Jerry Palm says no difference in 7-5 or 6-6

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Rickyvol77 said:
LSU/UGA/Bama/Florida are all going to playoff or major bowls
auburn is going to citrus

Tx A&M and Tennessee will be 7-5

UK will be 6-6 probably maybe 7-5

Outback and Gator will not both turn down Tennessee. Belk and Music City wouldn’t either.
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No one in the article said UT would be turned down by any of those....

That aside, the Music City Bowl, Belk Bowl, Gator Bowl, Outback Bowl, Texas Bowl, and Liberty Bowl are all a “pool” of equal bowls as that tier of SEC bowl selection. It’s the SEC front offices’ call now - after workIng with the bowls and schools - to decide who goes where.
 
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508mikey said:
I don't think Mississippi St can beat Ole Miss -- Ole Miss might get an bid even with a 5-7 record due to not enough SEC schools to fill the bids
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A bit mistaken here. The whole 5-7 thing is based on the schools APR (Academic Progress Ratings) scores and the bowls don’t get to pick who they add from the 5-7 schools based on any sort of “this is the conference we normally select from.”

The bowls that have to take a “go with a 5-7 team” route have to make their selections using all available 5-7 teams and based on the highest APR score of those available.

Without looking at the current records to see who will or won’t be 5-7, Ole Miss is in the low 30s (I think they’re tied for like 38th) as far as APR scores go.

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idk - they may want a fan base that will travel despite the losing record -- to many low tier bowls before the mid tiers are getting to be a problem
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So yeah, again, though, it has to be entirely based on APR scores once it gets to that point. The bowls aren’t allowed to jump around or play “ooh this team’s a bigger name, I want them even though they’re not at the top.”
 
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DeerPark12 said:
Important to remember that under the current bowl structure, the Music City Bowl gets to select before the Gator and Belk Bowls. We think of it as the bad bowl that we went to at 6-6 in 2010, but its profile and payout have increased substantially since then.
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I’ve always thought that Music City try’s to stay away from us. I know we would pack the stadium, but figured they would want people to come in and get hotels and spend several days in Nashville, not come through like a storm like we would definitely do. But at this point, I will be happy with a bowl period!
 
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Titans Fan said:
For Tennessee's bowl destination.

Jerry Palm discusses where Tennessee is most likely to go bowling
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I understand this is his projections or opinions but some of what he said is factually wrong. Missouri is 5-5 with games against us and Arkansas remaining. Let’s assume that Arkansas is a sure win. That means Missouri either finishes 6-6 or 7-5.

Palm has Missouri projected in the gator bowl. How can he say that Tennessee going 7-5 or 6-6 doesn’t matter for bowl bid. Going by his thought process a 6-6 Missouri would go to the gator bowl and a 7-5 Tennessee goes to music city. No way that happens.

If we were somehow able to win these last 2 I’m not convinced the outback would want a Texas A&M team at 7-5 and on a 2 games losing streak over what would be a 7-5 Tennessee that had won 6 of 7.
 
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DeerPark12 said:
Important to remember that under the current bowl structure, the Music City Bowl gets to select before the Gator and Belk Bowls. We think of it as the bad bowl that we went to at 6-6 in 2010, but its profile and payout have increased substantially since then.
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Yeah. Surprisingly, a lot of people seem to keep mistaking aspects of how the bowl selection now works in the SEC with how they used to work before 2014.
 
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Everything I see says that all the SEC teams are really going to benefit from the top of the league.

Florida, Alabama, Georgia, and LSU are going to be guaranteed playoff/NY6 spots due to final ranking.

That means the other teams are going to be getting bowl invites they normally would not be getting
 
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DeerPark12 said:
Important to remember that under the current bowl structure, the Music City Bowl gets to select before the Gator and Belk Bowls. We think of it as the bad bowl that we went to at 6-6 in 2010, but its profile and payout have increased substantially since then.
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UT is stuck with the damn Music City one then
 
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The main street economy is better than it's been in decades. Gas is (relatively) cheap. Vol fans are hungry.

Money + logistics + demographics = an offer to travel. Because out-of-state money is the most highly sought money in bowl season. Make that "used to be" the most sought money.

Yes, the bowl committees and local economies still want out-of-state money, but the conferences are chasing TV money. I fear the "smart" people have so engineered the selection process to avoid the occasional TV matchup disaster, that they may have also engineered common sense out of the process for the fans and locales.
 
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ALLVOL 4LIFE said:
I’ve always thought that Music City try’s to stay away from us. I know we would pack the stadium, but figured they would want people to come in and get hotels and spend several days in Nashville, not come through like a storm like we would definitely do. But at this point, I will be happy with a bowl period!
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Not in their case. Some bowls are owned or operated by a local tourism board where filing hotels and local spending are the goal. The Music City Bowl is its own deal, 100% about filling the seats and selling sponsorships.
 
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