Have any of you guys thought about what might happen to the top SEC bowls after 2014? Namely the Capital One bowl, Outback, and Gator. SEC may put as many as 5 teams in the CFP and access bowls. So instead of seeing a Georgia, SC, LSU Texas A&M, Alabama, Florida, you'll get one of them and the rest would be teams like Miss St, Ark, Tenn (assuming they are bowl eligible). I wonder how those bowls feel about that.

As a Sun Belt fan, that should solve our bowl access problems quite nicely.

Yes because that would free up 2 -3 of the SEC's bottom bowls as well

(05-03-2013 08:48 AM)jaminandjachin Wrote:  Have any of you guys thought about what might happen to the top SEC bowls after 2014? Namely the Capital One bowl, Outback, and Gator. SEC may put as many as 5 teams in the CFP and access bowls. So instead of seeing a Georgia, SC, LSU Texas A&M, Alabama, Florida, you'll get one of them and the rest would be teams like Miss St, Ark, Tenn (assuming they are bowl eligible). I wonder how those bowls feel about that.

I don't see the SEC placing 5 schools in the CFP on a regular basis. 2012 was an incredible year for the conference, but it really required quite a bit of luck for so many schools to end up with 1 and 2 losses. Basically, the bottom of the conference stunk. I look for the conference to be more competitive top to bottom in the future, making it hard for more than 3 schools to slip through with 2 losses.

That means that most years, the SEC will have 3 schools in CFP playoffs or bowls, with 4 a regular occurence.

Since the SEC has lost 2 of its bowl tie ins to the CFP (the Cotton and Peach), I look for one of those not to be replaced, probably the Peach. Other bowls would move up in the pecking order. Given the conferences strong group of western schools (TAMU, LSU and Ark), I'd look for the conference to try to add a Texas or Louisiana based bowl to the mix, possibly an upgraded Houston Bowl.

I believe I've read the SEC is looking at adding the Belk, Meineke Car Care Bowl. If the Belk is added the ACC will have 3-4 matchups with the SEC each bowl season: Gator, Belk, Music City, Orange

The ACC will also get the Capital One bowl when the Big Ten is the opponent in the Orange Bowl so that's another match up against the SEC.

Swofford says he wants 9-10 guaranteed bowls with a 15 team conference. I expect Slive will shoot for the same number of bowls.

Yeah, I see the SEC in a Houston bowl as possible. I also don't see the Liberty Bowl surviving as an SEC game. The facilities are just not up to snuff. Memphis would be a perfect bowl location for an AAC/SunBelt/CUSA game.

You're assuming that bowls complain about schools like Arkansas, Tennessee and Mississippi State. They don't. They'd take the lower dregs of the SEC (and to a lesser extent, the Big Ten) in a heartbeat. A mediocre SEC team is still great from a Noel's perspective.

(05-03-2013 10:56 AM)WakeForestRanger Wrote:  The ACC will also get the Capital One bowl when the Big Ten is the opponent in the Orange Bowl so that's another match up against the SEC.

Swofford says he wants 9-10 guaranteed bowls with a 15 team conference. I expect Slive will shoot for the same number of bowls.

I wonder if the Capital One would want to do the same thing when the SEC sends a team to the Orange Bowl? Either way, you're looking at having to dig pretty deep (maybe take a 7-5 or 6-6 team?) vs. possibly ACC #4 or #5 (remember, that includes Notre Dame, FSU, Clemson, Va Tech and Miami). Of those, Miami travels the least - but I'm guessing even they would support a trip to Orlando.

(05-03-2013 10:56 AM)WakeForestRanger Wrote:  The ACC will also get the Capital One bowl when the Big Ten is the opponent in the Orange Bowl so that's another match up against the SEC.

The news reports haven't provided much detail yet on how this would work. I'm guessing that in years when the ACC got the CapOne, the B1G would take the ACC's slot in the Russell Athletic or possibly the Gator.

(05-03-2013 11:20 AM)Frank the Tank Wrote:  You're assuming that bowls complain about schools like Arkansas, Tennessee and Mississippi State. They don't. They'd take the lower dregs of the SEC (and to a lesser extent, the Big Ten) in a heartbeat. A mediocre SEC team is still great from a Noel's perspective.

Most likely. The only problem is that might have 5 losses.

(05-03-2013 12:59 PM)jaminandjachin Wrote:  

(05-03-2013 11:20 AM)Frank the Tank Wrote:  You're assuming that bowls complain about schools like Arkansas, Tennessee and Mississippi State. They don't. They'd take the lower dregs of the SEC (and to a lesser extent, the Big Ten) in a heartbeat. A mediocre SEC team is still great from a Noel's perspective.

Most likely. The only problem is that might have 5 losses.

Most bowls would kill to have any SEC team. A 6-6 SEC team draws better, travels better and gets better ratings than most teams in any other of the so called Power 5 conferences and certainly better than the champions of the other 5 conferences.

(05-03-2013 12:33 PM)orangefan Wrote:  

(05-03-2013 10:56 AM)WakeForestRanger Wrote:  The ACC will also get the Capital One bowl when the Big Ten is the opponent in the Orange Bowl so that's another match up against the SEC.

The news reports haven't provided much detail yet on how this would work. I'm guessing that in years when the ACC got the CapOne, the B1G would take the ACC's slot in the Russell Athletic or possibly the Gator.

I think we are saying the B1G would take the slot opposite the ACC in the Orange Bowl...

Its starting to look kinda grim for the AAC. Hopefully they have some irons in the fire that we havnt heard about.

I see for aac : st pete bowl, liberty, new Orleans, a texas bowl ,poinsettia bowl

(05-03-2013 02:09 PM)PaulDel2 Wrote:  

(05-03-2013 12:59 PM)jaminandjachin Wrote:  

(05-03-2013 11:20 AM)Frank the Tank Wrote:  You're assuming that bowls complain about schools like Arkansas, Tennessee and Mississippi State. They don't. They'd take the lower dregs of the SEC (and to a lesser extent, the Big Ten) in a heartbeat. A mediocre SEC team is still great from a Noel's perspective.

Most likely. The only problem is that might have 5 losses.

Most bowls would kill to have any SEC team. A 6-6 SEC team draws better, travels better and gets better ratings than most teams in any other of the so called Power 5 conferences and certainly better than the champions of the other 5 conferences.

Except isn't there talk of not allowing 6-6 teams into bowls again?

(05-03-2013 03:49 PM)Chris02M Wrote:  I see for aac : st pete bowl, liberty, new Orleans, a texas bowl ,poinsettia bowl

They need one more bowl. But frankly, Id be fairly happy with something along those lines given the current circumstances.