EVENING SHIFT: ROSE BOWL ET AL.
Rose Bowl, open thread, evening and onward. Zombies and angels, the field is yours.
UPDATE! There’s now way in fucking hell we’re doing anything for the Orange BLOL tonight, and we do not apologize. We will do anything for love, but we won’t do that. Fun note, though: from pregame footage, have safely ascertained that Macho Harris has the Mariah Carey effect going on, and could be of any ethnicity whatsoever. Paraguayan? Algerian? Mexican? Half-Maori Australian? Yes.
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51
spack says:
PSU Coaching Adjustments:
Finish Strong
Show Pride
Touché, ESPN.
January 1st, 2009 at 7:09 pm
52
Mr.Pelican Pants says:
Is it me or is the telecast outta sync?
USC should take care of business in its own conference if it wants to play for a National Title….with playoffs, they could afford to take a game off, then get their shit together….
Here we go with the second guessing of USC’s ranking….Penn State could be #1 just like tOSU has been a few times and it wouldn’t matter, the best outta of the Big 10 still has a ways to go to be seriously considered for any big game…..this would be the 3rd time in 3 yrs the Big 10 champ gets waxed…..I wish Bama could have played USC…..who was the PAC 10 champ? For those that think the Pac 10 is all that..
Two words: Mountain West…..BOOM
January 1st, 2009 at 7:10 pm
53
OrangeGator says:
@Studley – Are you sure? Checking the Getty’s website, the ad doesn’t match their branding at all…
January 1st, 2009 at 7:19 pm
54
Harris says:
Split championships are bullshit. Either the BCS winner is the MNC or they aren’t. Unless and until the NCAA, and more importantly ESPN, starts advocating for a playoff, I don’t want to hear about any split goddamn championship.
January 1st, 2009 at 7:19 pm
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sdsmp says:
@ 52
Let’s play NCAA football mad libs:
__________ should take care of business in its own conference if it wants to play for a National Title….
Florida
Oklahoma
Apparently the “one-loss-and-you’re-out-of-BCS-hunt” rule only applies to certain teams.
January 1st, 2009 at 7:23 pm
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Harris says:
At my 4-year-old daughter’s insistence, I had turned to “Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservations” but flipped back to the game in time to hear Herbie say about a USC DB “Are you allowed to look that good in a uniform?” Christ, Herbstreit. You’re drooling. Man up, you fruit.
January 1st, 2009 at 7:25 pm
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Studley says:
OrangeGator – Now I’m not sure, particularly after also checking the Getty’s site. Looking at the sponsors just put up, could this be Gillette? I’ll have to check their website.
January 1st, 2009 at 7:27 pm
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meg says:
Don’t get me started on the rankings..I don’t like them. They are unfortunately a necessary evil. They are a function of how a team has done in the season. However, I am not sure they have a good bearing on bowl games. BYU was high in the top 25 rankings because they had a decent record, but there are plenty of teams that are ranked below them that would expose them simply due to depth in one game. Even middling teams in BCS conferences are able to recruit more quality depth just by association with their conference.
Pitt being ranked at all should make anyone realize why the rankings are hit and miss.
I don’t think any conference is particularly better than another one either this year or any other. Bowl game record is just a particular egregiously bad way of trying to quantify value. Some teams are disappointed, some teams are really happy to be there, some teams got healthy, some teams didn’t, etc, etc,
You wouldn’t have to worry about conference BS if there was a play-off with conference winners. Then it would be about what it should be about- who is the best team.
January 1st, 2009 at 7:29 pm
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OrangeGator says:
@Studley – Maybe, considering their ticker symbol is “G,” but I’d expect them to put up a web address. Plus, their ads are pretty consistently branded. This would be a major departure.
My guess…it’s some kind of unisex fragrance product.
On topic, this game hasn’t gotten any better since I went out to get Five Guys for dinner.
January 1st, 2009 at 7:31 pm
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Mich-Placed Gator says:
wow….is this the same team that BARELY squeaked past a 7-5 Arizona team in November?
Pete must have spiked the Trojan Gatorade with an equal mixture of Cialis, Levitra, and Viagra.
…and Brent Woody Musburger drank lots of cups.
January 1st, 2009 at 7:33 pm
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Studley says:
@OrangeGator – I wish the ad would run again. I equated the “G” with the Getty, being in Southern California (but what would they be doing advertising here?).
Just saw a Gillette ad, much different than the ad in question.
January 1st, 2009 at 7:35 pm
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OrangeGator says:
@Studley – Based on your geography, I understand your conclusion now. Maybe it’s just a group of people who wanted to put out an ad to confuse Rose Bowl viewers and increase message board conversation…
January 1st, 2009 at 7:39 pm
63
meg says:
Damn, I am all for tough play, but leading with your helmet is going to kill you or someone else…
January 1st, 2009 at 7:41 pm
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North 2 says:
FWIW (If anyone is a friend of Pete’s, pass along, k thx bai)
Here’s the thing. No one questions USC is one of the big boys and on any given day can beat ANYONE. My beef is Carol’s whining about being left out of the BCS. He and his minions brag about how great an atmosphere the USC football team is and how loose he keeps the team (pranks, Ferrell and other celebs dropping in, etc.). BUT, his loosey goosey style has an Achilles heel in that he almost always loses a game despite having the clearly superior team .
