possible bowl destinations

[BGRed]

Doing some holiday travel planning and started to consider whether to follow the Huskers to a warm weather destination. I'm thinking we could use this thread to link in various publication predictions.

Big Ten Bowl Lineup:
National Title Game (Miami)
Rose Bowl (Pasadena)
BCS At-large (Phoenix, New Orleans, Miami)
Capital One (Orlando)
Outback (Tampa)
Gator (Jacksonville)
Buffalo Wild Wings (former Valley of the Sun, (formerly Insight)) (Phoenix)
Meineke Car Care Bowl of Texas (Houston)
Ticket City (Dallas)
Little Caesar's (Detroit)

Gator and "Valley of the Sun" are both listed as #4/#5; so, I am not sure which picks first this year.

[BGRed]

http://www.athlonsports.com/college-...ojections-2012

Fiesta Bowl vs. Oklahoma

[BGRed]

http://cfn.scout.com/2/1169807.html

Outback vs. Arkansas

This would fit nicely with where I'd like to be for the holidays...

[DuckTownHusker]

I highly doubt we'll make the National Championship and the Rose Bowl seems like a bit of a long shot. I think that we aim for a BCS Bowl, perhaps a Fiesta berth against the Big 12 Champs.

Truthfully, I would be thrilled with either a Big Ten crown or a BCS at-Large berth. Either shows that Nebraska is relevant again and surely a Top 10 team in the nation.

[husker6]

It would be nice if it was the Gator Bowl. My daughters high school band is playing there this year

[jmatlock]

I say the Rose bowl vs Pasadena

[BubbaGene]

I say the Rose bowl vs Pasadena

That's right. We're in the BIG now. It's Rose Bowl or bust baby!

[DuckTownHusker]

Statistically, Nebraska has (at worst) a 10% chance to get to a BCS Bowl. With Ohio State and Penn State on probation, they'll be ineligible to represent the Big Ten in the Rose Bowl. From that fact alone, we're one of 10 teams in the conference who could win and get the auto-bid to Pasadena.

Going up from there, it's probably safe to assume that Minnesota, Northwestern, Indiana and Purdue are not going to win the conference. Obviously an upset can occur, but the chances seem remote. This drops Nebraska's odds to 1 in 6.

It's impossible to predict the At-Large berths for the BCS Bowls, but making another assumption - that the Big Ten gets TWO BCS teams like last year - Nebraska's chances double from 1:6 to 2:6, or 33%.

I'm not banking on conference picking up an At-Large bid to the Orange, Fiesta or Sugar, but it is possible. And like Michigan proved last year, it's better to be the "best team that DIDN'T make your CCG," than to actually lose the Championship Game. Michigan State fell several slots after losing to Wisconsin.

So at this point, it's virtually a lock that Wisconsin wins the Leaders. Nebraska thus has two great options - win the division outright for a shot at the CCG and possible Rose Bowl, or we can finish 2nd in the Legends Division (behind UM or MSU) and win an At-Large bid.

Legends	Leaders
One Michigan	Wisconsin
Nebraska	Ohio State*
The Other Michigan	Penn State*

In Scenario A, U(M)SU beats Wisconsin. The Badgers fall prey to the same fate as the Spartans did last year. Nebraska is the #2 team in the conference and likely gets a bid. In Scenario B, U(M)SU loses to Wisconsin. Same end result for the Huskers. Bucky goes to Pasadena and the Paul Bunyan schools fall beneath NU in the overall "perception" of the Bowl Pickers.

Because of the scandal and fall out in the Leaders division, Nebraska has an amazing shot at a BCS Bowl this year. Simply finish in the Top 2 of our division and we're virtually a lock.

Again, that assumes that the B1G gets two BCS bids, but with 10 total slots open (including the Nat. Title), it would seem pretty likely that we could lock up two of them.

[Bearkat Husker]

...finish #2 with no more than 2 losses

[all4bigred]

http://www.athlonsports.com/college-...ojections-2012

Fiesta Bowl vs. Oklahoma

I'll take this one. It would be great to see us play OU. From a selfish perspective I would really like this one since I already have tickets.

[Bearkat Husker]

OU would always be a great game to play, but I'd love to see Neb play Alabama or Notre Dame or So Cal again sometime in the next 5 yrs. That would mean ND would have to get alot better....

[Husker Country Doc]

OU would always be a great game to play, but I'd love to see Neb play Alabama or Notre Dame or So Cal again sometime in the next 5 yrs. That would mean ND would have to get alot better....

No it doesn't. Because of ND's great following, Bowls always pick them higher than they should be. Thus, they are frequently overmatched in bowl games.

[BGRed]

http://www.philsteele.com/bowls/12-1...ojections.html

Nebraska vs. Florida - Outback Bowl

Wisconsin = Rose
Michigan State = Sugar as BCS at-large

Florida State vs. Oklahoma = National Championship

[Greatest Fan of All]

Statistically, Nebraska has (at worst) a 10% chance to get to a BCS Bowl. With Ohio State and Penn State on probation, they'll be ineligible to represent the Big Ten in the Rose Bowl. From that fact alone, we're one of 10 teams in the conference who could win and get the auto-bid to Pasadena.
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Think there's any chance we could get Michigan, Wisconsin and Michigan State on probation? That would make it a coin flip.

[DuckTownHusker]

Think there's any chance we could get Michigan, Wisconsin and Michigan State on probation? That would make it a coin flip.

I actually laughed out loud on that one.

Pretty sure we could induce heart attacks in Dantonio and Hoke, though.

[BGRed]

Jerry Palm of CBS - via BTN.com (dated August 1st):
http://btn.com/2012/08/01/jerry-palm...l-projections/

Here’s Palm’s entire Big Ten bowl list:
Rose Bowl: Michigan vs. Oregon
Fiesta Bowl: Wisconsin vs. Oklahoma
Outback Bowl: Nebraska vs. Florida
Gator Bowl: Iowa vs. Mississippi State
Capital One Bowl: Michigan State vs. Georgia
TicketCity Bowl: Purdue vs. Toledo
Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl: Illinois vs. TCU
Meineke Car Car of Texas Bowl: Northwestern vs. Baylor

[Bluto]

The Little Ceasar Bowl in Detroit?

A questionable pizza in a failed city in the middle of winter.

I can't wait.

[johnhoie]

Doing some holiday travel planning and started to consider whether to follow the Huskers to a warm weather destination. I'm thinking we could use this thread to link in various publication predictions.

Big Ten Bowl Lineup:
National Title Game (Miami)
Rose Bowl (Pasadena)
BCS At-large (Phoenix, New Orleans, Miami)
Capital One (Orlando)
Outback (Tampa)
Gator (Jacksonville)
Buffalo Wild Wings (former Valley of the Sun, (formerly Insight)) (Phoenix)
Meineke Car Care Bowl of Texas (Houston)
Ticket City (Dallas)
Little Caesar's (Detroit)

Gator and "Valley of the Sun" are both listed as #4/#5; so, I am not sure which picks first this year.

Outback -- the team could visit Tyler Moore.

[BGRed]

And, an update from Stewart Mandel on CNNSI.COM.


Jan. 1 Outback: Nebraska (Big Ten No. 3) vs. South Carolina (SEC)

[BGRed]

http://www.athlonsports.com/college-...ojections-2012

Fiesta Bowl vs. Oklahoma

At least one CNNSI writer agrees:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/201...&sct=hp_t12_a0