Music City Bowl

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Who do you think will make it this year?

I would like to take my girlfriend, who is not a Tennessee fan (I know, mistake #1 as an orange-blooded man), but she likes football so that's a plus.

I looked at the SEC standings, and if Ole Miss (5-6) beats Miss St, I'd say it will be them because usually the Music City Bowl takes crappy 6-6 teams like that. If Miss St wins, they will have 9 wins, so they'll want a better bowl.

You can say no to Georgia/Florida/South Carolina/Alabama/LSU/Texas A&M. Only logical choices I see are Ole Miss for sure if they beat Miss St, Miss St themselves, or Vanderbilt. But I think Vanderbilt will want a better bowl game than that as well.

I'd like to see Vanderbilt vs Virginia Tech, but that would be horrible to make my girlfriend (and myself for that matter) suffer through a Vanderbilt game.

I suppose tickets will be easy to come by, though. Dooley just couldn't do one thing right and beat Vandy to make this easy ...

I may just spend the money and take her to one of the remaining Titans games ...
 
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If Clemson makes a BCS bowl (likely if they beat Carolina), fill-in-the-blank random school. If not, Duke. Either one would play Vandy.
 
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Vandy is going to the MCB. The Gator Bowl will take State no matter what happens in the Egg Bowl. No one bowl willingly takes Vandy. They did sell their tickets to the Liberty Bowl last year but it was also after a big campaign for a once in a life time event and the bowl was a short drive from Nashville. No way they could bring that many to Jacksonville.
 
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Will it be Franklin's last game at Vandy? Anyone else think 8 wins is the ceiling for Vandy, besides a potential bowl win. If I am Franklin, I bolt. That is a great body of work that may not happen again.
 
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Franklin has the best season ever at Vandy and gets to stay in Nashville for a bowl. They had a very favorable schedule this year with Auburn, Ole Miss for his cross division games and Tennessee/Kentucky being dumpster fires. I just don't see his stock being any higher than it is this year. If he wants out he better get going.
 
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velovol said:
ACC may be short on bowl teams this year
A hilarious outcome would be MTSU at large vs Vandy.
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The SEC will as well. The Birmingham Bowl is going to be looking for an at large team too. The Birmingham Bowl is supposed to go to the BIgEast if no SEC, but I'm not sure the BigEast will have enough teams either.

EDIT: looks like Ole Miss is going to be eligible so only BBVA goes unfilled.
 
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As much as I hate Vandy, for them to win eight games and fall all the way to the MCB would be a slap in the face.
 
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Would be hilarious if MCB took out of town Ole Miss over Vandy and Vandy fell to Liberty Bowl. There is no rule requiring MCB to take the better record and Ole Miss would bring more hotel revenue which is the entire point of the MCB so it might not be insane but I think local pressure will probably put Vandy in anyway.
 
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MSCE09 said:
Would be hilarious if MCB took out of town Ole Miss over Vandy and Vandy fell to Liberty Bowl. There is no rule requiring MCB to take the better record and Ole Miss would bring more hotel revenue which is the entire point of the MCB so it might not be insane but I think local pressure will probably put Vandy in anyway.
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Actually, I think that I remember being told that there might be something (in the bowls and their SEC agreement) about they can only take a different team within a game (maybe conference game) of the best team available to them...


Besides, Ole Miss would travel a h-ll of a lot better to Memphis and the Liberty Bowl than they would to Nashville.
 
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TrueOrange said:
Actually, I think that there might be something (in the bowls and their SEC agreement) about they can only take a different team within a game (maybe conference game) of the best team available to them...


Besides, Ole Miss would travel a h-ll of a lot better to Memphis and the Liberty Bowl than they would to Nashville.
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Technically the Liberty and MCB are the same pick, its not that much further from Oxford to Nashville, and there isn't such a rule. There was a huge debate about the rule on VN a couple of years ago before the MCB invite, its a myth.
 
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VolsSportsFan said:
Is the MCB considered better than the Liberty Bowl?
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Apparently it tends to get 7th pick while the Liberty gets the 8th


Supposedly it rotates, but I'm not sure I've seen it pick first...it might be that it gets first pick when a closer team (a MS team, or like an Arky or now Mizzou) appears first/higher at that 7 slot, but who knows


This all might be more of a Deerpark type question
 
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It's sounding like Duke to the Belk Bowl is very likely. We'll see what happens, but this is what I'm hoping for. Phil Steele's last MCB projection was Toledo vs. Vandy, which would actually be a good game if you like MAC football like I do.
 
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