The SEC Could Have 12 Bowl Eligible Teams

And yet every team except Bama looks like shite

You actually only need 5 wins. Vandy may get in with 5 wins.

Sort of. They've all had shite games. LSU just seems to have them on the reg...

Whooo death Valley bar bar bar. Rabble. Refs n blah blah vagina.

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I think we shouldn't

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Your school gets paid for it. I never understood turning down bowl invitations.

If you're team has played their guts out in the home stretch and wants to go to a bowl, you should most definitely except. The seniors deserve it, the young guys need more practices, etc. I think Vandy fits in this category.

If you're team has quit and appears to be going through the motions like Ole Miss, they do not deserve it and I'd turn it down. Outside of a handful of guys, our seniors appear to be done with football and are just trying to not get hurt.

The flip side of that for Ole Miss, though, is the bowl practices can really help for your young guys, and you can go further into the youth movement than you already are. If it were me, I'd want Patterson to get another game, along with Little and the WR.

Plus it gives you a shot to get something positive before your last couple of visit weekends instead of a down year and NCAA rumors. You win a bowl with a freshman QB and you can set a narrative for recruiting

I'm in 100% agreement. I'm just pissed off and jaded after this weekend, and I hope we get a shot to redeem ourselves. Losing the Egg Bowl and staying home next month would be the final nail in the coffin for the already depressed recruiting. We need to get some narrative going to try and sell. Our narrative now is "we're really bad so come make us better pretty please. Oh, and I pinky swear we're not getting the death penalty".

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As I understand it, we are pretty much guaranteed a bowl spot right now due to the confluence of...something or another. Whether we should accept a bowl should the unthinkable happen and UT upset us is another question. I think we shouldn't, but won't picket out front of Kirkland if we do. Sometimes, an extra game is just an extra game.

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SEC schools have no say about Bowl invitations and little to no say about which Bowl they will be placed in. Most, if not all, of that is handled by the SEC. Or the CFP committee in the case of the New Year Six. If a school wants their $35-40M TV/Bowl check each year, they do what the SEC tells them to do.

Sugar Bowl at New Orleans (Jan. 2, 8:30 p.m.) -- The SEC will fill one of the spots in the Sugar Bowl either with the SEC champion (if it’s not in the College Football Playoff) or another team.

Orange Bowl at Miami (Dec. 30, 8 p.m.) -- The SEC is eligible to send a team to the Orange Bowl after it fills its Sugar bowl spot.

Citrus Bowl at Orlando, Fla. (Dec. 31, 11 a.m.) — The Citrus Bowl has first choice of SEC teams after any College Football Playoff, Sugar Bowl and Orange Bowl teams are chosen.

The SEC will next assign these six bowls in no particular order:

Texas Bowl at Houston (Dec. 28, 9 p.m.) -- SEC vs. Big 12

Liberty Bowl at Memphis (Dec. 30, Noon) — SEC vs. Big 12

Belk Bowl at Charlotte, N.C. (Dec. 29, 5:30 p.m.) — SEC vs. ACC

Music City Bowl at Nashville (Dec. 30, 3:30 p.m.) — SEC vs. ACC or Big Ten

Outback Bowl at Tampa, Fla. (Jan. 2, 1 p.m.) — SEC vs. Big Ten

TaxSlayer Bowl at Jacksonville, Fla. (Dec. 31, 11 a.m.) — vs. ACC or Big Ten

If all those bowls are filled and bowl-eligible SEC teams remain, the Birmingham Bowl gets first choice and the Independence Bowl gets second choice of remaining teams:

Birmingham Bowl at Birmingham, Ala. (Dec. 29, 2 p.m.) — SEC vs. American Athletic

Independence Bowl at Shreveport, La. (Dec. 26, 5 p.m.) — SEC vs. ACC

Read more here: LINK

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As I understand it, we are pretty much guaranteed a bowl spot right now due to the confluence of...something or another.

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It's because there are 40 bowl games now. That means 80 teams are needed and at present, there are 64 bowl eligible teams with another 16 that need to win their last game to become eligible. That fact that the NCAA had to do waivers last year led them to put a 3 year moratorium on discussing any new bowl games.

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It's gonna be interesting to see who gets the waivers. According to wikipedia, it's based on APR.

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Army, South Alabama, Hawaii and the best APR teams with 5-7 records will qualify if not all teams win.

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