Why does the Big 10 suck during the bowl season?

robsker said:
Creed said:
WHy does B1G suck in bowl season?

1. 19-19 vs the SEC in the BCS era is sucking?

2. B10 has the most difficult bowl match ups of any conf. Until last year, 99% the games were against SEC, b12, and PAC. No games vs BE, ACC, CUSA like the SEC, b12 have.

3. Play SEC teams in Flordia, new orleans; B12 (texas teams) in Tx; USC in LA. Crowd and weather advantage for other teams.

4. Many years the B10 got two teams in the BCS games solely b/c they have a good following and sell out hotel rooms where other teams were more deserving based on rankings. This has a trickle down effect with poor match-ups (ex a 15th ranked SEC team playing an UR b10 team).

5. Very high profile losses by OSU vs SEC and B10 Rose bowl losses.

6. Media plays up the losses. You never hear much about Oklahoma's pitiful BCS record with their only win vs UConn.

7. Overall, very poor match ups in terms of rankings. I'd guess the B10 was ranked at least 5-7 spots lower than their opponent.

finally no excuses just the league has been down the last few years with Mich, Penn State being down.
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this too is spot on.

I'd guess the Huskers this year will be seriously overmatched in the bowl (against Oregon or Stanford) or simply overmatched against UCLA or Oregon State. Most of the B1G will play opponents who are a level up from them.
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I would welcome playing any of these three teams. We would not be overmatched at all. We should have beat UCLA, we shot ourselves in the foot.

 
When Nebraska played in the Orange Bowl all those years following the Big 12 season, we invariably had to play against one of the Fla. teams. Fla St or Miami. Not only was it mostly a home game for them they were also very talented and played a style we didn't see often. Their defenses had 4 or 5 weeks to prepare for our option game. Play those games during the regular season and in Lincoln when the temps were 15 degrees and there would have been a different result. The Big 10 still faces an uphill battle playing SEC teams in the deep south.

On another subject, I don't think Oregon gets the chance to play in the CCG. I think UCLA dogs it this weekend to have another chance to play Stanford the next week. They go vanilla and save the good stuff for the CCG. I'm sure they want no part of Oregon. Stanford has to win so they play balls to the wall.

 
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Bucky said:
GSG5545 said:
Why does the Big Ten suck during bowl season?
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Because Bucky touches himself at night
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No, that's why the dinosaurs died. The Big Ten sucks because I'm a fan and thus it has my taint.
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do not feel bad Bucky. i laid a grand down last year on Nebraska taking the big ten title. This Year I had better odds and laid off. Now watch Nebraska win the Big ten title. In other words who knows.

 
let's have oregon or stanford come to lincoln and play the first week of january. see what happens.

 
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Because we usually play USC in the Rose Bowl, LSU in the Sugar Bowl, Florida in the Capital One, Gator, or Citrus Bowl...etc.

There's a home field advantage for the opponent almost every time.

 
Michigan will beat Florida, we did last time in the Capital One Bowl and it wasn't even close. Its well remembered by Urban Meyer, its his only bowl loss.

 
Coqui said:
Because we usually play USC in the Rose Bowl, LSU in the Sugar Bowl, Florida in the Capital One, Gator, or Citrus Bowl...etc.

There's a home field advantage for the opponent almost every time.
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NU is 2-0 vs LSU in the Sugar Bowl (5-0 overall) but 1- 3 against Miami in the Orange Bowl. Recently beat Arizona in the Holiday Bowl and Clemson in the Gator Bowl. Since 1962 NU is 13-15 against what I call "home teams" in bowl games.

QUIT WHINING AND START WINNING!

 
huKSer said:
Coqui said:
Because we usually play USC in the Rose Bowl, LSU in the Sugar Bowl, Florida in the Capital One, Gator, or Citrus Bowl...etc.

There's a home field advantage for the opponent almost every time.
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NU is 2-0 vs LSU in the Sugar Bowl (5-0 overall) but 1- 3 against Miami in the Orange Bowl. Recently beat Arizona in the Holiday Bowl and Clemson in the Gator Bowl. Since 1962 NU is 13-15 against what I call "home teams" in bowl games.

QUIT WHINING AND START WINNING!
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Hey. We're 6-3 in BCS bowl games. I'm just trying to explain the rest of the conference ;)

 
The B1G gets overmatched a lot. It'll happen again when the Capital One and Outback bowls give us Alabama or Florida or LSU as opponents.

It's like the Huskers during our long bowl losing streak we had.... oh yeah, you lost 7 straight bowl games, yadda yadda. What everyone forgets is that we were often the champion of a weak Big 8 conference being forced into Orange Bowl matchups against Miami and Florida State teams that were #1 or #2. Even Georgia Tech was co-champ the year they drew us.

There was one year where Florida State was easily the best team in the country, but they lost to Southern Miss or something really early and so they were out of the title game. They played us in the Fiesta Bowl and basically obliterated the bejesus out of us. We were the second best team in the Big 8 and that's our draw.

Nebraska played BOTH sets of split national champions in two consecutive seasons.... how often does that happen?

We just had a very, very hard draw during those years. Out of those 7 bowls, it's very hard to find one where we were not prohibitive underdogs.

 
I use to think that it was because of where it is played but how do you explain the beatings during the season though? The SEC doesn't have strict enrollment as much as the Big Ten thus they get athletes that we wouldn't. The Big Ten does academic standards unlike the SEC.

 
husker_99 said:
I use to think that it was because of where it is played but how do you explain the beatings during the season though? The SEC doesn't have strict enrollment as much as the Big Ten thus they get athletes that we wouldn't. The Big Ten does academic standards unlike the SEC.
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Well just off hand, doesn't the SEC start school later than other conferences? If I'm not misremembering they don't start school until after their first game typically. Extrapolating, would that mean that they don't have to abide by the 20 hour rule, until class starts?

 
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ZRod said:
husker_99 said:
I use to think that it was because of where it is played but how do you explain the beatings during the season though? The SEC doesn't have strict enrollment as much as the Big Ten thus they get athletes that we wouldn't. The Big Ten does academic standards unlike the SEC.
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Well just off hand, doesn't the SEC start school later than other conferences? If I'm not misremembering they don't start school until after their first game typically. Extrapolating, would that mean that they don't have to abide by the 20 hour rule, until class starts?
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for that i don't know but if you gave a Big Ten and a SEC athletes the same test who do you figure would score higher? The SEC isn't known as an academic conference while the Big Ten is.

 
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