Really, I don’t see Saban or Meyer losing a game over the last two years if they took Carol’s place. Maybe they wouldn’t have been able to recruit and all the rest to assemble the same team to start with, but once the talent is assembled, his week-to- week preparation methods have only produced 1 undefeated team when he could have easily had 3-4. (Saban and Meyer have not had teams as relatively superior to their competition as USC clearly is)
So, Pete, if you want to win championships every year, lose your soul like Saban and Meyer and take all the fun out of it, you can’t have both.
If you want to keep the fun in it, accept you will only win about 1/3 the number of championships your team othewise warrants based on talent.
That said, glad PSU and Big 10 is who we thought they were.
January 1st, 2009 at 7:46 pm
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D-Nice says:
OK, the game is officially boring.
I was just about to say (before the fumble, that may be overturned) that even if PSU scored, it would still be 31-14. There’s not enough time left, unless there are massive turnovers for USC
USC has stopped doing anything on offense.
January 1st, 2009 at 7:48 pm
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Mich-Placed Gator says:
63 / Meg,
I thought the same exact thing, but my DVR revealed contact was made with his shoulder pad….to both the rcvr and his fellow team mate.
It was a catch though. He didn’t let go of the ball till he was on his back.
January 1st, 2009 at 7:54 pm
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North 2 says:
@63, Caroll, not Carol
See what not being an anal twat gets you? misspellings and bad losses
January 1st, 2009 at 7:55 pm
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Bull_Gator says:
This game bores me. Im switching indiscriminately between the Rose Bowl and Mythbusters. Something aint right.
January 1st, 2009 at 7:58 pm
69
josh says:
Musburger you jerkoff, they don’t get to play ou or fla because they can’t beat Oregon St. Get used to it.
January 1st, 2009 at 8:00 pm
70
D-Nice says:
@ North 2
I agree that Carroll probably should have at least one more MCS title game appearance, but I don’t know if the the loosey goosey atmosphere is to blame, or at least entirely to blame.
I mean Florida lost to home to Mississippi, yet you don’t seem to be questioning that. I think USC is really hurt when there is not (1) another (at least at the time of the game) elite Pac-10 team on its schedule (not just a 15-25 ranked team) and (2) ND is so down.
Also, not having a conference championship game, which can help them sometimes, really hurts them also. Flordia can put that one loss behind them by winning the SEC championship game. If USC beat even a 16 or 18 ranked Oregon in a PAC-10 championship (who had just killed Oregon St.), I guarantee they would have had a much better chance at being in the title game instead of Oklahoma (who beat a fairly pedestrian Mizzou team in the Big 12). I’m not saying it would have been clear cut or that Oklahoma would not have deserved to play in the title game. But, USC would have a much better chance.
As it is, Carroll goes down as a great coach. But, he really should win a second title before he leaves with all of this talent.
January 1st, 2009 at 8:01 pm
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Studley says:
@OrangeGator – The ad ran again, but I missed it, trying to decide whether I was going to change my Yahoo Orange Bowl pick/Confidence Points to Cincy, but I did see the “G” again.
January 1st, 2009 at 8:04 pm
72
Studley says:
Penn State Band breaking out the Cameo (faster version of “Neck” than LSU play) on this drive.
January 1st, 2009 at 8:07 pm
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Mich-Placed Gator says:
69,
Don’t forget the HUGE scare against 7-5 Arizona.
January 1st, 2009 at 8:07 pm
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OrangeGator says:
@Studley – I’m sure something will pop up online…eventually.
January 1st, 2009 at 8:07 pm
75
North 2 says:
@ D-Nice,
I thought about the Mississippi game and figure that the Stanford and UCLA losses were WAY worse than Miss, the loss to the Beavers was roughly equal (time has shown UF and USC to be much much better than the team they lost to).
Think of it this way, if USC had taken care of business the previous two years and won the whole enchilada, they proooobably get the benefit of the doubt when they lose to OSU this year and still make it to the MNC game. The SEC is riding a wave of “Benefit of the Doubt” thanks to tOSU rolling over for us, but one loss to Oklahoma this year, and I figure we are back to even with USC, given their body of work.
I think Carol is a good coach and glad he is in College football, he just needs to acknowledge the truth. Just like the recent failures of the Big Televen have all but eliminated them from next year’s MNC game before this season is even over, the previous horrible (historically so in the case of the Stanford game) losses cost this year’s USC team a shot.
All USC has to do is run the table and they are a shoe in next year, if Florida wins over OU, the SEC will maintain their “One loss champion can still play for the MNC.” May not be fair, but it is the truth.
