CBS has us playing Clemson

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#77
House of Neyland said:
The Mayo bowl??
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It used to be the Belk Bowl until 2019. Before that it was the Meineke Car Care Bowl from 2005-2011, and the Continental Tire Bowl from 2002–2004.

It was a Big East-ACC matchup from 2002-2013. Then it became an SEC-ACC matchup from 2014 onward (save for 2020 - there weren’t enough SEC teams agreeing to go bowling to fill all the conference’s bowl tie-ins, so the SEC team spot was filled by Wisconsin).
 
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#79
I think Clemson would have a huge talent advantage if we play this year…it would a be a tough game…maybe VT and let Hooker destroy his old team.
 
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GiveHim6InSC said:
I would think Clemson would be higher in the ACC pecking order. Not sure what tie-ins they have, but it seems like they would go higher than the ‘Mayonnaise Bowl’
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So here’s how the ACC’s bowl tie-ins work:

1st: CFP semifinals (in the case of there being an ACC team in the top 4)

2nd: ACC Champion (or highest ranked ACC team after the ACC Champion, if that team’s already in the CFP semifinals) goes to the Orange Bowl. In the years that the Orange Bowl hosts a CFP semifinal game, the Peach Bowl seems to have had some agreement to take the ACC Champion (or highest ranked remaining ACC team) instead, but I’m also uncertain how steadfast this is (although #14 Florida State ended up in the Peach Bowl in 2015, the Peach Bowl didn’t host an ACC team in 2018…which was also a year where the only other ACC team ranked in the CFP rankings was #20 Syracuse (9-3)).

3rd+: any ACC teams (after any playoff teams and the ACC Champion) ranked high enough to play in a New Years 6 Bowl (Peach, Fiesta this season).

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(Note: It won’t apply to this season, but there’s a clause in the Citrus Bowl’s contract that if the Orange Bowl opts for a Big Ten - ACC matchup, then the Citrus Bowl becomes SEC vs ACC…at which point the highest ranked/overall record ACC team still available is selected. So this would be like a selection pathway with a “4th alternate”.)
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**4th-11th: Tier 1 bowl games** - The ACC front office and the bowl game seem to place the ACC teams for those games.** They do, apparently, use the tiers to make sure that the same conference position would not necessarily go to the same bowl each season.

4th: The Cheez-It Bowl (in Orlando, vs Big 12) gets the 2nd pick from the ACC teams after the New Years 6 bowls (usually the conference championship game loser or a division runner-up)

5th-11th:
-The Gator Bowl (in Jacksonville, vs SEC - since 2015, the bowl game’s contract has it take an ACC team 3 out of each 6 year period and a Big 10 team the other 3 years)

-The Duke’s Mayo Bowl (Charlotte, vs SEC (odd years) or Big Ten(even years)

-The [Tony the Tiger] Sun Bowl (El Paso, vs Pac-12)

-The New Era Pinstripe Bowl (New York City, vs Big 10)

-The Holiday Bowl (San Diego, vs Pac-12)

-The Fenway Bowl (Boston, vs AAC)

-The Military Bowl (Annapolis, vs AAC)

12th-14th: Tier #2

-The Gasparilla Bowl (Tampa, vs SEC / AAC / Pac-12)

-The Birmingham Bowl (Birmingham, vs SEC/AAC)

-The First Responder Bowl (Dallas, vs Big 12 / C-USA/AAC)

Notre Dame:
This all gets complicated a bit more by Notre Dame’s agreement with the ACC. At the Tier 1 level and below (and also the Citrus Bowl in years where a non-playoff Orange Bowl chooses a Big10 vs ACC matchup), those bowls can choose to select Notre Dame instead of an ACC team only if there aren’t any ACC teams left that have two or more overall wins than Notre Dame does (so The Cheez-It Bowl could choose to take a 10-2 Notre Dame team over an 11-2 Wake Forest but it couldn’t take a 7-5 Notre Dame over a 9-3 UNC. Also Notre Dame CANNOT take the ACC’s Orange Bowl spot, ever. They can replace the game’s SEC/Big10 selection 2 times over a 12-year period.)


**NOTE REGARDING “TIER” BOWL SELECTION: Unlike the SEC front office, the ACC front office hasn’t really been public with the factors it considers with these selections. It possibly could fall under similar idea lines as the SEC “pool of 6” (Music City, Gator, Duke’s Mayo, Texas, Liberty, and Outback) - i.e., no pecking order, avoiding regular-season rematches, avoiding recent bowl game rematches, factoring in proximity when deciding matchups, and having discussions with both the schools and the bowl game committees to decide team placement. However, that’s pure speculation.
 
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