The school should pick the bowl, not vice versa

MtownJacket

MtownJacket

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The solution is simple. After the playoff and big 6 bowls, all other ACC bowl selections should be made by the schools in order of decreasing overall record with head-to-head and ACC record as tie breakers. A school might decide to pass up a "better" bowl for one with a more convenient location. No one knows better than the schools where fanbases are likely to travel well. Worried that the #10 ACC team gets stuck across the country? THEN WIN MORE GAMES ASSHOLE. Worried that your ööööty bowl will be stuck with the #10 ACC team? THEN STEP UP YOUR FAN AND PLAYER EXPERIENCES.

Is this a perfect system with zero flaws? No, feel free to suggest better ideas. Maybe have the next team in the selection order pick two potential bowls and then the "higher priority" bowl game can pass on them or not (would be a gamble).
 
Dook and UNCheat would always get hosed. Swoff would never go for it
 
Lol. Good luck getting bowl games to buy in to that.

The real answer is to scrap meaningless bowl games at neutral sites altogether. Go to a playoff format and play games on campus. All the bowl games are bullshit money grabs, schools, players and fans get the shaft in it all.
 
Best records/conference standing guarantees Tier 1 bowl.

Bowl lottery for all bowls below Tier 1. Can't complain about luck.
 
Diseqc said:
It should be like sorority rush. You have to visit each bowl committee and have a social. Then you submit your choice and the bowls submit their’s. If you match, great! If not, get ööööing lost.
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Looks like we got accepted by the Tri Lambdas this year.
 
Your proposal maximizes for fairness, which is the wrong variable here.

Bowls are about maximizing $$$ for sponsors/organizers, while giving the illusion of fairness.
 
Diseqc said:
It should be like sorority rush. You have to visit each bowl committee and have a social. Then you submit your choice and the bowls submit their’s. If you match, great! If not, get ööööing lost.
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Duke is an ugly fat girl.
 
Bowls have the money, and therefore the decision rights.
 
RamblinWreck92 said:
Looks like we got accepted by the Tri Lambdas this year.
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Everyone complains about minor bowls... but why? They give us a chance to watch our team play one more time. I'd prefer we be in the CFP this year... or the OB... or any of the more convenient bowls... but I'd also rather we be playing in Detroit than not at all. Once upon a time after COFH there was no chance to play again and wash bad memories of a season-ending loss out of our mouths. We want to see the minor bowls, TV audiences want to see the minor bowls, and that demand will be satisfied. The demand is not great obviously, but exists in sufficient numbers to justify playing the games.
 
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No one would complain if the Quick Lane Bowl was a Tier 1 ACC Bowl (they still might because Detroit and Dec. 26 / but generally they wouldn't complain). People are pissed because less deserving teams were picked ahead of Tech. Tech fell 5 spots below where we should have been with no explanation given. The #4 team in the ACC is playing in the #9 bowl.
 
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