Admittedly, looking at the Twitter-sphere, the Bell Helicopters Armed Service Bowl seems to be one of the dirtiest games played this bowl season- gouging, poking, cheap shots... all that stuff...
Which means it must have been great television...
And the HQ will admit that the idea of having teams like these make it to a game where, hopefully, they get to turn a little profit is a good thing...
Here's how Navy QB Keenan Reynolds became the fourth player in Division I history to rush for 30 or more touchdowns in a season.
((HT: ESPN))
And, then, the Georgia Tech-Ole Miss game in Nashville was just plain weird in the fourth quarter. Vad Lee surprised the entire planet with a 72-yard TD pass to get the Rebels lead trimmed to 23-17, but with all the momentum in the world as the Yellow Jackets stopped Ole Miss' offense...
This happened...
((HT: ACCDN))
The HQ would LOVE to know who called that last play...
Showing posts with label Music City Bowl. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Music City Bowl. Show all posts
Monday, December 30, 2013
Dirty South Looks At The Music City Bowl
((HT: Dirty South Sports Report))
The HQ would like to welcome and add the resources of the Dirty South Sports Report to our stacks from this moment on...
The reason...???
Well, one of the Dirty Southerners, Jackson Martin, is a protege of the HQ and we're glad to see him grow...
He's a regular...
So, to start, he went after the locals, the Music City Bowl...
Two 7-5 teams coming off disappointing losses to hated in-state rivals doesn’t sound like the setup for an exciting bowl game, but this year’s Music City Bowl might just be a thrilling shootout that keeps us glued to our TVs until the final whistle. Or it might be a lackluster slapfight between two teams just ready for the offseason (and two coaches who are ready to play golf).
Mississippi was dreaming of something greater this year. After an impressive recruiting haul, head coach Hugh Freeze looked to turn those offseason wins into victories on the field. The Rebels won a nailbiter in Nashville on the first night of the season to get things started right, but never put together the string of wins needed to truly contend for the SEC West title. Quarterback “Dr.” Bo Wallace had an up-and-down year that culminated in his fumbling away the Egg Bowl against Mississippi State. That overtime loss to the Bulldogs moved the Ole Miss season from 8-4 and optimistic to 7-5 and wondering what went wrong.
Georgia Tech has been stagnant for three years now. Paul Johnson’s triple-option offense is no longer producing the wins it initially did in the ACC and the Yellow Jackets are once again mediocre, as they have been every year since winning the ACC in 2009. This is a matchup of two even teams, but Ole Miss may have the advantage after getting a month to prepare for the triple-option. Tech doesn’t fare well in bowl games — last year’s Sun Bowl win over USC was the first since 2004 for the Yellow Jackets.
Bias Report
In this section, I’ll tell you who I’m rooting for in each matchup and why. My reasons will range from true fandom to whoever has the best uniform and I want to give you a glimpse of what I like and dislike about every bowl team.
I’m a Georgia fan. I don’t like the Yellow Jackets, and I especially don’t like Paul Johnson. There are two things I like about Georgia Tech:
Calvin Johnson
and Reggie Ball
Hoddy Toddy.
Numbers to know
F/+ Rankings: Tech 31, Ole Miss 34
Spread: Ole Miss -4
Over/Under: 55
Picks
To help you figure out exactly who will win each game, we’ve assembled a panel of experts to pick each game. Our panel features myself, Ben Weinrib of The Knuckleblog, our resident gambling expert Jake Kearns, @turntuptina (who makes NFL picks over at The Knuckleblog occasionally), my dad, and a decision on which mascot would win in a fight.
Jackson Martin: Ole Miss
Ben Weinrib: Ole Miss
James Francis Kearns III: Ole Miss
@turntuptina: Ole Miss
Dad: Georgia Tech
Mascot fight: Ole Miss now uses a black bear as its mascot, which I’m pretty sure is the natural enemy of bees.
The HQ would like to welcome and add the resources of the Dirty South Sports Report to our stacks from this moment on...
The reason...???
Well, one of the Dirty Southerners, Jackson Martin, is a protege of the HQ and we're glad to see him grow...
He's a regular...
So, to start, he went after the locals, the Music City Bowl...
Two 7-5 teams coming off disappointing losses to hated in-state rivals doesn’t sound like the setup for an exciting bowl game, but this year’s Music City Bowl might just be a thrilling shootout that keeps us glued to our TVs until the final whistle. Or it might be a lackluster slapfight between two teams just ready for the offseason (and two coaches who are ready to play golf).
