All of the ridiculous things that happened in the Cheez-It Bowl

Yahoo ^ | December 27, 2018 | Sam Cooper

[C19fan]

When you match up two top 30 defenses against two of the worst offenses in the Power Five, well, you shouldn’t expect many points to be scored.

But you also shouldn’t expect the absurd — and hilarious — chaos that transpired in the Cheez-It Bowl.

In TCU’s 10-7 overtime victory over California, the teams combined for nine interceptions. Yes, nine. That’s tied with the 1982 Liberty Bowl for the third-most ever in a bowl game and behind the 1942 Orange Bowl (10) and 1968 Sun Bowl (12) for bowl interception immortality.

The ninth interception came courtesy of Cal senior Chase Forrest to open overtime. That gave the ball to TCU and allowed Jonathan Song to knock through the game-winning, walk-off 27-yard field goal to put a bow on the best Cheez-It Bowl ever.

[C19fan]

These minor bowls have been absolutely horrid. Nobody in the stands and the games more often than not have been blow outs. There are so many bowl games now all the games involve barely .500 teams and/or mismatches.

[reed13k]

I still say replace all the bowels with playoff games.

16 teams = 4 weeks starting after Army-Navy ending 1st week of January.

1 conference champion from each conference (10+independents) + 5 with best record (same tiebreakers as NFL).

Would add 2 games to championship team - which could be taken off the early season non-conference schedule if they so choose. Games to be played where bowels used to be (total of 15 games to replace the top 15 bowels) or (my preference) at top seeds home field.

[allendale]

If you can get a major sponsor to provide the seed money, a stadium and two willing teams, a TV network will broadcast it as cheap programing, which in turn will result in a nationwide audience of more than a million sport fans that advertisers will pay big money to reach. Everyone (promotors, the schools, the networks, the advertisers, and even the fans) are happy. As long as they get minimal credible ratings, there will be bowl games. For those college “student athletes” who suffer lifelong debilitations due to injury, if they remain neurologically intact, they will have their memories.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Oregon State beating Pitt 3-0 in the 2008 Sun Bowl
is still the worst bowl game ever played IMHO.

[SamAdams76]

The Cheez-It Bowl?

Sounds kind of absurd.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

The First Responder Bowl was cancelled due to weather delays ( mostly lightning ) in the 1st quarter. It was ruled no contest and will not be made up.

We need more bowls. Not really but there are ten proposed with two of those starting in 2020.

[relictele]

It was morbidly fascinating for the sheer incompetence on display.

The ‘Sun’ Bowl rarely features sun and often involves appalling weather.

[bigbob]

Right, they should have teamed up with someone. The “Cheez-It and Beer” Bowl would be much better.

[NEMDF]

Bowels = Bowls

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

you’re forgetting that the NCAA has given waivers in the last few years for some teams with records below .500 to be in bowl games. There are way too many.

[BradyLS]

But I can imagine a bowl of Cheez-Its!

A bowl of first responders...?

[BenLurkin]

Berkeley lost.

Great game.

[reed13k]

LOL...though for some of them you have to admit my misspelling might actually be appropriate....facepalm

[SPRINK]

I agree but make it 32 teams.....man the money and the interest would be phenominal

[Varda]

The players get $40K a year in free education. They get theirs. It’s nobody’s fault but their own if they do nothing with it.

[righttackle44]

I still say replace all the bowels with playoff games.

Well, of course, we all know that there's nothing more important than what football means to you.

We know how important it is that you personally eliminate the small-town bowl games. We know that you don't like to see college football team players come into town and spend time with terminally-ill children or work with the local food bank or go to the school and encourage children and teenagers to do better, to be better, or strive to improve themselves--some of whom perhaps have never met a college student before.

We know that some of you dad-blasted football fans think that the world revolves around you and your damned national college football champion and your self-important ideas and opinions about how the team should be chosen. We know you think the country would certainly be better off without all of the good will and local community support that is garnered by hard-working local citizens who put in long hours, days, weeks, or months to put on these bowl games--but no matter: let's drop them in favor of the national football championship teams' coach or good players getting many more mentions on national television.

Sorry, Mr Robinson. I'm sorry that I didn't mention that the above is abject, pointed sarcasm directed toward some soul-less individuals who think a national football champion is waaaayyyy more important than local hometown spirit and community effort. I'm sorry I have to be sorry about certain self-appointed, soul-less advocates for more football and less humanity.

[reed13k]

Ok - so 5 weeks with championship 2nd weekend in January.

Gives you 31 games to replace the current 43 bowl games (including current playoffs and championships)...want to make more money make it 64 and now you have an NCAA bracket to take you to the 3rd week of January with 63 games adding an additional 20 games of revenue.

However - with that schedule I think they would need to mandate no preseason or out of conference games.

Talk about creating some conference rivalries...though with that many teams I don’t think the conference championships would be as important and that is one of my key desires - to make the conference championship really mean something and be a ticket to the main event.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

You can bet that any leeway as to more than one team from a conference and the SEC will get them in.

[Deaf Smith]

There used to be the Chicken Bowl.

Bo Pride Bowl at a High School in Mt Pleasant, TX.

For Junior Colleges.

And it was televised.

[reed13k]

whoa - touch a nerve did we?

Well if your so dad-blamed focused on the ‘local’ bowls doing so much for the ‘local’ community - then tell me why the hell the Big Ten never gets to have any bowls in their own back yard to provide some time for THEIR community? No all the dad-blamed bowls are in the South and West. Why? Do those communities need more help? NO! It’s just a tradition passed down from years gone by when the fans preferred to migrate to a warmer clime during the winter.

Jimminy Christmas - Did you even read my last line where I said they were to be played where the current bowls are? Why would I say that? Because that is where people want to go. It isn’t FAIR - since the colder climate teams never get to enjoy their home field advantage...only the warm weather teams get to be acclimated - but I said leave them there...due to tradition and it’s where the fans prefer.

Get off your high horse.