Tracking bowl wins is meaningless because opponents & context matter

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Jan 27, 2023
10:08:16am

PortlandCoug All-American

Tracking bowl wins is meaningless because opponents & context matter

Bowl game performance are the least correlated game to a team’s season results especially so because of opt outs and just because so many bowls are meaningless anyway. Now consistently making a bowl game is a different story but bowl game wins and losses mean very little without context.

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Schools without a bowl win in 5 years. Nearly half of P12 is on the list.

civilcoug

1/27/23 9:55am

With the transfer portal, opt outs, coaching changes, etc., bowls have different

Medute

1/27/23 10:02am

Ute fans, simultaneously arguing the Rose Bowl matters and that bowl games don’t matter.

1/27/23 10:04am

I would love the Rose Bowl trophy. But we got beat by better teams

Medute

1/27/23 10:10am

One could argue that Utah was only there due to injuries to other players

1/27/23 10:24am

Success in football often requires quite a bit of luck

Medute

1/27/23 10:42am

The excuse store called.

cosmohio

1/27/23 10:25am

1/10

Medute

1/27/23 10:42am

They issued a massive product recall. All their excuses have come up lame.

Les IsMore

1/27/23 1:10pm

What does it matter. You're their number 1 best seller.

1/27/23 8:12pm

You were behind with your best offensive player

BYU '80

1/27/23 12:03pm

And driving past the 50 yard line with the ball

Medute

1/27/23 12:15pm

You were making excuses even though Penn St could have also made them

BYU '80

1/27/23 2:01pm

I disagree with your interpretation of what I said

Medute

1/27/23 2:12pm

Tracking bowl wins is meaningless because opponents & context matter

1/27/23 10:08am

Context is definitely important

slatecoug

1/27/23 2:26pm

Hence all the flower emoji.

kccougar

1/27/23 10:11am

There are games that are a representation of the team though. OU vs fsu was

FieroCoug

1/27/23 10:14am

True, I'd argue it tells you more about how a team performs relative to perception

krindorr

1/27/23 10:19am

So the Rose Bowl "didn't matter"? So why all the roses and bragging about "valiant losses"? You and the U fanbase

1/27/23 3:47pm

You’ll have to point out where I said it didn’t matter

Medute

1/27/23 3:58pm

Oh wait, I just realized who I replied to

Medute

1/27/23 3:59pm

Right back atcha, loser on his rival's site arguing nonsense for his bowl losing league of "champions"

1/27/23 4:13pm

"Bowls have different meanings" = "don't matter" Why else did you contribute to this thread? Happy to annoy you. Go away

1/27/23 4:10pm

They'd all probably tell you it was because their NFL talent skipped the bowl

AF_Puma

1/27/23 10:11am

Bowls are in theory supposed to put evenly matched teams against each other.

Mitty

1/27/23 10:32am

Maybe we can get the B1G to only send their 4th or 5th best team from now on to the Rose Bowl to face the PAC 12 rep

slatecoug

1/27/23 2:30pm

NC St won the 2021 Holiday bowl by forfeit when UCLA covid canceled hrs before

rbr

1/27/23 10:48am

Basically UCLA lied and said they were a go, only to cancel 2 hrs before kickoff

rbr

1/27/23 10:49am

All I see in the middle is "scum'n U of U"

notaboy

1/27/23 12:39pm

Maybe 1/4 of P5. Many of those teams aren’t P5

NYC and Japan

1/27/23 2:04pm

I was shocked to see the "U" on that list. Not surprised at all to see

AF'er

1/27/23 2:40pm

SC being on this list is inexcusable.

davidmj10

1/27/23 2:41pm

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