***Official ISU Bowl Predictions***

[Die4Cy]

I mostly agree with the idea but if you don't think Bowl Committees would favor the teams in the south, you're outta your mind. 75% of the bowl games are in the South East. So it would just give way more accolades to SEC and ACC teams.

I think it would require picks that guarantee the best game possible because the bowl committees need to make money and secure tv ratings to maintain or increase their standing in the draft. What you say might be true at the bottom of the draft, I suppose, where there would be fewer compelling matchups the incentive to get a couple local fan bases in the stadium instead might override. But they risk losing credibility by doing so, like the Humanitarian Bowl does by selecting the home town team 85% of the time.

Overall, I think fan bases at these schools would like more variety in games and locations to attend and this would help achieve that.

 

[JP4CY]

even if they are then they will base the next years ad buys off past performance and it will still favor the big name schools.

Yep I can totally see that side of things too.

 

[cyguytillidie]

We eventually will play Houston in the Houston Bowl now.

I believe we had TCU in Houston back in the mid 2000s.

 

[cyclones500]

This is my annual petition that the bowl game organizers agree to drop their conference affiliations and institute a bowl game draft with selection order determined by game payout.

You would get better match ups, viewers and fan support which is what they say they are all about. Over time there would be more upward pressure on payouts(benefitting conference bottom line) as well as some of the games that have no purpose would naturally wither on the vine.

I could get on board with some version of this.

 

[everyyard]

Most, if not all, of our ******** about playing bowl opponents in their back yard would be solved by winning more.

 

[JP4CY]

I believe we had TCU in Houston back in the mid 2000s.

Yep we did. I went to it.
I felt like every bar in town played the song "King of the Road" on repeat. I was humming trailer for sale a lot on the loooooooong drive back to Iowa.

 

[theshadow]

I believe we had TCU in Houston back in the mid 2000s.

Another ISU bowl game where the SEC didn't supply an opponent.

 

[IASTATE07]

Most, if not all, of our ******** about playing bowl opponents in their back yard would be solved by winning more.

We would probably draw LSU in our first Sugar Bowl.

 

[Gunnerclone]

I guess I assumed most of the TV ads were sold much more in advance of 3ish weeks before the bowl game. I get that Texas would obviously have more TV viewers than ISU but ISU would have a much larger local economic impact in San Antonio

Plus a bunch of the ads in bowl games are chamber of commerce spots. No one in Tampa is trying to get people from Miami to go there as a tourist destination.

 

[AlaCyclone]

The lube makers have a football team?

They won 10 games and beat Penn State on NYD last year; Stoops has quietly built a decent program; he recruits Ohio too like Campbell; this could actually be an important game for recruiting purposes in the Buckeye State.

 

[AlaCyclone]

We would probably draw LSU in our first Sugar Bowl.

I'd take it!

 

[BCClone]

Looking at bowl payouts, big xii probably will make money not the sending someone to cheese it, just over one mil payout. Had to hook up with it to just have a game somewhere besides Texas. I see Boston is getting a bowl game, oh hell no, that would blow. One small notch above Detroit.

 

[Remo Gaggi]

I had a heck of a time at the Liberty Bowl two years ago and would go back in a second. Just like I did in San Antonio last year.

It’s a meaningless exhibition football game - some people put way too much emphasis on them.

I agree. Had a lot of fun in Memphis despite the cold weather. Damn global warming!

 

[NoCreativity]

@jereseib You can dislike my post but it does not mean I am wrong. @cfbmatrix and @cfb_professor on twitter are good follows on how the committee works. They nail it every year. Feel free to give them a follow and hopefully you'll come around on 8 conference games. (8 conference games assumes you want the Big 12 to have the best chance of making the playoff)

I disliked it because it will never happen. There is no way with a 10 team league they are going back to an 8 game schedule. It makes no sense, yeah lets just keep a random team off the schedule every year. I guarantee you it will be a complete disaster.

What happens when we tie for 2nd with a team that beat us during the regular season but didnt have to play Oklahoma? Then we get shutout of playing in the Big 12 championship game? Its bound to happen to some team.

 

[RoseClone]

Most, if not all, of our ******** about playing bowl opponents in their back yard would be solved by whining more.

fixed

 

[NoCreativity]

It’s an interesting take. Didn’t the b10 go to a 9 game conference schedule, thinking it would help them; only to look to go back to 8?

It makes sense for the Big 10 to go back because they have 14 teams. So you are missing 5 teams instead of 4 every year. It makes no sense for the Big 12 to do it with only 10 teams. Cant wait to see the meltdown around here when Iowa State doesnt get to play Kansas one year but everyone else does.

 

[ISUTex]

What would you do in Orlando if you don't go to Disney or Universal Studios? It's basically a swamp in the middle of a pine forest. Honest question. I've been to Orlando twice. Once for Universal and once for Disney. Didn't venture into Orlando much. Wasn't impressed with what I saw.

 

[cycloneG]

What would you do in Orlando if you don't go to Disney or Universal Studios? It's basically a swamp in the middle of a pine forest. Honest question. I've been to Orlando twice. Once for Universal and once for Disney. Didn't venture into Orlando much. Wasn't impressed with what I saw.

https://www.visitorlando.com/en/things-to-do/attractions/besides-theme-parks

 

[Cycsk]

What would you do in Orlando if you don't go to Disney or Universal Studios? It's basically a swamp in the middle of a pine forest. Honest question. I've been to Orlando twice. Once for Universal and once for Disney. Didn't venture into Orlando much. Wasn't impressed with what I saw.

Honest question?

Did you have your eyes closed except when you were on site at Disney and Universal? Or is this just Texas snobbery?

 

[CyGuy5]

What would you do in Orlando if you don't go to Disney or Universal Studios? It's basically a swamp in the middle of a pine forest. Honest question. I've been to Orlando twice. Once for Universal and once for Disney. Didn't venture into Orlando much. Wasn't impressed with what I saw.

On the bright side, I don't think we are going to have to worry about Orlando because we pretty much played ourselves out of it