The rose bowl game is being moved from SoCal to Dallas due to the rising number of covid cases in SoCal. Isn’t it worse in Texas? Lmao
California is actually way worse - Los Angeles is having almost as many daily cases as all of Texas - but it was really moved because California refused to allow any fans to try to control their outbreak. Texas, on the other hand, doesn't care about spreading Covid so the # of cases doesn't matter.
No it’s not worse in Texas . 600k case in LA county vs. 150K in Dallas county https://txdshs.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/3f048ced32804271aafe8b9640bcb4a7 http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/media/coronavirus/data/index.htm
Orange: North Carolina vs. Texas A&M Fiesta: Oregon vs. Iowa State Cotton: Oklahoma vs. Florida Peach: Cincinnati vs. Georgia
Maybe ND can get Jones, Harris, Smith and a third of Bama's defense to sit this one out. Could make it a good game, and give ND a 2nd "signature win".
Monday, December 21st Myrtle Beach Bowl: Appalachian State at North Texas 1:30pm ESPN Tuesday, December 22nd Famous Idaho Potato Bowl: Tulane at Nevada 2:30pm ESPN RoofClaim.com Boca Raton Bowl: UCF at (16)BYU 6:00pm ESPN Wednesday, December 23rd R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl: Louisiana Tech at Georgia Southern 2:00pm ESPN Montgomery Bowl: Memphis at Florida Atlantic 6:00pm ESPN Thursday, December 24th New Mexico Bowl: Hawaii at Houston 2:30pm ESPN Friday, December 25th Camellia Bowl: Marshall at Buffalo 1:30pm ESPN Saturday, December 26th FBC Mortgage Cure Bowl: Liberty at (12)Coastal Carolina 11:00am ESPN SERVPRO First Responder Bowl: (19)Louisiana at UTSA 2:30pm ABC LendingTree Bowl: Western Kentucky at Georgia State 2:30pm ESPN Tuesday, December 29th Cheez-It Bowl: (21)Oklahoma State at (18)Miami 4:30pm ESPN Valero Alamo Bowl: (20)Texas at Colorado 8:00pm ESPN Wednesday, December 30th Duke’s Mayo Bowl: Wake Forest at Wisconsin 11:00am ESPN TransPerfect Music City Bowl: (15)Iowa at Missouri 3:00pm ESPN Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic: (7)Florida at (6)Oklahoma 7:00pm ESPN Thursday, December 31st Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl: (24)Tulsa at Mississippi State 11:00am ESPN Arizona Bowl: Ball State at (22)San Jose State 1:00pm CBS AutoZone Liberty Bowl: West Virginia at Army 3:00pm ESPN Mercurial Texas Bowl: Arkansas at TCU 7:00pm ESPN Friday, January 1st Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl: (9)Georgia at (8)Cincinnati 11:00am ESPN Vrbo Citrus Bowl: Auburn at (14)Northwestern 12:00pm ABC Rose Bowl Game: (4)Notre Dame at (1)Alabama 3:00pm ESPN Allstate Sugar Bowl: (3)Ohio State at (2)Clemson 7:00pm ESPN Saturday, January 2nd TaxSlayer Gator Bowl: (23)NC State at Kentucky 11:00am ESPN Outback Bowl: Ole Miss at (11)Indiana 11:30am ABC PlayStation Fiesta Bowl: (25)Oregon at (10)Iowa State 3:00pm ESPN Capital One Orange Bowl: (5)Texas A&M at (13)North Carolina 7:00pm ESPN Monday, January 11th CFP National Championship 7:00pm ESPN
This sucks. After a surge of Pac-12 teams opted out of bowl season and other teams, according to Monken, threatened to opt out if paired against Army, the Independence Bowl canceled its game and the Black Knights were left without a postseason destination. Monken and Army administrators informed the team following dinner at a 6:15 p.m. ET meeting. "We had guys in tears," Monken said. "We pulled off the biggest wins of these seniors' career, they just won the Commander-in-Chief's Trophy back, that's going to be their legacy, and they're looking forward to playing in a bowl game one time together, before they go off in the United States Army, and we're sitting here telling them, 'Sorry, guys, you can't play.' ... "I'm not pointing the finger at any one person," he said. "It's just collectively, as a bowl season, whatever the system is, a 9-2 team should not be left out and a 9-2 Army team should not be left out. I don't know how we have an Armed Forces Bowl and a Military Bowl and a First Responders Bowl and at all of these bowl games, we're going to have service members coming back and being reunited with their families, we're going to put it on TV and it's going to be a feel-good story, and you're going to leave the Army team at home. "How much bull is that? Somebody's got to fix that." https://www.espn.com/college-footba...-monken-want-chance-play-memorable-9-2-season
I'm now in favor of expanding the playoff to eight teams and only ranking them based on computer calculations, a la the BCS, instead of human rankings. The committee has shown that it does not plan to ever deviate from the Alabama/Clemson/Ohio State invitational and that a G5 team will never, ever sniff the playoff. They snubbed UCF twice and just insulted Cincinnati by moving a two-loss OU up to #6. There is nothing a G5 team can do, even in a pandemic when other teams play 50% of their schedules, to get the committee's attention. The system is completely broken due to the number of slots (4), the number of power conferences (5) and undefeated G5 conference champions that will never get to make their case. Cincinnati would likely lose to Alabama by 30 but, as long as they're continued to be denied a chance to play, this argument will continue until the field is expanded to eight.
Since you mentioned Cincy, I'll add that my favorite part of the AAC Championship Game was watching a LB named Beavers being blocked by an OT named Muskrat.
