The Blue Board

Great idea. I can hear it now.....,"you guys have had a great season so as a reward you get a week long trip to .........Ann Arbor in December"!!!!!

Who the hell would pay to go to a game in the North Pole?

Only southern football matters.

But at the price of losing

But only to southerners.

If they could only play each other then you could die happy.

If bowls in the 'north' are going to work, they have to have a vacationing draw beyond just the bowl game. This is why games on the night of January 1st would be good fits at the NYG (MetLife) stadium, or perhaps at Soldier Field. With both of these locations, there are great festivities (obviously moreso in NYC) on new years eve, and I would anticipate that a lot of people would consider going to NYC for New Years Eve as a legitimate vacation scenario.

But who would the bowl allegiances be with? B1G vs. ...? Geographically the BEast fits the best, but would the B1G go for a bowl matchup against a BEast team? If it was at Soldier Field, then it could be B1G v. B12, which is a matchup they already have and also works regionally. If held at MetLife stadium, I guess B1G v. ACC. Unless the SEC thinks their base would travel well enough to get up to NYC...

I think a bowl game at any of the B1G college campuses is virtually out of the question, they just wouldn't have enough draw to justify an extended vacation. It'd definitely have to be Chicago or NYC.

I never understood the point of having football games in a baseball stadium either. Yankee Stadium nor Wrigley is ideal for football.

This entire argument is dumb. Bowl games in the South means no one has an advantage because by then Southern teams are used to the cold there and for Northern teams they get a reprieve from the freezing cold at their school.

Having bowl games in the North gives Northern teams an advantage.

Plus, as several others have said, bowl games are a reward. Who would rather play in Ann Arbor/State College in December/January than New Orleans/Miami?

No one.

At this point it really just looks like this argument is about being butthurt because the SEC has the last 6 NCs.

Dunno, Bama fans made it about 55/45 in the Dome and we had to drive 6 hours to get there while LSU fans had to drive 1.

If your fanbase is rabid enough then distance won't matter as much.

I'm really just saying as far as the cold goes that games in the north give northern teams an advantage while games in the south keep it neutral. As far as having people at the game, Northern fans are more likely to go south than Southern fans are likely to go North- giving Northern teams an even greater advantage in games up North.

1. Driving 6 hours to a national title game is a terrible argument for why the SEC doesn't have a homefield advantage in bowl games being played in Florida and Louisiana. People driving 14-22 hours (or flying if have the $$) to get to the Gator Bowl, to watch their 8-4 team or whatever, that's dedication.

2. While I don't necessarily agree with it, you seem to miss the entire argument in your final paragraph. The thought is that teams in the north are generally built to withstand the weather and cold, therefore (in theory) being bigger with not quite as much of an emphasis on speed. Furthermore, the recruits in the home states of the northern teams are likely also going to have some of the same points of strength, with head on ability being valued a little higher than getting to the edge.
While it's really not my argument to make, saying that teams built for speed don't have an advantage over teams built for cold slugfests when they're playing in a dome or a generally warm climate is simply wrong.

Walter Peyton was from Jackson State Miss. Donald Driver for the Packers is from Alcorn State Miss. Wallace for the Steelers is from Ole Miss. Rice for Seattle is from South Carolina. Ward for the Steelers is from Georgia. Champ Bailey for the Broncos is from Georgia. Percy Harvin for the Vikings is from Florida. I could go on forever. This cold crap is just that. You do not have to be built like a log truck to play in cold weather. Anyone can get acclimated to any climate.

I never argued that good players were anything less than that, regardless of climate. The issue arises much moreso with the 'fill-in' starters and 2nd stringers. With those types, weather and things of that nature can make a big difference.