The Vols going to the Peach-Fil-A Bowl

According to the UT website, Tennessee is going the Peach-Fil-A Bowl to play Virginia Tech, after the Outback Bowl will pick Auburn.

How does that work, again, with the Cap One, Outback, and Cotton Bowls all picking SEC West teams?

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Now, correct me if I'm wrong...

… but isn’t the Outback contractually required to pick either the #2 team from the SEC East or a team from the East within 1 loss of the #2 team?

I know in the past the Outback and Cotton have switched East and West in the past, but I don’t think they’ve ever gone for the SEC West sweep, along with the Cap. One.

This sucks.

by vineyarddawg on Dec 1, 2009 5:56 PM EST reply actions

Technically it's:

Sugar #1 SEC
Capital One #2 SEC
Cotton/Outback/Peach 3/4/5
Liberty/Music City 6/7
Independence #8
Papajohs.com #9

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_bids_to_college_bowl_games which retrieved the info from http://www.secsports.com/news/default.aspx?ArticleId=139

For 3/4/5: the Cotton usually takes next highest from the West, the Outback usually takes next highest from the East & the Peach Fil A gets to pick next highest from either AFTER Cotton & Outback select.

For 6/7: They just get together with the SEC and decide who’s going where.

Of course when the #1 SEC team goes to the National Champ game, then everyone moves up a slot & the #2 team goes to the Sugar & so on.

So we should see Bama & Florida in the Nat’l & Sugar then the #3 team to the Cap 1 (should be LSU), then #4 is Ole Miss to the Cotton, then #5 Tenn to the Outback & #6 UGA to the Peach Fil A. The only way Tenn goes to the Outback is if they choose someone in Tenn’s place, but per the SEC website – Outback should chose from the east and, Auburn’s record is worse than Tenn’s so it doesn’t make sense at all.

by podunkdawg on Dec 1, 2009 6:30 PM EST up reply actions

Good reference, podunkdawg

From that secsports.com link:

The Cotton or Outback Bowl can select teams outside of its divisional preference, but must not select them before the opposite bowl selects from its divisional preference. The Chick-fil-A Bowl has the selection of preference following the Cotton and Outback Bowls.

I was quite certain that I’d heard somewhere that the Outback was required to either take an East team or switch divisions with the Cotton Bowl and take a West team. Guess I was wrong, though. I also believe, though, that there’s a “gentlemen’s agreement” that the Chick-Fil-A Bowl can request to preempt the Outback and/or Cotton Bowls once every 3 years, and they’ll agree to it.

The bottom line is that they can work anything out amonst themselves, as long as everybody agrees and the SEC signs off on it. In such an unusual season, though, where the East is the weakest it has been since the SEC went to divisional play in 1992, I suppose it is apropos that the East get completely shut out of all the New Years Day bowls.

Still, though… I would have gone to Atlanta to see Georgia/Clemson. I ain’t going to Nashville to see Georgia/BC (again), or even Georgia/Miami.

by vineyarddawg on Dec 1, 2009 6:45 PM EST up reply actions