Anyone else hoping to renew our music city bowl rivalry with Alabama or Arkansas

[gopherdudepart2]

Would like to see the Gophers renew there music city match-ups with Alabama or Arkansas. 2015 or later might be far off enough in the future to not have to tangle with the National champion level Alabama. Those bowl games were a couple of good football games and good memories. Would be fun to travel for the Gopher fans and those SEC fans that would come up to TCF from Alabama or Arkansas. Those just seem like they would be fun match-ups and good for our team to go against that competition.

 

[re3886]

From what I remember...

From living in Alabama for 4 years is that they are on a pretty strict one good OOC game a three cupcake schedule, normally with the tough game played in a "friendly" environment, i.e. home, Birmingham, or the Georgia Dome. The 2012 trip to Happy Valley a notable exception, but considering the history between them, and the fact that PSU is not nearly desperate enough to agree to a one shot road trip. As for Arkansas, Delta Hog would be a excellent resource on this one. Anybody still have some contact with him?

 

[MrGopher]

We have only played games against SEC teams 8 times in our history.

Alabama, Arkansas, and Tennessee (all once, and all in bowl games).
Mississippi once (1932), and Vanderbilt (4 times, last in 1959).

Would it be cool? Yes.
Would we be owned? Possibly.
Is a Pac12 or Big12 matchup more likely? Yes.

 

[gophmeister]

We had some games with Washington that were memorable. My dad went to the '49 game. We've had some great games with Pitt, Oregon and Missouri too. Now that Seantrel is at Miami, perhaps we can convince them to come up here even though he'll have used up his eligibility by then. We don't have a lot of history with SEC or ACC schools except for recent bowl games. Of those two conferences I think we've only played Vanderbilt, Mississipi and Wake Forest in the regular season. I wouldn't mind seeing us play Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama or Florida. I really believe a great home and home series would be with Georgia Tech. Atlanta would be fun and their stadium is practically in the middle of downtown Atlanta. When I was a kid, the first game of the year was always against a MAC team (usually Ohio U) followed up by a game against the PAC 8 and then the Big 8. When I was at the U we played Iowa St., Nebraska, Colorado and Pitt along with some WAC and MAC teams. Wacker almost beat Colorado his first year. I seem to remember us missing a field goal for the win or something. I can't remember. The Wacker games I remember best are Wisconsin '93 & '94, Illinois '93 cuz we got jobbed, Penn St '94 cuz we got absolutely destroyed, Northwestern '95, Syracuse '96 and Purdue '96. I wonder if things would have gone a little better for him had we won that game. He would have probably been taken him more seriously. My dad still calls him old geezo beezo.

 

[metrolax]

SEC oppoenents

The problem with the SEC is that most of their teams will never come north. Sure, they'll
invite you down in Septmeber on a Saturday night when its 90 degrees, but they'll rarely
if ever travel north.

That's the reason why I think the SEC, while good, is overrated. Even during the bowl games they
are at an advantage over northern teams. They should win almost every game with that type
of advantage, but the Big Ten has done well vs them. What would it be if those games were
played in Big Ten Country in November?

The SEC, back in the day, is the conference that started the formula of scheduling cupcakes,
padding your overall record, and marching to bowl games. It was very common for teams like
Alabama, LSU, Tennessee, Ole Miss, Auburn, Georgia and others to play maybe 5-6 SEC games,
pad their OOC slate with the likes of Chattanooga and others, and then travel a couple hundred
miles to a bowl game, welcomed by 30,000 of their own fans.

What SEC team would ever want to go to TCF Bank Stadium at any time? The Horseshoe?
The Big House? Its a risk. As it stands right now, they don't have to, and they still have the
national media kneeling at their altar. Why would they change?

 

[re3886]

this really covers it well...

The problem with the SEC is that most of their teams will never come north. Sure, they'll
invite you down in Septmeber on a Saturday night when its 90 degrees, but they'll rarely
if ever travel north.

That's the reason why I think the SEC, while good, is overrated. Even during the bowl games they
are at an advantage over northern teams. They should win almost every game with that type
of advantage, but the Big Ten has done well vs them. What would it be if those games were
played in Big Ten Country in November?

The SEC, back in the day, is the conference that started the formula of scheduling cupcakes,
padding your overall record, and marching to bowl games. It was very common for teams like
Alabama, LSU, Tennessee, Ole Miss, Auburn, Georgia and others to play maybe 5-6 SEC games,
pad their OOC slate with the likes of Chattanooga and others, and then travel a couple hundred
miles to a bowl game, welcomed by 30,000 of their own fans.

What SEC team would ever want to go to TCF Bank Stadium at any time? The Horseshoe?
The Big House? Its a risk. As it stands right now, they don't have to, and they still have the
national media kneeling at their altar. Why would they change?

+1

 

[mplsbadger]

The problem with the SEC is that most of their teams will never come north. Sure, they'll
invite you down in Septmeber on a Saturday night when its 90 degrees, but they'll rarely
if ever travel north.

That's the reason why I think the SEC, while good, is overrated. Even during the bowl games they
are at an advantage over northern teams. They should win almost every game with that type
of advantage, but the Big Ten has done well vs them. What would it be if those games were
played in Big Ten Country in November?

The SEC, back in the day, is the conference that started the formula of scheduling cupcakes,
padding your overall record, and marching to bowl games. It was very common for teams like
Alabama, LSU, Tennessee, Ole Miss, Auburn, Georgia and others to play maybe 5-6 SEC games,
pad their OOC slate with the likes of Chattanooga and others, and then travel a couple hundred
miles to a bowl game, welcomed by 30,000 of their own fans.

What SEC team would ever want to go to TCF Bank Stadium at any time? The Horseshoe?
The Big House? Its a risk. As it stands right now, they don't have to, and they still have the
national media kneeling at their altar. Why would they change?

Good point. Ask Arkansas and Auburn whether they'd put USC on the schedule again. I doubt it.