I am happy about the Cotton Bowl..

[pandaczar12]

My guess is because a Michigan-Alabama match up has more brand appeal than Minnesota-Alabama. Certainly not fair to the Gophers.

And it certainly wasn't fair to the Nittany Lions that all the questionable calls went the Gophers way, allowing them to be in this position.

 

[pandaczar12]

If someone would have stated after the Whiteout win we were headed to a bowl game against Memphis, most of us would have wondered if Memphis is even D-1! - let alone look at it as a reward!

I honestly had to think for a second if this was the same team PSU played last year in a bowl. Blue team nobody cares about from a state nobody cares about.

 

[SUPERTODD]

Agree, almost 100%. I'm not upset we're not going to the Rose Bowl but when I see Michigan playing Alabama and Minnesota playing Auburn in their respective Bowls, it really pi$$es me off. I don't care what the name or pedigree of the Bowl is, I want to play the best team available.

I definitely do not want to play Auburn or Alabama. We don’t know match up well, with Bama in particular, this year. Our WRs and DB’s inability to go up and win 50/50 balls would murder us against those teams. Tua or not I think they kill Michigan. The Minnesota game should be interesting because of Minny’s wideouts, but we don’t have the offense to win a shootout with Auburn. To me it’s all about 11 wins in 3 out of 4 years. The idea of “wanting to always play the best teams” is a recipe for failure in college football. Look at Bama’s non-conference schedule. It’s a joke. If we played Clemson’s schedule we would be undefeated. If we played Minny’s we would have been undefeated going into the last game of the season and much fresher. Playing “the best” is irrelevant in the current system. For all their blather literally the only thing that gets the CFP committees attention is how many losses a team has at the end of the season.

 

[YorkLion]

I definitely do not want to play Auburn or Alabama. We don’t know match up well, with Bama in particular, this year. Our WRs and DB’s inability to go up and win 50/50 balls would murder us against those teams. Tua or not I think they kill Michigan. The Minnesota game should be interesting because of Minny’s wideouts, but we don’t have the offense to win a shootout with Auburn. To me it’s all about 11 wins in 3 out of 4 years. The idea of “wanting to always play the best teams” is a recipe for failure in college football. Look at Bama’s non-conference schedule. It’s a joke. If we played Clemson’s schedule we would be undefeated. If we played Minny’s we would have been undefeated going into the last game of the season and much fresher. Playing “the best” is irrelevant in the current system. For all their blather literally the only thing that gets the CFP committees attention is how many losses a team has at the end of the season.

In the final game of the Season, I believe you should want to play the best team available.

 

[RickinDayton]

How’d they look against Temple?

How did we look @ times this season? Hopefully our coaches and players have more respect for Memphis than you. PSU will win if they are fully focused, anything less will not bring the "W".

 

[bcspsu]

I imagine I will be staying in my home which is a 20 minute drive from the stadium. By the way, it is not always cold in December. We have averaged at least 65 degrees the entire week and it was 70+ today. It is Jekyll and Hyde. Plus, the stadium is guaranteed to be a comfy 72 degrees. Our beer is cold. The women are beautiful. And people are very friendly. People are moving here in droves from California. Lower taxes, much better employment prospects, cheaper cost of living. I visited SoCal last year. Spent most of my time fighting traffic. Gas was like $5/gallon and everything was expensive. But to each his own.

The fact that many people are moving to Texas from California is very sad for Texas. That means that in a decade or two, the people who ruined California and turned it into the mess that it is today will do the same to a state that actually works.

 

[Texas Lion]

I don't get it. People act as if we lost to Purdue or Illinois.

We lost to an 8-0 Minnesota team, on the road, by 5 points, with no help from the officiating. Was it our best game? No, but why can't anyone give Minnesota credit for playing lights out in their *first* of a few tough opponents?

And we lost to OSU by 11 points, another road game, with a backup QB in the second half.

Those are our two losses. I believe we won all the games we were supposed to, no??

The back-up QB that day was probably the only reason we were even in that game. Cliff was in complete dud mode that day and if he doesn't get hurt we probably get blown out because up to that point our offense wasn't very good.

