#25 Boise State vs. Oregon @ Las Vegas Bowl
Texas Tech vs. USF @ Birmingham Bowl
Duke vs. NIU @ Quick Lane Bowl
Southern Miss vs. Florida State @ Independence Bowl
Virginia vs. Navy @ Military Bowl
Iowa State vs. #20 Memphis @ Liberty Bowl
#12 UCF vs. #7 Auburn @ Peach Bowl

For some reason, I thought there were usually more. Or less?

That’s about par for the course. Think about it: we get excited to play these teams, but their fans couldn’t care less. They want to play P5 teams as much as we do. So they schedule very few.

As I posted in another thread I think it’s pretty telling what conference has the respect of the P5’s that they don’t mind losing to them. The AAC has 4 of the 7 matchups.

Zero B10 vs. G5 bowl matchups....what does this say about B10?

UCF against Auburn is pretty big and I will be pulling for the Knights

(12-03-2017 09:54 PM)TTT Wrote:  Zero B10 vs. G5 bowl matchups....what does this say about B10?

That they don’t want to play any of us.

Nick Saban has been saying for a couple years now and said it today, that he thinks P5’s should only P5’s for all games. Then we would really know who the top 4 teams are. His words, not mine.

A form of what he is saying is coming, I just don’t know when or how extreme it will be to separate from us.

(12-03-2017 09:59 PM)MU42 Wrote:  

(12-03-2017 09:54 PM)TTT Wrote:  Zero B10 vs. G5 bowl matchups....what does this say about B10?

That they don’t want to play any of us.

Nick Saban has been saying for a couple years now and said it today, that he thinks P5’s should only P5’s for all games. Then we would really know who the top 4 teams are.

A form of what he is saying is coming, I just don’t know when or how extreme it will be to separate from us.

Tacit separation has already occurred. Formal separation is just a matter of time.

(12-03-2017 09:59 PM)MU42 Wrote:  

(12-03-2017 09:54 PM)TTT Wrote:  Zero B10 vs. G5 bowl matchups....what does this say about B10?

That they don’t want to play any of us.

Nick Saban has been saying for a couple years now and said it today, that he thinks P5’s should only P5’s for all games. Then we would really know who the top 4 teams are. His words, not mine.

A form of what he is saying is coming, I just don’t know when or how extreme it will be to separate from us.

Big talk from a man that scheduled Mercer in late November when other schools were playing conference games.

(12-04-2017 08:10 AM)benny_t Wrote:  

(12-03-2017 09:59 PM)MU42 Wrote:  

(12-03-2017 09:54 PM)TTT Wrote:  Zero B10 vs. G5 bowl matchups....what does this say about B10?

That they don’t want to play any of us.

Nick Saban has been saying for a couple years now and said it today, that he thinks P5’s should only P5’s for all games. Then we would really know who the top 4 teams are. His words, not mine.

A form of what he is saying is coming, I just don’t know when or how extreme it will be to separate from us.

Big talk from a man that scheduled Mercer in late November when other schools were playing conference games.

Yeah, he is full of chit. He always schedules a FCS team before the Auburn game.

Yes...Isn’t Saban the one that said absolutely no team should be in the championship 4 if they didn’t win their league, and recently said that his team definitely should be in this year’s 4?

(12-03-2017 09:39 PM)TTT Wrote:  #25 Boise State vs. Oregon @ Las Vegas Bowl
Texas Tech vs. USF @ Birmingham Bowl
Duke vs. NIU @ Quick Lane Bowl
Southern Miss vs. Florida State @ Independence Bowl
Virginia vs. Navy @ Military Bowl
Iowa State vs. #20 Memphis @ Liberty Bowl
#12 UCF vs. #7 Auburn @ Peach Bowl

For some reason, I thought there were usually more. Or less?

There were only 5 last year.

Miami (Ohio) vs Mississippi State
Temple vs Wake Forest
Boise State vs Baylor
USF vs South Carolina
Western Michigan vs Wisconsin

(12-03-2017 09:39 PM)TTT Wrote:  #25 Boise State vs. Oregon @ Las Vegas Bowl
Texas Tech vs. USF @ Birmingham Bowl
Duke vs. NIU @ Quick Lane Bowl
Southern Miss vs. Florida State @ Independence Bowl
Virginia vs. Navy @ Military Bowl
Iowa State vs. #20 Memphis @ Liberty Bowl
#12 UCF vs. #7 Auburn @ Peach Bowl

For some reason, I thought there were usually more. Or less?

AAC gets 4 so I am ok with this.

(12-03-2017 09:59 PM)MU42 Wrote:  Nick Saban has been saying for a couple years now and said it today, that he thinks P5’s should only P5’s for all games. Then we would really know who the top 4 teams are. His words, not mine.

If it wins its game against Auburn, a few voters in the AP poll have indicated they will vote a 13-0 UCF team no. 1 partially in protest of the CFP system.