Well, I don't know who'll be left out but I can promise you the SEC won't have 11 teams in a bowl game- we only have 7 bowl tie-ins- we can only have 9 teams Bowling, assuming the BCS pulls the max allottment of two per conference. These are the SEC Bowl tie-ins. :thumb: Liberty Independence Music City Chick-fil-A Outback Cotton Capital One Hatcher, nice pic- is that Nootch's or Fishhead's rig? :hihi:
I actually included the Sugar in the "2 max" allottment but it wasn't worded well- which is why I had 9 team total.....possible. Thanks for clarifying my wordiness.
Vandy & Miss St will be left out. Everyone else travels well or in Kentucky's case travels better than the other 2.
i remember charles hanigriff mentioning something about a new bowl rule this year and why it screws the SEC. but i can't recall. i thought it had to do with the fact that if an at large bid occurs the NCAA will automatically take a team with more wins (ex. an 8 win WAC team would go ahead of a 7 win SEC team.) anyone know the deal with this?:huh:
Here's the current selection process but under it are the changes after this year. I didn't read through it to sort it out but what you're asking about could be for next year- though there's no magic # of wins, it could happen. > Read more<
The SEC has eight bowl tie-ins. The Ponsietta Bowl in San Diego has an at-large bid, but that "9th" SEC team would have to have a record as good or better than another conference's team. ie. Miss State (6-6) would be left at home over Smuckatelly U (7-5). The same would hold true for other bowls with conference tie-ins where that particular conference doesn't have enough bowl eligible teams. It would by record first, rather than that bowl's wants.
I think it's also possible to get into a bowl allotted to another conference if that conference doesn't have enough teams to fill automatic bids. Example: The SEC at one time had a tie-in to the Houston Bowl, but didn't have enough eligible teams to fill it. So some other conference got that bid.
Okay, like I said, we have 8 bowl tie-ins and can have one other team in the NC game.........which would make 9 without the Poinsettia. You're saying we could have 10??
If another conference doesn't have enough bowl-eligible teams to fulfill it's bowl tie-ins then those bowls will have to find somebody to play, so I think theorectically it is possible such a scenario could result in another conference having more teams playing in bowls than it has bowl tie-ins.
