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The Music City Bowl looks most likely for us.
Assuming Boise wins out, which seems a near lock even despite the injury to star tailback Ian Johnson, the SEC will be hard pressed to land a second team in the BCS. The Big East looks much more likely to have two or more one loss teams.
However, Wake Forest and Rutgers are possible conference champs, and both schools have small fan bases compared to Arkansas, Florida and LSU. Rutgers is also a possible at-large team. The Orange Bowl will struggle to sell tickets to a Wake/GT vs. Rutgers. So there's still a slim chance for a second SEC team.
If there's only 1 SEC team in the BCS, we all move down a notch. The only way that I can see us getting into the Peach Bowl is if UK beats UT. Something that the always unreliable College Football News sees happening. Dean Legge of DawgPost.com has a different take (subscriber content). If UGA wins out, we might land the Peach by virtue of finishing hot, UT having been there so often so recently and the Liberty Bowl and Peach both looking at in-state fan bases.
UPDATE: The Peach Bowl has said publicly that they would like the winner of the GT vs. UGA Game if possible.
Personally, I'm thinking it looks like this (this week anyway):
- National Title Game - OSU vs. USC
Rose - Michigan vs. West Virginia
Fiesta - Texas vs. Boise State
Sugar - Arkansas vs. Notre Dame (Lou Holtz's Lisp Bowl)
Orange - Wake vs. Louisville
Citrus - UF vs. Wisconsin
Outback - Auburn vs. Penn State
Cotton - LSU vs. Oklahoma
Peach - Tennessee vs. Georgia Tech
Music - Georgia vs. Miami
Liberty - Kentucky vs. Houston
Independence - Alabama vs. OK State
Motor City Bowl - South Carolina vs. Central Michigan
-- Sportsline
-- ESPN
-- CFN
PWD
5 comments:
USC and Notre Dame still play. If USC crushes ND they may not get an at-large bid so theres a chance there too. Also if Rutgers can beat West Virginia theyll have 2 losses and may not get an at-large over Florida or Arkansas.
Notre Dame gets an at-large bid as surely as the sun rises.
It's not just the TV draw or the size of their fan base. It's the fact that OTHER teams sell more tickets when ND is in town b/c everyone wants to beat them.
Barring an ND loss to Army AND Southern Cal, they are getting an at-large birth.
How bad would it suck to pay all of that money to have the game's name changed to Chick-fil-a Bowl and everyone still call it the Peach Bowl?
Oh well, the Cathys can afford it.
I don't think Tennessee goes to the CFA Peach Bowl.
I doubt enough years have passed since Tennessee twice trashed then tanked that bowl game.
For the CFA folks, its "Fool me once...".
Anybody considered that CFA Bowl would take a flyer on the Dawgs in the hopes that Stafford actually does turn into the Chuck Norris-type legend, and CFA gets to say that he played in their game?
Really who cares- beat the Hell outta Tech.
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