BCS Bowl Selections

[OrangeBowl]

Unappealing besides the NCG

MSU v Stan should be good

 

[Junction]

MSU v Stan should be good

Clemson/Luckeyes could also be fun to watch with Boyd and Miller.

 

[OrangeBowl]

Clemson/Luckeyes could also be fun to watch with Boyd and Miller.

True

 

[leftybuff]

UCF/ Bailer? Fiesta? More like Siesta....
What a crappy bowl season...but I'll still watch.

 

[Junction]

True

Your handle says you might be biased there... :smile2:

 

[somebody]

OSU was exposed (again). They've been trying to lose in a bad conference all year. Clemson will bury them.

 

[Swish]

UCF/ Bailer? Fiesta? More like Siesta....
What a crappy bowl season...but I'll still watch.

Hate Bailer too much to bother. The Fiesta will probably be the worst of the bunch although it would be classic awesome if UCF went Boise State on Bailer. Classic Awesome.

 

[Highlander]

Next year, there are no limits on how many teams per conference end up in the seeded bowls. This is where the SEC, by only playing 8 conf games and then 4 games against horrible non-competition, wins. They will consistently end up with the most teams going in to the seeded bowls. If it were that way this year, it would be Auburn and Alabama in the 4 team playoff, plus Mizzou and South Carolina grabbing 2 of the 5 at large picks in the other seeded bowls. Wow.

 

[CarolinaBuff]

Official Bowl lineup is out there. SEC, Big 10, Big 12, and ACC all get 2 BCS bids each.

A few thoughts/facts:
Orange Bowl matches Ohio State and Clemson, their first meeting since the '78 Gator Bowl and the Woody Hayes punch. With Duke going to the Chic-Fil-A Bowl it might mean the first time that bowl hasn't sold out in quite a while. Rose Bowl is a great matchup of good old-fashioned football. The ACC is sending an NCAA-record 11 teams to bowl games.


2013-14 College Football Bowl Schedule

Bowl	Location/Tickets	Date/Time	Network
Gildan New Mexico Washington St. vs. Colorado State	Albuquerque, N.M. University Stadium	Dec. 21 2 p.m.	ESPN
Royal Purple Las Vegas Fresno State vs. USC	Las Vegas Sam Boyd Stadium	Dec. 21 3:30 p.m.	ABC
Famous Idaho Potato Buffalo vs. San Diego State	Boise, Idaho Bronco Stadium	Dec. 21 5:30 p.m.	ESPN
R+L Carriers New Orleans Tulane vs. Louisiana-Lafayette	New Orleans Mercedes-Benz Superdome	Dec. 21 9 p.m.	ESPN
Beef 'O' Brady's St. Petersburg East Carolina vs. Ohio	St. Petersburg, Fla. Tropicana Field	Dec. 23 2 p.m.	ESPN
Sheraton Hawaii Boise State vs. Oregon State	Honolulu Aloha Stadium	Dec. 24 8 p.m.	ESPN
Little Caesars Pizza Pittsburgh vs. Bowling Green	Detroit Ford Field	Dec. 26 6 p.m.	ESPN
S.D. County Credit Union Poinsettia Utah State vs. Northern Illinois	San Diego Qualcomm Stadium	Dec. 26 9:30 p.m.	ESPN
Military Bowl Presented By Northrop Grumman Marshall vs. Maryland	Annapolis, Md. Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium	Dec. 27 2:30 p.m.	ESPN
Texas Syracuse vs. Minnesota	Houston Reliant Stadium	Dec. 27 6 p.m.	ESPN
Fight Hunger BYU vs. Washington	San Francisco AT&T Park	Dec. 27 9:30 p.m.	ESPN
New Era Pinstripe Rutgers vs. Notre Dame	Bronx, N.Y. Yankee Stadium	Dec. 28 Noon	ESPN
Belk Cincinnati vs. North Carolina	Charlotte, N.C. Bank of America Stadium	Dec. 28 3:20 p.m.	ESPN
Russell Athletic Miami vs. Louisville	Orlando, Fla. Florida Citrus Bowl	Dec. 28 6:45 p.m.	ESPN
Buffalo Wild Wings Michigan vs. Kansas State	Tempe, Ariz. Sun Devil Stadium	Dec. 28 10:15 p.m.	ESPN
Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Middle Tennessee vs. Navy	Fort Worth, Texas Amon G. Carter Stadium	Dec. 30 11:45 a.m.	ESPN
Franklin American Mortgage Music City Ole Miss vs. Georgia Tech	Nashville, Tenn. LP Field	Dec. 30 3:15 p.m.	ESPN
Valero Alamo Oregon vs. Texas	San Antonio Alamodome	Dec. 30 6:45 p.m.	ESPN
National University Holiday Arizona State vs. Texas Tech	San Diego Qualcomm Stadium	Dec. 30 10:15 p.m.	ESPN
AdvoCare V100 Arizona vs. Boston College	Shreveport, La. Independence Stadium	Dec. 31 12:30 p.m.	ESPN
Hyundai Sun Virginia Tech vs. UCLA	El Paso, Texas Sun Bowl	Dec. 31 2 p.m.	CBS
AutoZone Liberty Rice vs. Mississippi State	Memphis, Tenn. Liberty Bowl	Dec. 31 4 p.m.	ESPN
Chick-fil-A Duke vs. Texas A&M	Atlanta Georgia Dome	Dec. 31 8 p.m.	ESPN
TaxSlayer.com Gator Nebraska vs. Georgia	Jacksonville, Fla. Everbank Field	Jan. 1 Noon	ESPN2
Heart of Dallas UNLV vs. North Texas	Dallas Cotton Bowl	Jan. 1 Noon	ESPNU
Capital One Wisconsin vs. South Carolina	Orlando, Fla. Florida Citrus Bowl	Jan. 1 1 p.m.	ABC
Outback Iowa vs. LSU	Tampa, Fla. Raymond James Stadium	Jan. 1 1 p.m.	ESPN
Rose Bowl Game presented by VIZIO Stanford vs. Michigan State	Pasadena, Calif. Rose Bowl	Jan. 1 5 p.m.	ESPN
Tostitos Fiesta UCF vs. Baylor	Glendale, Ariz. U. of Phoenix Stadium	Jan. 1 8:30 p.m.	ESPN
Allstate Sugar Oklahoma vs. Alabama	New Orleans Louisiana Superdome	Jan. 2 8:30 p.m.	ESPN
Discover Orange Clemson vs. Ohio State	Miami Sun Life Stadium	Jan. 3 TBD	ESPN
AT&T Cotton Oklahoma State vs. Missouri	Arlington, Texas AT&T Stadium	Jan. 3 7:30 p.m.	FOX
BBVA Compass Vanderbilt vs. Houston	Birmingham, Ala. Legion Field	Jan. 4 1 p.m.	ESPN
GoDaddy Arkansas State vs. Ball State	Mobile, Ala. Ladd-Peebles Stadium	Jan. 5 9 p.m.	ESPN
VIZIO BCS National Championship Florida State vs. Auburn	Pasadena, Calif. Rose Bowl	Jan. 6 8:30 p.m.	ESPN

