Hurray UM wins finally

[ND72]

Notre Dame makes big bowls, because they bring lots of people with them. So when they go 10-2...which, won't be anytime soon as of now...BCS & Bowl hosters know that ND will for sure sell their tickets, and then some. Again, that's not ND's fault...that's just simple economics.

[HarveyWallbangers]

A lot of teams draw really well for bowl games (Wisconsin and all of the upper echelon Big Ten teams included).

[ND72]

Yeah, but BCS rules state no more than 2 teams from a single conference can be in the BCS.

[Harlan Huckleby]

I like Big 10 football, and would like to see the league enhanced by a high profile team. And hell, ND already play the Indiana & Michigan teams regularly. Its an unholy situation that they aren't in the league.

[Partial]

Yeah, but BCS rules state no more than 2 teams from a single conference can be in the BCS.

And there should be a rule a team cannot play in a BCS game unless they are IN a conference. ND plays a tough schedule but they are exploiting other teams and cheating the system. I say make them join a conference or no post season. Clearly, they did not deserve it last year.

[ND72]

Yeah, but BCS rules state no more than 2 teams from a single conference can be in the BCS.

And there should be a rule a team cannot play in a BCS game unless they are IN a conference. ND plays a tough schedule but they are exploiting other teams and cheating the system. I say make them join a conference or no post season. Clearly, they did not deserve it last year.

It's not cheating the system, it's exploiting the system. And they clearly haven't deserved a big bowl game in years, that team was carried by Brady Quinn. Argue all you want, but without him the past 2 seasons, they're a 4-8 team.

[Scott Campbell]

Yours truly, Scott Campbell, watched the Utes destroy #11 UCLA today - 44-6. That's the biggest upset I've ever been at.

[cpk1994]

Yeah, but BCS rules state no more than 2 teams from a single conference can be in the BCS.

And there should be a rule a team cannot play in a BCS game unless they are IN a conference. ND plays a tough schedule but they are exploiting other teams and cheating the system. I say make them join a conference or no post season. Clearly, they did not deserve it last year.

It's not cheating the system, it's exploiting the system. And they clearly haven't deserved a big bowl game in years, that team was carried by Brady Quinn. Argue all you want, but without him the past 2 seasons, they're a 4-8 team.

You can call it exploiting the system, but the conference commissioners agreed to the setup, so you can't blame ND.

[BallHawk]

Yours truly, Scott Campbell, watched the Utes destroy #11 UCLA today - 44-6. That's the biggest upset I've ever been at.

When I saw that score on the bottomline I had to see it come by again to believe it.

Utah outscoring the #11 team by 38 points?

Damn. That's a beating.

[KYPack]

Yours truly, Scott Campbell, watched the Utes destroy #11 UCLA today - 44-6. That's the biggest upset I've ever been at.

Plus, Scott took all his wives to the game, so it was a sellout!

[falco]

Yours truly, Scott Campbell, watched the Utes destroy #11 UCLA today - 44-6. That's the biggest upset I've ever been at.

Plus, Scott took all his wives to the game, so it was a sellout!

hey, it could have been all his kids playing in the game... (and in the stands)

[Cheesehead Craig]

I don't want ND in the Big Ten. There's enough big ego schools in the Big Ten already.

If this is a start of a multi-season ND swoon, NBC would be hard pressed to keep showing them. How much longer is the ND TV contract with them anyway?

[falco]

speaking of which, is anybody else pissed you can't watch the badgers at 10:30 on a saturday night on pbs??? i mean come on

[Scott Campbell]

Yours truly, Scott Campbell, watched the Utes destroy #11 UCLA today - 44-6. That's the biggest upset I've ever been at.

When I saw that score on the bottomline I had to see it come by again to believe it.

Utah outscoring the #11 team by 38 points?

Damn. That's a beating.

It was the first time they've beaten a top 15 team at home since 1973.

[SkinBasket]

speaking of which, is anybody else pissed you can't watch the badgers at 10:30 on a saturday night on pbs??? i mean come on

No. I love the idea of the Big Ten Network buying the sole rights to broadcast games and then holding those rights hostage for leverage against the cable companies. It's awesome when the only broadcast of the #7 team in the country is unavailable to a majority of that team's market. Who says college sports is about money?