Best Bowl outside of playoff

[Vollifer1949]

I would love for Tennessee to play and destroy Clemson in the Orange or Sugar Bowl.

 

[joevol33]

If we miss the playoffs the sugar bowl would be sweet

 

[TAF]

If we miss the playoffs the sugar bowl would be sweet

 

[JMSqb11]

I would love for Tennessee to play and destroy Clemson in the Orange or Sugar Bowl.

 

[Chilmonty]

Nola is fun town to go to a bowl, but I would rather go to where it’s warmer!

 

[AthensVol2007]

Sugar for SEC history/tradition (and proximity), Orange for weather.

 

[SpookyAction]

I did love the bowl game being in Nashville, but we have outgrown it.
I wish Nashville had a BIG bowl game.

 

[FloridaVolunteer]

I did love the bowl game being in Nashville, but we have outgrown it.
I wish Nashville had a BIG bowl game.

With the new Titans stadium, we could see one soon.

 

[SpookyAction]

With the new Titans stadium, we could see one soon.

That would be incredible.

 

[Voltopia]

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The same bowl that saw Tennessee lose to North Carolina on a BS penalty that let UNC kick a field goal?

The same bowl that saw Tennessee get called down short of the goal line to win against Purdue?

Yeaaaa-a-a-a-h, thanks but no thanks.

 

[tennesseecoyote]

I wanna Rose Bowl trophy! 1939 or bust!

 

[Crash1984]

As good as Tennessee is doing they should make a NY6 bowl at the very least. There are three options should this happen.

Sugar Bowl:This goes to the SEC champion should they not make the CFP. Otherwise it goes to the best team in the SEC. Unless LSU wins the SEC and misses the playoffs I think this is very likely. They would get the highest Big XII team not in the CFP which at the moment seems to be either Texas or TCU

Orange Bowl-The ACC has an automatic tie in to the game against either the ACC Champion or the highest ACC team. The opponent will be the second highest SEC or Big 10 team in the final CFP rankings. If for some reason Tennessee misses the Sugar Bowl they would almost certainly go here. I am using the AP poll but the next highest ranked team between the SEC and Big 10 is Ole Miss.

Cotton Bowl-There are no conference tie-ins to this game per se so it is going to the highest ranked program not in a NY6 game. The one catch is that since a group of five team is guaranteed to make a NY6 game and this is the only at large game whoever does play here will almost certainly get Tulane. That being said I don't think Tennessee will make this one. I think it will go to a PAC-12 team

The only way I see Tennessee missing out on a NY6 bowl is another loss. At that point I think the Citrus Bowl would certainly take them.

 

[VolZen]

I believe the Sugar Bowl is an 11am start on NYE this year. Sort of the undercard for the playoff games that afternoon and night. Sort of kills it for me starting that early and seeing what we would have narrowly missed out on afterwards.

 

[greenbacknative]

As good as Tennessee is doing they should make a NY6 bowl at the very least. There are three options should this happen.

Sugar Bowl:This goes to the SEC champion should they not make the CFP. Otherwise it goes to the best team in the SEC. Unless LSU wins the SEC and misses the playoffs I think this is very likely. They would get the highest Big XII team not in the CFP which at the moment seems to be either Texas or TCU

Orange Bowl-The ACC has an automatic tie in to the game against either the ACC Champion or the highest ACC team. The opponent will be the second highest SEC or Big 10 team in the final CFP rankings. If for some reason Tennessee misses the Sugar Bowl they would almost certainly go here. I am using the AP poll but the next highest ranked team between the SEC and Big 10 is Ole Miss.

Cotton Bowl-There are no conference tie-ins to this game per se so it is going to the highest ranked program not in a NY6 game. The one catch is that since a group of five team is guaranteed to make a NY6 game and this is the only at large game whoever does play here will almost certainly get Tulane. That being said I don't think Tennessee will make this one. I think it will go to a PAC-12 team

The only way I see Tennessee missing out on a NY6 bowl is another loss. At that point I think the Citrus Bowl would certainly take them.

Orange bowl....Clemson and Tennessee an Orangeout !!! and then kick their AZZ !

 

[American_PitVol]

We win out impressively….we will see Georgia again. And I hope we do. We played too tight. Won’t happen again.

 

[supersmo18]

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GTFO

 

[OrangeInKy]

I did love the bowl game being in Nashville, but we have outgrown it.
I wish Nashville had a BIG bowl game.

You don't want the Music City bowl due to the new sponsor. You're trans-bowl-phobic.

 

[SD189]

With the new Titans stadium, we could see one soon.

I think they would inevitably make a bid to host a CFP Championship game and Super Bowl.

 

[90 Vol]

We’ll be in the playoffs.

 

[Vol737]

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At 11-1??? Hahaha.

 

[sonofUT62]

With the new Titans stadium, we could see one soon.

Does it have a dome or retractable roof? I’m good on an outdoor game in Nashville in January.

 

[VFL 89]

We win out impressively….we will see Georgia again. And I hope we do. We played too tight. Won’t happen again.

Those are exactly my sentiments.

 

[SpookyAction]

We win out impressively….we will see Georgia again. And I hope we do. We played too tight. Won’t happen again.

I think our team has learned a valuable lesson.
It is very informative to actually experience an elite team as a peer, get smacked around, and move forward to learn from it.

 

[CNCVol88]

As good as Tennessee is doing they should make a NY6 bowl at the very least. There are three options should this happen.

Sugar Bowl:This goes to the SEC champion should they not make the CFP. Otherwise it goes to the best team in the SEC. Unless LSU wins the SEC and misses the playoffs I think this is very likely. They would get the highest Big XII team not in the CFP which at the moment seems to be either Texas or TCU

Orange Bowl-The ACC has an automatic tie in to the game against either the ACC Champion or the highest ACC team. The opponent will be the second highest SEC or Big 10 team in the final CFP rankings. If for some reason Tennessee misses the Sugar Bowl they would almost certainly go here. I am using the AP poll but the next highest ranked team between the SEC and Big 10 is Ole Miss.

Cotton Bowl-There are no conference tie-ins to this game per se so it is going to the highest ranked program not in a NY6 game. The one catch is that since a group of five team is guaranteed to make a NY6 game and this is the only at large game whoever does play here will almost certainly get Tulane. That being said I don't think Tennessee will make this one. I think it will go to a PAC-12 team

The only way I see Tennessee missing out on a NY6 bowl is another loss. At that point I think the Citrus Bowl would certainly take them.

If we don't make the CFP then the cotton bowl probably goes to bama. Otherwise I could see it going to Ole miss....unless of course Ole miss picks off bama this weekend too.

 

[BanditVol]

I wanna Rose Bowl trophy! 1939 or bust!

This! Unfortunately they still tend to take Pac12/BiG teams. I wonder if after UCLA and SoCal jump to BiG, will they take two teams from that conference?