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  1. #181
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    Quote Originally Posted by throatybeard View Post
    No worries; conference realignment has me confused too. I just watched West Virginia beat Texas Christian in a Big East game. I think.
    Quote Originally Posted by Bob Green View Post
    West Virginia and TCU are in the Big 12, which has 10 teams.
    Bob Green is correct, but throatybeard's comment is not that outlandish. West Virginia left the Big East in 2012. TCU was supposed to join the Big East soon thereafter. (Wouldn't surprise me if they are heated Big East rivals in that parallel Fringe world where Eric Stoltz is still Marty McFly.)

  2. #182
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    Week 10 Bowl Predictions: Bye Week Edition

    Not much love from CBS, who has us as the #8 ACC team and going to the Military Bowl:

    http://www.cbssports.com/collegefoot...ls/predictions

    SBNation keeps us in the #5 spot and at the Belk Bowl vs. Houston:

    http://www.sbnation.com/college-foot...13-predictions

    College Sports Madness like us in the Music City Bowl vs. Auburn (This would be an awesome matchup to watch):

    http://www.collegesportsmadness.com/...wl-projections

    Bleacher Report has us in the Sun Bowl against Arizona in a classic basketball matchup:

    http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1...ctions/page/22

    And our favorite Heather Dinich still has us in the Belk Bowl:

    http://espn.go.com/blog/acc/post/_/i...ions-week-10-4

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    A couple more fresh projections to add to the mix.
    Mark Schlabach at ESPN now says Sun Bowl vs. Southern Cal, and Brad Edwards says Music City vs. Ole Miss:
    http://espn.go.com/college-football/bowls/projections
    Both of those bowls would be great accomplishments for our program in my opinion.

    SI's Stewart Mandel, one of the best in the biz, has his first set of projections of the season up (he doesn't start doing this until November). He says Belk Bowl vs. Houston this week.
    http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/col...r_a2&eref=sihp
    Last edited by wilson; 11-04-2013 at 03:54 PM. Reason: Typo

  4. #184
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bob Green View Post
    West Virginia and TCU are in the Big 12, which has 10 teams.
    I thought it was pretty clear that I was joking.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BlueDevilinNYC View Post
    Not much love from CBS, who has us as the #8 ACC team and going to the Military Bowl:

    http://www.cbssports.com/collegefoot...ls/predictions

    SBNation keeps us in the #5 spot and at the Belk Bowl vs. Houston:

    http://www.sbnation.com/college-foot...13-predictions

    College Sports Madness like us in the Music City Bowl vs. Auburn (This would be an awesome matchup to watch):

    http://www.collegesportsmadness.com/...wl-projections

    Bleacher Report has us in the Sun Bowl against Arizona in a classic basketball matchup:

    http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1...ctions/page/22

    And our favorite Heather Dinich still has us in the Belk Bowl:

    http://espn.go.com/blog/acc/post/_/i...ions-week-10-4
    I'd love that matchup in Nashville against Auburn. Sign me up for that!

    While Sun Bowl would be a big accomplishment for our program, El Paso is only good for branded taco seasoning and salsa and not someplace where I'd like to go bowling

  6. #186
    I think we are still at east one week out (and more likely two weeks out) before the bowl predictions have any reliability at all.

  7. #187
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    Quote Originally Posted by allenmurray View Post
    I think we are still at east one week out (and more likely two weeks out) before the bowl predictions have any reliability at all.
    You're most likely quite correct, but as we've said upthread a time or two, this is a delightful bit of triviality to engage in, given our program's history over the past several decades.

  8. #188
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    Quote Originally Posted by wilson View Post
    Brad Edwards says Music City vs. Ole Miss

    Think Cut would get up for that one?

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    Quote Originally Posted by OldPhiKap View Post
    Think Cut would get up for that one?
    Ooh, good point! Somehow I didn't think of that at all.

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    Quote Originally Posted by wilson View Post
    Ooh, good point! Somehow I didn't think of that at all.
    AND, it would be in Tennessee. Cut still has some good ties there, I bet. Would be a bonus for recruiting.

