Official Bowl Watch thread

I made the following reservations in the first week of May to cover all likely possibilities:

Phoenix, AZ
Resdience Inn Phoenix Downtown [12/24-28/18 (4)]
12/26 Cheez-It Bowl

Houston, TX
Hyatt Regency Houston [12/26-30/18 (4)]
12/27 Texas Bowl

Orlando, FL
Residence Inn Orlando Downtown [12/26/18-1/2/19 (6)]
12/28 Camping World Bowl

San Antonio, TX
Drury Inn & Suites Riverwalk [12/26/18-12/30/18 (4)]
12/28 Alamo Bowl

Atlanta, GA
Hotel Indigo [12/27/18-1/2/19 (6)]
12/29 Peach Bowl

Phoenix, AZ
Resdience Inn Phoenix Downtown [12/26/18-1/2/19 (7)]
12/29 Fiesta Bowl

Memphis, TN
Sheraton Memphis Downtown Hotel [12/29/18-1/2/19 (4)]
12/31 Liberty Bowl 250

New Orleans, LA
St. Christopher Hotel Best Western Plus [12/28/18-1/2/19 (5)]
12/31 Sugar Bowl

Wow, going to need a spreadsheet to keep track of your cancellations. :rolleyes:
 
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SB Nation still not loving the Cyclones apparently... has us in the Texas Bowl with OU, WVU, Texas, and Tech getting better invites.

https://www.sbnation.com/platform/a...ons-2018-college-football-playoff-predictions
I don’t see any way the Camping World Bowl would select Tech over ISU. It would make a lot more sense for Camping World to take ISU and the Texas Bowl to pick Tech.

As it stands now, I would project something like this:
Sugar Bowl - OU
Peach or Fiesta - WVU
Alamo - Texas
Camping World - ISU
Texas - TT
I don’t see ISU dropping any lower than that.

If a Big 12 team happens to sneak into the playoff, then slide every team up 1 bowl.
All of this assuming the remainder of the season goes to chalk and ISU beats Baylor and KSU and loses to Texas. And Tech does the same as they have the same remaining 3 opponents.
 
I don’t see any way the Camping World Bowl would select Tech over ISU. It would make a lot more sense for Camping World to take ISU and the Texas Bowl to pick Tech.

As it stands now, I would project something like this:
Sugar Bowl - OU
Peach or Fiesta - WVU
Alamo - Texas
Camping World - ISU
Texas - TT
I don’t see ISU dropping any lower than that.

If a Big 12 team happens to sneak into the playoff, then slide every team up 1 bowl.
All of this assuming the remainder of the season goes to chalk and ISU beats Baylor and KSU and loses to Texas. And Tech does the same as they have the same remaining 3 opponents.

I agree with all of this. Hopefully we go ahead and win the Big 12 and head to the Sugar Bowl and the bowls can figure everything else out!
 
If I were to place odds on our bowl destination, I would make Camping World the favorite. Having said that, something much better may be in our cards.

The real crime will be if we finish ahead of Texas (especially with a head to head victory), but we then somehow lose out on the Alamo Bowl to them.
 
Getting 2 teams in the New Year’s 6 will be key again to sliding everyone up a slot. Hopefully OU and WVU win out until they play on Black Friday, but losing the NC State game will hurt WVU
 
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