Comments on: BOOYA! Cal 27, Stanford 3 http://thecrawfordfamily.net/blog/?p=120 My personal/Catholic blog Sat, 08 Oct 2011 01:31:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: Ken's Brother http://thecrawfordfamily.net/blog/?p=120#comment-151 Mon, 21 Nov 2005 16:57:31 +0000 /blog/?p=120#comment-151 My understanding of the Insight Bowl is that they get to choose between us and ASU if we’re both bowl eligible. I don’t know about you, but despite the fact they can’t figure out daylight savings, people in Arizona aren’t that stupid. They’d pick the hometown team in a blatant attempt to get ratings…

]]> By: Jason http://thecrawfordfamily.net/blog/?p=120#comment-150 Mon, 21 Nov 2005 06:30:44 +0000 /blog/?p=120#comment-150 Let’s say that USC and ASU win, and that Oregon is not chosen for an at-large BCS berth. In that scenario, USC goes to the Rose Bowl, Oregon to the Holiday Bowl, UCLA to the Sun Bowl. Next up is Insight, which chooses local team ASU (tied with Cal at 4-4, and bowl-eligible, thanks to their future win over Arizona). That leaves the Las Vegas Bowl for Cal, most likely.

Although this Mercury News article:
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/sports/13215320.htm
suggests that the LV Bowl’s schedule might conflict with finals at Cal, in which case the Bears _still_ might end up at SBC Park. Seems unlikely to me, though.

If ASU loses to Arizona, the Bears move up to the Insight Bowl. If Oregon gets a BCS berth, Cal might go to the Sun Bowl or the Insight Bowl — it would depend on which team the Sun Bowl would prefer, but my guess is they’d pick ASU based on proximity and Cal would return to Phoenix.

In the truly wacky scenario, ASU loses to Arizona and Oregon gets picked for the BCS. Then Cal would be guaranteed the Sun Bowl.

But you’re right — there actually is an outside chance that only four Pac-10 teams will be bowl eligible. Pretty sad. Been a tough conference this year.

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