Bowl ?

The games next week that will likely affect selection include:
Syracuse@BC, Pitt@Miami, UVA@VT, NCS@ UNC

This is how I would guess the upper ACC bowls get assigned today with comments:

ACC Team (Current ACC Record)..Bowl.......Comments

Clemson (8-0) Playoff
Syracuse (5-2) NY6 bowl. A loss to BC or a win by Pitt probably flips this bid.
Pitt (6-1) Camping World. See above.

NCS (4-3) Belk. Has played there twice in the last several years, but Belk likes NC schools.
BC (4-3) Pinstripe. Makes sense geographically, but they did play there last year and 2014.
GT (5-3) Music City. One previous appearance but closest geographically.
UVA (4-3) Sun. Has never played there and GT played twice in last several years.

Duke and Miami are bowl-eligible and could get to 4-4 with wins next week, so that puts UVA, BC, and NCS at risk if they lose.
 
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If we lose next week and end up 7-5... UVA wins and goes 8-3, Duke 8-3.... We are looking at Military Bowl or Indy Bowl.... If UVA and Duke Loses we will be up for the (sun, belk, Music city, Pinstripe)
 
GTFLETCH said:
If we lose next week and end up 7-5... UVA wins and goes 8-3, Duke 8-3.... We are looking at Military Bowl or Indy Bowl.... If UVA and Duke Loses we will be up for the (sun, belk, Music city, Pinstripe)
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Duke can only get to 4-4 in conference and I don't really see them being a more attractive option than us for the tier one bowls. UVA, I dunno.
 
GTFLETCH said:
If we lose next week and end up 7-5... UVA wins and goes 8-3, Duke 8-3.... We are looking at Military Bowl or Indy Bowl.... If UVA and Duke Loses we will be up for the (sun, belk, Music city, Pinstripe)
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Overall records are of secondary importance to conference records. The old days of bowls choosing teams has been replaced, to a large extent, by a system where the conference assigns the teams in consultation with the bowls. There is really no way that a team finishing at 4-4 in the conference can knock a 5-3 team into a lower tier; certainly not Duke. It's just not in the ACC's best interest to reward teams for scheduling cupcakes to pad their overall record. A loss to a top 10 team in a OOC rivalry game is not going to affect our bid.
 
jacket67 said:
Overall records are of secondary importance to conference records. The old days of bowls choosing teams has been replaced, to a large extent, by a system where the conference assigns the teams in consultation with the bowls. There is really no way that a team finishing at 4-4 in the conference can knock a 5-3 team into a lower tier; certainly not Duke. It's just not in the ACC's best interest to reward teams for scheduling cupcakes to pad their overall record. A loss to a top 10 team in a OOC rivalry game is not going to affect our bid.
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you are absolutely correct.
that said, this is the acc and I expect to get ööööed.
 
jacket67 said:
The games next week that will likely affect selection include:
Syracuse@BC, Pitt@Miami, UVA@VT, NCS@ UNC

This is how I would guess the upper ACC bowls get assigned today with comments:

ACC Team (Current ACC Record)..Bowl.......Comments
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Clemson (8-0) Playoff
Syracuse (5-2) NY6 bowl. A loss to BC or a win by Pitt probably flips this bid.
Pitt (6-1) Camping World. See above.

NCS (4-3) Belk. Has played there twice in the last several years, but Belk likes NC schools.
BC (4-3) Pinstripe. Makes sense geographically, but they did play there last year and 2014.
GT (5-3) Music City. One previous appearance but closest geographically.
UVA (4-3) Sun. Has never played there and GT played twice in last several years.

Duke and Miami are bowl-eligible and could get to 4-4 with wins next week, so that puts UVA, BC, and NCS at risk if they lose.
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This, except I think Syracuse doesn’t get a NY6 bowl and goes to Camping World, UVA drops to military bowl, Pitt to Sun Bowl. I prefer your scenario.
 
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