SEC Bowls

[bamaboze]

What will the bowls do if there are 11 bowl-eligible teams from the SEC? As it stands, 6 are already bowl eligible, and 5 others are only one win away from reaching 6 wins. Only Ole Miss is eliminated from this discussion...should be an interesting November!

 

[jps1983]

What will the bowls do if there are 11 bowl-eligible teams from the SEC? As it stands, 6 are already bowl eligible, and 5 others are only one win away from reaching 6 wins. Only Ole Miss is eliminated from this discussion...should be an interesting November!

They'd take the teams that are likely to travel well. So, a team like Vandy would be put near the bottom of the pecking order, unless they get the Music city bowl and the bowl committee wants to take vandy since they haven't had a bowl in so long.

 

[AeroEngUA07]

They'd take the teams that are likely to travel well. So, a team like Vandy would be put near the bottom of the pecking order, unless they get the Music city bowl and the bowl committee wants to take vandy since they haven't had a bowl in so long.

I don't think that is exceedingly true. I think the Commodores are Bowl starved and would travel somewhat well just because they haven't had the opportunity in a bazillion years. I think something like a Liberty Bowl in Memphis might work for them. Music City officials will be concerned that they wont get any tourism money poured into Nashville from Vandy folks. It all really depends on who is picking where. It would be a shame for Vandy to be eligible and not get to go.

 

[Tennessee]

At least 9 will go, probably 10, but not all 11...

With the number of At-Large bids out there, there should be room...

If UT gets to Atlanta, and UGA wins out, The winner of the SECCG would get the Sugar, UGA would likely get an at-large BCS

Then, the SEC has:

Citrus, Outback, Peach, Music City, Liberty, Independence, and Houston

That's 9 teams in...then, you have to figure the Hawaii Bowl, Boise Bowl, something like that would have an opening to make 10

An 11th would possibly open up, but who knows? That's asking alot

But, even if SEC only gets one BCS, I think we can still make 10

 

[AeroEngUA07]

I think if Vandy gets bowl eligible, we as SEC member institutions should all get together and have a bowl created for them if they get locked out. Show some goodwill to the team we have all used as a whipping boy for years.

Maybe we could pass it off as Philanthropy or some jazz.

 

[Tennessee]

And, another thing to add...

If 11 are bowl eligible, and some of the typical bowl teams (UT, Bama, UF, Arky, SC, etc) are 7-5ish, would the SEC send a 6-6 Vandy to a conference tie-in? bc a bowl further away would likely take a traditional traveling school over Vandy due to the fact that they're arent that many Vandy fans to travel

I think by putting a team like Vandy or MSU in a tie-in would give the SEC alot more chance to get 11 in...

JMO

 

[AeroEngUA07]

And, another thing to add...

If 11 are bowl eligible, and some of the typical bowl teams (UT, Bama, UF, Arky, SC, etc) are 7-5ish, would the SEC send a 6-6 Vandy to a conference tie-in? bc a bowl further away would likely take a traditional traveling school over Vandy due to the fact that there arent that many Vandy fans to travel

JMO

Well personally, I think several fans from other SEC schools might be interested in going just because of the novelty of seeing Vandy play a bowl. Cause who knows when they would again.

 

[CrimsonChuck]

And, another thing to add...

If 11 are bowl eligible, and some of the typical bowl teams (UT, Bama, UF, Arky, SC, etc) are 7-5ish, would the SEC send a 6-6 Vandy to a conference tie-in? bc a bowl further away would likely take a traditional traveling school over Vandy due to the fact that they're arent that many Vandy fans to travel

I think by putting a team like Vandy or MSU in a tie-in would give the SEC alot more chance to get 11 in...

JMO

Isn't that the choice of the bowls and not the choice of the SEC?

I think that we have a great chance to get 10 teams in. 11 may be pushing it. We have the 8 tie-in teams, which are a given. Then one more team for another BCS berth. That team could be Georgia (if they win out but lose the SECCG or if they win out and don't make it to the SECCG), Alabama (if we win out but lose the SECCG), LSU (if they lose to us or the SECCG, but win all their others), or Florida (if they win out and Georgia loses at least once). Then the other berth would come from the Ft. Worth bowl, where CFN projects the Pac 10 will not have enough teams to fill all their bowl slots.
http://cfn.scout.com/2/695521.html

 

[Tennessee]

Isn't that the choice of the bowls and not the choice of the SEC?

Ultimately, it's up to the teams, but let's say there's the Independence, Liberty Bowl and Blue Turf Bowl left, and UT and Arkansas are 7-5, and Vandy is 6-6

The Blue Turf Bowl is deciding between a Big 11 Team and an SEC Team

If Arky goes to the Independence and Tennessee to the Liberty, Blue turf may take the Big 11 team because they don't think Vandy will do any traveling...

But if the SEC gets with its teams, and they work it out that Arky goes to the Liberty, Vandy to the Independence, and UT to the Blue Turf, the Blue Turf may take UT over the Big 11 team since we'd have more fans that would travel

See what I'm saying?