fightingliberal Wrote:
What a bust of quite possibly one of the best bowl matches. I have to give credit to Mizzou, UCLA and Virginia for making some big comebacks yesterday, but what in the hell is wrong with the supposedly tough Big 10 this year in bowls. Is this yet another year where they finish sub .500 after having over half the conference in the top 25.
It's because the Big 10 blows. Every single year, they end up with a half a dozen teams making at least an appearance in the Top 25, and 4 of them break the Top 10. They may have one good team (Penn State this year, Ohio State recently or a now dwindling Michigan), but Minnesota, Purdue, Wisconsin and Iowa take turns starting off 4-0 and finish 6-5 or 7-4 after they all take turns beating each other.
Add in the sometimes decent squads from Evansville and East Lansing and that leaves you with just
two perennially non-competitive Big 10 teams, Illinois and Indiana, who apparently prefer the shorter wooden playing surface reserved for winter.
All the voters in the polls go ga-ga over the early-to-mid season success of the Big 10.
Oh man, Minnesota knocked off #11 Purdue 42-35 that puts them at 4-0 heading into State College. And guess what. The Nittany Lions whip up the #18 Gophers 44-14 and UM goes on to finish 7-5. Nice going.
Ugh.