Heard some talk Saturday that due to the lackluster performance by AAC the St Petersburg Bowl may come into play for the Sunbelt. The AAC has eight tie ins with the St Petersburg Bowl being the last to pick. They currently have 7 bowl eligible teams. CUSA only has 4 bowl eligible teams to cover their 7 tie ins. It could get interesting....
We aren't going to have any extras though.
And honestly, St Pete Bowl isn't a better bowl per se.
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I still got my fingers crossed for the Cotton Bowl...
(11-14-2016 03:32 PM)WolfBird Wrote: [ -> ]We aren't going to have any extras though.
And honestly, St Pete Bowl isn't a better bowl per se.
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I'm fine with it.
6 spots for 10 teams. That sounds about right.
(11-14-2016 03:31 PM)AppManDG Wrote: [ -> ]Heard some talk Saturday that due to the lackluster performance by AAC the St Petersburg Bowl may come into play for the Sunbelt. The AAC has eight tie ins with the St Petersburg Bowl being the last to pick. They currently have 7 bowl eligible teams. CUSA only has 4 bowl eligible teams to cover their 7 tie ins. It could get interesting....
Thought Cure was their last pick
(11-14-2016 03:48 PM)arkstfan Wrote: [ -> ] (11-14-2016 03:31 PM)AppManDG Wrote: [ -> ]Heard some talk Saturday that due to the lackluster performance by AAC the St Petersburg Bowl may come into play for the Sunbelt. The AAC has eight tie ins with the St Petersburg Bowl being the last to pick. They currently have 7 bowl eligible teams. CUSA only has 4 bowl eligible teams to cover their 7 tie ins. It could get interesting....
Thought Cure was their last pick
UCF will probably choose the Cure over St Pete
(11-14-2016 04:02 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote: [ -> ] (11-14-2016 03:48 PM)arkstfan Wrote: [ -> ] (11-14-2016 03:31 PM)AppManDG Wrote: [ -> ]Heard some talk Saturday that due to the lackluster performance by AAC the St Petersburg Bowl may come into play for the Sunbelt. The AAC has eight tie ins with the St Petersburg Bowl being the last to pick. They currently have 7 bowl eligible teams. CUSA only has 4 bowl eligible teams to cover their 7 tie ins. It could get interesting....
Thought Cure was their last pick
UCF will probably choose the Cure over St Pete
It's the bowl's who do the picking though.
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(11-14-2016 04:02 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote: [ -> ] (11-14-2016 03:48 PM)arkstfan Wrote: [ -> ] (11-14-2016 03:31 PM)AppManDG Wrote: [ -> ]Heard some talk Saturday that due to the lackluster performance by AAC the St Petersburg Bowl may come into play for the Sunbelt. The AAC has eight tie ins with the St Petersburg Bowl being the last to pick. They currently have 7 bowl eligible teams. CUSA only has 4 bowl eligible teams to cover their 7 tie ins. It could get interesting....
Thought Cure was their last pick
UCF will probably choose the Cure over St Pete
AAC has the best TV deal of the G5
That TV deal is with ESPN
Cure Bowl is on CBS Sports
St Pete is on ESPN
St Pete is owned by a company called ESPN Events.
Now ESPN might say go ahead and short our game so you can be CBS instead of ESPN but unless ESPN sprinkles holy water on it, I'd expect Cure to be the game that comes up short rather than St Pete.
Who does ESPN want in the St Pete bowl? UCF (6-6) vs USA (6-6) or a couple of P5 APR teams at 5-7? Sadly, I think ESPN would bless UCF playing at home if that puts a P5 in the St Pete bowl
The St Pete bowl always has terrible attendance and looks terrible on TV. That is one bowl that needs to eliminated.
(11-14-2016 09:58 PM)Usajags Wrote: [ -> ]The St Pete bowl always has terrible attendance and looks terrible on TV. That is one bowl that needs to eliminated.
I'd like for some more bowls to be eliminated and replaced with better sites. Tropicana Field is the ugliest stadium in Major League Baseball, and it's even worse for college football. A second bowl game in Atlanta, Charlotte, or Nashville, or one in Myrtle Beach or Charleston, would be better options that St. Pete. Heck, an indoor game at a cool Midwestern city like Indianapolis of Minneapolis would be cool, too.. If I was grand czar of college football, I'd trade out St. Pete and probably the Ticket City (or whatever is played in the Cotton Bowl stadium) for one of those other cities. Too bad no one in charge cares about my opinion.
(11-15-2016 01:56 AM)Michael in Raleigh Wrote: [ -> ] (11-14-2016 09:58 PM)Usajags Wrote: [ -> ]The St Pete bowl always has terrible attendance and looks terrible on TV. That is one bowl that needs to eliminated.
