Or a win against AP, L, and the bowl and everyone goes away saying Next year.
Disastrous Weekend for UK bowl prospects
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Exactly right, and as far as I am concerned playing a team we can beat is probably more important than what bowl we play in, attendance, or anything else. In a couple of years recruits won't even remember who or where we played, but they will see that WINNING SEASON a lot.
Fair enough. I would argue that if we fail to turn out in huge numbers then it's largely b/c we do nothing to inspire any hope and optimism. We never take advantage of a big opportunity to make a splash. It's hard for the fanbase to keep getting excited only to be let down again.
NY6 is selected by the Committee. The only "locked in" berth is for the Sugar (where the SEC plays the Big 12). But, if there are enough top tier teams, the SEC could have also landed in other NY6 bowls like the Orange and Cotton.
EXACTLY, the 6 year Bowl drought will cause this to be different than the 2011 Compass Bowl, which I was in attendance, there was a crowd of 41,000 at Legion Field. Hartline being suspended no doubt cost us a great shot to win. I could see us in the Belk Bowl, and USC in the Music City Bowl, which they have never played in. OM or MSU is NOT going bowling, due to playing each other, Vandy is also NOT going bowling after losing to Mizzou. Our Bowl outlook is brighter than many on here would have us to believe !
?? Ole Miss only has to win 1 between Vandy and State....Id say they are going bowling barring a complete laydown, which might have been possible if not for the new wunderkind Shea Patterson.
And honestly if Vandy could somehow win one between Ole Miss and Tennessee they are probably going somewhere with a 5-7 record and a ridiculously high APR. Although that would not affect the conference bowl tie ins.
Yes, you are right. MSU has games with Arkansas at home and @ OM. They have an uphill road no doubt. Do not see Vandy beating OM now, or beating UT, so it looks like 4-8 for the 'Dores.
If the CFP poll looks anything like the AP the SEC will only get Bama in the playoff and whoever goes to the Sugar from the SEC. Right now Bama is the only team from the SEC in the AP Top 15 which is the first time that has happened since 2004.
82 spots. SMH. You have to wonder with ESPN losing subscribers left and right and the imminent decline in right's fees, how much longer some of these exhibition games make it.
Ummm, are you sure about that? The committee selects the 4 teams to play in the 2 semi-final games but I think the other 4 bowls are basically determined by some tie in rules. Personally I don't like that (i.e., tie-ins) as it likely cheats some "good" teams out "better" bowls in favor of the bigger name programs. I know this year is peculiar but does a 3, maybe even 4 loss SEC team "deserve" a Sugar Bowl berth? Unless WV wins out (including whatever they are doing as a playoff) the BIG XII-II will be sending at least a 2 loss team to the Sugar.
It will never happen but I would like to see abetter playoff selection process extended to the higher their bowls (i.e., an independent selection of participants).
Peace
Reading here and there the Liberty is considering a match twist UK and Boston College. Would be the irony bowl with Towles finishing his career against the team he started with as well as UK sandwiching a season between their former OC and ending it against their former QB.
Sportswriters eat that stuff up.
At this point, it's about valuable practice time and being able to show recruits UK is slowly beginning to turn it around.
Sportswriters eat that stuff up.
At this point, it's about valuable practice time and being able to show recruits UK is slowly beginning to turn it around.
http://www.collegefootballplayoff.com/selection-day
To answer your question is it kind of yes and no from the way I read it.
If we lose to UL and finish regular season at 1-3, will be exactly how most people thought before season.
Yes, I'm sure. There are tie-ins and requirements attached (e.g. The Pac 12 and Big 10 still have ties to the rose, there is a group of 5 team in there, the Big 12 and SEC tied to Sugar, etc), but the committee still decides the "New Year's 6 matchups" and it is the committee that decides on "at large" berths.
We travel well when the fan base is excited. When the fan base isn't excited, we get turnouts like the last time we were in Birmingham.
I was going to post something like what the other poster said about us traveling real well and putting people in the seats but you do have a very good point. At this time I don't think a whole lot of UK fans are real excited about traveling to a real weak bowl game just because we beat someone like Austin Peay to become eligible. I know I won't be traveling to somewhere like Birmingham to watch a bowl game. It can be pretty chilly there at that time of year (so it's not a great place to double as a fun getaway during that time of year) and it's a pretty rough area where the stadium is located, from all I hear. Not a long trip from Lexington, in my opinion, but not a very attractive one either. Now, if it were Music City Bowl and Nashville, I might have to reconsider just because I love Nashville so much too.