[NU Sports] when will we know?

[Mark S. Ament]

SjT (Stephen J. Truog) wrote:

>>UT lost so I think we get an ACC team if we go to
>>Nashville. dOSU came back  
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>Yeah - too bad Vandy hadn't won the week before. An
>NU-Vandy game in Nashville would be a lot of fun and
>could be the highest combined SAT score bowl in
>history!:)
>
>As for the Vols - what the ?!?!? After preseason #2 or
>so, to zilch? Yikes! Again - looking back at Notre
>Dame's "tough" schedule now, we see that USC and
>Michigan are the only sure bowl teams on the slate.
>How are they ranked ahead of OSU again?
>
>One question though - would we get an at-large team?
>Isn't the Music City sixth on the SEC bowl list? Last
>year the SEC had six teams and the Music City got
>Alabama while the Independence and Houston went
>at-large. With Bama getting trashed by Auburn, it
>doesn't look like the SEC will get a second at-large
>bid unless UGa edges LSU in the title game - and even
>then it's tough to see it.
>
>That could be bad news for whoever faces the SEC in
>Nashville, because they only have six bowl teams, but
>LSU, Auburn, Bama, UGa, Florida and the Gamecocks are
>about as talented a six-pack as you'll see a
>conference field in bowls. All six could be playing on
>New Year's Day (well, Jan. 2 this year) -- right now
>with injuries and all, Bama would appear to be #6 in
>the order (or Florida if they lose to FSU) and either
>one would be tough to beat in Nashville.
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>>so they are BCS. My friends on the Citrus sports
>>committee really want Wisky  
>>which has never been here, last year Iowa was here
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>Yeah - I imagine if they could get a Wisky-Florida
>Citrus game (since UGa played Bucky in Tampa last
>year), they'd have no trouble selling tickets.:)
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>>bowl and we go to San 
>>Antonio  which is warmer than Nashville and a lot
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>I'd love to see it ... but I doubt we leap ahead of
>Iowa. Oh well, we can hope!!! We did beat 'em and they
>looked awfully tough down the stretch winning at
>Madison and destroying Minny.
>
>Whatever happens - we've still got one game left of
>Baz and McGarrigle!
>
>GO CATS!!!
>-SjT
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>STEPHEN J. TRUOG
>sjtruog at yahoo.com
>GO CATS!!!
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I don't believe that we would be eligible for an at-large bid because 
the Big Ten will not fill all its bowl slots.  To get an at-large bid, 
one of two things has to happen.  You have to be an independent (Navy 
will assuredly get a bid - likely to the bowl in San Francisco whatever 
it's called these days) or your conference has to have filled all of its 
slots and have bowl eligible teams left over.  We won't be in that 
position, even with OSU in the BCS.  The Big Ten has 7 bowl affiliations 
and only 7 bowl eligible schools.  If OSU gets a BCS big, the Motor City 
Bowl will have to go to an at-large team for to fill the Big Ten slot.  
That's a long answer to a simple no.

 From the looks of things, I would guess that we will be going to the 
Sun, as the Alamo will most likely want those Iowa winnebagos.  Outback 
wants Michigan and we won't fall to Nashville.  The one thing that 
mitigate against the Sun is a victory by Arizona State over Arizona next 
week.  That makes ASU bowl eligible.  I don't think they would be high 
enough in the Pac-10 to reach the Alamo, particularly if OSU goes to the 
BCS and not Oregon, but if they do, the Sun Bowl would probably not want 
a rematch.  The most likely pairing is NU against the winner of the Big 
Game tonight between Cal and Stanford.  It still gives us a match of 
brains, so we get a good replacement for Vandy.
Mark

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Mark

Mark S. Ament
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