Pack Your Bags For Tampa

#26
#26
I'm going to be out drinking in the bars of Baltimore for New Year's Eve this year; if you've never been there, the Fells Point area may be the greatest concentration of beer bars in the country. An eleven o'clock kickoff is gonna come awfully early...
 
#28
#28
Kentucky has also accepted a bid for the Music City Bowl.

Georgia to Chik-fil-A vs. Virginia Tech is just a formality now.
 
#31
#31
tidwell said:
I was being serious. I'm gonna be watching it from the house, so the earlier the better. :rock2:
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I will be present, so have a little love for your fellow vols. I will be the guy in the orange cap looking a little green. I should stand right out.
 
#32
#32
Rheaber said:
I know I should be happy to be in a bowl game but playing a 4 loss team is boring. How excited can our guys possibley get over a team that is not even in the top 25. This is ridiculous.
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<-----is totally bummed out. I sure we'd go to the Capital One bowl because they never take the loser of the SEC championship game....dang...:sad:
 
#34
#34
Rheaber said:
I know I should be happy to be in a bowl game but playing a 4 loss team is boring. How excited can our guys possibley get over a team that is not even in the top 25. This is ridiculous.
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Penn State is still a bigger name than Wisconsin. Also the Capital one is still just the Citrus ("you can't spell....) Bowl by another name. Also with our run defense the Badgers would have had 350 to 400 rushing yards on us. Plus Arkansas beat the crap out of us and deserved the better bowl. IMO!!
 
#35
#35
It is a good New Year's Day bowl in a good location.

The Capital One might be marginally better, but there really isn't alot of difference. In today's age, you have the BCS, the good bowls right under the BCS, and the garbage bowls. The Outback is in the second category, and so are the Capitol One and the Cotton and the Chicken.

I'm not going to be sad about having to go to Tampa for New Year's.
 
#37
#37
4.25 Million for the Capitol One
3.0 Million for the Outback. (Same as Cotton)

Tennessee wouldn't get all that though, the SEC shares it's bowl money.
 
#38
#38
OrangeSquare said:
4.25 Million for the Capitol One
3.0 Million for the Outback. (Same as Cotton)

Tennessee wouldn't get all that though, the SEC shares it's bowl money.
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You mean we have to give you guys some of the dough we earn from playing in a BCS bowl? That blows!!

Just kidding. I already knew that. S'alright with me. We don't need it.
 
#39
#39
While I am at it...

Chick-fil-A payout is $3.25M to the ACC and $2.4M to the SEC.
Independance Bowl is a 1.2 Million Payout.
Liberty is a 1.7 Million Payout.
Music City is a 1.5 Million Payout.

All of those are TOTAL payouts, so the teams/conferences split those numbers and then SEC shares it with all teams.
 
#44
#44
Notre Dame is the team that is making a killing.. have their own TV contract and don't have to split the dough.
 
#45
#45
JonWard said:
We lost to All the teams that got bowls better than ours, don't see how we have a complaint.
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Agreed. Why wouldn't the Capital One take Arkansas over us? They destroyed us on the field, and they have the most exciting player in college football to showcase.

It's simple -- if we want to play in better bowls, we shouldn't lose three games. I'd say we're right about where we deserve.
 
#50
#50
OrangeSquare said:
Kentucky has also accepted a bid for the Music City Bowl.

Georgia to Chik-fil-A vs. Virginia Tech is just a formality now.
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Also, if anyone is interested, the Liberty Bowl site shows South Carolina vs. Houston, leaving Alabama for the Independence (neither of the Chicken or the Indy Bowls' websites have been updated at this point.)

Kentucky gets the honor of facing a pretty tough Clemson team in Nashville.
 
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