Cobra Commander

Jacksonville State vs Louisiana-Lafayette in the R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl. San Jose State and Coastal Carolina in the EasyPost Hawaii Bowl. K-State and NC State in the Pop-Tarts Bowl. USC and Louisville in the DirecTV Holiday Bowl. Kentucky and Clemson in the TaxSlayer Gator Bowl. The bowl games sorting through ACC teams: Military Bowl Duke's Mayo Bowl Pinstripe Bowl Sun Bowl

a list of bowl games with new names/sponsors this year The LendingTree Bowl is now the 68 Ventures Bowl. As noted already, The Famous Toastery Bowl is the one year replacement for the Bahamas Bowl because the Bahamas Bowl stadium is being renovated. The TicketSmarter Birmingham Bowl is now the 76 Birmingham Bowl. The Duluth Trading Cure Bowl is now the Avocados From Mexico Cure Bowl. This is the first year that Scooter's Coffee is sponsoring the Frisco Bowl. The San Diego County Credit Union Holiday Bowl is now the DirecTV Holiday Bowl. It's still being played at PETCO Park. The Jimmy Kimmel LA Bowl presented by Stifel is now the Starco Brands LA Bowl Hosted by Gronk. The Military Bowl presented by Peraton is now The Military Bowl presented by GoBowling.com. This is the first year that the New Mexico Bowl is being sponsored by the Isleta Pueblo. The Cheez-It Bowl is now the Pop-Tarts Bowl. Not to be confused with the Cheez-Its Citrus Bowl.

Texas Tech and Cal. Radiance Technologies Independence Bowl Auburn and Maryland. TransPerfect Music City Bowl. Still a bunch of ACC Bowls waiting on Notre Dame.

If you’re the Big 12 commissioner, how do you react to your champ being left out if your champ is leaving the conference anyways

Live footage of James Cockburn: So, wonder how much of a mistake it would be for a non-WWE wrestling company to buy a college football bowl sponsorship.

Iowa State and Memphis. AutoZone Liberty Bowl. Texas State and Rice. Servpro First Responder Bowl. Northwestern and Utah. SRS Distribution Las Vegas Bowl. Wyoming and Toledo. Barstool Sports Arizona Bowl. Appalachian State and Miami-Ohio. Avocados from Mexico Cure Bowl. South Florida and Syracuse. RoofClaim.com Boca Raton Bowl. UCF and Duke. Union Home Mortgage Gasparilla Bowl South Alabama and Eastern Michigan. 68 Ventures Bowl Georgia Tech and Troy. 76 Birmingham Bowl Marshall and UTSA. Scooter's Coffee Frisco Bowl Bowling Green and Minnesota. Quick Lane Bowl. LSU and Wisconsin. Reliaquest Bowl Texas A&M and Oklahoma State. TaxAct Texas Bowl. Georgia Southern and Ohio. Myrtle Beach Bowl. Boston College and SMU. Wasabi Fenway Bowl. Kansas and UNLV. Guaranteed Rate Bowl

Iowa and Tennessee. Cheez-It Citrus Bowl. James Madison and Air Force. Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl. Arkansas State and Northern Illinois. Camellia Bowl.

New Mexico State will take on Fresno State in the Isleta New Mexico Bowl. Isleta is the Isleta Pueblo, which is a federally recognized Native American tribe based south of Albuquerque Boise State and UCLA will face off in the Starco Brands LA Bowl Hosted by Gronk. Western Kentucky will play against Old Dominion in the Famous Toastery Bowl in Charlotte, the one year replacement for the Bahamas Bowl Arizona vs Oklahoma in the Valero Alamo Bowl.

Utah State vs Georgia State in the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl. Ohio State vs Mizzou in the Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic. Ole Miss vs Penn State in the Chick-fil-a Peach Bowl. Oregon vs Liberty in the Vrbo Fiesta Bowl. and... Florida State vs Georgia in the Capitol One Orange Bowl.

I'm thinking I read the wrong table (the table for the title game instead of the final four) Reading the right table.. 6 of the 8 ACC appearances were Clemson, 1 Florida State that you mentioned, and Notre Dame counts as ACC on that table. All the "ACC is dead because of today" talk forgets that Clemson is the only ACC team that has consistently had a place at the table under the CFP. Having 7-5 Kentucky beat 10-2 Louisville in Louisville probably doesn't help the perception of the ACC vs the SEC in football. Anyways, Texas joins OU and TCU in CFP berths from the Big 12 and Washington now makes up 2 of the 3 Pac 12 CFP berths. FSU is in a 'fun' spot where either they beat Georgia and claim they were robbed, or they lose to Georgia and blame it on the committee anyways

26-0 is a tad more impressive than winning 16-6. Florida State played 3 ranked opponents all year. The ACC was the epitome of mediocre once you got past the top. Even then, Louisville played last night like they also had a 3rd string QB. Anyways, Clemson remains the only ACC team ever to make the CFP under the current format and Texas/Washington are the second Big 12/Pac 12 schools to make it.

