Regarding bowl tickets...

[dawgstudent]

Ole Miss had two deadlines. Email went out on 11/10.

First deadline was 11/19 for SECCG

Second deadline was 12/9 for bowl game.

I wonder why we chose not to do that.

 

[Bulldog from Birth]

Historically, the athletic department likes to have the data on bowl ticket sales in advance of bowl selections. They can use that data, if it tells a good story, to bowl games we are vying for. That may not be near as important now in this new era of bowl bids though.

 

[Seinfeld]

It's funny you bring that up because I talked to multiple people about how if we had made the SECG, we wouldn't be going back to Atlanta for the Peach Bowl even if that was where we ended up. On the other hand, if we did not make the SECG, we would absolutely go to ATL for the Peach Bowl.

Unfortunately, though, with the way that our ticket office handled it this year, we didn't have any choice but to take a gamble and commit to both

 

[patdog]

It would definitely have some bearing. The way the SEC bowls work is, the Citrus picks who it wants. Then all the other bowls, except the Liberty & I think Birmingham, are assigned by the SEC office. The bowls let the SEC know which teams they would want and the schools let the SEC know which bowls they want, and the SEC uses that to make the assignments. I would think knowing we would take 15,000 to bowl A, but only 5,000 to bowl B would be pretty significant.