"We're Number Six! We're Number Six!"
The Big Ten currently has arrangements to send member teams to six bowl games- and is considering a seventh!
Yes, that's what I said. Of the eleven teams in the Big Ten (they didn't change the name of the conference when Penn State joined) six- no matter what- get bowl bids- and the the team that finishes seventh may be going to a bowl, too!
The sixth-place finisher, it seems, gets an automatic bid to the Insight Bowl. I thought there was a minimum number of games you have to win to go to a bowl game, or something!
I know the Big Ten is a respected football conference, but even a Big Ten fan like yours truly thinks that giving more than half of a conference automatic bowl bids is a bit ridiculous!
Yes, that's what I said. Of the eleven teams in the Big Ten (they didn't change the name of the conference when Penn State joined) six- no matter what- get bowl bids- and the the team that finishes seventh may be going to a bowl, too!
The sixth-place finisher, it seems, gets an automatic bid to the Insight Bowl. I thought there was a minimum number of games you have to win to go to a bowl game, or something!
I know the Big Ten is a respected football conference, but even a Big Ten fan like yours truly thinks that giving more than half of a conference automatic bowl bids is a bit ridiculous!
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I watched their Rose Bowl appearance in a bar across the street from the campus. It was fun, even if the result wasn't.
Still, the days when they set the record for most consecutive defeats by a Division 1 school had some good memories. Remember:
That's OK! We'll take the loss!
In twenty years, we'll be your boss!
My favorite though, was the vandalism on a local road sign, causing it to read:
Interstate 94
Northwestern 0