Les Miles says to expect some "Big Boy Football" Monday Night!

• wghfan

  I really do not get all the hate for this game.
• Terry_Tate

  

  LJ;1044317 wrote:I forgot it was on tomorrow night until I saw this thread

  
  Same here
• 0311sdp

  Won't watch , just thinking about it makes me yawn.
• Jughead

  

  Sykotyk;1044360 wrote:I'm not watching. Busy tomorrow. If I wanted to, I could make time to see it. But A) the game has zero interest to me as a matchup, B) I feel this 'championship' game is a farce, and C) I'd rather not watch than watch and wish I didn't.
  
  The problem with college football from the administrators point of view is that the bowls are so successful because they're so well-watched, etc.
  
  Uhm, no. They're well watched because they're generally large intersectional matchups that we rarely get to see in the regular season. They're strewn out in primetime throughout the week from mid-December until mid-January now. They NYD bowls (played on the 2nd to accommodate television) are thriving off of ancient history. If Oregon-Wisconsin was played on a Monday night in Week 6 of the regular season people would watch at almost the same rate as they did an afternoon game on an observed national holiday. But, we don't get that game. Instead we get Alabama-UT Chattanooga, etc. How thrilling. So, we use the bowls as our last gasp to see how various areas of the country compete with eachother.
  
  Which, this farce of a game fails to let us do. Instead, we're rehashing something we've already watched and already know the outcome. And the opposite result will have little meaning to us.
  
  Secondly, it's college football. In fact, the last college football of the season. So, suffice it to say, college football fans will watch. It's our last chance to see it until August. So, knowing that time is fleeting and we're running out of games, we'll watch Arkansas State-Northern Illinois if only to take in one more game.
  
  And finally, it's on every freakin' day. I get football. Free to my television. Every night in primetime. Who cares the matchup. I'm not sitting there on Saturday afternoon trying to decide which of the 15 games on TV to watch. It's one game. On one channel.
  
  The truth is, we'd do the same thing with the playoffs. We'd watch every game if it was one-game at a time spread out. Big intersectional matchups that we're dying to witness. Primetime, once per day. Because it's college football and it's still on TV this season.
  
  But, the money would be spread out over the entire NCAA, not just the 65 big BCS schools. So, therefore the belief 'we love the bowls' persists.
  
  It's like asking: Do you love your wife? Yes. If you knew you'd only be with her for one more month, wouldn't you make that last month count? Yes. If you had many opportunities to do things with your wife in that time, would you? Yes. If you had to choose between your wife sick and not having a wife, would you want your sick wife? Yes. But, would you rather have a sick wife or a healthy wife? (insert obvious answer)
  
  That's the playoffs. But, since we're not given that option, we take the best option available. And that's the bowls. We don't like the bowls. We really don't. But, we accept it because that's all we have. And we'd rather accept it then not have it at all.

  Great post!
  
  However, as far as I'm concerned, the Bowl season ended tonight with Northern Illinois/Arkansas State.
• jordo212000

  

  Doubt I watch much of this one
• superman

  Someone needs to tell Les that big boys are allowed to visit the end zone.
• centralbucksfan

  Not too excited, but i will certainly watch it. I actually appreciate and like to watch two very good defenses. That being said, I don't want to watch a punting/FG game for 4qtrs. I'll be interesting to see how this game developes compared to the last game. This much time off usually has a pretty good effect on how teams play. Stil hard to bet against a Saban team when he has a month to prepare. And I think Jefferson is more prone to making mistakes than McCarron.
• bigkahuna

  For the 1st time in my married life, I'm glad that my wife has her BS Bachelor show and The Real Housewives of... show being recored tonight. Because of that, both DVR tuners are being used, so I can't change the channel. Sounds like I'll either be watching Netflix of C.O.D
• bigkahuna

  Might I add, I am excited to see the ratings. Usually, you have 2 different regions, so many more TVs on. With these 2 schools being something like 2-3 hours away from each other, you might have more tuned in from the South East. However, the other regions will probably have less TVs tuned in. I want to see where this game ranks in rating of NC Games.
• IggyPride00

  

  ESPN is having a major dilemma today because they usually would be doing wall to wall title game talk, but Tebowmania is running wild and I have heard almost nothing about the big game tonight because of it.
  
