Running bowl thread

Where does the loser of Arizona-USC go?

 

Like Utah in the Sugar Bowl last year. The Ute fans turned out in great numbers and were all over Bourbon Street, presumably to just "look around."

 

HUGE Mormon population in Vegas. Seriously...look it up....

 

Three cheers for Notre Dame.

Finally, a bit of sensibility. Now, if 20 other teams would follow suit . . .

 

Gator's invite to FSU is within the contract. The Gator only has to invite the ACC championship game loser once in four years. It did that in 2007. If the Gator decides to pass on the ACC championship loser, it also doesn't have to consider that team's record in regard to the one-loss rule (which goes by conference regular-season record). Therefore, the Gator's pool of available teams begins with 5-3 Miami and Boston College. The Gator can then invoke the one-loss rule to take 4-4 FSU.
It's in the contract. Sounds flukely, but they can do it.

 

I thought there was an NCAA rule, though, that all 7-win teams from a conference had to have a bowl home before somebody could take a 6-win team.

 

If Cincinnati loses to Pitt and West Virginia goes to the Gator to create the Bowden Bowl, the Bearcats could easily find themselves in ... Charlotte. Undefeated BCS conference team one day, playing North Carolina in a third-tier bowl the next.

 

That only applies to taking a 6-win team from outside the conference at the expense of a 7-5 team within the conference. Also keeps a bowl from taking a 6-win team when there are more bowl-eligible teams than a conference has bowl affiliations. Neither applies in this situation.

 

Pondering a for-fun trip to see my alma mater (Middle Tenn.) in the GMAC Bowl. Mobile is OK.

 

yes, yes and yes. ... the championship game loser actually can fall to the Music City Bowl, but no further. Each both has its own deal in regards to the title game loser. For example, Chick can pass, as long as the team they take is within five spots of the loser in the BCS standings. Gator takes the loser once in four years, which it already has (moot point now, since the Gator is in the final year of the ACC deal, and goes SEC vs. Big Ten next year). Champs can pass, but has the one-loss rule as a consideration, unlike the Gator (Gator had that written into its contract, Champs, I guess, forgot to.

Bottom line is that the ACC doesn't have uniform contracts with its bowl partners, and you get the turmoil you've got now. The ACC signed all of these deals, so they can pretend to be shocked when the Gator Bowl, for example, uses its legally binding contract to bring a 6-6 team to Jacksonville.

Sounds like John Swofford should meet with his lawyers more often.

 

B.C. dropped all the way to Nashville as the title-game loser last year.