USC heading to the Emerald Bowl to Face Boston College
by Paragon SC on Dec 6, 2009 2:13 PM PST
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USC will face Boston College in the Emerald Bowl on Dec. 26 at San Francisco's AT&T Park. The matchup, featuring a pair of 8-4 teams, will kick off at 5 p.m. and will be televised nationally on ESPN.
The game marks the Trojans' ninth consecutive bowl.
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From the Emerald Bowl Official website...
Executive director Gary Cavalli extended the Emerald Bowl bid to each team today following yesterday's completion of regular season play.
The Trojans and Eagles, each 8-4 during the regular season, meet on Saturday, December 26 with kickoff at 5:00 p.m. [PST]/8:00 p.m. [EST]. The game will be televised in prime time for the fourth consecutive year by ESPN and will also be heard nationwide on ESPN Radio.
In last year's Emerald Bowl, California defeated Miami 24-17 before a standing-room-only 42,268 fans. It was also the 8th-most-watched college football bowl telecast in ESPN's history. The Emerald Bowl has set attendance and ratings records two of the past three years.
"We could not be happier with this matchup," Cavalli said. "In USC, we have one of the great brands in college football and a program that is almost always in the national championship hunt. In Boston College, we have one of the nation's premier academic institutions and an over-achieving team that overcame a lot of adversity this season.
"Pete Carroll is recognized as one of the great coaches in the game, and Frank Spaziani did a phenomenal job with BC in his first year as head coach. We look forward to showcasing all that San Francisco has to offer to the teams, coaches, administrators and fans."
The Emerald Bowl and the Pacific-10 Conference reached agreement in 2005 to have a Pac-10 representative in the game. UCLA, Oregon State and Cal have played in the Emerald Bowl previously.
Since its inception in 2002, San Francisco Convention and Visitors Bureau figures indicate the Emerald Bowl has generated over $83 million in revenue for the City and County.
The Trojans, who continue to play one of the nation's strongest schedules, had an impressive early-season victory at Ohio State, the eventual Big Ten champion.
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This is the best news all year
SFO is nice at New Years, and we won’t have to face the Mormons. It should be fun, and winnable!
¡Fusílenlo, después veriguamos! - Pancho Villa
Oops!
My bad, I was up there for the 2007 edition (Oregon St vs. Maryland) on a New Years weekend (the 28th -I think) trip.
Too bad, I’m going to miss this one.
¡Fusílenlo, después veriguamos! - Pancho Villa
Avoided the Nuclear Matchup
Utah vs Cal in the Poinsettia. Oooooohhhhhh! Cal has nothing to win, everything to lose, and a state of mormons to fight. Brutal matchup! Better our Kal Commie friends than us!
Amen Brother
Only Joey Kaufman (see below) is in dreamland thinking we could beat the Mormons. Are you kidding me? I hope I’m completely wrong about this, but the poor Bears are gonna get crushed.
¡Fusílenlo, después veriguamos! - Pancho Villa
by Locoweed 1.1 on Dec 7, 2009 11:09 AM PST up reply actions
Roll call
how many people are going to make the trip to SF for the game?
by Dodgermanramon on Dec 6, 2009 3:10 PM PST via mobile reply actions
Great game....
Because I live on the East coast, I see a lot of ACC games and I think that Boston College will match up well against the Trojans. I hope the Trojans will send the seniors out on a great note!
FIGHT ON!
its cool I know a lot of you guys live back east so its hard to come out here I was hoping to get a few of us that would be going to get together and tailgate. Maybe we can get a CC outing for the Hawaii game next year
by Dodgermanramon on Dec 6, 2009 3:50 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
Ha! Wouldn’t you know this year my folks (who live south of San Francisco) are coming out here for Christmas, so I can’t even use the family get-together as an excuse to be where the game is.
Still, it will be a nice change of pace after the Boxing Day soccer matches from England, and another excuse to tell Santa to get off his ass and deliver a new t.v.
