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UAB Bowl Projections - Week 14

Trending up: Gasparilla Bowl (6); New Orleans Bowl (4); First Responders Bowl (3)
Trending down:
Out This Week: Birmingham Bowl; Belk Bowl
New This Week:Cheez-It Bowl

Gasparilla Bowl (6); New Orleans Bowl (4); First Responders Bowl (3); New Mexico Bowl (3); ; Frisco Bowl (3); Music City Bowl (2); Cheez-It Bowl (1); Independence Bowl (1)

Tropical Smoothie Cafe Frisco Bowl (Frisco,TX)
Friday 12/20 (6:30 PM) - ESPN
• vs. SMU - College Football News (12/6)
• vs. SMU - Sports Media Pass (12/1)
• vs. SMU - ESPN/Bonagura (12/8)

New Mexico Bowl (Albuquerque, NM)
Saturday 12/21 (1PM) - ESPN
• vs. Air Force - Dratings (12/1)
• vs. Wyoming - CBS Sports/Palm (12/7)
• vs. Wyoming - 247 Sports (12/7)

New Orleans Bowl (New Orleans, LA)
Saturday 12/21 (8:00 PM) - ESPN
• vs. Appalachian State - SBR (11/27)
• vs. Appalachian State - Biloxi Sun-Herald (12/4)
• vs. Appalachian State - Stadium/McMurphy (12/8)
• vs. Louisiana - Yahoo! Sports (12/3)

Bad Boy Mowers Gasparilla Bowl (St. Petersburg, FL)
Monday 12/23 (1:30PM) - ESPN
• vs. Miami (FL) - Yardbarker (10/28)
• vs. SMU - Banner Society (12/7)
• vs. Temple - Bleacher Report/Miller (12/7)
• vs. Tulane - USA Today (12/3)
• vs. Tulane - Saturday Blitz (12/2)
• vs. UCF - Athlon (12/4)
• vs. UCF - ESPN/Schlabach (12/8)

Independence Bowl (Shreveport, LA)
Thursday 12/26 (3:00PM) - ESPN
• vs. Miami (FL) - College Sports Madness (12/8)

Cheez-It Bowl (Phoenix, AZ)
Saturday 12/28 (9:15 PM) - ESPN
• vs. Washington State - Action Sports (12/7)

First Responders Bowl (Dallas, TX)
Monday 12/30 (11:30AM) - ESPN
• vs. Central Michigan - Orlando Sentinel (12/1)
• vs. Central Michigan - Sports Illustrated (12/4)
• vs. Ohio - Bleacher Report/Tansey (12/6)

Music City Bowl (Nashville, TN)
Monday 12/30 (3:00 PM) - ESPN
• vs. Louisville - The Sporting News (12/3)

You can remove the Bahamas Bowl possibility, they announced that Charlotte will be playing Buffalo.

https://www.espn.com/college-football/st...wl-victory

I am hoping for anything but New Mexico (a little far) or Bad Boy Mower (a little to close to Christmas). I want to drive and make some fun stops along the way there and back to whatever bowl we get.

Just glad we are getting a consecutive Bowl game on the mainland. And most of our possible Bowl games are far enough before or after Christmas that I think fans will be able to attend.

New Orleans, Nashville would be fun destinations that are nice and close.

I'm on board for a Saturday night in New Orleans against a Top 25 team.

The bowl payout still matters.

With us going to Boca last year & this weekend I believe you can toss that Bowl game aside even if it does pay the most.

A Nashville trip if it can be arranged against an AAC team would be good.

Thanks for compiling these each week, blazerjay.

Even though in reality most all of these have just been guesses, up until now..

The new addition of the Charlotte option is intriguing. I think I'd enjoy spending new year's in Charlotte, if we can't spend it in Nashville.

I vote for either Nashville or Charlotte is those are real options. No holiday conflicts, easy travel, quality opponents, and those are higher profile bowls with bigger payouts.

After Christmas would be better for me instead of before Christmas.

Last year I was Christmas-ing in Nashville when we played in Boca.

