Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Beef (Preferably Beef)

by Sean Keeley on Apr 27, 2010 1:23 PM EDT

The Big East announced its final-final bowl arrangement for the 2010 season and it looks like there's a new game in the fold. The Big East is now affiliated with the Liberty Bowl. Rejoice!

The BIG EAST is pleased to have the opportunity to play in college football’s seventh-oldest bowl game, the AutoZone Liberty Bowl. In an effort to provide the best opportunities for its student-athletes, the BIG EAST could send its representative to the AutoZone Liberty Bowl to play the champion from Conference USA or an opponent from the Southeastern Conference.

Syracuse has a little history with the Liberty Bowl. In 1961 the Orangemen defeated Miami with the help of some guy Ernie Davis who won some award called the Heisman. SU returned in 1996 to wallop on Houston 30-17.

Please note the word "could" in there. Between the Liberty, Papajohns.com and Beef O'Brady Bowls, the Big East will get two teams in between 2010 and 2013 (since the league won't exist after that).

And so, you're official Big East bowl line-up now reads...

BCS Bowl – BIG EAST Champion
Champs Sports Bowl – BIG EAST vs. ACC
Meineke Car Care Bowl – BIG EAST vs. ACC
New Era Pinstripe Bowl – BIG EAST vs. Big 12
Papajohns.com Bowl* – BIG EAST vs. SEC or C-USA
AutoZone Liberty Bowl* – BIG EAST vs. SEC or C-USA
Beef ‘O’ Brady’s Bowl* – BIG EAST vs. C-USA

The point of telling you all of this? Six wins gets us Beef, folks. Six wins. Akron, Maine, Colgate?, Louisville and two more. And considering there's way too many bowls and a good chance there won't be enough teams to fill the slots (seriously), playing two FCS teams probably won't be a hindrance after all.

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Maine and Colgate are both I-AA teams

I don’t think you can count more than one 1-AA win towards bowl eligibility. I’m too lazy to look up the exact rule though.

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by SyraJosh on Apr 27, 2010 2:05 PM EDT reply actions

Well, the NCAA wont have a choice soon

They need to fill 70 bowl slots this season. On average, there are anywhere between 65-75 teams that qualify, which means sooner or later they will have to break those rules. Possibly this season.

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by Sean Keeley on Apr 27, 2010 2:08 PM EDT up reply actions

do we know that the 12th team is Colgate?

I thought it was just rumors & speculation.

Syracuse players have a lot of length.

by MrPlow99 on Apr 28, 2010 1:04 PM EDT up reply actions

Still rumor

but there’s absolutely nothing out there to say otherwise.

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by Sean Keeley on Apr 28, 2010 2:11 PM EDT up reply actions

It's barely a rumor at this point

All buy finalized, should be announced sooner than later

Syracuse '12

by blackknight76 on Apr 28, 2010 10:50 PM EDT up reply actions

All things considered...

If we go 6-6 and don’t make a bowl, that is better than 5-7 and no bowl.

I’d rather be 6-6 with losers on Syracuse.com saying our schedule is weak than 2-10 because we scheduled as if we are trying to edge out LSU for a BCS berth we earned twice in the 1990’s while Miami was on probation and then got destroyed in the bowls.

The bottom line is that Syracuse would have to go 12-0 for schedule to matter at all. At all. Even .00000000001%. Schedule did not matter for Ohio St. last year. Or Florida. Or USC. So why are we scheduling tough at all?? Simply lunacy.

If you want to schedule BC as our tough OOC game, fine.

by ezcuse on Apr 27, 2010 5:51 PM EDT reply actions