Bowls/Playoff & Polls Thread

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CFB Playoff Selection Show
Sunday, December 7th
11:00am-2:00pm CT
ESPN

The rest of the bowl games typically get announced during or shortly after the Selection Show.


Big Ten Bowl Tie-Ins

- Las Vegas Bowl vs former Pac-12 (Wed, Dec 31, 2:30pm CT, ESPN)
- Citrus Bowl vs SEC, Orlando (Wed, Dec 31, 2:00pm CT, ABC)
- ReliaQuest Bowl vs SEC, Tampa (Wed, Dec 31, 11:00am CT, ESPN)
- Music City Bowl vs SEC, Nashville (Tue, Dec 30, 4:30pm CT, ESPN)
- Pinstripe Bowl vs ACC, Bronx (Sat, Dec 27, 11:00am CT, ABC)
- Rate Bowl vs B12, Phoenix (Fri, Dec 26, 3:30pm CT, ESPN)
- GameAbove Sports Bowl vs MAC, Detroit (Fri, Dec 26, 12:00pm CT, ESPN)

(Former Pac-12 teams are eligible for former Pac-12 bowls.)
 
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GoodePodzMelendez
The way I read this is Nashville is the obvious choice as Michigan and Iowa will go to the Citrus and Reliaquest Bowls. Now if the SEC sends 4 to the CFP which is a distinct possibility, Georgia, TAMU, Ole Miss and Bama will be the 4. Texas will go to the Citrus, Oklahoma to the Reliaquest and Vandy to the Tax Slayer Bowl in Jax. That leave Mizzou to go to Nashville to play us. The Music City Bowl will ignore the back to back thing to get a juicy matchup of Illinois and Mizzou. Especially after basketball does the Border War game. I, of course, have no idea if this will play out but the jogistics work. But we have been screwed before with the playing the local flavor in a bowl, UCLA in 1984, LSU in 2002 and USC in 08. We could get Vandy in Nashville which would be so Illinois like.
 
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TX Illiniwek
GoodePodzMelendez said:
The way I read this is Nashville is the obvious choice as Michigan and Iowa will go to the Citrus and Reliaquest Bowls. Now if the SEC sends 4 to the CFP which is a distinct possibility, Georgia, TAMU, Ole Miss and Bama will be the 4. Texas will go to the Citrus, Oklahoma to the Reliaquest and Vandy to the Tax Slayer Bowl in Jax. That leave Mizzou to go to Nashville to play us. The Music City Bowl will ignore the back to back thing to get a juicy matchup of Illinois and Mizzou. Especially after basketball does the Border War game. I, of course, have no idea if this will play out but the jogistics work. But we have been screwed before with the playing the local flavor in a bowl, UCLA in 1984, LSU in 2002 and USC in 08. We could get Vandy in Nashville which would be so Illinois like.
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Just to be clear, when we played UCLA in '83 and USC in '08, we didn't get "screwed". That was the Rose Bowl match-up...Pac10/12 vs. B1G...before the BCS it was the two Champions facing off, which is what '83 was. B1G teams were playing USC and UCLA for years in that game. The '02 Sugar Bowl did feel different but the Fiesta had Oregon/Colorado (West Teams) and the Orange had Florida/Maryland (East Teams). Illinois was B1G Champion and was going to a BCS Bowl and the Rose Bowl that year was the National Championship Game between Miami and Nebraska, so Illinois had to go to a different BCS Bowl. I don't recall the other options for the Sugar besides LSU, but the BCS committee took them, I'm sure, partly for the obvious reason of filling the stadium. All that said, when the bowls are physically located in the areas of these various schools, for northern tier teams its going to be difficult to have a significant presence, or a presence that outnumbers the opponent...except for maybe scUM or OSU. But, Illini fans certainly showed up for the Citrus Bowl last year. The Cocks had us outnumbered but not by a lot...it was pretty even. I, for one, was proud of our showing there. If the NCAA can set up an Illinois/Mizzery Music City Bowl, that could be the most equitable scenario we could hope for. But, the scenario of Vandy or Tennessee could still happen, which is just how the Bowl system works and schools like Illinois have to accept it...it isn't getting screwed. When Chicago starts hosting a bowl with their new domed stadium in Arlington Heights (or wherever its set for), then Illinois playing LSU, or South Carolina, or USC there might be a different story.
 
