12-0 WAC Champion Warrior Football Team is headed to The Sugar Bowl!Hawaii today finished 10th in the Final Bowl Championship Series Standings and will face-off with SEC East Power, Georgia in the New Years Day Bowl Game at The Superdome.
Kickoff is set for 3:30pm (HST)
BCS buster Hawaii earns date with Georgia in Sugar Bowl
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Colt Brennan and high-scoring Hawaii are perfectly thrilled to play in the Sugar Bowl. Georgia hoped to reach the Superdome, too -- only not for this game.
In the year of the upset, Georgia was indeed upset. The Bulldogs blossomed into one of the best teams in the country with six straight wins, and believed they should've been picked for the BCS championship game.
Instead, LSU jumped the Bulldogs in the standings and will play Ohio State for the title.
"We feel like we got shafted a little bit,'' Georgia safety Kelin Johnson said. "The numbers don't add up. The numbers do not add up. The numbers do not lie. That's what is confusing. I don't know what's going on.''
Now, No. 4 Georgia (10-2) will head to New Orleans for a matchup on New Year's Night against the lone unbeaten team in major college football.
Hawaii (12-0) earned an at-large bid to the Bowl Championship Series by rallying past Washington 35-28 Saturday night. Brennan completed the comeback, going 42-for-50 and throwing five touchdown passes for the highest-scoring team in the land.
"Sugar is definitely sweet,'' Brennan said. "We're going to do it Hawaiian style.''
The 10th-ranked Warriors are the champions of the Western Athletic Conference, the home of last season's BCS-buster Boise State. Few thought highly of those Broncos until they startled Oklahoma last season in a crazy Fiesta Bowl.
"I think Boise State proved that anything can happen in college football. Appalachian State proved it, too,'' Hawaii coach June Jones said.
The Warriors did not get more credit this season because of a relatively soft schedule that became even softer when Michigan State dropped off.
"Questionable schedule, rightfully so,'' Jones said. "We don't feel like we have to anything to prove.''
In recent years, Hawaii has beaten the likes of Alabama, Michigan State and Oregon State. Brennan and his teammates were not deterred when critics took aim at their team.
"We didn't say anything when those guys were talking all that. We just focused on winning. There's a lot of people out there looking pretty stupid,'' Brennan said.
Fact is, many fans never even stayed up late enough to see Hawaii. The Warriors will be in prime-time in a few weeks, and bunches of colorfully dressed islanders are expected to travel more than 4,000 miles to watch in person.
"Our whole state is going to be there,'' Jones said.
With Brennan slinging the ball short, long and everywhere in-between, Hawaii led the nation by scoring 46.2 points per game. Even in the wide-open Southeastern Conference, Georgia never saw an offense quite this wild.
"No one does it quite like coach Jones' team does it,'' Georgia coach Mark Richt said.
Jones was eager to return to the Superdome, where he played and coached in the NFL. Richt wanted to get there a week later for the BCS title game.
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3 comments:
The BCS selection at Stan Sheriff was INSANE!!! This is just beyond anything imaginable. I can't wait to see those BUCK FULLDOGS shirts.
This is still just so surreal!
WTG! HAWAII WARRIORS, BCS BOUND AND GAGGED! Wanted 2 comment but last 2 days so tired from all the partying people all around, still we are reeling and it seems like a long wait until we see them play again.....my husband told me I'd be getting withdrawals and he's right. Thank God you folks are still here keeping us "addicts" fixed. Heh-heh Bless Ya All!
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