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Bowl By Brett Friedlander Assistant Sports Editor After witnessing the Clemson Tigers destroy USC at Death Valley this past Saturday, it became obvious the "damn farmers" deserved their ranking of 1 fUh in tho noHnn Commentary They are a well-coached and disciplined veteran ballclub. Boasting such individual stars as Steve Fuller, Jerry Butler and Lester Brown, the Tigers breezed through the season and climaxed the year with a 28-24 victory over inai jriauu iu UUUCII U1C AU8I1QC Coast Conference, ACC, title. With a loss to Georgia early in the season the only blemish on their 11-game season, it is a shame Clemson will not be able to show how good they really are against a better opponent on Jan. 1. BECAUSE OF THE impatience of the major bowls to wait for most teams to finish their schedules, Clemson must settle for a secondstraight visit to the Gator Bowl in Jacksonville, Fla., against a subpar Ohio State team. Meanwhile. a team with thpw> I/w?m r w? ? W IVfUUVO such as Notre Dame, which was selected before its loss this past weekend to Southern California, will play in the more pretigious Cotton Bowl. The problem arises from the bowl selection committees jumping the gun on each other in order to get better match-ups. This system has hurt the Jan. 1 postseason games and has created many more attractive pairings in Izip-kleenI DRY CLEANING' 1 hour cleaning 4 hour laundry 6 days a week M-F 7:M a.m.-4 p.m. SAT. 7:M a.m.-S p.m. JWONWnSt^ lEIIKAlE THEATRE | *400 MAIN ST. PH. 7S4-74M ADMISSION S3.00 A CARLOAD OPEN FRI THRU SUN 3 Martial Arts Thrifersl The Bodvauard m Chinese Mack Thunder Fist The OAMECOCK is the student t newspaper of the University of South Carolina and is published three times week on Monday/ Wadnosday and Friday during Mm fall and spring semesters and once weakly on Thursdays during tooth summer sessions with the exception of university holidays and examination periods. Opinions expressed In the OAMBCOCK are those of the editors and not those of the University of South Carolina. The university of South Carolina Is an equal opportunity institution. ' Change of address forms, subscription r?quM?i ana o?n?r corrnponttncQ should b* ftMtt to the OAMKCOCK, ftox SMI H?um, UNlvtrstty S.C., CoiumMa, S.C. 1INI. Stfteacrlptten raft ?r| $9 par MfflMtar m4 U hr tlw iMimK MUlMI. Third (Iim p*nt?9f> p^M at OHvmMi, select! the pre-New Years Day classics Bowl invitations cannot be issuec until after 6 p.m. on the thirc Saturday in November. But th? way the schedules are arranged most teams still have one or twc games left to play. This can creat problems, because a team which is 7-2 when it receives an invitation tc a bowl ffnmp f/wW "?? " " ",l : ... D wuiu ? J well cut the season with a 7-4 record. Also, many deserving teams car be left out by the bowl committees who decide to select a team with a good reputation but not that good a record. A CASE in point is Florida State. The Seminoles finished their season with an 8-3 record, but will stay home this holiday season while teams like Missouri, Georgia Tech, Navy and Rutgers gc , bowling. Won' hava< Jrl J r: JtNsifl tH^J^ **?i \ / < . ' " |' f - ' ' ; ' ' ' ^ Voluntee Banquet Hardee's < ons nec If the date for issuing bowl bids 1 were moved back two weeks to the I first weekend in December, the ; more deserving teams would , receive better invitations and > better opponents. If that were the i case, both the bowls and the fans i would profit. > Another problem comes from the I four major bowls and their contracts with the various coni uruk ei * > icicuvcs. vyiui iivc cuiuerences \ contracted to the New Years Day i bowl games, only three spots are i open for non-affiliated teams. Although over the past few years such classics as Notre DameAlabama, Texas-Notre Dame and Penn State-Alabama have occurred in the major bowls, they 1 have been the exception, and not 1 the rule. > A team with four losses can play t you hg rdioj ^ Wednesdc Contributions of cl< olumbia shopping < Wednesday evening ar and a late-night movie ;d chan in the Hose Bowl, once known as 1 the "granddaddy of them all," because that team won its con- j ference as Washington did this past 1 year. 1 Also, such meaningless games like this years Orange and Cotton uuni panics CHU occur. W1U1 Uie ' system as it exists now, a national championship game between two conference championsi is impossible because both teams would be committed to separate bowls. A system with no conference 1 affiliations would create a ' situation where the eight best < teams in the country could be divided up and paired to create an 1 exciting, interesting bowl lineup, ] inatdQ H r>f fha ofn<tr^nm? "1 ~ -?* * WI M1V OMIglinUl siaic Ui games that we now have. THE FINAL RAP against the \ bowl-game system is there are too ? ^dCOUJ AJ , u/UL. u Dthing, canned g&o* areas for donation 1 m / %r r/Mvi Ill VJ I I V/ I I VI Will :e on id will receive a free rr pass to Columbia Mall ging many games. In the past two years, three new bowls have been added bringing the total to 14. That means 28 teams will be able to participate in post-season action. T4- I I ? ' .... n uacu lu oe receiving a DOWJ Did was an honor reserved for a few elite college football teams. But now, many average teams with 7-4 records can expect to be invited. Without the Garden State, Holiday, Hall of Fame and Tangerine Bowls, the top twenty teams in the nation could be rewarded with bowl games while all other average teams would stay home. The four other bowl games could be made into division 1-A games to reward some of the smaller college teams like Grambling, North Texas State and Miami of Ohio. that would normally get little or no recognition for a successful season. mbia fmas? cognition i ieal from j] Theatres. |