NCAA GDT: The 2024-24 NCAA (Insert Name Here) Bowl Thread

[DoyleG]

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[John Price]

24-24?

 

[Big Z Man 1990]

Notre Dame should be turning down minor bowl invites at least until they break their major bowl losing streak.

ND going to a minor bowl is just as problematic as a major conference basketball team accepting an NIT invite. Both are huge wastes of time.

 

[GKJ]

Notre Dame should be turning down minor bowl invites at least until they break their major bowl losing streak.

ND going to a minor bowl is just as problematic as a major conference basketball team accepting an NIT invite. Both are huge wastes of time.

Got news for you on what all the bowls other then the playoff truly are.

Notre Dame does generally adhere to a standard though and the Sun Bowl meets it.

 

[Big Z Man 1990]

Got news for you on what all the bowls other then the playoff truly are.

Notre Dame does generally adhere to a standard though and the Sun Bowl meets it.

It's still a minor bowl. The standard should be starting next year "either we make the CFP or we don't go to a bowl at all."

 

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It's still a minor bowl. The standard should be starting next year "either we make the CFP or we don't go to a bowl at all."

Why would they turn down money? As usual your takes are shit.

 

[GKJ]

It's still a minor bowl. The standard should be starting next year "either we make the CFP or we don't go to a bowl at all."

The Sun Bowl is a historic bowl. It may not be important but they’re playing a top 20 opponent. It’s not like they’re playing a MAC team. They like the payouts too.

 

[Big Z Man 1990]

Why would they turn down money? As usual your takes are shit.

As I said in the other thread, Eminem put it best about money (which causes more problems than it solves): F*** money, I don't rap for dead presidents.

 

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As I said in the other thread, Eminem put it best about money (which causes more problems than it solves): F*** money, I don't rap for dead presidents.

This is apples vs oranges

 

[Big Z Man 1990]

A 12-team playoff divided along the Mason-Dixon Line (top 6 teams from outside South, top 6 teams from South) would look like this:

Osborne (non-Southern)

Byes: Michigan, Washington

First Round: Penn State at Ohio State, Missouri at Oregon

Bowden (Southern):

Byes: Texas, Alabama

First Round: Oklahoma at Florida State, Ole Miss at Georgia

 

[GKJ]

A 12-team playoff divided along the Mason-Dixon Line (top 6 teams from outside South, top 6 teams from South) would look like this:

Osborne (non-Southern)

Byes: Michigan, Washington

First Round: Penn State at Ohio State, Missouri at Oregon

Bowden (Southern):

Byes: Texas, Alabama

First Round: Oklahoma at Florida State, Ole Miss at Georgia

Missouri is not north of the Mason-Dixon Line. They would go to the south and bump Oklahoma and Iowa would move in.

 

[John Price]

Why would they turn down money? As usual your takes are shit.

the most recent example of a team turning down postseason willingly and not because of sanctions wasn't even in football, which generate more money than basketball (UNC willingly opted out of the NIT because they did not perform to a standard)

given these big bowls generate moolah it is hard to imagine even the slighted FSU opting out of a bowl game. Although I am sure it has happened before to other schools.

 

[HoseEmDown]

As I said in the other thread, Eminem put it best about money (which causes more problems than it solves): F*** money, I don't rap for dead presidents.

Says the multi multi multi millionaire.

 

[Big Z Man 1990]

Missouri is not north of the Mason-Dixon Line

That's not what the US Census Bureau says. I went by their definition of South.

I would want the giant Pop Tart to be a non-fruit flavor like S'mores if I was playing in the game.

 

[GKJ]

That's not what the US Census Bureau says. I went by their definition of South.


I would want the giant Pop Tart to be a non-fruit flavor like S'mores if I was playing in the game.

Well Missouri is in the SEC, and Columbia is at more southern latitude than the Mason-Dixon Line, which is at 39°N. Columbia is 38°N

 

[Big Z Man 1990]

Well Missouri is in the SEC, and Columbia is at more southern latitude than the Mason-Dixon Line, which is at 39°N. Columbia is 38°N

I used the symbolic Mason-Dixon Line as the border between the South and the rest of the country.

 

[Babe Ruth]

One of my favorite lesser Bowls, the Bahamas Bowl, has been temporarily relocated to Charlotte NC. Not exactly an equally exotic destination.. and been rebranded: Famous Toastery Bowl. (ODU vs Western Kentucky).

Bahamas Bowl website is still running an ironic tagline, 'Bowl games are better in the Bahamas.'

 

[GKJ]

Caleb Williams has opted out of the Holiday Bowl.

 

[Tony Romo]

IF the 12 team playoff gives me Penn state vs Ohio State again, just go back to when writers decided who finish #1 pls

 

[Big Z Man 1990]

The following bowl games this year match up teams who used to be conference rivals:

New Mexico: New Mexico State VS. Fresno State (Big West, 1984-91 and WAC, 2005-11)
Famous Toastery: Western Kentucky VS. Old Dominion (C-USA, 2014-21)
Frisco: Marshall VS. UTSA (C-USA, 2013-21)
Boca Raton: South Florida VS. Syracuse (Big East, 2005-12)
Camellia: Arkansas State VS. Northern Illinois (Big West, 1993-95)
Texas: Oklahoma State VS. Texas A&M (Big 12, 1996-2011)
Pinstripe: Rutgers VS. Miami (FL) (Big East, 1991-2003)

Meanwhile the Fenway Bowl matches SMU against future ACC opponent Boston College, a team the Mustangs will play in their first year in the ACC.

 

[John Price]

 

[Unholy Diver]

The following bowl games this year match up teams who used to be conference rivals:

New Mexico: New Mexico State VS. Fresno State (Big West, 1984-91 and WAC, 2005-11)
Famous Toastery: Western Kentucky VS. Old Dominion (C-USA, 2014-21)
Frisco: Marshall VS. UTSA (C-USA, 2013-21)
Boca Raton: South Florida VS. Syracuse (Big East, 2005-12)
Camellia: Arkansas State VS. Northern Illinois (Big West, 1993-95)
Texas: Oklahoma State VS. Texas A&M (Big 12, 1996-2011)
Pinstripe: Rutgers VS. Miami (FL) (Big East, 1991-2003)

Meanwhile the Fenway Bowl matches SMU against future ACC opponent Boston College, a team the Mustangs will play in their first year in the ACC.

I can't imagine there is more than a few dozen people that care about all of those games combined

 

[Big Z Man 1990]

Liberty is playing in the Fiesta Bowl.

Both the school and the bowl began in 1971.

 

[Big Z Man 1990]

And it would be highly embarrassing if ND lost to one of the Pac-12 teams that was NOT poached by another conference.

I thought losing the Fiesta Bowl 2 years ago was embarrassing since the Big 12 was perceived as a dying conference at the time. Now it's the Pac-12 that's dying.

 

[GKJ]

And it would be highly embarrassing if ND lost to one of the Pac-12 teams that was NOT poached by another conference.

I thought losing the Fiesta Bowl 2 years ago was embarrassing since the Big 12 was perceived as a dying conference at the time. Now it's the Pac-12 that's dying.

It would be embarrassing but not for the reasons you think, but because everyone at Oregon State is transferring.