Thoughts on Bowl names

#27
#27
Revive the Garden State Bowl if you want to send programs and their fans to north Jersey in mid-December. Vols claimed that last GS trophy by beating Wisconsin in '81 or '82(?) Where have you gone, Steve Alatorre?
 
#28
#28
The problem with having too many bowls is we often end up with worse matchups in the mid-tier bowl games. We'll have a 8-4 team playing a 5-7 team and a 8-4 team playing a 6-6 team when the two 8-4 teams should be playing each other.
 
#29
#29
n_huffhines said:
The problem with having too many bowls is we often end up with worse matchups in the mid-tier bowl games. We'll have a 8-4 team playing a 5-7 team and a 8-4 team playing a 6-6 team when the two 8-4 teams should be playing each other.
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No different than the NCAA basketball T being watered down with loads of mediocre teams and low and mid majors
 
#33
#33
n_huffhines said:
The problem with having too many bowls is we often end up with worse matchups in the mid-tier bowl games. We'll have a 8-4 team playing a 5-7 team and a 8-4 team playing a 6-6 team when the two 8-4 teams should be playing each other.
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I think a lot of that is due to conference affiliation. Back in the day the bowls, outside the big 4, could invite whoever they wanted. You got better matchups back then. Of course quite a few teams got left out too, which is why they went to the conference tie ins in the first place.
 
#34
#34
sponsors are paying out the wazoo to give me free football in mid-late December. I'm outraged.
 
#36
#36
1chattyvols1 said:
I know everything is based on money and sponsorship but I miss the old USF&G Sugar Bowl, the Georgia Peach Bowl, the Tangerine Bowl, etc.. What about you guys? Does the Chick-Fil-A Peach Bowl and all of these other sponsored bowls matter to ya'll?
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Kind of a strange complaint considering the trend is for bowls to go back to "regular" names.

The Chik-Fil-A Bowl went back to the Peach Bowl and the Captial One Bowl went back to the Citrus Bowl. The sponser in the name is just the new normal, not to mention "USF&G" was the sponser of the Sugar Bowl back in the day.

Also, considering The Peach Bowl is one of the New Year Six Bowls and will be a playoff game every few years, yeah it matters.
 
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#37
#37
VolsSportsFan said:
Kind of a strange complaint considering the trend is for bowls to go back to "regular" names.

The Chik-Fil-A Bowl went back to the Peach Bowl and the Captial One Bowl went back to the Citrus Bowl. The sponser in the name is just the new normal, not to mention "USF&G" was the sponser of the Sugar Bowl back in the day.

Also, considering The Peach Bowl is one of the New Year Six Bowls and will be a playoff game every few years, yeah it matters.
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It is a nice trend. It was the Sun Bowl that was the first to take on a completely corporate name. "The John Hancock Bowl".
 
#38
#38
BowlBrother85 said:
It is a nice trend. It was the Sun Bowl that was the first to take on a completely corporate name. "The John Hancock Bowl".
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Yeah I remember that.

I also remember the short lived Blockbuster Bowl, which became the retro-named Tangerine Bowl and is now the Camping World Bowl.

I still refer to the TaxSlayer Bowl as the Gator Bowl. I'm used to the name Outback Bowl now but I still remember when it was the Hall of Fame Bowl.
 
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