[fullmetal]

In order of priority, the top three bowls for Stanford this year are:

1) BCS championship
2) Rose Bowl

and

3) Alamo Bowl.

Yeah, I missed that too.  The Holiday Bowl was punted to the Pac-10 #3 spot (vs. Big-12 #5), and the newly-responsored Hyundai Sun Bowl picks fourth from the Pac-10 (vs. ACC #4).  The Alamo Bowl is looking at about a $3 million payout to each team, and they\'re strongly suggesting that they\'ll pick whichever team can travel best.  Of course, I don\'t know if they\'d break rankings too much to pick a well-traveling team, but should Stanford not make it to the top two bowl games listed above, let\'s hope half of Houston intends to descend upon San Antonio to see native son Andrew Luck carve up the Big-12 #3 pick.

Luckily enough, Stanford women\'s basketball fans have paved the way in determining the best way to experience Stanford sports at the Alamodome in downtown San Antonio.  

The dome, by the way, holds a nominal max capacity of 65,000 seats, and the bowl committee claims that 10k-12k tickets are purchased each year by local residents.  They\'re expecting whichever schools they select to sell an allotment of 9,500 tickets each.  That\'s kind of a high number for Stanford, isn\'t it?  How many did we sell for the Sun Bowl, and how many were we given?

This is all speculation given that bowls don\'t pick until about Dec. 6th, but there\'s apparently a large amount of planning that will need to happen between bowl committees and every possible candidate school in order to ensure smooth event execution in the three weeks between Dec. 6th and about the end of December.

[fullmetal]

In order of priority, the top three bowls for Stanford this year are:

1) BCS championship
2) Rose Bowl

and

3) Alamo Bowl.

Yeah, I missed that too.  The Holiday Bowl was punted to the Pac-10 #3 spot (vs. Big-12 #5), and the newly-responsored Hyundai Sun Bowl picks fourth from the Pac-10 (vs. ACC #4).  The Alamo Bowl is looking at about a $3 million payout to each team, and they\'re strongly suggesting that they\'ll pick whichever team can travel best.  Of course, I don\'t know if they\'d break rankings too much to pick a well-traveling team, but should Stanford not make it to the top two bowl games listed above, let\'s hope half of Houston intends to descend upon San Antonio to see native son Andrew Luck carve up the Big-12 #3 pick.

Luckily enough, Stanford women\'s basketball fans have paved the way in determining the best way to experience Stanford sports at the Alamodome in downtown San Antonio.  

The dome, by the way, holds a nominal max capacity of 65,000 seats, and the bowl committee claims that 10k-12k tickets are purchased each year by local residents.  They\'re expecting whichever schools they select to sell an allotment of 9,500 tickets each.  That\'s kind of a high number for Stanford, isn\'t it?  How many did we sell for the Sun Bowl, and how many were we given?

This is all speculation given that bowls don\'t pick until about Dec. 6th, but there\'s apparently a large amount of planning that will need to happen between bowl committees and every possible candidate school in order to ensure smooth event execution in the three weeks between Dec. 6th and about the end of December.