To be fair, that FSU/Louisville game last night was a pretty brutal viewing experience.

Watching some more Florida on YouTube and it looks like JJ Dillon’s mustache was pretty much gone by the time that Jimmy Garvin turned heel by signing with JJ. Which was Garvin going from being a bland babyface Jim Garvin to being somebody important. Also the sequence might have been inspired by baseball free agency as there were multiple references to Reggie Jackson signing with the Angels (or as Gordon put it, Reggie Jackson signed with the Dodgers) So here’s another moment in the adventures of JJ Dillon in Florida:

Nick Saban being the first team out in back to back years feels like the ingredients for a lot of drama. Alabama will take that as a sign to never schedule anybody with a pulse in non-con ever again. but yeah, FSU getting the QB who led them to a 24-15 victory over Florida probably means that their first round game will be a little less tedious, depending on who you have faith in between Florida State and a Pac-12 team

I'm guessing Michigan at 1, Washington at 2, then it depends on what sort of games they wanna play with matchups. Michigan/Florida State at this point is pretty likely to involve Michigan smothering Florida State to death with a pillow because Michigan has a strong defense and Florida State has an uninspiring offense lately. It wouldn't shock me at all if Washington ends up losing to the 3 seed. So, Michigan vs Alabama and Texas vs Washington and an Alabama/Texas NCG.

also it's a better plan to jump Shawn Michaels than Lex Luger, no "group of marines" ever tried to take on Lex Luger and his stainless steel forearm

Also note the novel concept of "we only had 10 minutes to give you for this match (presumably because of how packed the rest of the show is and how they only have an hour)" becoming a point of contention. As opposed to now where things just magically work themselves out with giving everybody enough time. Although if you did something where a match was advertised for Dynamite but due to other events, it was "bumped" to Rampage "due to time".. I don't know if you could have some wrestler vent frustration on TV (in a non-shoot way) about his matches being messed with due to other people's chaos. Or considering how at least half the matches go through a commercial break, a wrestler who gets mad at other wrestlers for having matches that go too long. They'd just tweet about it instead. Or it'd be someone that fans don't care enough about to want to see in action. So. Just got the foreign object idea of someone responding to being squeezed off due to lack of time walking out with a Flava Flav clock "to keep track of time", only for them to hit opponents with that clock if they're really desperate to win a match. It's not as good of an idea as my idea that blatantly rips off the Mirror dude from Morris Day and the Time.

Not sure which two wrestlers were the last two in because they were sorta false advertising Arn and Sid up until the day of the PPV despite the stabbing/suspensions. Guessing that Keith Cole or Charlie Norris was on the threshold of being left off the PPV and that someone had to be stabbed to get Rip Rogers on a PPV in 1993. I guess if you’re gonna have TV that was taped 6+ weeks before airing, Battlebowl was their best hope of not spoiling future storylines with their advanced taping schedule.

Guessing it’s a better idea to give Ric Flair/Steve Austin vs Scorpio/Maxx Payne nearly 15 minutes than Rick Rude/Shanghai Pierce vs Tex Slazenger/Marcus Bagwell?

Random note: fortunately Vince Russo wasn’t so cultured that he knew of the “name Cockburn is pronounced Coburn” thing so that some WWF wrestler in 1998 would have to keep telling people his name isn’t pronounced Peter Cockburn but Peter Coburn. edit: that would be the name of a porn star who is a mortal enemy of Val Venis

Kevin Patrick is his first/middle name so they didn’t have to make up last name for him at least

*checks Wikipedia* yeah Kevin Patrick is from Dublin kudos to the complete maniacs maintaining a week by week list of commentators on WWE TV shows. So that people remember which week had Michael Cole and Ernest Miller commentating during the Ernest Miller WWE run which was mostly him working Velocity with way too much detail of what he did between the Royal Rumble (January 25th, 2004) and being released by the company (February 10th, 2004)

it's possible that Central States didn't make enough money to just have a manager who didn't wrestle in 1981 (I know the stories Cornette had about potentially going to KC from Memphis if not for Mid-South mentioned a preference for managers who could wrestle too) looking at WrestlingData and he had only just returned to Florida for the first time in years late in 1981, so this early JJ look is the look of a manager who steals money from his wrestlers to buy cigarettes.. looking at an April 1982 Florida episode, JJ still has a mustache, but he has dyed his hair lighter and he switched from a collared shirt/tie to a bowtie/jacket.. so somebody's making more money!

update from December 1981 Florida: JJ Dillon looking like he talks to the customers so that the engineers don't have to. I thought JJ was slumming it a tad in JCP before he dropped all his randos and went in with the Horsemen. But it's possible that JJ has like a 5 year progression where he went from looking like a dumpy office worker who steals from his employer to looking like a corrupt elected official. In other words, that mustache.. I'm hoping that was merely a short-term thing.

IWA Puerto Rico is still going, because wrestling promotions never go away unless they want to, so IWA Mid-South vs IWA Puerto Rico!