 

[Buffnik]

Bowl game selection is where weak traveling by Pac-12 fans really hurts the conference.

Tie-ins aren't great and when a bowl has flexibility there are usually going to be other, more profitable, options.

 

[CanadianDuck]

Oregon playing in San Antonio vs Texas.... That will be a home game for Texas. Hopefully Oregon sends off Mack Brown with a loss which would be fitting for his tenure at Texas. I am curious to see how Stanford does against Michigan State and it appears as though the Pac-12 should end up with a fairly good win/loss ratio at the end of this bowl season.

 

[Lt.Col.FrankSlade]

Bowl game selection is where weak traveling by Pac-12 fans really hurts the conference.

Tie-ins aren't great and when a bowl has flexibility there are usually going to be other, more profitable, options.

Yep. All of the Pac-12 bowl tie-ins are on the west coast. Makes it tough to get bowls in the midwest or back east to consider Pac-12 teams.

Oregon killed themselves with their attendance for last year's Fiesta Bowl.


*Should edit - all bowls except Alamo Bowl.

 

[White_Rabbit]

USC vs Fresno should be kinda fun. Not seeing many others that catch my eye. zzz

 

[gobuffs58]

Yep. All of the Pac-12 bowl tie-ins are on the west coast. Makes it tough to get bowls in the midwest or back east to consider Pac-12 teams.

Oregon killed themselves with their attendance for last year's Fiesta Bowl.


*Should edit - all bowls except Alamo Bowl.

i know my son who is a ducks alum season ticket holder went to two rose bowls and the natty... he said alot of his buddies are out of cash for travel to bowl games every year and now are picking their spots.. i as a buffs fan have plenty of cash to attend any bowl game we get invited to!

 

[BuffUp]

Is Colorado and Utah and Cal the only Pac schools not going bowling? If so, that is changing next year. If WSt.U can do it then so can CU.

 

[Highlander]

Is Colorado and Utah and Cal the only Pac schools not going bowling? If so, that is changing next year. If WSt.U can do it then so can CU.

And Cal, but yes, you are right. In watching the middle of the Pac 12, there isn't that much of a leap to get there. 2 years, tops IMO.

 

[CarolinaBuff]

All Duke students will get a free ticket to the Chik-Fil-A Bowl. Being paid for by alumni donations.