The only downside will be the condescending remarks from my brother about it not being the Rose Bowl. I’ll cope.
You mean you’re not coming out to see us? And here I was all prepared to give you a tour of the Cal campus, Rishi was going to take you out drinking, HolmoePhobe was going to argue with you, and Twist was even considering taking the Honk out of retirement. What a disappointment!
November 20, 1982 - a date that will live in famy.
Well, Loco, if you ask real nice, I’ll bet Twist would give you a Honk instead!
November 20, 1982 - a date that will live in famy.
That all sounded fine up until the honking part.
Count your blessings though, had I been honked hard enough I might have developed Honk-sinki Syndrome and then there would have been two hairy men in scoopneck shirts wandering around the Cal campus.
Believe me, on the Cal campus, nobody would notice.
November 20, 1982 - a date that will live in famy.
Speaking of honking, wtf with the fuskies? You were supposed to huck them.
¡Fusílenlo, después veriguamos! - Pancho Villa
It was Mr. Hyde’s night. Dr. Jeckyll had left the building.
November 20, 1982 - a date that will live in famy.
This is much better than Vegas or Poinsettia
Could you imagine playing a fired up team from the MWC conference (BYU or Utah)? They’d give ‘SC a run for their money. I’d much rather face a middle of the road ACC squad.
That's the understatement of the year Joey
A run for their money? Ha! The Mormons would have crushed us! With BC we stand a chance, and it will be an entertaining game.
¡Fusílenlo, después veriguamos! - Pancho Villa
Can't you see the underlying conspiracy?
The bowl people took the two schools who dislike Notre Dame the most and put us against one another in a bowl game!
Don’t take the bait, Boston College! United we can storm Notre Dame’s bowl game and show them what’s what!
What?
They won’t?
They can’t be bothered?
Those pretentious…
Fine. Fine.
Boston College Eagles people – welcome to the Bay Area! You’ll recognize the slight whiff of patronizing parochialism to anyone not from the city from back home, and the weather change won’t be as big a shock as going to LA.
Yay bowl season!
Understatement?
While the Trojans aren’t the top dogs by any stretch this, they do in fact have a solid team. They’ve beaten Ohio State and Cal both on the road and Oregon State at home. The Pac-10 was simply much better this year and SC was a bit worse. PERIOD.
Remember, SC was just 7 points away from being 10-2 this year. These are indications of a piss-poor football team. Sure, the Trojans weren’t exceptional, but let’s not get carried away by calling BYU and MWC to surely dominate the Trojans on a neutral site.
It’s all about emotion Joey. These second tier bowls are a huge letdown for a team that has been to BCS Bowls in the past 7 years. The Utah schools have every reason to get hyped up about beating USC. I remember our last Las Vegas Bowl and I never want to go there again.
¡Fusílenlo, después veriguamos! - Pancho Villa
yah i know but they usually beat ND
I should of called it the Beating French Toast Bowl, since they were founded by the french and not my irish ancestors.
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by so.cal.native1952 on Dec 6, 2009 9:57 PM PST up reply actions
Whats the core of this USC team next year?
Barkely Rojo mcnight and bradford and who else? who will step up and be the 2nd and 3rd recievers? Havent we recruited big time recievers over the last couple of years?? how come none of them pan out, Our best is “the transfer of arkansas” (thank g-d i dontt have to hear another announcer say that) and our defense is filled with a bunch of big names who dont play up to their abilities.. who is gonna step up next year on the D side? our whole secondary is gone next year (thank g-d),
great questions. lets hope someone has the answers.
as for the bowl game. I want the Trojans to come out pissed and steamroll over BC.
if they do and its a big “IF”, lets not start suckn each others Dks just yet,
because the emerald bowl is still like kissing your sister.
Is the team being coached by someone named Tolner, Smith or Hackett? are we lowering expectations and settling for mediocrity?
NO! We are USC,
its BCS championship game or Rose bowl (with a top 5 finish and news articles about how we would have beaten the whatever team won the BCS)
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