Screw job part 2: Bowl selection

[GT33]

The misery is not over. Those refs pretty much eliminated us from Charlotte, San Diego, Orlando and Jacksonville. We’re going to be relegated to some piss poor bowl in a ****ty location, on a ****ty date against some ****ty 6-6 or 7-5 BS P4 or some worthless 1aa team. I hope we don’t get dumped down to a baseball stadium in some scummy northeast city.

 

[Sean311]

You need a tissue bud?

 

[Ramble1885]

The misery is not over. Those refs pretty much eliminated us from Charlotte, San Diego, Orlando and Jacksonville. We’re going to be relegated to some piss poor bowl in a ****ty location, on a ****ty date against some ****ty 6-6 or 7-5 BS P4 or some worthless 1aa team. I hope we don’t get dumped down to a baseball stadium in some scummy northeast city.

7-5 with the Miami win and that performance last night might still get us to Jacksonville.

Kentucky made it to the Gator at 7-5 last year.

 

[TooTall]

I personally want to make the Birmingham Bowl. Selfish reasons but 8-5 is still a good season for a program on the rise.

 

[RonJohn]

Let's wait until next Sunday evening and find out for sure. I wont be surprised with a bad bowl game. However, I won't be surprised with a good bowl game either. GT has some buzz this year after the nationally televised games against FSU, Miami, and the mutts. I can see TV being interested in a GT vs Big10 or SEC team in a decent bowl game.

 

[UgaBlows]

I personally want to make the Birmingham Bowl. Selfish reasons but 8-5 is still a good season for a program on the rise.

Especially since we were picked to only win 4 games this season by most

 

[yeti92]

I personally want to make the Birmingham Bowl. Selfish reasons but 8-5 is still a good season for a program on the rise.

Amen, I'll take an 8 win season and a team headed in the right direction.

 

[AUFC]

We are now one of the best TV draws in the ACC as of last night. If we get a bad bowl game, it’s probably that committees skipped over us due to making a bowl last season, the Dublin game, and relatively poor attendance. Kind of a bad trio that signals we aren’t going to drive crazy ticket sales for anything more than a short drive from the Atlanta metro.

 

[Sugar3ThousandPounds]

Hopefully our resident NE teams (Cuse, Pitt) can take the baseball stadium games in NYC and Boston. SMU and Miami to playoff, Clemson to Pop Tarts, Duke to Sun, Louisville to Mayo, us to Gator, the rest of the 6-6 teams to the lower tiers

 

[apatriot1776]

I selfishly almost want the easiest bowl and team we can get. I don’t know if my heart could take a bowl loss on top of last night.

 

[MacDaddy2]

Wow, still hanging onto the old Tech shaft theory….

 

[GT33]

Wow, still hanging onto the old Tech shaft theory….

No evidence of that obviously, the ACC has a storied history of cutting us breaks. Also had so many calls go our way last night I lost count. Think I got to zero and ran out of fingers and toes, had to have a buddy help me out.

 

[slugboy]

Man, if I watched this team as an outsider, I’d be excited about the show this team puts on. I wouldn’t be surprised to see us in the Mayo bowl.

The NYC bowls have poor stadiums for football, but there are fun things to do there.

There are two tiers, and Birmingham and Gasparilla are in the second tier. We’re almost certainly going in the first tier.

https://collegefootballnews.com/predictions/college-football-bowl-ties-affiliations-for-each-conference-2024-2025

California is eligible for the Pac12 tie in bowls (Alamo, Independence, LA, Las Vegas, and Sun Bowls)

- Duke’s Mayo Bowl vs Big Ten
- Fenway Bowl vs American Athletic
- Holiday Bowl vs TBD (it used to be the Pac-12)
- Go Bowling Military Bowl vs American Athletic
- Pinstripe Bowl vs Big Ten
- Pop-Tarts Bowl vs Big 12
- ReliaQuest Bowl vs SEC (or Big Ten)
- TaxSlayer Gator Bowl vs SEC
- Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl vs TBD (it used to be the Pac-12)

Alternate Affiliations, if available
- Union Home Mortgage Gasparilla Bowl vs AAC or SEC
- Birmingham Bowl vs SEC or AAC
- SERVPRO First Responder Bowl vs SEC or AAC

There’s also the possibility of a swap to another bowl, but that’s unlikely for an upper tier team, and we’re upper tier.

