[NU Sports] Outback Bowl

[Jonathan Hodges]

In the past, Schlabach and Feldman's projections haven't been that
reliable.  The most accurate projection I've found has been Rittenberg
(ESPN's Big Ten blogger) since he knows the selection rules in and out and
has been fairly accurate before.

One note about Feldman, who puts NU and Auburn in the Outback, is that an
SEC east team has been in that bowl for the last 12 consecutive years
(Auburn is in the SEC west).  The Outback and Cotton bowls share the SEC #3
pick and typically the Outback picks a team from the east and the Cotton
picks one from the west.

In any case I think the consensus says it'll be NU to the Champs, and it
will be interesting who the opponent is (it could range from the loser of
the ACC championship: Clemson vs. Georgia Tech, to UNC, Virginia Tech, or
Miami).  I guess we'll scour the internet for anything we can get until then
and wait for the actual pairings to be announced just 2 weeks from now.

Jonathan

On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 9:05 PM, Sportsbiz <sportsbiz at gmail.com> wrote:

> Although I still tend to think we'll end up in the Champs Sports Bowl,
> ESPN's Bruce Feldman is projecting us in the Outback, the first projection
> for Tampa that I have seen:
>
> http://espn.go.com/college-football/bowls/projections
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