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Message: [QUOTE="Stern, post: 81881, member: 527"] FOR EXAMPLE: Why would a bowl played played in Florida (lets say the Orange Bowl) why should they be [B]FORCED[/B] to take a team or 2 teams they don't want or that won't travel? The people putting on the bowl are putting lots and lots of money, now you want to PUNISH them by giving them lets say for arguments sake a Stanford vs Boise St game because the BCS rankings say they deserve to play in that game. It makes NO FRIGGIN SENSE! Stanford and Boise fans are upset they gotta travel across the country and spend thousands of dollars to see their team in a bowl game. The Bowl is upset because they got 2 teams from across the country playing in a game where a small fraction of their fans will come see and be totally fish out of water playing each other on the opposite coast. But hey, Joe Q. Fan sitting at home who is watching the game for free and has put up no money and taking no risk is happy because that's the "FAIR" Match-Up for a Bowl Game according to the rankings. Are you serious?! People forget, aside from the BCS Title game, every other bowl game has zero meaning. They are being played to make money and not to reward the best teams or put on the best possible game. Why do you think these bowls have Tie-In's with conferences? Because they want teams in the general area of their bowls playing in them, at least in the same time-zone roughly. Doing it the way you want would create the biggest pig fu*k out there. You could have Auburn vs Miami in the Rose Bowl playing in Pasadena. And then have Stanford vs Boise playing at 5pm west coast time when people are still at work. And you WANT that system??? Because it uses the BCS Rankings as fairness? Come on! [/QUOTE]

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