2024 FB Bowl Watch

CameronBornAndBred

CameronBornAndBred

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With the team now at 5-0, it's perfectly reasonable to fire up the Bowl Watch thread. Our schedule never gets easier, but this team has proven that they can get it done.

So, at the end of week five and an undefeated record, here's where ESPN sees us.

Dec 31st
Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl
Sun Bowl Stadium (El Paso, Texas)
2 p.m., CBS
Bonagura: Boston College vs. Utah
Schlabach: Duke vs. Washington

Jan 3rd
Duke's Mayo Bowl
Bank of America Stadium (Charlotte, North Carolina)
7:30 p.m., ESPN
Bonagura: Duke vs. Nebraska
Schlabach: Boston College vs. Rutgers
 
My order of preference:

1. Pop-Tarts Bowl, December 28, Orlando (ACC vs. Big 12)

It's a mascot and a meal! And now a Halloween costume!


https://twitter.com/x/status/1838360091050889241

2. College Football Playoff, December 20-January 20 (includes the Orange Bowl)

3. Any other bowl (full schedule with conference affiliations)

12/20 Gasparilla Bowl, Tampa
12/27 Birmingham Bowl
12/27 Holiday Bowl, San Diego
12/28 Fenway Bowl, Boston
12/28 Pinstripe Bowl, New York
12/28 Military Bowl, Annapolis
12/31 Sun Bowl, El Paso
01/02 Gator Bowl, Jacksonville
01/03 First Responder Bowl, Dallas
01/03 Duke's Mayo Bowl, Charlotte
 
Win #6 is always the toughest, but I won't think about a bowl until Duke gets #7. There are 10 bowls on that list for 17.5 teams...16.5 if you count in UNC's trajectory.
 
The Poptart Bowl thing was a bit underwhelming last year. I was hoping it would be the actual mascot. The dude in the suit just went into a giant toaster and a new poptart that looked like it but clearly was a new poptart (not the costume) came out. It was billed as an edible mascot. I felt robbed

And to clarify, yes I wanted either the winning team to eat a nasty poptart suit or see what clever thing they came up with to make it edible. The bait and switch was not clever enough
 
brevity said:
12/20 Gasparilla Bowl, Tampa
12/27 Birmingham Bowl
12/27 Holiday Bowl, San Diego
12/28 Fenway Bowl, Boston
12/28 Pinstripe Bowl, New York
12/28 Military Bowl, Annapolis
12/31 Sun Bowl, El Paso
01/02 Gator Bowl, Jacksonville
01/03 First Responder Bowl, Dallas
01/03 Duke's Mayo Bowl, Charlotte
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duke2x said:
There are 10 bowls on that list for 17.5 teams...16.5 if you count in UNC's trajectory.
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I separated the Pop-Tarts Bowl as the top priority (for kitsch value), so it's 11 non-playoff bowls with a possible ACC affiliation. Also consider that the 10 former Pac-12 teams (now in other conferences) as well as Oregon State and Washington State are still eligible for the following bowls:

12/18 LA Bowl, Inglewood
12/27 Las Vegas Bowl
12/27 Holiday Bowl, San Diego*
12/28 Alamo Bowl, San Antonio
12/28 Independence Bowl, Shreveport
12/31 Sun Bowl, El Paso*

* These are unlikely options for Cal and Stanford because the opponent is an ACC team. Notre Dame is also eligible for the Sun Bowl, so maybe they could play Cal (they already face Stanford in the regular season).
 
OldPhiKap said:
Let’s just agree that any of the playoff bowls willl be acceptable; we can squabble about the bowls outside of those.

Let’s go Duke! Big game in the ATL next Saturday.
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Don’t give up on defending the Sun Bowl tho. Belk’s/Mayo is a perfectly fine new bowl. But it’s not historic, nor woven into the fabric of the community, nor in an awesomely dramatic stadium setting like in El Paso.

(And I didn’t even have to get down to tattoos, which are far superior in El Paso/Juarez.)
 
AustinDevil said:
Don’t give up on defending the Sun Bowl tho. Belk’s/Mayo is a perfectly fine new bowl. But it’s not historic, nor woven into the fabric of the community, nor in an awesomely dramatic stadium setting like in El Paso.

(And I didn’t even have to get down to tattoos, which are far superior in El Paso/Juarez.)
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Sad part is, El Paso and Charlotte are probably about equidistant from Austin!
 
brevity said:
My order of preference:

1. Pop-Tarts Bowl, December 28, Orlando (ACC vs. Big 12)

It's a mascot and a meal! And now a Halloween costume!


https://twitter.com/x/status/1838360091050889241

2. College Football Playoff, December 20-January 20 (includes the Orange Bowl)

3. Any other bowl (full schedule with conference affiliations)

12/20 Gasparilla Bowl, Tampa
12/27 Birmingham Bowl
12/27 Holiday Bowl, San Diego
12/28 Fenway Bowl, Boston
12/28 Pinstripe Bowl, New York
12/28 Military Bowl, Annapolis
12/31 Sun Bowl, El Paso
01/02 Gator Bowl, Jacksonville
01/03 First Responder Bowl, Dallas
01/03 Duke's Mayo Bowl, Charlotte
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The Pop-Tarts Bowl makes no sense to me. Shouldn't that go on a plate?
 
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