January 1st, 2009 at 8:16 pm
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meg says:
Ha! #36 just looked guilty as hell looking for the flag. Wonder what he just got away with..
January 1st, 2009 at 8:24 pm
77
meg says:
hmmm: G== Gatorade?
January 1st, 2009 at 8:28 pm
78
Mich-Placed Gator says:
Meg,
You are AWESOME!!!
http://www.adweek.com/aw/content_display/news/client/e3i2f608e22d68972d4b246688a420c90e6
January 1st, 2009 at 8:35 pm
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OrangeGator says:
@meg – Well done. That answers the question of whether Gatorade was going to change to match Pepsi’s new shit branding initiative.
January 1st, 2009 at 8:38 pm
80
Studley says:
@Meg – You solved the mystery.
@OrangeGator – Are Pepsi going for broke doing this?
January 1st, 2009 at 8:41 pm
81
Josh says:
Feel free to take back your dipshit officials now, southerners. Even on the last meaningless play they blew an offside.
January 1st, 2009 at 8:42 pm
82
OrangeGator says:
@Studley – Even though I’m a Gator, Gatorade is now dead to me…being owned by Pepsi didn’t help their case. Most consumers aren’t as picky as I am though.
January 1st, 2009 at 8:43 pm
83
meg says:
Great the BCS has forced me to ponder advertising mysteries rather than watching good games on new year’s day. I hate you, BCS.
January 1st, 2009 at 8:46 pm
84
OrangeGator says:
@meg – No kidding. I miss the days of being able to switch between the Rose and Fiesta Bowls in the 4 pm EST window.
January 1st, 2009 at 8:48 pm
85
The Bowl Championship Series says:
I heard that.
January 1st, 2009 at 8:48 pm
86
beckett929 says:
I actually like that all the games are spread out. Even the Cotton Bowl being on tomorrow afternoon allowed me to sleep in today and wake up in time to see Visor’s club being down 21-0…
January 1st, 2009 at 8:58 pm
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beckett929 says:
wow my last post was a massive fail… thats what happens when you have simultaneous thoughts going on AND youre on the phone about a totally different subject.
January 1st, 2009 at 8:59 pm
88
frank says:
I forgot how fox spends half of their football broadcasts with shots of the band. Painful
January 1st, 2009 at 8:59 pm
89
captg8r says:
Did anyone just see Tim Tebow as the starting Right Guard for Cincinatti? If you are watching on DVR back up to the very first play of the game. They announce the starting lineup and Fox put Tebow’s picture on the RG’s name!
January 1st, 2009 at 9:01 pm
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OrangeGator says:
Now, if they would’ve run THAT ad, I would’ve figured the G thing out more easily. I only recognized Jeter and Muhammad Ali in the first one.
January 1st, 2009 at 9:08 pm
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Mich-Placed Gator says:
Just saw that G commercial again, and at the end in very small print under the G it says ©2009 S-VC, Inc.
A quick Google search reveals:
Gatorade.com · Privacy Policy; G2, GATORADE and the Lightning Bolt design are trademarks of S-VC, Inc. © 2007 S-VC, Inc.
STUPID!! I’ll never drink Gatorade again, which will REALLY hurt their business because I drank about 4 bottles a year.
January 1st, 2009 at 9:11 pm
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Signal to Noise says:
Eventually every brand we know is going to redesign the ad campaigns to the point that no one has a fucking clue what they’re actually trying to sell.
January 1st, 2009 at 9:13 pm
93
jen says:
Not enough football, so we’re flipping. Is Fulmer going to be on Deal Or No Deal (aka Coin Flip)?
January 1st, 2009 at 9:13 pm
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Mich-Placed Gator says:
LOL #91
My guide says “A Tennessee Coach….” Fat Phil on Deal or No Deal?!!? I’m SO watching…..
January 1st, 2009 at 9:19 pm
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OrangeGator says:
@captg8r – I just rewound back and saw that! Tim Tebow, aka Khalil El-Amin.
January 1st, 2009 at 9:22 pm
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Studley says:
S-VC – what’s left of Stokely-Van Camp, the former Pork and Beans purveyors.
January 1st, 2009 at 9:22 pm
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captg8r says:
My fault, it was Right Tackle Khalil El-Amin with Tebow’s picture, not the Right Guard.
January 1st, 2009 at 9:25 pm
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Studley says:
(Former since Quaker Oats sold the P&B line to ConAgra.)
January 1st, 2009 at 9:25 pm
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Snoop says:
Did anyone notice Tebow’s pic in place of Cincy’s starting right guard Khalil El-Amin? I know Tebow is big…but not 6′4″ 312 big…
I have a pic of it…funny crap…gotta love Fox! Always on top of things!
January 1st, 2009 at 9:25 pm
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Mich-Placed Gator says:
How much fun would it be trying to convert the Bank Offer to the number of dozens of Krispy Kreme donuts that could be purchased….
January 1st, 2009 at 9:26 pm