowl when you can stick a big fat NC ring in a scummies face.

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azthrillhouse wrote:It's all about conference championships.

We still don't have one in the PAC. The monkey persists, though we have loosened its grip.

(1993 co-champion does not register w/ me...you can go have that argument w/ Bob Bowlsby.)

Agree 100%. It's not about going to the Rose Bowl, it's all about sole conference championships.

None in the PAC.

None in the WAC.

Last one was in the early 1940s Border Conference.

To the OP: No

This thread should die.

Has anyone here actually had a monkey on their back?

I have. And it's not that bad.

BAREDOWN wrote:Monkey off the back?

No, I'm still addicted to heroin, but thanks for asking.

UAEebs86 wrote:

ALASKACAT wrote:If the Rose Bowl was not part of the playoffs this year, would Boise State still be one of the opponents?

No, it would have been Arizona vs. Michigan St. or Wisconsin I believe.

That is so fucking disappointing.

The thread sucks.

OP
Partially. It is a milestone. First outright championship in modern times, even though it's only the division, we are still officially the top team of something.

When we win the PAC12 outright, the monkey dies, whether it is a Rose bowl berth or not.

jimson wrote:OP
Partially. It is a milestone. First outright championship in modern times, even though it's only the division, we are still officially the top team of something.

When we win the PAC12 outright, the monkey dies, whether it is a Rose bowl berth or not.

This is pretty much what I was getting at. I didn't start the thread because I felt the "monkey was off the back". I agree, it is about winning the conference. We haven't done that. But we did win the South, and as Jim said that does mean something.

Basically just started this after reading a few posts on DD (don't know why I subject myself to that) and all those jack balls kept saying "still haven't been to a Rose Bowl" after our Fiesta birth. Being in PHX, I hear that all the time. Even the fat women at my work who know nothing about football and just happened to go to asu say it. And it drives me crazy.

If the rotation was different that BS would stop. Pretty much what I was getting at.

Either way. Screw asu
Bear down

BAREDOWN wrote:

jimson wrote:OP
Partially. It is a milestone. First outright championship in modern times, even though it's only the division, we are still officially the top team of something.

When we win the PAC12 outright, the monkey dies, whether it is a Rose bowl berth or not.

This is pretty much what I was getting at. I didn't start the thread because I felt the "monkey was off the back". I agree, it is about winning the conference. We haven't done that. But we did win the South, and as Jim said that does mean something.

Basically just started this after reading a few posts on DD (don't know why I subject myself to that) and all those jack balls kept saying "still haven't been to a Rose Bowl" after our Fiesta birth. Being in PHX, I hear that all the time. Even the fat women at my work who know nothing about football and just happened to go to asu say it. And it drives me crazy.

If the rotation was different that BS would stop. Pretty much what I was getting at.

Either way. Screw asu
Bear down

No it wouldn't. They would say, "yeh you went to the Rose Bowl," but you got there by default because the Pac 12 champ went elsewhere." If we would of gone in 1998, the same thing would of resulted. "yeh you are going to the Rose Bowl, but only because UCLA is in the national title game."

BAREDOWN wrote:

jimson wrote:OP
Partially. It is a milestone. First outright championship in modern times, even though it's only the division, we are still officially the top team of something.

When we win the PAC12 outright, the monkey dies, whether it is a Rose bowl berth or not.

This is pretty much what I was getting at. I didn't start the thread because I felt the "monkey was off the back". I agree, it is about winning the conference. We haven't done that. But we did win the South, and as Jim said that does mean something.

Basically just started this after reading a few posts on DD (don't know why I subject myself to that) and all those jack balls kept saying "still haven't been to a Rose Bowl" after our Fiesta birth. Being in PHX, I hear that all the time. Even the fat women at my work who know nothing about football and just happened to go to asu say it. And it drives me crazy.

If the rotation was different that BS would stop. Pretty much what I was getting at.

Either way. Screw asu
Bear down

Yeah I noticed scum fans ditched this for a while but after the 10-2 season they've brought it back. It's literally all they have to hold on to.