Comments on: Report: GT will receive bowl waiver if it loses ACC championship game

By: bigbuckeye76

bigbuckeye76 — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 04:27:34 +0000

FYI, rumor has it GT’s board has approved a move to the B1G..

By: abrellbama

abrellbama — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 01:19:34 +0000

I would much rather watch Georgia Tech in a bowl game than Ohio, Bowling Green, Ball State, etc. And how can you leave a division winner of an AQ school out of a bowl over a MAC team? You don’t even play the same caliber teams and if you had, you would lose just like Kent State in 2011 against Alabama losing 48-7.

By: scalpemseminoles

scalpemseminoles — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 01:05:36 +0000

I hate being in the acc. Can we get two ranked teams in our championship? The MAC can do it why can’t we

By: gatorprof

gatorprof — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 21:24:33 +0000

It shouldn’t, they and the ACC suck.

By: axltcu

axltcu — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 17:01:09 +0000

Imagine if they somehow pull off an upset. We will have a 7-6 team in the Orange Bowl.

By: salmon88

salmon88 — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 16:34:09 +0000

The real problem is the political correctness of this mess. It is like every kid getting a trophy. I thought that we were teaching these kids life lessons, that in order to get to the top one has to excel at his/her job. Going to a bowl with a 7-5 record is a joke much less a 6-7. IT is time to draw a line in the sand and stop this bowl scenario. No watches or cares about many of the bowls. The pundits will tell you it’s a reward. Ask the players, who wants to go to the Grease Bowl in Nowhere USA and have to practice for an extra two weeks? It is all about easy programming for ESPN and the bookies, the kids are the ones that get shortchanged. After the new 4 team playoff there should be no more than 6-8 bowl and make it a real reward and honor, not just the last girl asked to the dance.

By: deadeye

deadeye — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 08:38:08 +0000

A long time ago getting a bowl bid was a big deal. Now we have sub-500 teams going to bowls. This system makes no sense.

By: jkaflagg

jkaflagg — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 05:45:34 +0000

UCLA was granted a similar waiver last year for the PAC 12 Title game as USC was ineligible…..

By: normtide

normtide — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 04:13:26 +0000

GT has a nice fan following, so more attractive to a bowl, and more eyes on tv. $ talks

By: dmcgrann

dmcgrann — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 04:06:40 +0000

APR=Academic Progress Rate. If you have a higher APR than the next school in the pool, you go to a bowl. Before UVA and VT played last week, it was possible that, if UVA beat VT, both teams could be bowl-eligible with less than six wins, because their APRs were fairly high. Since VT beat UVA and apparently, according to Ben, there will be more bowl-eligible teams than bowls (when did that happen last in the current setup), it really doesn’t matter, anyway.

By: thefiesty1

thefiesty1 — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 04:02:29 +0000

So let them go to the Fight Hunger Podunk bowl that nobody cares about or will watch on TV.

By: jimbo75025

jimbo75025 — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 03:39:55 +0000

Sixth pool: Any top 5 APR team with a 5-7 record.

Forgive my stupidity, but what is APR in the context of these selection exemptions?