Phil Steele predicts Nebraska/LSU in Cotton Bowl

[Frederick0220]

LSU would get shut out against the Blackshirts.

 

[huKSer]

There are too many bowls.

 

[krill]

No don't get me wrong I love football as much as everyone else. When there is talk of not enough 6 win teams to make all the bowl games they lose some of their luster. I mean 6 wins in my opinion isn't enough for a reward. Its possible there could be a 5 win team gets a bowl game this year. Pink participation ribbons for everyone.

There's not really any "luster" to the bowls that the WAC, MWC, C-USA, Sun Belt and MAC have bids to. The payouts are less than what they receive to go on the road and be pulverized by top tier programs. What you're not seeing here is that teams in those conferences get their wins in conference. Take away our cupcake rent-a-team wins last year and we had 7 wins.

It's unfair to characterize all the bowl expansions as an everybody gets a trophy type of thing.

 

[sd'sker]

So he really believes that Pittsburgh and Wisconsin are going to get BCS at larges instead of us. Now way this happens. If we truely are the #2 Big 12 team by losing in the conference title game then that means we only have 2 loses. We get one of those BCS at larges IMO.

Pittsburgh isn't an at-large in Steele's projection, they're the Big East winner. The Big East is still AQ conference. For now.

it is ridiculous that the big east is an aq. the conference champion should be in the top 15 to automatically get into a bcs game.

While that's a plausible scenario, it would've hurt Nebraska last year had they beaten Texas in the CCG. It was a given that if NU won the CCG that we would play in a BCS bowl and we weren't a Top 15 team going into that game.

Yeah but we would have moved into the top 15 after the game if we had beaten them, heck we even went up 2 spots with the loss.

Maybe, maybe not? I was actually basing it off the BCS poll alone and since we were a 3 loss unranked team in the BCS poll, it still might've been hard to crack the Top 15 since Texas was ranked 3rd at the time. If you look at this year's BCS poll, a 2 loss 18th ranked Iowa team only jumped two spots to 16th after defeating an undefeated #5 ranked Michigan St. team. Point is, not a whole lot of movement for defeating a Top 5 ranked team if you already have 2 or more losses under your belt, in which case we had 3 at the time in 2009.

you are right. after i posted it i thought 15 might be too high. but maybe not. it should be at least top 25 though.

also, i was thinking how awesome it would be to see oregon's offense against our defense with a few months to prepare. that would be exciting. do not know how we would do, but would love to find out.

 

[Fuzzy]

Pittsburgh?! you can't be serious, they will atleast lose one more game, maybe two. They will lose to West Virgina, i guarantee that, they might lose to Cincinatti.

As for Wisconsin, I say they lose one more game, a very close one to Northwestern, and i say that because of how close they came to beating Michigan State. I give Northwestern the win in Madison.