Mississippi was dreaming of something greater this year. After an impressive recruiting haul, head coach Hugh Freeze looked to turn those offseason wins into victories on the field. The Rebels won a nailbiter in Nashville on the first night of the season to get things started right, but never put together the string of wins needed to truly contend for the SEC West title. Quarterback “Dr.” Bo Wallace had an up-and-down year that culminated in his fumbling away the Egg Bowl against Mississippi State. That overtime loss to the Bulldogs moved the Ole Miss season from 8-4 and optimistic to 7-5 and wondering what went wrong.
Georgia Tech has been stagnant for three years now. Paul Johnson’s triple-option offense is no longer producing the wins it initially did in the ACC and the Yellow Jackets are once again mediocre, as they have been every year since winning the ACC in 2009. This is a matchup of two even teams, but Ole Miss may have the advantage after getting a month to prepare for the triple-option. Tech doesn’t fare well in bowl games — last year’s Sun Bowl win over USC was the first since 2004 for the Yellow Jackets.
Bias Report
In this section, I’ll tell you who I’m rooting for in each matchup and why. My reasons will range from true fandom to whoever has the best uniform and I want to give you a glimpse of what I like and dislike about every bowl team.
I’m a Georgia fan. I don’t like the Yellow Jackets, and I especially don’t like Paul Johnson. There are two things I like about Georgia Tech:
Calvin Johnson
and Reggie Ball
Hoddy Toddy.
Numbers to know
F/+ Rankings: Tech 31, Ole Miss 34
Spread: Ole Miss -4
Over/Under: 55
Picks
To help you figure out exactly who will win each game, we’ve assembled a panel of experts to pick each game. Our panel features myself, Ben Weinrib of The Knuckleblog, our resident gambling expert Jake Kearns, @turntuptina (who makes NFL picks over at The Knuckleblog occasionally), my dad, and a decision on which mascot would win in a fight.
Jackson Martin: Ole Miss
Ben Weinrib: Ole Miss
James Francis Kearns III: Ole Miss
@turntuptina: Ole Miss
Dad: Georgia Tech
Mascot fight: Ole Miss now uses a black bear as its mascot, which I’m pretty sure is the natural enemy of bees.
Monday, December 31, 2012
Easy Money: Vandy Rolls NC State in Music City Bowl
What is it that people say about ACC Football? Soft? Horrible?
How about just plain lost. That is the only way to describe how Vanderbilt so utterly dominated a horribly self-destructive team from North Carolina State.
And the funny part of it. At some point NC State believed they could hire Vandy's James Franklin to be their head coach after they fired Tom O'Brien. Oh, Franklin got a contract extension in Nashville instead.
No, not an SEC coach in their right mind, with a winning record, would ever leave the SEC for the ACC in football, never.
That being said, Vandy rode 2 Jordan Rodgers TD passes and 5 NC State turnovers to a relatively easy 38-24 win in the Music City Bowl Monday afternoon. Zac Stacy added 107 yards and Vanderbilt finishes this season with a solid 9-4 record
Your highlights from the Bowl leader, ESPN:
How about just plain lost. That is the only way to describe how Vanderbilt so utterly dominated a horribly self-destructive team from North Carolina State.
And the funny part of it. At some point NC State believed they could hire Vandy's James Franklin to be their head coach after they fired Tom O'Brien. Oh, Franklin got a contract extension in Nashville instead.
No, not an SEC coach in their right mind, with a winning record, would ever leave the SEC for the ACC in football, never.
That being said, Vandy rode 2 Jordan Rodgers TD passes and 5 NC State turnovers to a relatively easy 38-24 win in the Music City Bowl Monday afternoon. Zac Stacy added 107 yards and Vanderbilt finishes this season with a solid 9-4 record
Your highlights from the Bowl leader, ESPN:
Friday, December 7, 2012
Your Ticket Oak Update: Want To Go Bowling...???
The HQ figured, with the holidays approaching, that we would give you a quick update on ticket prices for your favorite upcoming bowl game...
We'll do this alphabetically... and, remember, this does not include the idea of getting tickets through the schools themselves...
((HT: Stubhub))
The title game: Surprisingly enough, you can still get in the door for $1,195...parking passes are $30 and FanZone tickets are $20
Fiesta Bowl: $155 to get in the door...
Orange: The Northern Illinois-FSU game is $5 upper deck and the HQ is debating getting tickets- just to say we got tickets for the Huskies Bee-Cee-Ess appearance
Rose: $150 in the upper sections
Sugar: Terrace Level for $62, but it is Florida-Louisville
Alamo: $50 in the upper level endzone
Armed Forces: There are $19 endzone seats, but $45 from there...
