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Posted by catmandoo (Member # 1284) on 07-15-2014, 07:30 AM:

It is what it is but liked the old way better.

No longer will bowls with affiliations to the SEC be able to pick which team they want — or at least most of them will not based on the explanation SEC commissioner Mike Slive gave Monday during SEC Media Days.

“Under the new SEC bowl arrangement, the Capital Bowl will have the first selection of available SEC teams after the college football playoff, the Sugar Bowl, and in some years the Orange Bowl.
Once these selections are made, six bowls, the Belk Bowl, the AutoZone Liberty Bowl, the Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl, the Outback Bowl, the TaxSlayer Bowl, and the AdvoCare Texas Bowl will constitute a pool,” Slive said.

“The conference will assign teams to each of these games rather than doing it the old‑fashioned way where the bowl selected the teams. Before making that final decision, the conference will consult with our institutions and with the bowls, but the decision will be ours.

“We also have agreements with the Birmingham Bowl and the Duck Commander Independence Bowl.”

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Posted by Tiptree (Member # 844) on 07-15-2014, 02:50 PM:

On the surface, this sounds like a reasonable thing to do. But you can bet your bottom dollar that UK, should it get a bowl bid, will be heading to the bottom tier.

But, beyond that, does anybody else find the corporate naming of bowls to just ruin the whole concept?

I mean, come on! The "Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl"? Are you serious?

Posted by catmandoo (Member # 1284) on 07-15-2014, 05:03 PM:

Money talks