Let's say we go 10-3...

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lose to Alabama, Missouri, and lose to Auburn in the SEC Title game. Do we go to one of the big bowl games (non Playoff game of course)?
 
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jasonvols2.2 said:
lose to Alabama, Missouri, and lose to Auburn in the SEC Title game. Do we go to one of the big bowl games (non Playoff game of course)?
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I think Tennessee would probably go to the Outback Bowl with a possibility of the Orange Bowl. If Georgia Tech could go there last season with a 10-3 record,I don't see why a 10-3 Tennessee team from a much better conference couldn't go also.
 
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I think we'd be in either the Sugar Bowl or Buffalo Wild Wings (Citrus) Bowl.
 
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OSU will be in. SEC Champ will be in, probably a one loss west team. Someone like TCU, Oregon, etc from west. 4th will be up for grabs but I can't see a 3 loss sec east team getting it.
 
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LittleCat said:
OSU will be in. SEC Champ will be in, probably a one loss west team. Someone like TCU, Oregon, etc from west. 4th will be up for grabs but I can't see a 3 loss sec east team getting it.
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Didn't actually read the OP did you? Bad cat. Bad, bad cat.
 
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Michigan State was in one of those big bowl games last season, and they had 3 losses, right? Maybe they only had 2 going into the bowl season, I don't remember.

It has been 25 years since we have been to New Orleans. We have been close a few times. New Orleans would love to have the Vols, and hopefully the Bowl Committee would realize that.
 
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LittleCat said:
OSU will be in. SEC Champ will be in, probably a one loss west team. Someone like TCU, Oregon, etc from west. 4th will be up for grabs but I can't see a 3 loss sec east team getting it.
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Tennessee most likely would get Outback or Citrus in that situation. You can't beat New Years in Central Florida.
 
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We are going to the playoff!! 4seed write it down mark it on the calendar buy you tickets book you hotel hide ya kids hide ya wife call a friend tell your dad don't play the lottery go to church Tennessee is BACK!!!!!
 
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Unless it has changed, here's a rough rank ordering of the SEC bowl tie-ins:

  • Playoff
  • Sugar (if not a Playoff Bowl)
  • Orange (if not a Playoff Bowl -- slot shared with B10 or ND)
  • Citrus
  • Outback
  • Music City
  • TaxSlayer/Gator
  • Liberty
  • Texas
  • Belk
  • Birmingham
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Everything from Outback to Belk are technically co-equals, I think, because the Conference has free rein (by prior arrangement with all those bowl committees) to select which team goes to which bowl. But in reality, I think the prestige of them runs more or less in the order above.

Assuming the SEC Champ (Auburn in this scenario) gets into the Playoff (Cotton or Orange, in 2015), the next option open for Tennessee is the Sugar Bowl.

Could be that another SEC team ended up higher ranked than the Vols, though, with something like a 10-2 record, though they didn't get to the SEC CG. So that team could get the Sugar Bowl invite instead.

That makes the 10-3 Vols a lock for the Citrus Bowl in this scenario. I think. Unless some arrangement has changed in the off-season.


EDIT: Oh yeah, in this scenario, the 10-3 Vols could also be invited as an at-large team to the Fiesta or Peach bowl by CFP Committee selection. I'd forgotten about that. So...Sugar or Fiesta or Peach or Citrus. One of those four, almost certainly. Go Vols!
 
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Heh, thinking through this got me thinking of something we (the SEC) are sorely missing in bowl season: a habitual bowl relationship with the PAC.

We play the B10, ACC and B12. A lot. But we don't have a single bowl tie-in that habitually includes the SEC and PAC.

I think college football should have tie-ins criss-crossing among all the Power 5 conferences. It's a pity we're missing this piece.

Okay, sorry for the derail, has nothing to do with this scenario, just a stray neuron-firing reminder of something I noticed and regretted last winter.
 
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VFL-82-JP said:
Unless it has changed, here's a rough rank ordering of the SEC bowl tie-ins:

  • Playoff
  • Sugar (if not a Playoff Bowl)
  • Orange (if not a Playoff Bowl -- slot shared with B10 or ND)
  • Citrus
  • Outback
  • Music City
  • TaxSlayer/Gator
  • Liberty
  • Texas
  • Belk
  • Birmingham
  • AdvoCare v100
Everything from Outback to Belk are technically co-equals, I think, because the Conference has free rein (by prior arrangement with all those bowl committees) to select which team goes to which bowl. But in reality, I think the prestige of them runs more or less in the order above.

Assuming the SEC Champ (Auburn in this scenario) gets into the Playoff (Cotton or Orange, in 2015), the next option open for Tennessee is the Sugar Bowl.

Could be that another SEC team ended up higher ranked than the Vols, though, with something like a 10-2 record, though they didn't get to the SEC CG. So that team could get the Sugar Bowl invite instead.

That makes the 10-3 Vols a lock for the Citrus Bowl in this scenario. I think. Unless some arrangement has changed in the off-season.
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Well, you could have tied teams in the west and east with the tie-breaking teams going to the SEC championship game. If the championship game is lopsided, wouldn't the losing team rank lower than the 2 other team that missed out on the championship game? So, TN finishing 10-3 in this scenario, may not be a lock for the Citrus? What if the West had a 3-way tie?
 
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