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#51
#51
SpaceCoastVol said:
How is it that LSU would be going to the Sugar Bowl if AU wins out and goes to the NC game? I thought that the SEC#1 would automatically go there unless that team goes to the NC game in which case it would be the #2 team... USCjr. Why does it seem that the pundits don't even talk about them in that regard? Does the SECCG count or not?

/confused in Florida. I'll hang up and listen
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USC would be a four loss team while LSU only would have lost to Auburn, who is playing for the championship. You do the math. Tennessee has been to a few SEC title games in the past 10 or so years and lost them all. How many BCS games did they go to after losing in the SEC title game?
 
#52
#52
I can't see any scenario past the Music City or Liberty bowls given that we'll be 6-6 and the 9th or 10th team from the SEC eligible.
 
#54
#54
SpaceCoastVol said:
How is it that LSU would be going to the Sugar Bowl if AU wins out and goes to the NC game? I thought that the SEC#1 would automatically go there unless that team goes to the NC game in which case it would be the #2 team... USCjr. Why does it seem that the pundits don't even talk about them in that regard? Does the SECCG count or not?

/confused in Florida. I'll hang up and listen
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If AU wins out vs. bama and cocks no doubt that they get the BCSCG. LSU would get the Sugar with the SEC tie-in and their BCS at-large ranking(they are currently 5th barring no more losses). USCjr would likely go to the Orlando bowl game (Citrus). Like mentioned a few posts ago, the loser of the SECCG doesn't automatically default to the Sugar if the winner goes to the NC game. See: 2007 season, we lost to LSU in the SECCG and ended up in the Outback.
 
#55
#55
cinnanutz said:
I can't see any scenario past the Music City or Liberty bowls given that we'll be 6-6 and the 9th or 10th team from the SEC eligible.
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If we go to The Liberty Bowl, what date would this game be on? I'll be in Memphis for the Christmas/New Year's holiday and definitely would like to go to the game! :)
 
#57
#57
wash.co.vol said:
If AU wins out vs. bama and cocks no doubt that they get the BCSCG. LSU would get the Sugar with the SEC tie-in and their BCS at-large ranking(they are currently 5th barring no more losses). USCjr would likely go to the Orlando bowl game (Citrus). Like mentioned a few posts ago, the loser of the SECCG doesn't automatically default to the Sugar if the winner goes to the NC game. See: 2007 season, we lost to LSU in the SECCG and ended up in the Outback.
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Would it be mildly ironic if Spurrier ends up in the Citrus Bowl?
 
#63
#63
SpaceCoastVol said:
How is it that LSU would be going to the Sugar Bowl if AU wins out and goes to the NC game? I thought that the SEC#1 would automatically go there unless that team goes to the NC game in which case it would be the #2 team... USCjr. Why does it seem that the pundits don't even talk about them in that regard? Does the SECCG count or not?

/confused in Florida. I'll hang up and listen
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As far as I can determine, the Sugar bowl is not obligated to take the loser of the SEC championship game. They can take any BCS eligible team in the SEC. Actually, I'm not even sure they have to take an SEC team to replace a team that goes to the NC game, but suspect they are obligated to do so.
 
#64
#64
i would be fine if the vols went to a bowl in TN that way i could actually be there to see this season end on a good note with a bowl victory! GBO!
 
#66
#66
I'm hoping for a Music City Bowl invite so I can attend the game, but playing the Utes in Las Vegas would be interesting. Of course all this speculation doesn't matter if the Vols don't win the next two.
 
#67
#67
wash.co.vol said:
If AU wins out vs. bama and cocks no doubt that they get the BCSCG. LSU would get the Sugar with the SEC tie-in and their BCS at-large ranking(they are currently 5th barring no more losses). USCjr would likely go to the Orlando bowl game (Citrus). Like mentioned a few posts ago, the loser of the SECCG doesn't automatically default to the Sugar if the winner goes to the NC game. See: 2007 season, we lost to LSU in the SECCG and ended up in the Outback.
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I guess that just continues my confusion over why the SECCG is so important.... IF you don't win it. It seems the reality is that by LOSING the game, you stand a better chance of going to a worse bowl than you would have if you had done well in the regular season and NOT made it ti the CG. Somehow that doesn't seem right to me. Even though USCjr has.. what.. 4 losses? They did in fact win the division, and have won the right to (potentially) represent the SEC. Since AU might be taken out of the equation by going to the NC game, SC gets basically screwed. I know.. this is nothing new as some of you have said it has happened to us.. but I still don't think that is proper. Or.. I guess it is just more continuation of the theory that Les Miles has a horseshoe up his a$$....

It's all gonna be moot anyway, cause I think Bama is gonna kick Cam in da onions...
 
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#69
#69
I don't think we'll see an SEC team in the Championship game this year.
 
#71
#71
SpaceCoastVol said:
How is it that LSU would be going to the Sugar Bowl if AU wins out and goes to the NC game? I thought that the SEC#1 would automatically go there unless that team goes to the NC game in which case it would be the #2 team... USCjr. Why does it seem that the pundits don't even talk about them in that regard? Does the SECCG count or not?

/confused in Florida. I'll hang up and listen
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you have to think of it that final conference standings are done more by records, save - in a conference with a championship game - a team can get an exemption to be moved to the top. It's (the conference championship game) though is not a system set up like the NFL's super bowl, where just playing makes a team in the top.

final results of conference teams are the judge, and in the case of at large bids - it's the win/loss and where it puts a team in the BCS rankings

it's like, well, final standings get treated under the same system for bowl considerations whether a conference plays a conference championship or whether it does not..

..USCe's record's too poor to play in the BCSNCG, however though if they win the sec championship game though they will get the conference's automatic BCS bid; if not, it counts, yes, but just like having another loss on your record
 
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#73
#73
kcvols1 said:
Yeah, but they would be killing us in Vegas.

Vegas>Memphis

Vegas>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Shreveport.
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Well at least if it is Memphis, casinos are 30 mins. down the road in Tunica, Beale Street would be rockin and we have already owned the Liberty Bowl once this year!
 
#74
#74
All this bowl business is FAS if you go back and read posts during the off season.
It is ONE GAME at a TIME,, then worry about a bowl game.
A lot of posters give up on the VOLS b/f the season started...
 
#75
#75
TrueOrange said:
as long as LSU wins out though, that would stll put two sec teams in the bcs bowls
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You would think so with a BCS ranking of 5th. However, if you go through the selection order and who they are likely to pick, it's very doubtful.

The Orange is about their only chance and they are likely to take a Big 10 team instead. Fiesta picks last so they get stuck with the Big Least along with the BIG-12 champ. Rose will take Stanford over LSU.
 
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