I bet the students, particularly the freshman and sophomores, would enjoy going to that one. Plus it was indoors.
in sour cream and that have been baking in the Barstow, California sun for hours. Because that is where I envison this bowl - halfway between Vegas and LA.
Match-up will be #5 AAC West and #3 Sun Belt East. There will be a carve-out though for teams coached by former ND coaches who have been fired.
So this year would be New Mexico versus South Florida.
But that would require Georgia to beat LSU (and both make the playoffs) or Wisconsin to beat Ohio State. Neither will happen, but if it did we could play Bama in the Citrus.
and UVA. I guess we’re not the only ones that lose out under the current system.
Perhaps I’m wrong, but back at the beginning of the new low-tier bowl explosion, there were a lot of games that still featured interesting matchups of decent teams. Now it seems like 85% are garbage team 1 vs. garbage team 2. Even the better teams are getting matched up against inferior competition. I really don’t give a rat’s ass to see Memphis play anyone in a NY6 bowl.
I really hope the empty seats and over-saturation come home to roost soon so we can trim back to a reasonable number of traditional bowls featuring good matchups and a high level of competition.
ESPN pays a relatively low price for holiday content, vs. what the conference rights cost.
conference tie-ins, a likely unranked UVA team may play in the Orange instead of a team like ND as in years past. ND loses millions in bowl payout (based on last years numbers, there’s a $3mm difference just between Camping World & Citrus, so I’d imagine the Orange is a very big number) and the bowl loses millions of viewers & potential advertising dollars in future years because of assuredly poor ratings this year.
Not to mention playing a lower team in a lower bowl that has potentially twice as many losses is a lose lose proposition. If camping world is our only option, ND should have some pride and stay home.
At worst, the committee will drop ND further since we don't play a conference championship.