  Usually buffing the SEC's helmet takes precedent over everything at ESPN, but Tebowmania is apparently now the strongest force in the universe.
• vball10set

  IggyPride00;1045007 wrote:ESPN is having a major dilemma today because they usually would be doing wall to wall title game talk, but Tebowmania is running wild and I have heard almost nothing about the big game tonight because of it.
  
  Usually buffing the SEC's helmet takes precedent over everything at ESPN, but Tebowmania is apparently now the strongest force in the universe.

  I didn't catch Cowherd today--how much bending over did he do? He's not a fan of Tebow's, so I wonder how much shit Golic & Greenberg gave him :rolleyes:
• TBone14

  

  centralbucksfan;1044844 wrote:Not too excited, but i will certainly watch it. I actually appreciate and like to watch two very good defenses. That being said, I don't want to watch a punting/FG game for 4qtrs. I'll be interesting to see how this game developes compared to the last game. This much time off usually has a pretty good effect on how teams play. Stil hard to bet against a Saban team when he has a month to prepare. And I think Jefferson is more prone to making mistakes than McCarron.

  Nick Saban is 6-6 in his career in bowl games.
  
  Looking forward to this game. There isn't another college football game until August 30th. As a football fan, why would you yourself the disservice of not watching this game? You cannot call yourself a college football fan and not watch the championship game. Sorry.
• IggyPride00

  

  vball10set;1045013 wrote:I didn't catch Cowherd today--how much bending over did he do? He's not a fan of Tebow's, so I wonder how much **** Golic & Greenberg gave him :rolleyes:

  They brought Stephen A. Smith in live via Satellite on his off day so he could let Skip Bayless bask in the glow of all things Tebow on first take. They literally spent the whole show talking Tebow, no clue the SEC championship game was on tonight if I didn't know better.
• ytownfootball

  

  TBone14;1045018 wrote: You cannot call yourself a college football fan and not watch the championship game. Sorry.

  Just to play advocate, this is what the BCS counts on, mindless sheep feeding on the pablum fed to them. Most of these people are the same exact ones that cry for play-offs.
  
  I don't really care one way or the other honestly.
• TBone14

  

  ytownfootball;1045033 wrote:Just to play advocate, this is what the BCS counts on, mindless sheep feeding on the pablum fed to them. Most of these people are the same exact ones that cry for play-offs.
  
  I don't really care one way or the other honestly.

  Pablum feed? These are the two best (or 2 of the best 3 at worst) college teams this season. I would love a playoff but me not watching this game tonight will have no effect on that.
  
  So I am going to watch what should be a great football game tonight with tons of NFL talent on the field and enjoy it. If this makes me a 'sheep' then so be it. Life is too short to not watch football games.
• Laley23

  

  ytownfootball;1045033 wrote:Just to play advocate, this is what the BCS counts on, mindless sheep feeding on the pablum fed to them. Most of these people are the same exact ones that cry for play-offs.
  
  I don't really care one way or the other honestly.

  When I, or anyone on this board, is part of the Nielsen Ratings...Ill stop watching. Then it will actually mean something. As it stands, I am not one of the few thousand that Nielsen counts on for there ratings. My viewership and TV set have no bearing on what the BCS can feed people to continue to go forward. As far as they are concerned I hate the BCS and didnt watch.
• ytownfootball

  

  Yeah all true, just throwing it out there. I have actually been sent the Nielson pack, did not participate. Who the hell feels like pissing around with that crap?
• Laley23

  

  ytownfootball;1045100 wrote:Yeah all true, just throwing it out there. I have actually been sent the Nielson pack, did not participate. Who the hell feels like pissing around with that crap?

