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Remember last year? California was ranked ahead of Texas going into the last week and if this held up would give California the last BCS Bowl slot. California defeated Southern Mississippi that week but their Coach put on the brakes towards the end and didn't try to run up the score.

So what does Texas' coach Mack Brown do? He gets on the phone to the Coaches who vote in the polls and solicits votes for Texas, hoping this would enable his team to leap over California and get the last BCS Bowl slot. And Mack Brrown admitted that he did this. Well, apparently it worked, and a lot of people were outraged at Mack Brown's sleazy move. I will never root for Mack Brown to win another game.

Could we see the same thing this year? Will Ohio State's Tressel pull a similar move, hoping to move up in the Polls and win the last BCS Bowl slot?

Hmmm....let me see...


















Nope, don't care. Sorry.

As much as I don't like "the Ohio State University", I think Tressel is too classy for that.

But, you are right about Mack Brown. That was low budget and I cheer against Texas every chance I get.

THIS IS IMPORTANT TO THE MAC!!

At least I think so.

If Ohio St. gets a BCS Bowl bid, giving the Big 10 two, then the Big 10 will not be able to place a team in the Motor City Bowl.

You may say, so what? But the problem is that under the present contract, the Big 10 is continuing each year to have trouble placing a team in the Motor City Bowl.

So far this hasn't created a serious problem, but it creates a risk for one.

The MAC and the Motor City Bowl were hoping that when several Bowl contracts were recently renegotiated, the Big 10 would make a change and would agree to bring its 5th or 6th place team to the Motor City Bowl. But that didn't happen.

I know everyone gets geeked up about the MCB being a MAC-Big Tenleven event, but the truth is, there have been eight Motor City Bowls. Exactly one has featured a Big Tenleven team.

Santa Fe Falcon Wrote:THIS IS IMPORTANT TO THE MAC!!

At least I think so.

If you want evidence. Look to last year. It kept NIU from going to the Independence bowl.

dynovinyl Wrote:

Santa Fe Falcon Wrote:THIS IS IMPORTANT TO THE MAC!!

At least I think so.

If you want evidence. Look to last year. It kept NIU from going to the Independence bowl.

dyno: please elaborate.

BGSUalum1987 Wrote:

I agree. Just - don't - care. :snore:

blah Wrote:As much as I don't like "the Ohio State University", I think Tressel is too classy for that.

But, you are right about Mack Brown.  That was low budget and I cheer against Texas every chance I get.

Right. he ran a dirty program at YSU and his rap sheet has exceeded that of Cooper @ OSU.

Not to mention, he still wears a sweater when it's 90 degrees out.

osu

Tressel's pulling Mack Brown?....man, I thought Tressel was straight....that little vest does kind of scream "farm queer" though....

BGSUalum1987 Wrote:I know everyone gets geeked up about the MCB being a MAC-Big Tenleven event, but the truth is, there have been eight Motor City Bowls. Exactly one has featured a Big Tenleven team.

and the Big Ten has only had a partnership with MCB since 2002 .....and the Big Ten didn't have enough bowl eligible teams in 2002(5) and 2004(6). MCB is supposed to get the 7th place Big Ten team except in 2003 we got the 8th place team in Northwestern.

OSU is already #6 in the BCS, which suggests that one of the few things I could see knocking them out of the Top 8 would be UCLA upsetting USC and throwing the BCS rankings out of whack. Finishing the season 10-1 with a share of the Big Ten title will likely be enough to put them in a BCS bowl. It seems that unless we get Minnesota for the MCB, it just doesn't seem too likely to me that there will be a Big Ten team playing in the MCB.

Flipper!!! Wrote:Tressel's pulling Mack Brown?....man, I thought Tressel was straight....that little vest does kind of scream "farm queer" though....

Hey.....watch it!


By the way....nice game last night Roberto......

MrSaturdayMorning Wrote:OSU is already #6 in the BCS, which suggests that one of the few things I could see knocking them out of the Top 8 would be UCLA upsetting USC and throwing the BCS rankings out of whack. Finishing the season 10-1 with a share of the Big Ten title will likely be enough to put them in a BCS bowl.

tOAMU has 2 losses I believe.

Although being #6 in the BCS could be an issue.

BGSUalum1987 Wrote:

dynovinyl Wrote:

Santa Fe Falcon Wrote:THIS IS IMPORTANT TO THE MAC!!

At least I think so.

If you want evidence. Look to last year. It kept NIU from going to the Independence bowl.

dyno: please elaborate.

NIU was set for the Independence Bowl. Mack Brown lobbied, got moved up in the polls into a position to receive an automatic at-large BCS bid due to being top 4. Because of that - as the second Big12 team in the BCS, Iowa State fell to the Indy Bowl instead of Okie State, and as such the Indy Bowl didn't want a rematch with NIU and Miami was selected as the MAC's rep (the contract had to be signed with the MAC for just such an odd arrangement).

In 2005, Ohio State getting an at-large bid could mean no Big Ten team in the MCB, and who knows who we'll get stuck with. For NIU, that might be a good omen for an MCB bid, as NU would move up and out of the MCB spot. But it could stick us with a less-than-ideal matchup in Detroit no matter who our representative is.

Dan: Great explanation. Thanks.