2024 FB Bowl Watch

Sporting News and the NYT now project Duke settling at the Mayo Bowl opposing Iowa or Minnesota, while Matt Seece sees us playing Vandy at Gasparilla. Athlon now projects a Duke/Nebraska matchup at Pinstripe.
I realize that these projections are all over the place, and we'll know tomorrow, but the speculation is just for fun. FWIW I'm still hoping for a Gator Bowl invite against an SEC team.
 
tommy said:
Those would be great. High quality bowl, definitely out of town, great weather, and a quality, brand name opponent.
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Decent weather, I'd say, as someone who grew up in Jacksonville. Don't expect to go to the beach and swim. A couple of Gator Bowls have been plagued by dense fog. Still, a lot better than Detroit or Annapolis in December.
 
Mike Petrik said:
.......... FWIW I'm still hoping for a Gator Bowl invite against an SEC team.
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ironically, Ga Tech and Clemson were just a couple of dumb decisions from giving the ACC a sweep over the SEC in "Rivalry Week" (with L'ville beating UK).......and even with those last second collapses......the 1-2 in FB was WAAAY better than the hoops challenge catastrophe.....
 
HereBeforeCoachK said:
ironically, Ga Tech and Clemson were just a couple of dumb decisions from giving the ACC a sweep over the SEC in "Rivalry Week" (with L'ville beating UK).......and even with those last second collapses......the 1-2 in FB was WAAAY better than the hoops challenge catastrophe.....
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Doesn't Florida's win over FSU count? Or is the ACC already treating the Noles as a former member?
 
Mike Petrik said:
Sporting News and the NYT now project Duke settling at the Mayo Bowl opposing Iowa or Minnesota, while Matt Seece sees us playing Vandy at Gasparilla. Athlon now projects a Duke/Nebraska matchup at Pinstripe.
I realize that these projections are all over the place, and we'll know tomorrow, but the speculation is just for fun. FWIW I'm still hoping for a Gator Bowl invite against an SEC team.
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Every one of those bowls besides the Mayo would be a big face slap.
 
CameronBornAndBred said:
Every one of those bowls besides the Mayo would be a big face slap.
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Yup. Especially the Pinstripe.

I went to the Pinstripe when we beat Indiana. Had a great time with great family and friends. But Yankee Stadium is a really crappy place to watch football. There’s a reason the Giants and Jets left old Yankee Stadium and Shea, respectively.
 
OldPhiKap said:
Yup. Especially the Pinstripe.

I went to the Pinstripe when we beat Indiana. Had a great time with great family and friends. But Yankee Stadium is a really crappy place to watch football. There’s a reason the Giants and Jets left old Yankee Stadium and Shea, respectively.
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I'd be fearful that a selection like this would affect our recruiting and portal activities. It's not an incentive for a player to see the Duke team work hard and win 9 games for an excellent season and then get shipped off to a low tier bowl.
 
CameronBornAndBred said:
I'd be fearful that a selection like this would affect our recruiting and portal activities. It's not an incentive for a player to see the Duke team work hard and win 9 games for an excellent season and then get shipped off to a low tier bowl.
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This is why I'm only watching ACC related bowls.
I'm tired of hearing about other schools and other conferences and I am past my point to care. Oversaturated.
I don't like football THAT much and they are irrelevant to my Duke fandom. In fact they may be holding us back intentionally.

Because its not about finding "best team" its about selling game inventory.
The thing I can can most impact, is my viewing choices.
 
I take a different approach. Any bowl against either a SEC or Big 10+ team, where we play well and hopefully win, is a step up from the bowls against sub-Power 4 teams like last year. Let's beat Nebraska or whomever and next year beat a top 25 team or 2 and get into a higher bowl.

Let's not forget where we came from and how far we've come.
 
OldPhiKap said:
Yup. Especially the Pinstripe.

I went to the Pinstripe when we beat Indiana. Had a great time with great family and friends. But Yankee Stadium is a really crappy place to watch football. There’s a reason the Giants and Jets left old Yankee Stadium and Shea, respectively.
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Agreed that Yankee Stadium is generally an awful place to watch anything other than baseball - the angles are for baseball so in a football/soccer configuration, many of the seats have very odd sight lines. NYCFC just broke ground on a soccer-only stadium next to Citi Field to get out of there.

