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Casper71
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IT COULD BE WORSE

Posted: 12/17/2013 12:19:10 PM

Ugh, BOB Bowl ranked #33 out of 35 Bowls to watch!

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2013/12/16/football-four-2013-14-bowl-rankings-heart-of-dallas-idaho-potato-beef-obrady-armed-forces-liberty/4039555/

DFrids
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RE: IT COULD BE WORSE

Posted: 12/17/2013 1:19:24 PM

USA Today - 33

ESPN - 33 espn.go.com/college-football/bowls13/story/_/id/10112150/every-bowl-game-ranked-1-35

CBS Sports - 23 www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/eye-on-college-football/24370140/the-top-35-your-201314-bowl-rankings

Yahoo - 33 sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaaf-dr-saturday/ranking-bowl-games-1-35-045900052--ncaaf.html
SB Nation - 34 www.sbnation.com/college-football/2013/12/10/5194348/best-2013-2014-bowl-games-rankings

NFL - 31 www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap2000000295057/article/ranking-the-bowls-counting-down-from-no-35-to-the-title-game
SI - 33 sportsillustrated.cnn.com/college-football/news/20131210/college-football-bowl-rankings/

Athlon - 33 network.yardbarker.com/all_sports/article_external/ranking_all_35_college_football_bowls_for_2013_from_must_see_to_must_miss/15264053

It seems our matchup is consensus the 33rd placed matchup, with CBS Sports being the one big outlier.

Last Edited: 12/17/2013 1:19:51 PM by DFrids

Zaleski
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RE: IT COULD BE WORSE

Posted: 12/17/2013 8:17:22 PM

I don't care. I have the day off Monday and am watching every minute of it. The hell with the nattering nabobs in the media.

OhioCatFan
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RE: IT COULD BE WORSE

Posted: 12/17/2013 8:58:04 PM

Zaleski wrote:

I don't care. I have the day off Monday and am watching every minute of it. The hell with the nattering nabobs in the media.

+1

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RE: IT COULD BE WORSE

Posted: 12/18/2013 1:12:30 AM

GO BOBCATS!!!

Where's the band?!
WHERE"S THE BAND?!

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RE: IT COULD BE WORSE

Posted: 12/18/2013 9:41:17 AM

Where is Toledo ranked?

I've seen crazier things happen.

Pataskala
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RE: IT COULD BE WORSE

Posted: 12/18/2013 10:26:02 AM

On paper, the game looks like it should be a blowout in favor of ECU.

Fortunately, the game isn't played on paper.

Even tho we backed into a bowl, thanks to Sun Belt screwing over WKU, I'll be watching and cheering for the Bobcats.

We will get by.
We will get by.
We will get by.
We will survive.

giacomo
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RE: IT COULD BE WORSE

Posted: 12/18/2013 12:16:05 PM

It's too bad we aren't playing in the JM Smucker All Natural Peanut Butter Without Hydrogenated Oils Bowl.

Pataskala
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RE: IT COULD BE WORSE

Posted: 12/18/2013 2:54:34 PM

giacomo wrote:

It's too bad we aren't playing in the JM Smucker All Natural Peanut Butter Without Hydrogenated Oils Bowl.

Maybe there should be a bowl named for whatever blockbuster movie comes during the holidays in a given year. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Bowl has a ring

to it.

We will get by.
We will get by.
We will get by.
We will survive.

OUcats82
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RE: IT COULD BE WORSE

Posted: 12/18/2013 3:03:49 PM

Pataskala wrote:

giacomo wrote:

It's too bad we aren't playing in the JM Smucker All Natural Peanut Butter Without Hydrogenated Oils Bowl.

Maybe there should be a bowl named for whatever blockbuster movie comes during the holidays in a given year. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Bowl has a ring

to it.

One ring to rule them all in fact.

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Bobcat Love's Sense of Shame
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RE: IT COULD BE WORSE

Posted: 12/18/2013 3:40:42 PM

Wait, this bowl game is being played at 2pm on a Monday? What is the thinking behind that?

OhioStunter
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RE: IT COULD BE WORSE

Posted: 12/18/2013 3:44:17 PM

OUcats82 wrote:

Pataskala wrote:

giacomo wrote:

It's too bad we aren't playing in the JM Smucker All Natural Peanut Butter Without Hydrogenated Oils Bowl.

Maybe there should be a bowl named for whatever blockbuster movie comes during the holidays in a given year. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Bowl has a ring

to it.

One ring to rule them all in fact.

Bil-BEAU Baggins UP THE MIDDLE earth.

Last Edited: 12/19/2013 12:47:08 PM by OhioStunter

The Optimist
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RE: IT COULD BE WORSE

Posted: 12/18/2013 3:51:37 PM

Bobcat Love's Sense of Shame wrote:

Wait, this bowl game is being played at 2pm on a Monday? What is the thinking behind that?

When I saw that I was confused as well.

The best argument I have been able to think up in my head is that they think a lot of people will have off work Monday and Tuesday. Saturday has a slew of Bowl games, Sunday has NFL and I believe Christmas Eve Tuesday also has a lot of bowl games. By making it on Monday they have no competition and I assume they think they can get people off work to watch. MNF excludes a later start Monday for this game?

