Latest bowl projections:
CBS Sports
-Pinstripe Bowl: vs. Pitt
247Sports
-Redbox Bowl: vs. Washington State
Sporting News
-Pinstripe Bowl: vs. Florida State
Great Post. Agree totally!! We were all going to burn our Lovie t-shirts a month ago, and for the true Illini fan, this miracle season reminds me of the Rose Bowl year. So why don't we start a thread of actual season ticket holders, who have invested there time and resources into watching the games and supporting the team. If your not there, than stay away from our blog. I call them dingbats!!!
VT is playing well right now with a mobile QB - good exposure, but it would be an interesting gameMe likey a matchup with VT.
VT is playing well right now with a mobile QB - good exposure, but it would be an interesting game
I would love to kick Miami's ace!Probably not an option now, VT has played themselves into a top 3 ACC bowl.
If it's PineStripe, good chance it;s a Florida school. State or Miami.
I would love to kick Miami's ace!
Miami we can beat. They've struggledI would love to kick Miami's ace!
Hence why I really want that opportunityGiven their coach's twitter commentary over the Jeff Thomas fiasco, we would not lack for bulletin board material for a game against Miami.
Couple of additional projections:
Brett McMurphy
-Pinstripe Bowl: vs. Virginia
ESPN
-Bonagura: Pinstripe Bowl vs. Wake Forest
-Schlabach: Pinstripe Bowl vs. Pittsburgh
I'm all over the Redbox vs. WSU just because there would be so much coverage of the pirate leading up to it.
There’s a fairly high likelihood we already know. As far as public announcements, it’ll be the Monday after the holiday for the Redbox and PinStripe.
Game against WSU would have the potential of getting ugly real quick. They can score. Their defense is bad, but not sure if our offense could keep up with theirs even with the couple of TOs our D would likely generate.
As someone who won’t be going to bowl game, I don’t care where it is just so it is a win. That being said, for the sake of those that are going I hope it is somewhere warm though looking more and more like it will be Pinstripe.
FWIW, Indiana has played more recently in the RedBox than the Pinstripe. That should be a consideration I would think, though I am not sure what priorities they place on all of that.
Depends on the bowl. The Redbox, for instance, has a contractual mandate for "X" different teams over a 5-6 year time-frame. For those representatives, because it's contractual, it clearly matters. For others, like the PinStripe, it's simply a preference but in essence they take who they can get within a reasonable level of attractiveness.
Funny, my 16yr old daughter calls me that. I think she means it as a slight to my age. I take it as a badge of honor!OK, Boomer.
According to Wikipedia (I know, I know), the BIG teams that have played in the last 8 years are:
2018--MSU
2017--Purdue
2016--Indiana
2015--Nebraska
2014--Maryland
2011--Illinois
3 of those are not bowl eligible (Nebraska has a tough road to that point), and for that level of a bowl game, only Illinois, Indiana, and Iowa make sense. If Iowa wins, they will have 9 wins, making that an unlikely destination as well. I would think, especially if Indiana were to lose to Purdue (very possible), that they would go to the Pinstripe and we would go to RedBox.
It would for larger bowls, certainly but the bowl games that we are pegged into right now are lower tier games involving teams that do not factor into the conference championship outlook. This is the main reason I don't buy the predictions of us facing teams like Virginia or VT.
Last year, Redbox and PinStripe were both announced on the 3rd, which was the Monday after the Holiday.