Yes Minnesota was 8-0 that day...but the 8 were very, very sketchy (which Iowa and Winscy then proved).

Here is the deal....you want bigger bowls you gotta beat Minnesota or Michigan State (previous years). You want playoffs, you gotta beat Ohio State

 

[psuro]

I didn't read all the posts, so forgive me if this has already been said.

It's not about you. It's not about your conspiracy theories. It's not about what you want. It's not about what you think you deserve. It's not about your vacation plans.

 

[AWS1022]

you want bigger bowls you gotta beat Minnesota or Michigan State (previous years)

Or lose to Illinois.

 

[lein]

I definitely do not want to play Auburn or Alabama. We don’t know match up well, with Bama in particular, this year. Our WRs and DB’s inability to go up and win 50/50 balls would murder us against those teams. Tua or not I think they kill Michigan. The Minnesota game should be interesting because of Minny’s wideouts, but we don’t have the offense to win a shootout with Auburn. To me it’s all about 11 wins in 3 out of 4 years. The idea of “wanting to always play the best teams” is a recipe for failure in college football. Look at Bama’s non-conference schedule. It’s a joke. If we played Clemson’s schedule we would be undefeated. If we played Minny’s we would have been undefeated going into the last game of the season and much fresher. Playing “the best” is irrelevant in the current system. For all their blather literally the only thing that gets the CFP committees attention is how many losses a team has at the end of the season.

we may end up beating Memphis and drop in the final polls.

 

[MtNittany]

...the only thing that gets the CFP committees attention is how many losses a team has at the end of the season.

Huh?

 

[jrd23psu]

You would care about the Rose Bowl if you were playing or attending. The Rose bowl is a reward for a team and fan base. The Cotton Bowl is a punishment.

What an embarrassing thing to say. If anyone wonders how people draw the conclusion that our fanbase is terrible and that we have a culture problem this is exhibit A. They read this kind of ridiculousness from our fanbase and they conclude the only thing they can, which is that we have terrible fans. And they're right.

 

[AWS1022]

What an embarrassing thing to say. If anyone wonders how people draw the conclusion that our fanbase is terrible and that we have a culture problem this is exhibit A. They read this kind of ridiculousness from our fanbase and they conclude the only thing they can, which is that we have terrible fans. And they're right.

But these same “fans” will be the first to bitch if we lose the game and blame Franklin for not having the team fired up to play.

 

[Lion-skier]

The fact that many people are moving to Texas from California is very sad for Texas. That means that in a decade or two, the people who ruined California and turned it into the mess that it is today will do the same to a state that actually works.

You're stupid "conspiracy theory" is a joke. People have been moving to California from the other 49 states for decades. Every time someone moves out to another state then someone moves in. California is not like Pennsylvania. There is continual heavy investment in the state and it producers growth. Housing is at a shortage and prices are high. If more people were moving out then moving in that would not be the case. California has high state taxes and Texas has none. Both states serve a valuable purpose for our country and economy. We need California and Texas.
It really surprises me those that criticize California know very little about the state and will never live here. All they do is throw out their worthless two cents because they hate California but their actual knowledge about the state is pathetic.

 

[Lion-skier]

What an embarrassing thing to say. If anyone wonders how people draw the conclusion that our fanbase is terrible and that we have a culture problem this is exhibit A. They read this kind of ridiculousness from our fanbase and they conclude the only thing they can, which is that we have terrible fans. And they're right.

If you think the Cotton bowl even compares with the Rose bowl you're a huge fool. Have you been to either one? The difference is so great that it's a miserable comparison. Exhibit-A is you: A self defeatist fan that just accepts the screwing like we didn't get screwed in the process.

 

[MacNit07]

What an embarrassing thing to say. If anyone wonders how people draw the conclusion that our fanbase is terrible and that we have a culture problem this is exhibit A. They read this kind of ridiculousness from our fanbase and they conclude the only thing they can, which is that we have terrible fans. And they're right.

Oh BS...our fans fill a 107,000 seat stadium nearly every game - with often Memphis level teams as competition.