WHY SHOULD I CARE ABOUT THE BOWL GAME?

Published: December 26, 2007, 9:20 pm

Tags: bowl games, champs sports bowl, bcs, clemson tigers, boston college, brian p foley, auburn

by Brian P. Foley, The College Baseball BlogI am currently a season ticket holder for the Boston College Eagles. They went an outstanding 10-3 and won the Atlantic Division in the ACC. They will be playing in the Champs Sports Bowl against a 7-5 Michigan State squad. What? A division champion has to play a borderline bowl team in a non-New Year's day bowl.Boston College was passed over by the Chick-fil-a Bowl (Peach Bowl to me) in favor of a Clemson squad which has a worse record than BC in the conference and lost to the Eagles in Death Valley. Why was Clemson picked over Boston College? The Peach Bowl committee stated that they were scared of bringing a BC team to Atlanta because they have a reputation of not traveling well. The Auburn Tigers who will be Clemson's opponent in the bowl game sold out their allotment within 24 hours of putting tickets on sale. So why not give BC fans a chance to purchase tickets and if they do not sell the allotment turn around and give the Auburn fans

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