I don't see us going to New Orleans no matter how much we may want that. Looking at bowl payouts it is one of the lowest among the bowls that we are getting mentioned for. I have to believe we would take a better paying bowl before we go to New Orleans.

For reference N.O. is under a million while most of the others are all over a million some even close to 2 million. (I believe that total is split between the teams)

(12-04-2019 05:22 PM)WhatIsThisFeeling Wrote:  I don't see us going to New Orleans no matter how much we may want that. Looking at bowl payouts it is one of the lowest among the bowls that we are getting mentioned for. I have to believe we would take a better paying bowl before we go to New Orleans.

For reference N.O. is under a million while most of the others are all over a million some even close to 2 million. (I believe that total is split between the teams)

In response to that last sentence- nope. Many will be surprised to learn this, but the bowl payout money actually goes straight to the conference office, who divides it up evenly among all of the conference members. The teams that went to the bowls get a small bonus, plus travel expenses. Every conference works this way, and it is a part of the agreements to be a member. I think the participating team gets to keep a chunk of the ticket revenue as well, which encourages the school to go to a game where fans will follow.

This is one of the reasons Notre Dame and BYU are independent. They don't have to share money with anyone. And especially so for ND- they've got their own TV contract with NBC and they keep all the money.

(12-04-2019 05:50 PM)BatesUAB Wrote:  

(12-04-2019 05:22 PM)WhatIsThisFeeling Wrote:  I don't see us going to New Orleans no matter how much we may want that. Looking at bowl payouts it is one of the lowest among the bowls that we are getting mentioned for. I have to believe we would take a better paying bowl before we go to New Orleans.

For reference N.O. is under a million while most of the others are all over a million some even close to 2 million. (I believe that total is split between the teams)

In response to that last sentence- nope. Many will be surprised to learn this, but the bowl payout money actually goes straight to the conference office, who divides it up evenly among all of the conference members. The teams that went to the bowls get a small bonus, plus travel expenses. Every conference works this way, and it is a part of the agreements to be a member. I think the participating team gets to keep a chunk of the ticket revenue as well, which encourages the school to go to a game where fans will follow.

This is one of the reasons Notre Dame and BYU are independent. They don't have to share money with anyone. And especially so for ND- they've got their own TV contract with NBC and they keep all the money.

Either way you slice it if the choice for UAB was Belk Bowl or N.O. the conference would send us to Belk.
Well if the conference was smart they would send us to the Belk Bowl....a lot to be said about our conference and smart sometimes

(12-04-2019 05:50 PM)BatesUAB Wrote:  

(12-04-2019 05:22 PM)WhatIsThisFeeling Wrote:  I don't see us going to New Orleans no matter how much we may want that. Looking at bowl payouts it is one of the lowest among the bowls that we are getting mentioned for. I have to believe we would take a better paying bowl before we go to New Orleans.

For reference N.O. is under a million while most of the others are all over a million some even close to 2 million. (I believe that total is split between the teams)

In response to that last sentence- nope. Many will be surprised to learn this, but the bowl payout money actually goes straight to the conference office, who divides it up evenly among all of the conference members. The teams that went to the bowls get a small bonus, plus travel expenses. Every conference works this way, and it is a part of the agreements to be a member. I think the participating team gets to keep a chunk of the ticket revenue as well, which encourages the school to go to a game where fans will follow.

This is one of the reasons Notre Dame and BYU are independent. They don't have to share money with anyone. And especially so for ND- they've got their own TV contract with NBC and they keep all the money.

(12-04-2019 01:35 AM)blazerjay Wrote:  UAB Bowl Projections - Week 14

Trending up: Gasparilla Bowl (7); New Orleans Bowl (4)
Trending down: Birmingham Bowl
Out This Week: Independence Bowl
New This Week: Belk Bowl

Gasparilla Bowl (7); New Orleans Bowl (4); Birmingham Bowl (3); New Mexico Bowl (2); Frisco Bowl (2); Music City Bowl (2); Belk Bowl (1); First Responders Bowl (1)

Makers Wanted Bahamas Bowl (Nassau, BH)
Friday 12/20 (1PM) - ESPN
• vs. Ohio - College Sports Madness (12/1)