I'd like for some more bowls to be eliminated and replaced with better sites. Tropicana Field is the ugliest stadium in Major League Baseball, and it's even worse for college football. A second bowl game in Atlanta, Charlotte, or Nashville, or one in Myrtle Beach or Charleston, would be better options that St. Pete. Heck, an indoor game at a cool Midwestern city like Indianapolis of Minneapolis would be cool, too.. If I was grand czar of college football, I'd trade out St. Pete and probably the Ticket City (or whatever is played in the Cotton Bowl stadium) for one of those other cities. Too bad no one in charge cares about my opinion.
the cotton bowl is too big for a matchup of also rans. a small crowd there really looks bad.
I thought MLB had told the Devilrays they needed to replace that field 10+ years ago. That building is junk, always has been.
(11-14-2016 04:09 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote: [ -> ]Who does ESPN want in the St Pete bowl? UCF (6-6) vs USA (6-6) or a couple of P5 APR teams at 5-7? Sadly, I think ESPN would bless UCF playing at home if that puts a P5 in the St Pete bowl
Don't be surprised if one of the few 5-7 APR-exemption Bowl teams this year is a familiar name
(11-14-2016 03:31 PM)AppManDG Wrote: [ -> ]Heard some talk Saturday that due to the lackluster performance by AAC the St Petersburg Bowl may come into play for the Sunbelt. The AAC has eight tie ins with the St Petersburg Bowl being the last to pick. They currently have 7 bowl eligible teams. CUSA only has 4 bowl eligible teams to cover their 7 tie ins. It could get interesting....
There is officially no set order for the AAC bowl selections. That said, the AAC goal was to get as many bowls as possible with P5 ties. Given that priority, I doubt there is any chance that St Pete would be the last bowl filled. My guess is that the AAC would fill all thier P5 bowls (Military, St Pete, Ft Worth, and Birmingham) first, then Miami, and then the Boca, Cure, and Bahama bowls would be the last to be filled---likely in that order.
I think this year's SBC champ will end up playing the loser of a WKU/La Tech CUSA Championship Game. That is, I think so unless Troy makes it into the Cotton Bowl. I haven't studied what all has to happen from here on in order for Troy to get the G5's New Year's Day Bowl bid this year, but I know it starts with beating Ark St, which is not a given.
(11-17-2016 07:07 AM)BRtransplant Wrote: [ -> ]I think this year's SBC champ will end up playing the loser of a WKU/La Tech CUSA Championship Game. That is, I think so unless Troy makes it into the Cotton Bowl. I haven't studied what all has to happen from here on in order for Troy to get the G5's New Year's Day Bowl bid this year, but I know it starts with beating Ark St, which is not a given.
that would be a slam on our conference champ only rating a game against the #2 cusa team. I hope that is not the case.
(11-17-2016 08:27 AM)runamuck Wrote: [ -> ] (11-17-2016 07:07 AM)BRtransplant Wrote: [ -> ]I think this year's SBC champ will end up playing the loser of a WKU/La Tech CUSA Championship Game. That is, I think so unless Troy makes it into the Cotton Bowl. I haven't studied what all has to happen from here on in order for Troy to get the G5's New Year's Day Bowl bid this year, but I know it starts with beating Ark St, which is not a given.
that would be a slam on our conference champ only rating a game against the #2 cusa team. I hope that is not the case.
Sun Belt #1 Arkansas State played CUSA #4 La Tech last season. I could see Troy going to New Orleans and facing current CUSA #3 ODU (in fact this has already been reported by the Virginian-Pilot Newspaper as being discussed -
https://twitter.com/Harry_MiniumVP/statu...3745305600).
Just like the TV contracts the bowl tie-ins with CUSA will surely be reevaluated after this year. There is simoly no differences in the conferences any longer.
RPI
Troy - 28
WKU - 42
App - 41
La Tech - 52
ODU - 54
A State - 61
MTSU - 77
Ga So - 92
Sagarin
WKU - 45
App - 61
Troy - 62
La Tech - 65
A State- 94
ODU - 96
MTSU - 95
GA So - 100
(11-14-2016 03:31 PM)AppManDG Wrote: [ -> ]Heard some talk Saturday that due to the lackluster performance by AAC the St Petersburg Bowl may come into play for the Sunbelt. The AAC has eight tie ins with the St Petersburg Bowl being the last to pick. They currently have 7 bowl eligible teams. CUSA only has 4 bowl eligible teams to cover their 7 tie ins. It could get interesting....
This is totally incorrect. The St Pete bowl is in a bowl pool and is guaranteed to be one of the top 5 picks. This used to be on the AAC website, but was taken off. It's one of 4 AAC bowls that gets a "P5" opponent, so would be filled prior to some others.
By the way, if/when the Rays get a new stadium, the St Pete bowl would be moved there. (Progress being made now on stadium talks)