  Same here. I lol'd at them thinking I was gonna take my time doing that stuff.
  
  As for the response, it wasnt really towards you. Just get annoyed by people who say, "Im not gonna watch, even though I want to. Ill show the BCS (or whatever the station/event is) by not giving them my eyeballs..."
• ytownfootball

  

  Laley23;1045110 wrote:Same here. I lol'd at them thinking I was gonna take my time doing that stuff.
  
  As for the response, it wasnt really towards you. Just get annoyed by people who say, "Im not gonna watch, even though I want to. Ill show the BCS (or whatever the station/event is) by not giving them my eyeballs..."

  Which really begs the question of what exactly is the cross section of responses you're going to get anyway?
• cats gone wild

  I can understand people not wanting Bama in, but there wasnt a team better with one loss. LSU obviously proved they deserve to be there by beating 3 of the top 5 teams, beating two BCS winners, beating 8 ranked teams (could end up 9 which would break the record by 2 for a championship team). Dont know why people act like these teams dont have offense when they average like 80 points combined a game. Who cares if they both had one bad offensive performance against the best defenses in the country. I dont remember hearing buckeye fans discounting your own 2002 champions for scoring 15 or less points FOUR times against weaker opponents that season or for scoring 25 or less SEVEN times in that season. But, you guys will continue to brag up that team who had a defense similar to LSU's but alot worse offense.
• FatHobbit

  

  cats gone wild;1045128 wrote:I can understand people not wanting Bama in, but there wasnt a team better with one loss. LSU obviously proved they deserve to be there by beating 3 of the top 5 teams, beating two BCS winners, beating 8 ranked teams (could end up 9 which would break the record by 2 for a championship team). Dont know why people act like these teams dont have offense when they average like 80 points combined a game. Who cares if they both had one bad offensive performance against the best defenses in the country. I dont remember hearing buckeye fans discounting your own 2002 champions for scoring 15 or less points FOUR times against weaker opponents that season or for scoring 25 or less SEVEN times in that season. But, you guys will continue to brag up that team who had a defense similar to LSU's but alot worse offense.

  I have not heard anyone take shots at LSU for being in the title game. They definitely earned it.
• cats gone wild

  FatHobbit;1045137 wrote:I have not heard anyone take shots at LSU for being in the title game. They definitely earned it.

  People are saying they dont have good offenses and it will be boring. Just making a comparison and why they both should be there. If teams cant go out and win the games they need to to get in, then thats their fault why they arent in. The best two are in the title game. I hardly, hardly doubt that this will be low scoring like the first one.
• Pick6

  

  FatHobbit;1045137 wrote:I have not heard anyone take shots at LSU for being in the title game. They definitely earned it.

  yup. CGW trying to put words in our mouths.
• vball10set

  IMO, Buckeye fans will never give this game any attention because in 2006, under identical circumstances of whether or not OSU & tsun should play each other again, it was determined by the BCS (for all intents and purposes) that there shouldn't be a rematch. Regardless of the outcome of the NC game that year, a precedence should have been set. It wasn't, therefore the apathy concerning this game. That, and the 42-39 outcome of the OSU/tsun game was a helluva lot more entertaining than the 9-6 snoozefest on display 11/5/11
• ytownfootball

  

  vball10set;1045158 wrote:IMO, Buckeye fans will never give this game any attention because in 2006, under identical circumstances of whether or not OSU & tsun should play each other again, it was determined by the BCS (for all intents and purposes) that there shouldn't be a rematch. Regardless of the outcome of the NC game that year, a precedence should have been set. It wasn't, therefore the apathy concerning this game. That, and the 42-39 outcome of the OSU/tsun game was a helluva lot more entertaining than the 9-6 snoozefest on display 11/5/11

  
  Pretty much, and you can't use hindsight as your defense against it.