GT - Miss St Orange Bowl

[BerryGT]

Wanted Michigan State. This blows. Terrible matchup for us.

 

[mqpayne]

Orange Bowl takes the ACC Champion which would have been us if we won.

 

[GTonTop88]

I think Mich State would get better TV ratings, since they are from another part of the country. I doubt anybody outside the SE watches Tech - Miss State

Yea but we dont recruit outside the SE much at all. We would have few viewers from the SE if we played Mich St. Other than the Big 10 Miss St is probably perceived as good as Ohio St

 

[Whiskey_Clear]

Fwiw I think we are a better overall team than miss st....but they won't be an easy out. We play well and we win...we play average and we will likely lose.

We will be able to get our young receivers lots of reps in practice to prep em for miss st. Smelter loss can't be overstated but won't affect us nearly as bad as it did vs FSU

 

[Northeast Stinger]

I wanted Sparty. I think they are a better match up for us in every way.

Not the least of which is that if we win a close game against Missy State everyone will say this was against the "also ran" member of the SEC that got blown out by Ole Miss. If we lose everyone will say how much stronger the SEC is. I do not see any upside to this game. Only fans in the South will care about it and it will not help us in recruiting the other regions of the country.

Only way this game is good for us is if we were to beat them by 3 touchdowns.

 

[Whiskey_Clear]

I relish every opportunity to beat the SEC....the more we do the better....we beat em and few will say miss st was weak sister sec....either miss st is elite and the sec west is beastly or neither is true.

 

[Whiskey_Clear]

I'm not a very big fan of conference affiliation chants....but.....we beat ms st., we might need to bust out an ACC chant.

Especially if ACC wins any other matchups between the two...are there others? Haven't had chance to see

 

[CHE90]

Crap..had it been Mich State...had the wife talked into going

Me too. Plus guys in my neighborhood who are State alumni were in as well.

 

[LibertyTurns]

Wanted Michigan State. This blows. Terrible matchup for us.

This match up's perfect. We get a shot at embarrassing another SEC factory. If we beat Mich St, all we would have done was knock off a team that would be mocked for being overrated by virtue of playing in a weak *** conference.

All the SEC alibis have been exhausted after the ACC went 4-0 against the "NFL minor league" last week as apparently those teams were the Raiders, Bucs, Jets and Jags of the SEC. Eventually the SEC West bubbas were going to have to play somebody out of conference and I'm glad we're the ones who get a shot.

Maybe we should ask ahead of time if Miss St is a real team or just another SEC pretender? Anyone on here know?

 

[Supersizethatorder-mutt]

Hypothetical question- if we had won vs FSU, would we be in the Orange Bowl? I assume neither FSU nor GT would be in the playoff and the Orange Bowl would take the highest ranked ACC team which would have still been FSU? Just curious about this.

What others have already said

 

[Supersizethatorder-mutt]

I'm not a very big fan of conference affiliation chants....but.....we beat ms st., we might need to bust out an ACC chant.

Especially if ACC wins any other matchups between the two...are there others? Haven't had chance to see

Georgia - Louisville. GO PETRINO !!!!

 

[Sean311]

Miss St sucks we should win

 

[UgaBlows]

I fear Mich St's D-coordinator more so than Missy st's

 

[Jay Alexander]

Miami plays South Carolina.

Louisville plays georgie.

Would love to see a 8-0 record against the all-overated conference. (Fsu beats bammer in the NC)

 

[Whiskey_Clear]

Miami might destroy SC....I like us vs State....UGA over the ville IMO.....I'll be cheering hard for a clean sweep though.

 

[00Burdell]

ACC champ goes to orange regardless of rankings...unless the champ goes to playoffs...then the highest ranked ACC goes to orange as replacement

Nope. If Notre Dame is within one win of any non-playoff team the bowl can pick ND over the team. So if ND had 9 wins, we could have a big problem.

This could be a major issue in future seasons.

 

[TampaGT]

Nope. If Notre Dame is within one win of any non-playoff team the bowl can pick ND over the team. So if ND had 9 wins, we could have a big problem.

This could be a major issue in future seasons.

The way they were selling it to yearly ticket holders is that it would be acc vs big 10/sec/ nd. I think it will always be acc champ or like this year # 2 acc vs nd and not nd vs big10 or sec

 

[Whiskey_Clear]

I stand corrected. And you are right...this potentially sets up to screw ACC members one day. Their other bowl opportunities do also. The ACC really needs to tell ND it's time to get all the way in or get out. I'd rather have ND in the bigTenth than half in the ACC. Really needs to be addressed...let's stop acting like the big least conf

 

[00Burdell]

The way they were selling it to yearly ticket holders is that it would be acc vs big 10/sec/ nd. I think it will always be acc champ or like this year # 2 acc vs nd and not nd vs big10 or sec

ND can take the slot of any ACC team they are within one win of if the Bowl chooses ND. Not including the playoff slot. ND could take our Orange Bowl slot this year if the had 9 wins. This is the deal we made to get them to "join" the ACC.

 

[00Burdell]

I think the best thing we can do next year is stomp them in South Bend just like last time.