Not sure if any of that is true but that was the most logical thinking I could come up with to explain the timing...

Last Edited: 12/18/2013 3:54:42 PM by The Optimist

I've seen crazier things happen.

L.C.
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RE: IT COULD BE WORSE

Posted: 12/18/2013 3:53:12 PM

Bobcat Love's Sense of Shame wrote:

Wait, this bowl game is being played at 2pm on a Monday? What is the thinking behind that?

Ummm, good question. They are hoping people will watch replays on late night TV? They think a lot of people will have the whole week off? They think a lot of people will be watching it in stores in the TV department while their wives do last minute shopping?

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RE: IT COULD BE WORSE

Posted: 12/18/2013 4:00:39 PM

Not much different than last year's Friday 2:00 PM time slot. I'll be watching on my phone from my desk at work on Monday afternoon, same spot I watched last year's game.

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Pataskala
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RE: IT COULD BE WORSE

Posted: 12/19/2013 6:47:25 AM

ESPN doesn't want the game opposite the MNF game (Atl-SF) on the mothership. They don't even have much college b-ball that night -- just Morehead-Tenn on ESPNU, but that'll be done around 9:00. So we get an afternoon slot.

Last Edited: 12/19/2013 6:50:10 AM by Pataskala

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GoCats105
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RE: IT COULD BE WORSE

Posted: 12/19/2013 8:16:05 AM

OhioStunter wrote:

OUcats82 wrote:

Pataskala wrote:

giacomo wrote:

It's too bad we aren't playing in the JM Smucker All Natural Peanut Butter Without Hydrogenated Oils Bowl.

Maybe there should be a bowl named for whatever blockbuster movie comes during the holidays in a given year. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Bowl has a ring

to it.

One ring to rule them all in fact.

Bil-BEAU Baggins UP THE MIDDLE.

This x100000000000000

bobcat695
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RE: IT COULD BE WORSE

Posted: 12/19/2013 8:54:14 AM

2:00 gametime is perfect for me. I have a huge Christmas Party to go to at 6:30 on Monday, so I'll just duck out of the office for the afternoon to watch it. All this time, I assumed I'd leave my wife on the dance floor while I watched the game at the bar. Now, I'll just have to find a different lame excuse to leave her on the dance floor and drink gin in the bar with my friends.

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Monroe Slavin
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RE: IT COULD BE WORSE

Posted: 12/19/2013 11:54:20 PM

OhioStunter wrote:

OUcats82 wrote:

Pataskala wrote:

giacomo wrote:

It's too bad we aren't playing in the JM Smucker All Natural Peanut Butter Without Hydrogenated Oils Bowl.

Maybe there should be a bowl named for whatever blockbuster movie comes during the holidays in a given year. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Bowl has a ring

to it.

One ring to rule them all in fact.

Bil-BEAU Baggins UP THE MIDDLE earth.

Very witty, Stunter.

Aaron--we know that you'll come through!

Bobcatbob
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RE: IT COULD BE WORSE

Posted: 12/20/2013 2:21:15 PM

Bobcat Love's Sense of Shame wrote:

Wait, this bowl game is being played at 2pm on a Monday? What is the thinking behind that?

No, really.

I don't even know what a Beef O'Brady is but I must assume that their target demograhic includes pre-schoolers, retirees, homemakers that have children napping and insomniacs who work the graveyard shift. Did I miss anyone?

OU77BCJ
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RE: IT COULD BE WORSE

Posted: 12/20/2013 2:46:56 PM

I guess it is like our basketball games, they forgot to check here first for a good day and time.

Last Edited: 12/20/2013 2:47:23 PM by OU77BCJ

Alan Swank
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RE: IT COULD BE WORSE

Posted: 12/20/2013 6:32:55 PM

Bobcatbob wrote:

Bobcat Love's Sense of Shame wrote:

Wait, this bowl game is being played at 2pm on a Monday? What is the thinking behind that?

Come on Bob, the retirees that aren't napping at 2:00 are moonlighting one day a week as a starter at the golf course. Rule out that demographic as being tuned in.

Pataskala
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RE: IT COULD BE WORSE

Posted: 12/21/2013 12:05:53 AM

Bobcatbob wrote:

Bobcat Love's Sense of Shame wrote:

Wait, this bowl game is being played at 2pm on a Monday? What is the thinking behind that?

People recovering from surgery. And those of us who can finally string a couple days off for something other than surgery.

We will get by.
We will get by.
We will get by.
We will survive.

whocaresgobobcats
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RE: IT COULD BE WORSE

Posted: 12/21/2013 1:33:02 AM

Bobcatbob wrote:

Bobcat Love's Sense of Shame wrote:

Wait, this bowl game is being played at 2pm on a Monday? What is the thinking behind that?

Can't forget the meth addicts on a 3 day binge.

Brian Smith (No, not that one)
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RE: IT COULD BE WORSE

Posted: 12/21/2013 1:33:11 AM

Bobcatbob wrote:

Bobcat Love's Sense of Shame wrote:

Wait, this bowl game is being played at 2pm on a Monday? What is the thinking behind that?

"Everybody in the newsroom, I have to watch this game and turn up the volume to a high level because it's for my job. And the scotch? Again, job-related. Because job."

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