Wisdom of the Crowds: Bowl Season!

by Bill C. on Sep 3, 2010 9:00 AM CDT in Wisdom of the Crowds

Your Big 12 Champion: Oklahoma. Optimistic Rock M readers picked Mizzou to easily win at Nebraska, coast away with the North title ... and still lose to Oklahoma twice. And those who picked OU, picked them to win easily. Does this qualify as Stockholm Syndrome?

Big 12 Championship: Oklahoma def. Missouri by 16 (54.7%)

So here are your resulting 2010-11 bowl matchups. I did my best to approximate how the bowl selection process would work. Bowl opponents were determined from my FO bowl projections, going up later today.

2011 Tostitos BCS National Championship: Oklahoma (13-0) vs Florida (12-1)
Tostitos Fiesta Bowl: Texas (11-1) vs TCU (11-1)
AT&T Cotton Bowl Classic: Nebraska (9-3) vs LSU (8-4). And yes, you know they would get selected over Missouri. Don't even try to argue otherwise.
Valero Alamo Bowl: Missouri (11-2) vs Arizona (7-5)
Insight Bowl: Texas A&M (7-5) vs Michigan State (8-4)
Bridgeport Education Holiday Bowl: Texas Tech (8-4) vs California (7-5)
New Era Pinstripe Bowl: Kansas State (7-5) vs Pittsburgh (8-4)
Texas Bowl: Baylor (6-6) vs Purdue (7-5)
Dallas Football Classic: Oklahoma State (6-6) vs Michigan (7-5)

Bowl picks after the jump!

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See, at least our title game

is less crazy than Wilbon suggesting it could be TCU up there yesterday.

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by groggydog on Sep 3, 2010 9:02 AM CDT reply actions

So I shouldn't mention...

…that I think TCU absolutely has a shot if two BCS conf. teams don’t go undefeated?

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by Bill C. on Sep 3, 2010 9:25 AM CDT up reply actions

So both TCU and Boise go undefeated...and only one BCS team does

Does a 1-loss BCS team go, does TCU go or Boise go?

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by The Beef on Sep 3, 2010 9:30 AM CDT up reply actions

Undefeated Boise absolutely goes...

…thanks to the assumed win over Virginia Tech. I think that gives them the nod, unless there’s a situation where they win 2-3 WAC games by a field goal while TCU destroys everybody in sight. Barring a series of close wins, I think Boise absolutely gets in over a 1-loss BCS team (they’ve earned that status with the pollsters now). TCU, on the other hand, I’m not so sure. Utah, BYU and Oregon State should all be good this year, but that might not be enough for them in the strength of schedule department.

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by Bill C. on Sep 3, 2010 9:35 AM CDT up reply actions

I won't get angry about Nebraska getting the Cotton Bowl

but if this scenario were to come to pass, I’d sure be angry about Texas in the Fiesta Bowl.

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by Transmogrified Tiger on Sep 3, 2010 9:06 AM CDT reply actions

At 11-1?

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by Bill C. on Sep 3, 2010 9:24 AM CDT up reply actions

I'm not saying that they'd be a bad choice on the level of 2007

but I’d be plenty annoyed if they got a BCS game simply because they didn’t get the chance to lose to Oklahoma a second time. We’d have pretty much identical resumes.

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by Transmogrified Tiger on Sep 3, 2010 9:45 AM CDT up reply actions

I had that thought too

think of it this way – if there weren’t North-South divisions and Texas beats Missouri in some kind of tiebreaker to play Oklahoma for the conference championship, then loses to the Sooners. Would an 11-1 Missouri team be selected over an 11-2 Texas team that lost to Oklahoma twice? Doubtful.

There’s nothing that can be done about it, but I can’t see an 11-1 season from Missouri counting the same as an 11-1 season from Texas.

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by MizzouCus on Sep 3, 2010 10:33 AM CDT up reply actions

I swear you all have PTSD.

by Gaknar on Sep 3, 2010 9:22 AM CDT reply actions

but

I don’t want to watch Florida beat OU again

by ZOUTiger on Sep 3, 2010 9:30 AM CDT reply actions

How did you count my vote of..

Infinity into the average margin of victory for oklahoma?

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by MUTIGERS86 on Sep 3, 2010 9:57 AM CDT reply actions

And by the way...

Even if the huskers had lost two more, I would still put them in the cotton bowl. If the huskers win at least 7 games, there is no way they don’t go to the cotton bowl. With their last year in the big 12 and the last chance for the cotton bowl to take them, it will happen.

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by MUTIGERS86 on Sep 3, 2010 10:02 AM CDT reply actions