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Mr. Tibbs
I just want Nashville & don’t really care who we play . one would think the bowl committee would want to attract more out of area tourists , so Vandy would not be higher on their list than Mizzou.

I mean , it’s not just about butts in seats , it’s where those butts come from . One would think a match up of Illinois - Mizzou would draw really well in Nashville with most people going there for 2-3 nights , not just for the day .
 
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TheChief4Life
GoodePodzMelendez said:
The way I read this is Nashville is the obvious choice as Michigan and Iowa will go to the Citrus and Reliaquest Bowls. Now if the SEC sends 4 to the CFP which is a distinct possibility, Georgia, TAMU, Ole Miss and Bama will be the 4. Texas will go to the Citrus, Oklahoma to the Reliaquest and Vandy to the Tax Slayer Bowl in Jax. That leave Mizzou to go to Nashville to play us. The Music City Bowl will ignore the back to back thing to get a juicy matchup of Illinois and Mizzou. Especially after basketball does the Border War game. I, of course, have no idea if this will play out but the jogistics work. But we have been screwed before with the playing the local flavor in a bowl, UCLA in 1984, LSU in 2002 and USC in 08. We could get Vandy in Nashville which would be so Illinois like.
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I think the committee will do everything int their power to get 5 SEC teams in the playoffs. Which I think leaves even more of a possibility we will play Missouri somewhere.
 
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DERV64
Could also get Tennessee, the illinois of the SEC.
 
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fuddrules
We shall see but B1G winner a #1 seed. Let's see if they try and slide the loser to a #4.
 
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illinoistradition
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Lysol623
I think it is between Vegas and Nashville. Which is pretty good and on par with our season. We won't get away with this next year as USC and Washington will take Big Ten Bowls.
 
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DeonThomas
Lysol623 said:
I think it is between Vegas and Nashville. Which is pretty good and on par with our season. We won't get away with this next year as USC and Washington will take Big Ten Bowls.
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But BigTen Bowls should be expanding as well next year. Vegas, for example, would be a great destination for all of our "traditional" Big10 teams.
 
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DeonThomas
Of note....

Iowa has been to the Music City Bowl 2 of the past 3 years. I do believe they're destined for Tampa/ReliaQuest.

Also of note, attendance at the Music City Bowl jumps by ~30,000 when Tennessee plays (from 42,000 for the last two Iowa years vs. KY and MIZZ --- up to 70,000 in Tennessee's last two visits). We'll truly face a hostile crowd if we end up playing TN or VANDY.

(Oh, and our ReliaQuest Bowl game drew only 36,000 fans when we played Miss State at in Tampa at the end of the 2022 season.)
 
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SuperintendentChalmers
Mr. Tibbs said:
if that bowl could arrange that matchup ( and these bowls are 100% getting great matchups ) , they would likely draw really really well .

why wouldn’t PSU & Pitt want that ?
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I agree. I think everyone (schools, fans, Yankees, ESPN) would be happy with PSU-Pitt in the Pinstripe (huge fan bases in the area, classic rivalry sacrified to realignment), which is why I disagreed wth the prediction sending us there.
 
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MoCoMdIllini
DeonThomas said:
Of note....

Iowa has been to the Music City Bowl 2 of the past 3 years. I do believe they're destined for Tampa/ReliaQuest.

Also of note, attendance at the Music City Bowl jumps by ~30,000 when Tennessee plays (from 42,000 for the last two Iowa years vs. KY and MIZZ --- up to 70,000 in Tennessee's last two visits). We'll truly face a hostile crowd if we end up playing TN or VANDY.

(Oh, and our ReliaQuest Bowl game drew only 36,000 fans when we played Miss State at in Tampa at the end of the 2022 season.)
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My ears spontaneously started to ring at the memory of the ReliaQuest.
 
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DeonThomas
Agreed! Guess we were actually very lucky only 36k showed up.
 
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GoodePodzMelendez
But there will be a couple of the Pac12 bowls that will become B1G tie ins. There are 5 available after this year. We will most likely get 2. The Big 12 will get 2 and the ACC will get one. The Vegas Bowl will drop the Pac12 tie in to a Big12 tie in.
 
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