As expected, Mrs. Keith is thoroughly excited. Fortunately since Bowl Quest VI, I've added another big screen HDTV and am looking to get whole home DVR. Now when she starts grumbling about my watching all these dumb games she'll have a place to go.
As with every other Bowl Quest, there are only two rules to my accomplishing the task of watching all the games.
1. Watch at least one quarter of every college bowl game.
2. One of my two sons can watch a game for me as long as they watch a full quarter and can provide some sort of coherent thoughts about it. Now that they're 18 and 14 respectively, it's easier to get some football thoughts from them but more difficult to convince them to participate. Hard to believe I started this when they were 11 and 7 and boy #1 was relied upon to complete the quest.
That's it. You won't get great insight into college football and some of what I write will be wrong or at least poorly thought out. It's not about the games but about watching the games. You'll also run in to a lot of crappy writing on my part and plenty of grammatical errors (especially based on how much I've had to drink before or during posting.)
The two big stories after all the games have been announced are that Notre Dame and Alabama will play for the title (as they should) and that Northern Illinois made a BCS game over Oklahoma. ESPN's Kirk Herbstreit evidently is the biggest critic of that game because I guess it's his job. Really, who cares - it's the Orange Bowl, a game next to no one watches because it starts late on January 1st and usually matches up teams who had disappointing seasons. I think there will be more interest to see if a MAC team can beat a big BCS school like Florida State instead of a Big 12 also ran. The MAC is where it's at if you really watch a lot of games. The conference has Tuesday and Wednesday nights to themselves and has really been improving because of that TV time. Players want to play and be on TV and the MAC provides that. So shove it Herbstreit.
My Michigan State Spartans managed to stumble into a bowl game by beating hapless Minnesota in their regular season finale. They really didn't deserve a post season game but the Big 10 has eight bowl slots to fill and Michigan State took the seventh and final spot by being bowl eligible at 6-6.
That's all you really need to know about how awful the Big 10 was this season. Much more on that through the games.
Here's the complete schedule to find your favorite teams, like Louisiana-Monroe and Duke, both bowl eligible. http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/8048429/2012-13-bowl-schedule
As Spuddy, the Potato Bowl mascot would probably say if he could talk, enjoy the games!
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