BBVA Compass: Strangely enough, there aren't any tickets... the HQ guesses it's Ole Miss speaking there...
Beef O'Brady's: $43 gets upper deck
Belk: A lot of $19 upper deck tickets
Buffalo Wild Wings: $21 upper deck
Cap One: Upper-level corner for $24
Chick-fil-A: $38 upper level
Cotton: Standing Room for $101, if you want to sit it's 3x that...
Idaho Potato: $45 can get you in, but you can go lower level for another $20
Gator: Upper corners at the Gator Bowl are $3 and $4, but it is Miss State and Northwestern
GoDaddy: Very few tickets remain and parking passes are even more expensive than getting in the door...
Heart of Dallas: $62 gets you, actually, in the lower corner...
Holiday: $53 and $54 for the corners...
Independence: Lower endzones are $23, but I would think the Louisiana-Monroe folks will snap those up pretty quickly...
Kraft Fight Hunger: Endzone bleachers are $63
Liberty: A lot of tickets between the 20's are in the $50 for Iowa State and Tulsa
Little Caesars: Lower level endzone is $59
MAACO Las Vegas: Corners for $32
Meineke/Texas: Loge in the 500-levels are $24, but parking passes for Reliant are more...
Military: Nothing left for San Jose State and Bowling Green (good for them...)
Music City: Upper level in the 300's are $6,7 and $8... and there are over 5,000 tickets left
New Mexico: Upper level tickets at the 50 are in the neighborhood of $20
Outback: Mid-level corner seats are $90 and $100 and there are less than 2,000 seats left...
Pinstripe: Bleacher seats are $93 and then there are $97 seats that are actual seats...
Poinsettia: Upper levels are $50 and endzones are $65
Russell Athletics: Upper-level corner seats are $6 and there are, apparently, a lot of them...
Sheraton Hawai'i: Lower-level sideline are available for $41
Sun: Endzone seats for $21 and sideline seats start at $25
Happy shopping... we'll keep you posted...
We'll do this alphabetically... and, remember, this does not include the idea of getting tickets through the schools themselves...
((HT: Stubhub))
The title game: Surprisingly enough, you can still get in the door for $1,195...parking passes are $30 and FanZone tickets are $20
Fiesta Bowl: $155 to get in the door...
Orange: The Northern Illinois-FSU game is $5 upper deck and the HQ is debating getting tickets- just to say we got tickets for the Huskies Bee-Cee-Ess appearance
Rose: $150 in the upper sections
Sugar: Terrace Level for $62, but it is Florida-Louisville
Alamo: $50 in the upper level endzone
Armed Forces: There are $19 endzone seats, but $45 from there...
BBVA Compass: Strangely enough, there aren't any tickets... the HQ guesses it's Ole Miss speaking there...
Beef O'Brady's: $43 gets upper deck
Belk: A lot of $19 upper deck tickets
Buffalo Wild Wings: $21 upper deck
Cap One: Upper-level corner for $24
Chick-fil-A: $38 upper level
Cotton: Standing Room for $101, if you want to sit it's 3x that...
Idaho Potato: $45 can get you in, but you can go lower level for another $20
Gator: Upper corners at the Gator Bowl are $3 and $4, but it is Miss State and Northwestern
GoDaddy: Very few tickets remain and parking passes are even more expensive than getting in the door...
Heart of Dallas: $62 gets you, actually, in the lower corner...
Holiday: $53 and $54 for the corners...
Independence: Lower endzones are $23, but I would think the Louisiana-Monroe folks will snap those up pretty quickly...
Kraft Fight Hunger: Endzone bleachers are $63
Liberty: A lot of tickets between the 20's are in the $50 for Iowa State and Tulsa
Little Caesars: Lower level endzone is $59
MAACO Las Vegas: Corners for $32
Meineke/Texas: Loge in the 500-levels are $24, but parking passes for Reliant are more...
Military: Nothing left for San Jose State and Bowling Green (good for them...)
Music City: Upper level in the 300's are $6,7 and $8... and there are over 5,000 tickets left
New Mexico: Upper level tickets at the 50 are in the neighborhood of $20
Outback: Mid-level corner seats are $90 and $100 and there are less than 2,000 seats left...
Pinstripe: Bleacher seats are $93 and then there are $97 seats that are actual seats...
Poinsettia: Upper levels are $50 and endzones are $65
Russell Athletics: Upper-level corner seats are $6 and there are, apparently, a lot of them...
Sheraton Hawai'i: Lower-level sideline are available for $41
Sun: Endzone seats for $21 and sideline seats start at $25
Happy shopping... we'll keep you posted...
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