If Louisville beats Kentucky, I think they go to the Gator. A lot depends on SMU, Clemson, and Miami.
We are tied for fourth with Louisville. Duke is playing Wake right now; Duke and Syracuse can move into a tie with us with wins.
There are ins and outs, but if things hold I HOPE SMU and Miami go to the playoffs, Clemson and Louisville divide the Gator and Pop-Tart bowl between them (though I’d like us to go to the Pop Tarts Bowl—it’s a fit for us).
That probably puts us with Mayo, Sun, Holiday, Military, ReliaQuest, or Pinstripe. ReliaQuest is Jan 1 in Tampa.
If we’re ever going to the Mayo bowl, this seems like the year.

 

[GoJacketsInRaleigh]

So much to sort out today.

If Clemson wins and Tennessee loses, the ACC has a shot at 3 playoff teams and teams bump in the ACC contract bowls. The ACC could end up with just 1 playoff team as well.

Instead of being hung up on WHERE we play, focus on WHO we play. I would take Gasparilla or Birmingham against an SEC team over a supposedly higher rated bowl against a random team.

I think we are in play for Holiday, Gator, or Pop Tarts bowl. I think we could end up in Mayo or Pinstripe too against a Big Ten team (like amongst Michigan, Nebraska, Minnesota, or Rutgers). I wouldn't think we get Military or Fenway, which would be at the bottom of my list to play a team from the AAC.

 

[GT33]

We’re just in a bad spot with that 5th loss. 8 or 9 win dook has the Mayo locked up. Pop Tarts and Gator are Clemson and Louisville who could lose today and slide into our pile. If Pitt beats BC either they or Cuse will take Sun and Holiday Bowls. Louisville losing is probably the only chance to a better bowl.

We probably end up in Annapolis against Memphis or maybe Birmingham against some random bottom feeder. Gasparilla is out because we were there last year. Reliaquest will pick a B10. There just isn’t a good option where we’re at. No question we’re an entertaining prospect for TV, but we’re at 7 wins one notch better than BC, unc, vt or uva whoever wins, Cal, ncst. We deserve/ have earned a quality opponent, but the odds are not in our favor.

 

[Techfan02]

The misery is not over. Those refs pretty much eliminated us from Charlotte, San Diego, Orlando and Jacksonville. We’re going to be relegated to some piss poor bowl in a ****ty location, on a ****ty date against some ****ty 6-6 or 7-5 BS P4 or some worthless 1aa team. I hope we don’t get dumped down to a baseball stadium in some scummy northeast city.

Would a 7-5 Vandy Qualify as a BS P4?

 

[GoJacketsInRaleigh]

We’re just in a bad spot with that 5th loss. 8 or 9 win dook has the Mayo locked up. Pop Tarts and Gator are Clemson and Louisville who could lose today and slide into our pile. If Pitt beats BC either they or Cuse will take Sun and Holiday Bowls. Louisville losing is probably the only chance to a better bowl.

We probably end up in Annapolis against Memphis or maybe Birmingham against some random bottom feeder. Gasparilla is out because we were there last year. Reliaquest will pick a B10. There just isn’t a good option where we’re at. No question we’re an entertaining prospect for TV, but we’re at 7 wins one notch better than BC, unc, vt or uva whoever wins, Cal, ncst. We deserve/ have earned a quality opponent, but the odds are not in our favor.

Link?

 

[GT33]

Link?

4 times in 22 years they've not had a North or South Carolina or Virginia team. It looks like a duck, quacks like a duck.......

 

[GoJacketsInRaleigh]

4 times in 22 years they've not had a North or South Carolina or Virginia team. It looks like a duck, quacks like a duck.......

They haven't selected Duke in 12 years. You think they have a deal in place already for a team losing to Wake Forest right now that will bring about 120 fans (** assumes there is no basketball game that day)

 

[MacDaddy2]

120 is probably about the same as our basketball attendance today