ACC Bowl Projections: Here Come The Dookies!
…now, improbably, it’s the Duke Blue Devils who are on track to earn the berth opposite Florida State in the ACC Championship Game.
…now, improbably, it’s the Duke Blue Devils who are on track to earn the berth opposite Florida State in the ACC Championship Game.
The race for the Big Ten championship has been taking shape for a few weeks now, as Michigan State took steady hold of the race for the Legends Division title and began to look like a worthy sparring partner for Ohio State when the league crown is settled in Indianapolis on December 7. After Saturday, the Spartans’ steady hold on the division became a chokehold.
… it’s time to focus in more specifically on SEC bowl projections, and the team that lived through the most fluctuation–both in their own game, and with their fortunes in the Auburn-Georgia game–was the South Carolina Gamecocks.
As things stand right now, both Fresno State and Northern Illinois are alive to be a BCS-buster and get a guaranteed slot in one of the major bowls.
Let’s take a look at each team’s chances of doing so, and begin by laying the groundwork. There are two ways that a team from the midmajors can be a BCS-buster. The first is to be ranked in the top 12. The second is to be ranked in the top 16, but ahead of at least one automatic-qualifying conference champion.
Two of the results from college football Week 12 tweaked and reshuffled TheSportsNotebook’s BCS bowl projections, but the biggest result was the one that had no impact in the end, and it was Auburn’s stunning 43-38 win over Georgia.
Week 9 of the college football season is in the books and that means it’s time for updated BCS bowl projections. The most notable developments this week were as follows…
TheSportsNotebook’s college football coverage has been doing BCS bowl projections all year, and now have something substantive to go on. The first edition of the official BCS rankings are out
…there’s angling for possible at-large spots to the BCS, to good New Year’s Day bowl games and to bowl eligibility itself. TheSportsNotebook’s college football coverage will touch on some key overview points and then make some Big Ten bowl projections.
As we update the BCS bowl projections following the results of Week 7 it seems that both nothing has changed and that everything has changed. The actual matchups that are projected have changed very little, but the landscape has changed dramatically in a way that seems poised to eventually seep up to the surface. The four most notable developments would be the following…
Let’s take a brief look at the landscape in the nation’s top conference and then make some SEC bowl projections…
TheSportsNotebook’s BCS bowl projections have been impacted by the narrow escapes of Saturday, none of which ended in upsets, but a couple of which required a re-evaluation at the top of the Pac-12.
We haven’t seen anyone clearly emerge as a candidate to be a BCS-buster on the major bowl scene, but with their 41-40 win over Boise on Friday night, Fresno has emerged as a team likely to get on the national radar between now and November.