2012 Bowls

[longhorn99]

Here are the latest and final projection by ESPN:

Gildan New Mexico Bowl: Arizona vs. Nevada
Famous Idaho Potato Bowl: Ball State vs. Utah State
San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl: BYU vs. San Diego State
Beef 'O' Brady's St. Petersburg Bowl: UCF vs. Bowling Green
R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl: East Carolina vs. Louisiana-Lafayette
MAACO Las Vegas Bowl: Washington vs. Boise State
Sheraton Hawaii Bowl: SMU vs. Fresno State
Little Caesars Pizza Bowl: Toledo vs. Middle Tennessee State
Military Bowl Presented By Northrop Grumman: Ohio vs. San Jose State
Belk Bowl: Duke vs. Cincinnati
Bridgepoint Education Holiday Bowl: UCLA vs. TCU
AdvoCare V100 Independence Bowl: Iowa State vs. Louisiana-Monroe
Russell Athletic Bowl: Virginia Tech vs. Rutgers
Meineke Car Care of Texas Bowl: Baylor vs. Minnesota
Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl: Rice vs. Air Force
New Era Pinstripe Bowl: West Virginia vs. Pittsburgh
Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl: Arizona State vs. Navy
Valero Alamo Bowl: Texas vs. Oregon State
Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl: Michigan State vs. Oklahoma State
Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl: NC State vs. Vanderbilt
Hyundai Sun: Georgia Tech vs. USC
AutoZone Liberty Bowl: Tulsa vs. Louisiana Tech
Chick-fil-A Bowl: LSU vs. Clemson
TaxSlayer.com Gator Bowl: Northwestern vs. Mississippi State
Heart of Dallas Bowl: Texas Tech vs. Purdue
Outback Bowl: Michigan vs. South Carolina
Capital One Bowl: Nebraska vs. Georgia
Rose Bowl Game presented by VIZIO: Wisconsin vs. Stanford
Discover Orange Bowl: FSU vs. Northern Illinois
Allstate Sugar Bowl: Louisville vs. Florida
Tostitos Fiesta Bowl: Kansas State vs. Oregon
AT&T Cotton Bowl: Texas A&M vs. Oklahoma
BBVA Compass Bowl: Syracuse vs. Ole Miss
GoDaddy.com Bowl: Kent State vs. Arkansas State
Discover BCS National Championship Game: Alabama vs. Notre Dame

espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/8701557/2012-13-bowl-projections

[Mohawk]

Hard to believe OU got screwed out of a BCS bowl after all. NIU should have lost to Kansas this year. The Jayhawks were ahead the whole game until a very late turnover. If NIU played in the Big 12, I doubt they would have been bowl eligible at all.

[lynchmob42]

Screw you, jay hawks for messing up the whole bowl season. Honestly, it is the fault of the human voters. Florida/OU and FSU/Louisville would have been so much better than whatbthe BCS ended up being. Still, the Fiesta and Cotton will be some of the best match ups of the bowl season.

[architechguy]

Teams like NIU making it to the BCS are reasons why I hope we get four 16-team super conferences. The FBS subdivision needs to split in half again. The 60-70 teams that comprise the BCS conferences need to establish a new division. They are the teams the marketplace has centered upon, they're the teams people want to watch, they're the ones with the athletic budgets to compete. No disrespect to NIU, they play good football and are a deserving team, but they're not playing with the same deck of cards. People are not tuning into these games to watch them, that's just a fact. I'm not saying it's fair, I'm saying it's true.

Lastly, thank the football gods that Georgia Tech's last second rally against Florida State fell short, or else we'd have the heinous Orange Bowl matchup of a 7-6 Georgia Tech, 3rd place in the ACC Coastal, playing against Northern Illinois.

[architechguy]

This will make you feel good... NIU is contractually required to buy 17,500 tickets to the Orange Bowl, but their average home attendance on the season was only 15K and some change. They might have 1000 people at that game... total! Half of that will be their marching band!

[cynicalpuppet]

The actual bowl game lineups...

Bridgepoint Education Holiday
Baylor vs. UCLA

Meineke Car Care of Texas
Minnesota vs. Texas Tech

New Era Pinstripe
West Virginia vs. Syracuse

Valero Alamo
Texas vs. Oregon State

Buffalo Wild Wings
TCU vs. Michigan State

AutoZone Liberty
Iowa State vs. Tulsa

Heart of Dallas
Purdue vs. Oklahoma State

Tostitos Fiesta
Oregon vs. Kansas State

AT&T Cotton
Texas A&M vs. Oklahoma

[longhorn99]

Bowl payouts per team according to: www.collegefootballpoll.com/bowl_games_bowl_schedule.html

Bridgepoint Education Holiday
Baylor vs. UCLA
$2,075,000

Meineke Car Care of Texas
Minnesota vs. Texas Tech
$1,700,000

New Era Pinstripe
West Virginia vs. Syracuse
$1,800,000

Valero Alamo
Texas vs. Oregon State
$3,175,000

Buffalo Wild Wings
TCU vs. Michigan State
$3,350,000

AutoZone Liberty
Iowa State vs. Tulsa
$1,437,500

Heart of Dallas
Purdue vs. Oklahoma State
$1,100,000

Tostitos Fiesta
Oregon vs. Kansas State
$17,000,000

AT&T Cotton
Texas A&M vs. Oklahoma
$3,625,000

[tetonhawk]

$17,000,000 million not going into the Big 12 (OU) is a big hit.

[architechguy]

I don't think the at-large teams in the BCS get the full BCS payout, only the conference champ gets the full amount. Teams like Notre Dame, and the non-guaranteed qualifiers like NIU get something in the 4-5 million range. I'm pretty sure that's what the SEC and Pac 12 will get for Florida and Oregon. So it's about a $3 million difference or so between that game, and the last bowl in our lineup (Liberty Bowl) where we wouldn't have a team playing if not for the snub.

[lynchmob42]

Dec 4, 2012 13:03:14 GMT -5 tetonhawk said:

$17,000,000 million not going into the Big 12 (OU) is a big hit.

Screw your Jayhawks for helping the Big 12 miss out on that revenue.

Like I said before, the blame really lies with voters who put NIU that high. Their only win against an AQ-conference team was awful Kansas.