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From: jmd@mhuxl.UUCP (Joseph M. Dakes)
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Subject: Re: Bowl Results/Conference Strengths/#
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Date: Mon, 6-Jan-86 10:48:08 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan  6 10:48:08 1986
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> Great (in no particular order)        Good:
> 
> Rose: UCLA 45, Iowa 28                Peach Bowl:  Army 31, Illinois 29
> Sugar:  Tennessee 35, Miami 7         Cotton Bowl: Texas A&M 36, Auburn 16
> 
> 
> Who Cares?                                Boring
> 
> Freedom: Washngton 20, Colorado 17        Orange: Oklahoma 25, Penn St. 10
> 
> (Both Orange and Citrus were lemons!)

Yeah, right.  You think that two blowouts (Rose and Sugar) were more exciting
than the Orange Bowl?  Maybe for Tennessee and UCLA fans but not the general
public.  The Orange Bowl wasa great game (even though I'm a Penn State fan)
and it could have went either way until about 5 minutes left in the game.

> As for the Sooners, feh! They beat an over-rated Penn St. team.  And did it
> in a borrrrrrrring manner that wasn't impressive.  Take your national
> championship and enjoy.  I do wish that strength of schedule was factored
> into writers/coaches voting.  Get idiotic teams like Miami, Penn St., and BYU
> down where they belong -- around 8th to 15th, and Oklahoma down to 5th.
> My vote for #1 goes to Tennessee, Michigan #2 (damn!), and UCLA #3.  The damn
> is because UCLA beat USC everyplace but on the scoreboard.  If they had won,
> UCLA might have been #1 or #2; they should have, but they didn't and they
> aren't.  (UCLA did great though.  Only four home games and still 9-2-1.)

OVER-RATED PENN STATE TEAM?  Penn State is the Rodney Dangerfield of college 
football, they never get any respect.  They were 11-0-0 going into the Orange 
Bowl and weren't given a chance to beat Oklahoma.  They played one hell of
a game against the Sooners , the best offensive team in college football, 
completely shutting down the Sooner's wishbone attack like no other team was
capable of doing all year.  If the Lions had a quaterback or one less turnover
against the Sooners, they would have been 12-0-0 and #1.  But, the Sooners
won fair and square and with their defense they deserve to be numero uno.
What was so boring about their manner of winning?  Do you expect #1 team to
win every game 50-0?  

As for strength of schedule, Penn State beat some good teams this year.  They
thrashed the Irish and Pitt and they gave Bama and Maryland a whipping also.
You must be from the west coast with your whining over UCLA, so let me tell
you that their are alot of good teams from the east that don't get any national
attention.  One other thing, you complain about Penn State's weak schedule then
go on to say that if UCLA would have beaten USC they would have been rated #1.
Ha, ha, ha.  What makes a team deserve number one by beating USC?  Even the
Irish beat USC.  Playing in the Pac-10 is not as demanding of a schedule as
you would like us to believe.

> So much for the college season.  Go Bears!  (and then, only a month until
>    the start of baseball spring training!!!!)

Go Bears?  Finally something we agree on.  No one deserves a Super Bowl
Championship more than Walter Payton.

>       -- from the contented and indulgent musings of Jim Brunet,

						Joseph M. Dakes
						AT&T Bell Laboratories
						Reading, PA
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