New Mexico Bowl (Albuquerque, NM)
Saturday 12/21 (1PM) - ESPN
• vs. Air Force - Dratings (12/1)
• vs. Wyoming - CBS Sports/Palm (12/3)

Tropical Smoothie Cafe Frisco Bowl (Frisco,TX)
Saturday 12/21 (6:30 PM) - ESPN
• vs. SMU - College Football News (12/2)
• vs. SMU - Sports Media Pass (12/1)

New Orleans Bowl (New Orleans, LA)
Saturday 12/21 (8:00 PM) - ESPN
• vs. Appalachian State - ESPN/Bonagura (12/3)
• vs. Appalachian State - Athlon (12/1)
• vs. Appalachian State - SBR (11/27)
• vs. Louisiana - Yahoo! Sports (12/3)

Bad Boy Mowers Gasparilla Bowl (St. Petersburg, FL)
Monday 12/23 (1:30PM) - ESPN
• vs. Boston College - Sports Illustrated (11/27)
• vs. Cincinnati - 247 Sports (12/3)
• vs. Miami (FL) - Yardbarker (10/28)
• vs. SMU - Banner Society (12/3)
• vs. Temple - Bleacher Report/Miller (12/3)
• vs. Tulane - USA Today (12/3)
• vs. UCF- Stadium/McMurphy (12/3)

First Responders Bowl (Dallas, TX)
Monday 12/30 (11:30AM) - ESPN
• vs. Central Michigan - Orlando Sentinel (12/1)

Music City Bowl (Nashville, TN)
Monday 12/30 (3:00 PM) - ESPN
• vs. Louisville - The Sporting News (12/3)

Belk Bowl (Charlotte, NC)
Monday 12/31 (11:00AM) - ESPN
• vs. Pittsburgh - ActionSports (11/30)
• vs. Virginia Tech - ESPN/Schlabach (12/3)

Ticketsmarter Birmingham Bowl (Birmingham, AL)
Thursday 1/2 (2:00PM) - ESPN
• vs. Cincinnati - Saturday Blitz (11/24)
• vs. Navy - Biloxi Sun-Herald (11/27)
• vs. UCF - Bleacher Report/Tansey (11/26)

Tropical Smoothie Cafe Frisco Bowl (Frisco,TX)
Saturday 12/21 (6:30 PM) - ESPN

this game is actually on FRIDAY night the 20th

As of one hour ago, CBS Sports and 24/7 are predicting UAB vs Wyoming in the New Mexico Bowl.

Updated

Cheez-It Bowl - In

Birmingham Bowl - Out

(12-07-2019 10:06 PM)HiddenDragon Wrote:  As of now:

CBS Sports and 24/7: New Mexico Bowl - UAB vs Wyoming
ESPN: Frisco Bowl - UAB vs SMU
USA Today: Gasparilla Bowl - UAB vs Tulane

(12-08-2019 06:56 AM)HiddenDragon Wrote:  

(12-07-2019 10:06 PM)HiddenDragon Wrote:  As of now:

CBS Sports and 24/7: New Mexico Bowl - UAB vs Wyoming
ESPN: Frisco Bowl - UAB vs SMU
USA Today: Gasparilla Bowl - UAB vs Tulane

You missed the other ESPN change: Gasparilla Bowl vs. UCF

All updated at top.

Stadium just flipped to the New Orleans Bowl vs. App State.

(12-08-2019 11:25 AM)blazerjay Wrote:  Stadium just flipped to the New Orleans Bowl vs. App State.

Can you remove the Bahamas Bowl? Otherwise, I would want UAB to go there...lol

(12-08-2019 11:51 AM)HiddenDragon Wrote:  

(12-08-2019 11:25 AM)blazerjay Wrote:  Stadium just flipped to the New Orleans Bowl vs. App State.

Can you remove the Bahamas Bowl? Otherwise, I would want UAB to go there...lol

Uh. It's been gone for several days. ( I only update the original post in the thread).

Speaking of...College Sports Madness finally updated their projections and now have UAB vs. Miami in the Independence Bowl.