2024 FB Bowl Watch

OldPhiKap said:
Giddiness aside, our final five games are:

#21 SMU
@ #6 Miami
@ State
VT
@ Wake

Hard for me to see better than 9-3, hope to not see worse than 8-4. Higher or lower is of course possible. So I’d call any warm weather bowl a win.
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We should beat Wake. State is also a shell of itself mentally now (would have preferred to play them sooner; losing to Wake and Syracuse is bad). VT will be tough but they can be Jekyll and Hyde; at least we’re at hold so should have a chance. SMU and Miami will be tough.

Hoping we get 3 of that group for a 9-3 record. 8-4 seems more likely. 10-2 seems crazy
 
RoseBowl1942 said:
We should beat Wake. State is also a shell of itself mentally now (would have preferred to play them sooner; losing to Wake and Syracuse is bad). VT will be tough but they can be Jekyll and Hyde; at least we’re at hold so should have a chance. SMU and Miami will be tough.

Hoping we get 3 of that group for a 9-3 record. 8-4 seems more likely. 10-2 seems crazy
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If we can pull out a win in the next 2 weeks it will be an epic season.
 
Nicky injured his lower leg in practice. Manny said out for the year, but to get back to the thread unclear if that would include a bowl game.
 
Any word on Jaquez Moore injury? He got 1 carry vs CHeats but has not played since. With only 3 games played he still could redshirt by playing no or one games before bowl game.
 
OldPhiKap said:
Giddiness aside, our final five games are:

#21 SMU
@ #6 Miami
@ State
VT
@ Wake

Hard for me to see better than 9-3, hope to not see worse than 8-4. Higher or lower is of course possible. So I’d call any warm weather bowl a win.
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Here are the ACC bowl tie-ins (outside of the playoff, of course):

Friday, December 20, 2024
Gasparilla Bowl (Tampa, Florida) – 3:30 p.m. ET / ESPN

Friday, December 27, 2024
Birmingham Bowl (Birmingham, Alabama) – Noon or 3:30 p.m. ET / ESPN
Holiday Bowl (San Diego, California) - 8:00 p.m. ET / Fox

Saturday, December 28, 2024
Fenway Bowl (Boston, Massachusetts) – 11 a.m. ET / ESPN
Pinstripe Bowl (The Bronx, New York) – Noon ET / ABC
Pop-Tarts Bowl (Orlando, Florida) – 3:30 p.m. ET / ABC
Military Bowl presented by GoBowling.com (Washington DC) – 5:45 p.m. ET / ESPN

Tuesday, December 31, 2024
Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl (El Paso, Texas) – 2 p.m. ET / CBS

Thursday, January 2, 2025
Gator Bowl (Jacksonville, Florida) – 7:30 p.m. ET / ESPN

Friday, January 3, 2025
Duke’s Mayo Bowl (Charlotte, North Carolina) – 7:30 p.m. ET / ESPN

I had sources that told me representatives from the Gator Bowl and the Duke's Mayo Bowl were in attendance at Wally Wade last night. I'm with you OPK, I think after a few years of some cold weather bowl games, it's about time for us to land one of the bowls in Florida or California. Only way to ensure that remains a possibility is to keep winning and show those bowls that picking us will lead to a competitive matchup.
 
With the conference schedule becoming meaningless at 17 teams, expect to be disappointed. I'm beyond happy that this team made a bowl with some important names on the win list. This team isn't TV-friendly, Duke doesn't always travel well, and I don't read too much into the bowl reps being at Duke on Friday and catching a 5/6 AM flight at RDU to a different Saturday venue. I'm not sure how far schools below Duke in the ACC standings can move up due to "economic impact" for the bowls.

I'm somewhat optimistic about Charlotte. Duke was an upset by AL from going there last year, and I don't see any other local team (NC/SC/VA) getting that spot. It's also so late in the bowl season you won't have huge attendance by the visiting team. Fenway jumps out at me as well because BC isn't going there 2 years in a row. The Sun also jumps out at me, but Duke has a basketball game at the same time. We might have the ACC's backing to avoid a return trip there for "television revenue impact."

Side-note: I'm disappointed with gobowling.com. I was hoping for something else, but it does seem like a good team-building activity for FSU and UNC for 2025.
 
Perhaps there is a better site to show all of the bowl games than the following:

fbschedules.com

2024-25 College Football Bowl Schedule | FBSchedules.com

View the College Football Bowl Schedule for the 2024-25 season at FBSchedules.com. The schedule includes matchups with date, time, and TV.
fbschedules.com

because it is confusing in that it shows 6 bowl games with Pac-12 tie-ins with only 2 Pac-12 teams.

Is there a site with an updated list of tie-ins and would that mean an additional bowl game tied to the ACC?
 
brevity said:
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).
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MarkD83 said:
Perhaps there is a better site to show all of the bowl games than the following:

fbschedules.com

2024-25 College Football Bowl Schedule | FBSchedules.com

View the College Football Bowl Schedule for the 2024-25 season at FBSchedules.com. The schedule includes matchups with date, time, and TV.
fbschedules.com

because it is confusing in that it shows 6 bowl games with Pac-12 tie-ins with only 2 Pac-12 teams.

Is there a site with an updated list of tie-ins and would that mean an additional bowl game tied to the ACC?
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No, that's correct. The Pac-12 dissolved, and no one told the bowls, so the tie-ins are still in place for at least this season. Any bowl eligible team that is or was in the Pac-12 would probably be selected for one of those 6 bowls listed above. (#1 Oregon, of course, is looking to make the 12-team playoff.)

7-0 Oregon
6-1 Washington State

5-2 Arizona State
5-2 Colorado
4-3 Oregon State
4-3 Utah
4-3 Washington
3-4 Arizona
3-4 California
3-4 USC
2-5 Stanford
2-5 UCLA
 
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