Comments on: Holiday Bowl Ruining Pac-10’s Rep

By: WCT

WCT — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 19:25:37 +0000

I thought you were going to say that the Holiday Bowl ruins the Pac-10’s rep because the Pac-10 participant usually gets destroyed.

The 3rd best big 12 school is 7-3 in the last 10 Holiday Bowls.

By: Cue Your Pac-10 Football Jokes Now. « Signal to Noise

Cue Your Pac-10 Football Jokes Now. « Signal to Noise — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 21:15:51 +0000

[...] The problem is that the Pac-10, as a conference in and of itself, provides the second best football to the SEC these days — they just don’t do bowl games well as of late, unless said team in the bowl game is USC, and that’s only reinforcing the popular perception across the rest of the country that the Pac-10 in football is the Trojans and a bunch of hangers-on. I understand what Larry’s getting at when he griped about the Holiday Bowl being well before New Year’s Eve and/or Day for the Pac-10, but I sense the non-USC teams would do well to actually win the bowls they are tied to with some regularity before getting some changes going. [...]

By: Signal to Noise

Signal to Noise — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 21:12:40 +0000

Yes, the conference has awful tie-ins, but with last night’s beating, it would help if Pac-10 teams not named USC would win some bowl games nowadays — no matter when or where they are played.

ASU and UCLA are down, I don’t think Oregon will beat South Florida with Brady Leaf at QB, and Cal is on such a bad slide that it’s lucky to be in a bowl game. The conference could be 0-4 headed into the Rose Bowl and I wouldn’t be surprised.

By: JS

JS — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 21:08:16 +0000

The powerful Tournament of Roses committee probably has the Pac-10 schedule the Holiday Bowl with as big a time difference as possible from the Rose Bowl game.

If it were a more respected bowl, the Pac-10 team would show up ready to play more often, instead of being disinterested because they so many times feel slighted out of a BCS Bowl (see Cal in 2004 and Oregon in 2005)

And, yeah, the Pac has terrible bowl tie-ins, partly due to the fans reluctance to travel and partly due to the late Tom Hansen being commissioner.

By: Gilbert

Gilbert — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 17:29:36 +0000

Larry, I agree completely.

With the championship game moving later and later every year, it would be easy for the Holiday Bowl to move to Jan. 1 or later.

The Pac-10 has horrendous bowl tie-ins. Not just the Holiday Bowl, but the others too.