Bowl game

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SubVet676 said:
For P4 teams used to success, bowl games are now the NIT of college football. And no one puts that “Participation Bowl” trophy in their case.

At this point, it’s all about getting a head start on 2026. Find the players now.

And the coaches.
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Newsflash...they've been the NIT of college football for a very long time. I don't know why people keep acting like this just happened with the playoffs, they were like this with the BCS, with the Bowl Coalition, hell you can argue outside of the original big 4 or 5 (Rose, Sugar, Orange, Cotton and Fiesta) nobody really cared. If they did care it's because seasons used to be only 11 games so it was an extra game to watch but the original bowls were exhibitions to be begin with. The 1987 Peach Bowl we played in wasn't even broadcast on a national network.

It wasn't the playoffs that made them irrelvant, if anything it's that they added 40 bowls so that every .500 team could play in one. I remember 8-3 might not be good enough to get into a bowl because there weren't that many spots and many winning teams didn't get one. But in no reality did winning the Liberty Bowl ever mean that much other than just bragging rights.
 
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VolsSportsFan said:
Newsflash...they've been the NIT of college football for a very long time. I don't know why people keep acting like this just happened with the playoffs, they were like this with the BCS, with the Bowl Coalition, hell you can argue outside of the original big 4 or 5 (Rose, Sugar, Orange, Cotton and Fiesta) nobody really cared. If they did care it's because seasons used to be only 11 games so it was an extra game to watch but the original bowls were exhibitions to be begin with. The 1987 Peach Bowl we played in wasn't even broadcast on a national network.

It wasn't the playoffs that made them irrelvant, if anything it's that they added 40 bowls so that every .500 team could play in one. I remember 8-3 might not be good enough to get into a bowl because there weren't that many spots and many winning teams didn't get one. But in no reality did winning the Liberty Bowl ever mean that much other than just bragging rights.
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The bowl games themselves may not matter but I do believe who you play and beat and where you go matters.

Fans love spending a few days in Orlando, Tampa, Jacksonville, Nashville, Atlanta etc. and it's nice to have decent bowls in a day's drive. Add into the fact that Tennessee can beat a Big Ten or ACC team, and 10-3 is a good season.

Now what you want to avoid is the sh*** places like Memphis where you get stuck playing Kansas or Army, that would be awful.
 
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VolsSportsFan said:
To answer the question though, if we win out we're probably a lock for the CItrus Bowl, which I believe is now the best non-NY6/playoff bowl anyone can play in payout wise.
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Probably still need a little help in that regard. If we win out and all SEC matchups go as expected by current records (they won't, but still), you're going to have a 3-team logjam of 9-3 SEC teams with ourselves, Vanderbilt, and Oklahoma/Missouri winner.
Better bet on Tennessee's end would be either Oklahoma beating Alabama, Missouri, and LSU or Missouri beating A&M, Miss St, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. If one of those two did that and made the playoff, a 9-3 Tennessee would be a lock for the Citrus Bowl if they win out.
 
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VolsSportsFan said:
To answer the question though, if we win out we're probably a lock for the CItrus Bowl, which I believe is now the best non-NY6/playoff bowl anyone can play in payout wise.
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Also, the payout, more or less, is about the same when the conference revenue sharing model gets factored in. I need to find updated numbers (this was based on I believe a 2021 model given to the sports media), but the model (more or less) goes each school gets a graduated amount based on the bowl's payout to each participating team ($1,050,000 if the bowl pays $1,499,999 or less to each team; $1,325,000 if the bowl pays between $1,500,000 and $3,999,999 to each team; $1,525,000 if the bowl pays between $4,000,000 to $5,999,999 to each team; $2,050,000 if the bowl pays $6,000,000 or more or is a CFP semifinal; $2,150,000 for the CFP final).

The rest of each bowl’s payout is pooled together along with TV deal money, other bowl payouts, etc., and then would be split 17 ways (between the SEC front offices plus the now-16 SEC teams).

The Pool of 6 Bowls (Liberty, Mayo/Las Vegas, Gator, Music City, Reliaquest, Texas Bowl) all pay amounts that fall into the "the bowl pays out between $1,500,000 and $3,999,999 to each team" range, so the school keeps $1,325,000 and shares the rest. Likewise, the Citrus Bowl falls into the "the bowl pays out between $4,000,000 to $5,999,999 to each team" range, so the SEC team keeps $1,525,000 and shares the rest. As far as what the individual payout would be to Tennessee, between playing in the Citrus Bowl versus the Liberty/Mayo-Las-Vegas/Gator/Music City/Reliaquest/Texas Bowl, it's really only a difference of like $200,000 of what the team nets and doesn't share with the conference when it comes to the bowl payouts.

(I was also surprised to discover what the next highest total payout (amount split between the two participating teams) after the Citrus Bowl. The Liberty, Mayo, Gator, Music City, and Reliaquest bowls all pre-split-between-participants payout totals of around $4.7M, $4.78M, $5,35M, $5.7M, and $5.4M, respectively? The Texas Bowl? A whopping $6.7M.)
 
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