    If you look at bowls from that perspective -- like I think we did last year in Charlotte -- Music City would probably be the best place to play.

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    Quote Originally Posted by allenmurray View Post
    I think we are still at east one week out (and more likely two weeks out) before the bowl predictions have any reliability at all.
    You have to keep in mind that we don't have much experience in bowl projections. I'm just surprised we aren't talking about which regional the football team will be going to and where it will be seeded.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jimsumner View Post
    You have to keep in mind that we don't have much experience in bowl projections. I'm just surprised we aren't talking about which regional the football team will be going to and where it will be seeded.
    I do know that whatever region it is, the committee will have been out to screw us! they always are...
    Last edited by uh_no; 11-04-2013 at 05:22 PM. Reason: verb conjucations
    1200. DDMF.

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    Quote Originally Posted by uh_no View Post
    I do know that whatever region it is, the committee will have been out to screw us! they always are...
    The one time I'd really like to be paired up against Kentucky . . . .

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    Quote Originally Posted by OldPhiKap View Post
    The one time I'd really like to be paired up against Kentucky . . . .
    In the NIT?
    [redacted] them and the horses they rode in on.

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    Quote Originally Posted by OldPhiKap View Post
    AND, it would be in Tennessee. Cut still has some good ties there, I bet. Would be a bonus for recruiting.

    If you look at bowls from that perspective -- like I think we did last year in Charlotte -- Music City would probably be the best place to play.
    You make a strong case for Duke to the Music City Bowl. I've been ambivalent toward the whole "which bowl is better" discussion as I am pretty much satisfied by the team playing in any bowl, but your post has me reconsidering my position. Now I want a bowl game located in fertile recruiting grounds such as Tennessee, Georgia or Florida.
    Bob Green

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    Quote Originally Posted by allenmurray View Post
    I think we are still at east one week out (and more likely two weeks out) before the bowl predictions have any reliability at all.
    Lunardi says we'll be in the South region in March. Write it down and put it in a drawer.

    Tennesseein is Tennebelievin.

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  17. #197
    Quote Originally Posted by Bob Green View Post
    You make a strong case for Duke to the Music City Bowl. I've been ambivalent toward the whole "which bowl is better" discussion as I am pretty much satisfied by the team playing in any bowl, but your post has me reconsidering my position. Now I want a bowl game located in fertile recruiting grounds such as Tennessee, Georgia or Florida.
    As for recruiting fertility, Cut noted several times how cool it was last year that the Duke/Cincy game was on national tv during primetime when there were no other football games on at all -- if you cared about watching college football that night, you were watching Duke.

    Looking at the bowl schedule, I'd say the Russell bowl in Orlando fits that scenario -- we'd be on TV on a Saturday night, in primetime, w/ no conflict (even the Orange bowl has a competing game this year; and Atlanta competes with New Year's Eve in general). Saturday night Orlando would be better than a Monday afternoon at 3 pm -- which is Nashville.

    So, of the two, I'm rooting for Orlando over Nashville. I want to see Kenny Anunike screaming "We're going to Disney World" while riding around on the victory bell after whipping UNC ...

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    It should be noted that the 2013 Belk Bowl will be held on December 28.

    The Duke men's basketball team hosts Eastern Michigan on December 28.

    FWIW.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jimsumner View Post
    It should be noted that the 2013 Belk Bowl will be held on December 28.

    The Duke men's basketball team hosts Eastern Michigan on December 28.

    FWIW.
    I would happily miss Duke beating the snot out of a small school that isn't good (They lost 38-90 at Kentucky last year) to watch Duke play in a bowl game.
    Q "Why do you like Duke, you didn't even go there." A "Because my art school didn't have a basketball team."

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    Quote Originally Posted by jimsumner View Post
    It should be noted that the 2013 Belk Bowl will be held on December 28.

    The Duke men's basketball team hosts Eastern Michigan on December 28.

    FWIW.
    Move the EMU game to the Bobcats arena and make it a doubleheader.

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