That being said, perhaps this is my NY bias showing, but spending a few days getting wined and dined in NY is not the worst thing in the world for the players. The benefits of NY over El Paso make a dent in the difference in prestige. Though I guess one could argue that it is nice to be the big event in town in a place like El Paso, while most people in NY are not even aware that there is a bowl here.

Unfortunately, I will be away during the Pinstripe Bowl so would not be able to attend.
 
CrazyNotCrazie said:
Agreed that Yankee Stadium is generally an awful place to watch anything other than baseball - the angles are for baseball so in a football/soccer configuration, many of the seats have very odd sight lines. NYCFC just broke ground on a soccer-only stadium next to Citi Field to get out of there.

That being said, perhaps this is my NY bias showing, but spending a few days getting wined and dined in NY is not the worst thing in the world for the players. The benefits of NY over El Paso make a dent in the difference in prestige. Though I guess one could argue that it is nice to be the big event in town in a place like El Paso, while most people in NY are not even aware that there is a bowl here.

Unfortunately, I will be away during the Pinstripe Bowl so would not be able to attend.
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Yeah, totally different vibes.

El Paso lives for this bowl. They live for the folks coming in for the bowl. Beautiful setting and very friendly locals, with The Game being The Happening of the year. The stadium is fantastic because it is nestled in the hills and looking out to the mountains in Mexico.

NYC — I grew up in the CT suburbs and absolutely love The City. No place like it on earth. Super convenient to fly there. For a bowl game though, it is just a thing in the Bronx in the afternoon competing with 30 other great things going on that day. And last time our seats were along the right field line, not terribly close to the field though we had “good” seats.

Not saying one is better than the other. I know which I personally prefer. But I can find fun in Manhattan if you twist my arm, and it would give me a chance to visit family as well.
 
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OldPhiKap said:
Yeah, totally different vibes.

El Paso lives for this bowl. They live for the folks coming in for the bowl. Beautiful setting and very friendly locals, with The Game being The Happening of the year. The stadium is fantastic because it is nestled in the hills and looking out to the mountains in Mexico.

NYC — I grew up in the CT suburbs and absolutely love The City. No place like it on earth. Super convenient to fly there. For a bowl game though, it is just a thing in the Bronx in the afternoon competing with 30 other great things going on that day. And last time our seats were along the right field line, not terribly close to the field though we had “good” seats.

Not saying one is better than the other. I know which I personally prefer. But I can find fun in Manhattan if you twist my arm, and it would give me a chance to visit family as well.
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Maybe broadening horizons in the southwest has some benefits as well.
 
Mike Petrik said:
Sporting News and the NYT now project Duke settling at the Mayo Bowl opposing Iowa or Minnesota, while Matt Seece sees us playing Vandy at Gasparilla. Athlon now projects a Duke/Nebraska matchup at Pinstripe.
I realize that these projections are all over the place, and we'll know tomorrow, but the speculation is just for fun. FWIW I'm still hoping for a Gator Bowl invite against an SEC team.
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We are not going to the Gasparilla bowl. I'm not going to make a dog poop eating bet over it. Worst I would do is to agree to eating a meal at my local Olive Garden, but it ain't happening.

I think Pinstripe is probably our worst case scenario. Best case is probably the Gator, though I'm hoping for the Holiday in SD.
Sun or Mayo are definite possibilities. Pop Tarts is a bowl too far and we should stay above the bottom 4 of Fenway/Military/Birmingham/Gasparilla. Those 4 will be filled with 6-6 and 7-5 teams.
 
OldPhiKap said:
Yeah, totally different vibes.

El Paso lives for this bowl. They live for the folks coming in for the bowl. Beautiful setting and very friendly locals, with The Game being The Happening of the year. The stadium is fantastic because it is nestled in the hills and looking out to the mountains in Mexico.

NYC — I grew up in the CT suburbs and absolutely love The City. No place like it on earth. Super convenient to fly there. For a bowl game though, it is just a thing in the Bronx in the afternoon competing with 30 other great things going on that day. And last time our seats were along the right field line, not terribly close to the field though we had “good” seats.

Not saying one is better than the other. I know which I personally prefer. But I can find fun in Manhattan if you twist my arm, and it would give me a chance to visit family as well.
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You quite clearly undersold all the opportunities just across the border in Juarez.
 
Maybe broadening horizons in NYC would also help? We aren’t as scary as most of America is misled to think we are.

Not disagreeing at all with OPK comments. His points are excellent. Just disagreeing with what you are trying to say. Because most of the team comes from places that are a lot more like El Paso than NYC.
 
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