**The 2008-09 College Football Bowl Games Thread**

[GOP_Raider]

The regular season in college football has come to an end, wild and woolly as it was. Some would like to use it as a legitimate excuse for a playoff system, some modification for the BCS system, or just something to discuss on 3rd dates. Other people, like Norm Chow, have said (and I paraphrase) "I'm against a playoff system. I wouldn't have wanted to see our '84 (byU national championship) team have to prove it on the field."

(In case you were wondering, yes, I have waited almost two weeks to post that). :)

(One more parenthetical note: the BCS Championship Game thread will be performed on a separate thread, since I'm pretty sure somebody is going to post that thread before I get the chance to do so.)

Anyway, as many of you know the bowl games thread works a little different than the regular season threads. Each day I'll ping the list to that particular day's slate of bowl games and you can say something like "wow, West Tennessee A&M Tech is playing in the Dyer's Hamburger Grease Bowl, I think I'll watch". Or maybe you won't, I don't know. But let's start off with...

[GOP_Raider]

...The FCS National Championship Game: Montana vs. Richmond (8:00 pm, ESPN2) Those of you who follow the FCS closely probably didn't have the Grizzlies and the Spiders as your final two. I know I didn't. Both teams won their semifinal games (against James Madison and Northern Iowa, respectively) and the Spiders put together a spectacular game winning drive to stun the UNI home crowd last week. As a sidenote, Tennessee Titans head coach Jeff Fisher's son, Brandon, is a linebacker for the Grizzlies. So, as Hank Williams, Jr. once said, Brandon's carrying on an ol' "family tradition."

[GOP_Raider]

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[Rummyfan]

Those of you who follow the FCS closely probably didn't have the Grizzlies and the Spiders as your final two.

Yes I was picking JMU myself... Now I'll have to root for the other team from Virginia, Richmond. Go Spiders!

[Rummyfan]

And Navy plays Wake Forest tomorrow in some new bowl....

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Here’s the TV schedule. A good keeper link which I’ve used for the last few seasons. All times are CST ( Central Time )
http://www.lsufootball.net/tvschedule.htm

[Othniel]

Isn't BCS that group that ran the stats on WWII through their computer and came up with the GERMANS winning, with the US below FRANCE? Something about the win/loss record or some such thing. Why not divide the country into divisions, let the teams duke it out, then have a Super Bowl for College teams? Or isn't that what the Rose Bowl used to be?

[personalaccts]

Even though “the boys from Boone” my beloved Appalachian State Mountaineers didn’t advance to the championship, it’s great to know they played for a Championship instead of the Muffler bowl in Charlotte.

[Coldwater Creek]

Funny that a fellow from Idaho would know about Dyer’s never changed grease in a 100 years hamburgers. There’s more truth to your West Tenn. joke than you know. Memphis playing in a bowl game is a joke.

Great Basketball though.

Go Tigers!

[Toaster tank]

I am a huge NCAA football fan, Ohio State is my team.

But NCAA Div. 1 football is the only sport in America that holds it’s exhibition season at the end of the year. All of these bowl games, save one, are meaningless. And even the one that has meaning, the so called national championship game, has questionable legitimacy due to the subjective criteria used in choosing the participants.

Its sad really. What could be the most exciting time in American sports (imagine the December madness of a true playoff), surpassing March madness, the Super Bowl, and the World Series, is nothing more than a series of meaningless “who cares” bowls.

[sweet_diane]

I’m SO going to impress my Hubby with that schedule. :) Next time he says “wonder what bowl games might be on” I can say... “don’t know, let me check!”

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Thanks - that is a great list - printed and on hand so we don’t miss a game!

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

http://sports-ak.espn.go.com/ncf/scoreboard

Bowl games start this Saturday December 20, 2008.
URL is a good source of all bowl games.

[GOP_Raider]

I saw a YouTube video on Dyer’s (and I’ll have to find the link for it when I get a chance) where the owner explains the inner workings behind the hamburger grease and I was sort of flabbergasted.

That having been said, I still want to try a Dyer’s burger sometime.

[GOP_Raider]

Yeah, it has to be nice to play for an actual championship.

Tonight’s title game might be a really good game. Montana and Richmond have been on a tear lately, especially the Spiders.

[personalaccts]

the only people upset is the city of chattanooga. When app state got beat; they lost out on 25,000 fans coming to town.

[RabidBartender]

Any thread that quotes Norm Chow is a winner!

[GOP_Raider]

Thanks, I do appreciate that.

[GOP_Raider]

I hadn’t thought about that. How far away from Chattanooga is Boone, NC by the way?

[personalaccts]

4 hours. i live outside off charlotte and it’s 5 hours. The last 3 championships it’s been a home away from home for App State.

[PAR35]

I remember back in the 70’s Richmond played at Georgia. With the home field advantage, UGA pulled off a win. Ah. found it. October 29, 1977 Georgia 23, Richmond 7. It was pretty much the highlight of a 5-6 season.

Who was that guy a few years ago that was whining about the SEC teams not playing out of region? Georgia whipped Oregon in the opening game of the season that year as well. 27-16.