The SEC has sent 2 teams in 6 of 11 years, so yeah, that is most years, in fact. Apparently, though, so has the B10. I guess the Capital One Bowl is generally more even than I gave it credit for, though, so I concede there. I had this same conversation with a Georgia Tech fan about the disparity in the Chick-Fil-A bowl. The ACC NEVER sends two teams, which widens the gap in that one. I mistakenly included the B10 in that category, too. I said the Capital One gets second pick, so I'm not sure what you're arguing there. The Capital One Bowl is the only bowl required to select an SEC team based on records, so this isn't a good comparison. SEC Bowl Selections this year: 1. BCSCG: Florida 2. Sugar: Alabama 3. Capital One: Georgia 4. Cotton: Ole Miss 5. Outback: South Carolina 6. Chick-Fil-A: LSU 7. Liberty: Kentucky 8. Music City: Vanderbilt 9. Independence: No availble SEC teams. Big Ten Bowl Selections this year: 1. Rose: Penn St. 2. Fiesta: Ohio St. 3. Capital One: Michigan St. 4. Outback: Iowa 5. Champs Sports: Wisconsin 6. Alamo: Northwestern 7. Insight: Minnesota 8. Motor City: No available Big Ten teams. So this year, the Outback was B10 #4 vs. SEC #5. And remember, we are talking about selection order, here. SEC bowl selection can get a little goofy, so here are the criteria: -The Capital One Bowl must choose the team with the best remaining record, or a team within one game of the best record. -If the Cotton Bowl wants a team from the East Division, they must let the Outback Bowl select a team from the East first. -If the Outback Bowl wants a team from the West Division, they must wait until the Cotton Bowl selects a team from the West first. -If the Outback wants a team from the West and the Cotton wants a team from the East, they have the option of trading. -The Cotton Bowl has the option of selecting Notre Dame, but if they do select the Irish they cannot select them again for another four years. -The Music City and Liberty Bowls rank the remaining bowl eligible teams in the order of their preference. If the two bowls have different teams ranked #1, then they get to invite their top picks. If they both have the same team ranked at #1, then the team in question gets to select which of the two bowls they’d like to go to. The other bowl will end up with their second pick. -The Independence Bowl ends up with whoever else is left.
Ha, whoops, grabbed the wrong teams....copying and pasting from too many sources for this early in the morning. Fixing now.
That was worded a little funny, I guess. I was saying that the Big Ten sends 2 teams most years, not that they have sent 2 teams 6 times.
