Originally posted by PushupMan:
Originally posted by BOHICA_:
Originally posted by PushupMan:
Notre Dame, Louisville, Boston College, and Duke were in the pool for the ACC's "tier one" bowl games - the Music City, Belk, Sun, and Pinstripe Bowls. Those four bowl games all wanted Notre Dame, so they held a lottery, and the Music City Bowl won that lottery.
So at the end of the day, LSU had no say over who the ACC sent to the Music City Bowl.
Wait the Music City Bowl is a "tier one" bowl for the ACC? I thought it was a garbage bowl that no one cared about? Isn't that what you said when we went to 3 "Banjo Bowls" as you guys like to call them? Funny that your "tier one" teams play "middle of the pack" SEC teams is said bowl. Now that you guys are in the ACC it's a great bowl. I get it.
Well, if we want to get into the whole "Banjo" bowl debate, I seem to recall UK fans making fun of UofL's multiple appearances in the Liberty Bowl from 2000-2004. We were just giving UK fans back some of that love you showed us when we were winning C-USA championships.
Tier One doesn't really mean that it's not a "garbage bowl". In order to explain "Tier One", you have to understand that ACC's Bowl agreements:
1. College Football Playoff (if qualified)
2. Orange Bowl (conference champion if not in the CFP or conference #2)
3. (conditional) Citrus Bowl (if Big Ten team selected to play in the Orange Bowl)
4. Russell Athletic Bowl
5-8. Tier One: Music City (or Gator, in alternating years), Sun, Pinstripe, and Belk Bowls
9-11. Tier Two: Military, Advocare V100, and Detroit Lions Bowls
12. St. Petersburg (BitCoin) Bowl (in 2014, 2016 and 2018)
13. (conditional) Birmingham Bowl (if ACC team is available and primary partners cannot provide a team)
So what you can see from this is that "tier one" means middle of the pack with regards to ACC bowl games. That's essentially the same level it was back when UK was going to the game.