Subscribe Feed (RSS)I’m sure most of the other schools in the Pac-10 would like to see USC beaten out of a Rose Bowl berth. Everyone loves an underdog and seriously, Oregon State, by winning, would stand as a symbol to other schools in the conference that, yes, it CAN be done on a smaller budget.
But that’s a chump-change reason to root for OSU compared to this – there is a lot of money riding on a Beaver win. BCS bowls come with a very big payout. And the Beavers are the Pac-10’s last hope of getting two teams in BCS bowls this season. The Trojans should grab one of those berths, even if they don’t go to the Rose Bowl. Oregon State would sneak in by virtue of its Rose Bowl berth. But if the Beavers lose to the Ducks, there’s not another BCS team in the conference.
What does that mean in a conference where bowl payouts are divided equally? Near as I can tell, it’s more than $1.5 million per university riding on an OSU win Saturday in Corvallis. BCS bowl payouts are about $17 million. And when you get down to it, if the Ducks win the game they’ll cost themselves a million and a half bucks!
Not that they care.
And yes, even in the high-stakes world of college football, $1.5 million accounts for a lot of video games and plasma screens in your locker room.
Tags: BCS, bowl payouts, Civil War, Dwight Jaynes, Oregon Ducks, Oregon State Beavers, Rose Bowl, USC Trojans
I just have to disagree with one thing, Dwight. If OSU wins nine Pac-10 games, including beating USC, to go to the Rose Bowl how can that be called “sneaking” in? Seems to me that’s winning your way in.
Here’s to a win in the Civil War.
Any time Beavers win, they have pulled some sneaky tom-foolery, hypnotizing their opponents into submission and self-destructive behavior. OSU needs to hire a couple UofO marketing teams to try to sell more salsa, dips and frozen burrito’s and buy a better basketball team too, because its starting to embarrass the whole state.
Here’s to the Ducks pissing everyone off.
(they know they love our uniform rotation, just not secure enough to admit it.)
I can already hear the Dwuck fans crying…..
Obviously a Beaver.
[...] As we wrote yesterday, there is a lot of money at stake Saturday in the Civil War. If the Ducks win and knock Oregon State out of the Rose Bowl, it will deprive the Pac-10 of $17 million in BCS money, which would be divided equally among conference members. [...]