Discussion of bowls beginning next season

[xxxWalkTheDawg]

I really hate that the chick fil a and cotton bowl are leaving the normal rotation but good riddance to Birmingham. SEC picks up Belk bowl in the heart of ACC territory and Texas bowl.

There will also be some alternating between the sugar and the orange. The capital one sort of keeps its solid footing behind the sugar and now orange.

A little confusion comes after that. The matchups are said to be determined where teams would not travel to the same bowl multiple times in consecutive years. I have to wonder if that may mean that it is possible that the music city could temporarily overtake the gator in a given year in prestige and payment or a team that has been to the gator recently would be bumped but get a good match up in the music city.

What is the formula going forward?

 

[patdog]

No alternating between Orange and Sugar. The Sugar Bowl will always match up the best SEC team against the best Big 12 team (not in the playoffs) and be played on New Year's night. The Orange will match up the best ACC team (not in the playoffs) against a Big 10 or SEC team. As far as bowls matching up so teams don't go to the same bowl back-to-back, that not going to be a whole lot different than it is now. See the Music City, Liberty and Birmingham bowls this year.

 

[xxxWalkTheDawg]

By reading it was more than just back to back. It was within two years or so... sort of like our trip to the gator twice in three years. It may have been the article that was confusing. It appears that there will more to the formula than finishing order more so than the last few bowls

 

[Lawdawg.sixpack]

I think the formula is this: Slive puts teams where he wants to. Which will, more than likely, suck for us.

Losing the Peach Bowl sucks, but I don't mind trading the Cotton Bowl for the Texas Bowl. With it being a SEC/BigXII matchup, I think it'll turn into a great bowl, hopefully filling the same matchups as the Cotton. Liberty Bowl moves up a notch too by adding BigXII.

I doubt we are selected for Charlotte much, as that will probably be for an East team, but it would be a good trip. Are you sure we are moving out of Birmingham? This article from August says SEC just renewed with Birmingham:

Under the new SEC bowl system, the Capital One Bowl in Orlando (vs. Big Ten/ACC), a long-time SEC bowl, will have the first selection of available SEC teams after any conference schools have qualified for the College Football Playoff, the Allstate Sugar Bowl or the Discover Orange Bowl.

Following the Capital One Bowl, there will be a pool of six bowls comprised of renewals with the Outback Bowl in Tampa (vs. Big Ten), Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl in Nashville (vs. ACC/Big Ten), TaxSlayer.com Gator Bowl in Jacksonville (vs. ACC/Big Ten) and AutoZone Liberty Bowl in Memphis (vs. Big 12), as well as new agreements with the Texas Bowl in Houston (vs. Big 12) and Belk Bowl in Charlotte (vs. ACC).

In consultation with SEC member institutions, as well as these six bowls, the conference will make the assignments for the bowl games in this newly created pool system.
"This bowl process gives us the best opportunity to address several issues that impact SEC fans, including the creation of intriguing matchups, the accommodation of travel for fans, reduced ticket obligations for our schools and a variety of assignments to help prevent repetitive postseason destinations," said Slive.
The SEC has also renewed its relationship with both the Birmingham Bowl (vs. TBA) and the Advocare V100 Bowl in Shreveport (vs. ACC). The Birmingham Bowl will have the first selection of available teams following the pool of six bowls. The Advocare V100 Bowl will have the next selection of available teams following the Birmingham Bowl.

 

[patdog]

Actually, in years the Sugar Bowl hosts one of the semi-final games, the best SEC team will play in one of the other bowls. Pretty sure the Orange Bowl agreement says that the SEC champion will never play in the Orange Bowl. And, in practice, I suspect that even in years when the Sugar hosts a semi-final game, there will almost always be at least 1 SEC team in that game.

 

[GhostOfJackie]

This is the way I see it (by SEC rank)

1. Playoff (most years we will have 2)

2. Sugar (or Orange in years when Sugar is the playoff)

3. Capitol One

4-9. Liberty, Music City, Outback, Belk, Texas, Gator. The way I understand it is that all 6 of these bowls will now be equal and will take the next six best teams in the SEC. They will also be placed by the SEC office to prevent a team from going to the same bowl two years in a row. So I assume all the bowls will be equal.

10. Birmingham
11. Shreveport

My question is... who will the Peach and Cotton take on years that they are not part of the playoff system? Surely they will take an SEC team but it didn't state that in the article I read.

 

[patdog]

Peach and Cotton will be the equivalent of the BCS bowls today when they're not hosting a semi-final, but they won't have any conference tie ins. I suspect in most years (especially when an SEC team doesn't play in the Orange Bowl) one or both of those bowls will select an SEC team. I expect the SEC will get 3 teams in the playoffs & BCS level bowls pretty much every year and will rarely have enough bowl eligible teams to fill the Birmingham and/or Shreveport bowl spots.

 

[BogeyGolfer.sixpack]

I would have much rather played

Arizona in the Independence Bowl rather than Rice in the LB. I'm glad that the LB will have a Big 12 team next year because it will provide a better match-up. I just couldn't get excited about playing Rice... I really think Arkansas and maybe even UK would beat them. Either way, I'm grateful for the new system next year because I think it will provide better match-ups and should improve attendance.