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Posted on 2/4/13 at 1:29 am to CatFan81
Not happening.
The run of the SEC champion being in the BCSCG every year has been unprecedented. Usually, the SEC champs go to the Sugar Bowl. Occasionally the runner up goes to the Sugar Bowl. Fans of a team in the SECCG would not be thrilled to go to the same location a month apart.
The second the SEC let's go of the Georgia Dome, the ACC will swoop in and lock up that venue for their championship game. You can't rotate for that reason. The Georgia Dome folks will take a guaranteed ACC championship game every year over the SECCG every other year.
Geographically, Atlanta is more centrally located and every single airline flies directly into Atlanta. Travel to NO would be more complicated. Atlanta has 98,000 hotel rooms and New Orleans has 37,000 hotel rooms. The average distance to New Orleans from SEC campuses is 478 miles. The average distance to Atlanta from SEC campuses is 351 miles.
Most fans who go to the SECCG don't make a vacation out of it - they arrive on Friday night or Saturday morning and depart on Sunday. When folks go to New Orleans, they usually stay a few days. For fans of teams going to destination bowl games, it could be difficult to swing it financially to go to both games. Attendance to the the SECCG and the bowl games for both SECCG participants would suffer with most fans having to choose one or the other. A one or two night stay in Atlanta is cheaper than three or four nights in New Orleans.
In conclusion, no.
The run of the SEC champion being in the BCSCG every year has been unprecedented. Usually, the SEC champs go to the Sugar Bowl. Occasionally the runner up goes to the Sugar Bowl. Fans of a team in the SECCG would not be thrilled to go to the same location a month apart.
The second the SEC let's go of the Georgia Dome, the ACC will swoop in and lock up that venue for their championship game. You can't rotate for that reason. The Georgia Dome folks will take a guaranteed ACC championship game every year over the SECCG every other year.
Geographically, Atlanta is more centrally located and every single airline flies directly into Atlanta. Travel to NO would be more complicated. Atlanta has 98,000 hotel rooms and New Orleans has 37,000 hotel rooms. The average distance to New Orleans from SEC campuses is 478 miles. The average distance to Atlanta from SEC campuses is 351 miles.
Most fans who go to the SECCG don't make a vacation out of it - they arrive on Friday night or Saturday morning and depart on Sunday. When folks go to New Orleans, they usually stay a few days. For fans of teams going to destination bowl games, it could be difficult to swing it financially to go to both games. Attendance to the the SECCG and the bowl games for both SECCG participants would suffer with most fans having to choose one or the other. A one or two night stay in Atlanta is cheaper than three or four nights in New Orleans.
In conclusion, no.
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