And if there is one thing we’ve learned over the years about the conference commissioners who run college football, it’s that they care little about the greater good of the game if it means losing dollars from their own wallets.
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Bryant wins one last time in Boston
He reminded them all they needed to do was go home and win two games. “I grew up a really big historian of the game”, Bryant said. Bryant finished with a team-high 20 points in the Lakers 108-98 loss and said that he was moved by the cheers from the crowd.
Pitting the fledgling College Football Playoff against New Year’s Eve traditions that are so deeply engrained in American culture is a “risky”, move, according to Keith Strudler, director of Marist College’s Center for Sports Communication. With 16 Pylon Cameras looking down at the goal line and sidelines, the area on the field where the most critical close calls can happen will be thoroughly covered for both games.
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So far this season, Marchand has been the Bruins leading scorer with 26 points (15 goals and 11 assists in 34 games). Needless to say, Montreal fans have to be pretty happy with how the New Year’s Day event started for their team.
The matchups of this year’s games weren’t as attractive and both turned out to be lopsided. That way the Rose Bowl could keep its spot and the playoffs would be played on the day associated with college football. Thursday’s first semifinal between Oklahoma and Clemson starts at 4 p.m. EST. How are we supposed to get fired up for Rose, Sugar and Fiesta bowls when two more important games have already been held and most folks are now focused on the January 11 national championship? That would be the 12-1 fifth-ranked Iowa Hawkeyes out of the Big Ten, maybe the most old school program in the country.
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The game started off fast as David Desharnais got a quick goal past Tuukka Rast off of a face off 1:14 into the first period. Eyewitness News spoke with several fans who said they are rooting for the Bruins during the big game on New Year’s Day.
Those games have their own separate TV deals with ESPN and they were set before the playoff was finalized.
We approached the CFP with a one-year change-and really a one-year-only opportunity-because of a complete quirk in the calendar. But just when you thought it could get dumber, you hear the story about how since New Year’s is on a Friday this year, there was the natural idea to move the semis to Saturday.
“We’re all excited about New Year’s Eve”. Next weekend there will be only one college football game remaining in the season.
Watching college football through confetti! New Year’s Eve is for parties, and for watching a ball drop in Times Square, and for making questionable life choices involving bottom-shelf Champagne.
The first game starts at 4 p.m. ET (the middle of the workday on the West coast – but then again, I’m not entirely convinced people on the West coast actually ever go to work) and the second game kicks at 8 p.m. ET. Or just make the Rose Bowl a permanent host of a semifinal and cycle the other semifinal through one of the five other games on the slate.
The play of quarterback Connor Cook has been a major factor in MSU’s success over the past three seasons, however he was injured for this year’s win over the Buckeyes, as the Spartans pounded OSU 51 times on the ground for 203 yards in their 17-14 upset.
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The loss of a few million viewers to New Year’s Eve revelry, even among the key 18-to-39 demographic, won’t dissuade advertisers from buying up blocks of airtime, Billings added.
