Bowl Projections: Week 3

[00Dawg]

CollegeSportsMadness.com: Citrus Bowl vs Wisconsin
DieHards.com: Citrus Bowl vs Louisville
CBS: Outback Bowl vs Purdue
SBNation: Citrus Bowl vs Miami
ESPN (David Hale): Citrus Bowl vs VT
ESPN (Kyle Bonagura): Citrus Bowl vs Michigan
Orlando Sentinel (Brant Parsons): Birmingham Bowl vs Memphis
247 Sports: Citrus Bowl vs Louisville
CollegeFootballNews.com: Outback Bowl vs Penn State
Sporting News: Gator Bowl vs Minnesota
Saturday Down South: Citrus Bowl vs Miami
Sports Illustrated: Citrus Bowl vs FSU
Brett McMurphy: Gator Bowl vs Minnesota
USA Today: Citrus vs Miami

 

[civildawg88]

Would love the citrus. About the only Florida bowl I would go to

 

[QuaoarsKing]

Orlando Sentinel (Brant Parsons): Birmingham Bowl vs Memphis

...

So he thinks we'll just win 1 more SEC game this season? Because that's the only way we'd fall that far.

 

[MaroonCrusader]

Would love the citrus. About the only Florida bowl I would go to

Citrus and Outback are fun games to go to. Lots of fun stuff to do surrounding the games.

 

[00Dawg]

Well, he had us with no bowl last week, so...

 

[Msubulldogfan1]

Citrus or outback would be great.

 

[KurtRambis4]

Not that this means

anything, but I saw two guys wearing Orange Bowl blazers in the stadium last night.

These could have just been two random dudes, but I find it odd that two random dudes would wear orange bowl blazers to a MSU/LSU game.

 

[Msubulldogfan1]

The orange bowl is one of the semi finals I believe.

 

[notoriousD_O_G]

Oh sweet Jesus let us play Louisville

 

[tatedog]

I get what you are saying, but we'll have to trend way down from where we are now to end up playing Louisville. They aren't very good--and they are going to get worse.

 

[00Dawg]

Semifinals are Sugar and Rose this year.

With the Orange, when not a semifinal it's the best ACC team not in the CFP vs the highest-ranked Big 10\SEC\Notre Dame team that isn't a conference champion. There's some minimum-number-of-selections-in-a-12-year-period stuff that won't come into play for a few more years.

The main way for an SEC team to get to the Orange is:
1. Have the SEC champion in the CFP
2. Have the Sugar Bowl be a semi-final while the Orange is not
3. Be higher ranked than any non-champion Big 10 team plus ND

That's how we got there in 2014. In fact, the CFP committee jumped us over Michigan State in the last pre-bowl poll despite neither having played. Otherwise, it was the Spartans in Miami and us in Dallas or Atlanta.

I'm not sure what would happen if you had:
1. The SEC champion in the CFP
2. The Sugar Bowl and Orange Bowl not semi-finals
3. Two SEC non-champions ranked ahead of any Big 10 team or ND

I guess you would have a SEC team in New Orleans and Miami.


Note that this year if the SEC champion isn't in the CFP, they'll be in Dallas, Tempe, or Atlanta.

 

[MSUDawgFan86]

I get what you are saying, but we'll have to trend way down from where we are now to end up playing Louisville. They aren't very good--and they are going to get worse.

Agree with this!

 

[notoriousD_O_G]

I agree they are not good that's why I want to play them/Sirmon. I was just referencing the fact that 3 of the projections above match us up with them.