Most likely bowl for Va Tech?

[dshreeves 37]

I'm thinking Music City?

[Deleted Account 5,203]

I'm thinking Music City?

 

Yep.

[HurricaneWarning 212]

I'm thinking Music City?

 

Against what SEC team?

[dshreeves 37]

Against what SEC team?

Vanderbilt most likely. Ole Miss a possibility also.

[Ryan4VT 4,557]

All of the experts I've seen have a VT-USC Sun Bowl.

[techfan 43]

Hearing some buzz for the Russell Athletic Bowl in Orlando. They get 3rd choice out of ACC.

[legend11 32]

Hearing some buzz for the Russell Athletic Bowl in Orlando. They get 3rd choice out of ACC.

Yeah, I've seen that too. Also the Belk Bowl, which I know nothing about. Is that in Charlotte? What choice do they get?

[Ryan4VT 4,557]

Yeah, I've seen that too. Also the Belk Bowl, which I know nothing about. Is that in Charlotte? What choice do they get?

 

Used to be the Car Care Bowl. It's in Charlotte. ACC 5 vs Big East 3.

[EH31 2,532]

The Gino's pizza/Tudors biscuit world bowl at Mitchell Stadium against WVU

[GMan 3,569]

The Gino's pizza/Tudors biscuit world bowl at Mitchell Stadium against WVU

 

We have neither of those restaurants in Bluefield...pretty sure they have both of those in Athens, should move the game to Callaghan Stadium on the lovely campus of Concord U.

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Hearing some buzz for the Russell Athletic Bowl in Orlando. They get 3rd choice out of ACC.

 

Especially now since NCST fired O'Brien. Dumbest coaching move since about 3:15 PM yesterday.

[Hacker 82]

Especially now since NCST fired O'Brien. Dumbest coaching move since about 3:15 PM yesterday.

 

Debbie Yow, Nuf said. Look at what she did @ MD before she left.

[legend11 32]

Here is Andy Bitter's write up about VT's possible bowl: http://www.roanoke.com/sports/vtfootball/wb/317208

 

BLACKSBURG - For the first time since joining the ACC, Virginia Tech won't be going to one of the league's top two bowl games.

 

But in a muddled bowl picture, just where the Hokies will end up is anybody's guess at this point.

 

Virginia Tech, which qualified for a bowl for a 20th straight season with a 17-14 win over rival Virginia on Saturday, could end up in one of four different bowls this postseason.

 

In order of selection, they are: the Russell Athletic Bowl in Orlando, Fla.; the Sun Bowl in El Paso, Texas; the Belk Bowl in Charlotte, N.C.; and the Music City Bowl in Nashville, Tenn.

 

With Miami and North Carolina ineligible for the postseason, Virginia Tech will be considered with a cluster of ACC teams that include N.C. State (7-5), Duke (6-6) and possibly Georgia Tech (6-6).

 

Although the Hokies finished .500, their worst record since 1992, they could be an attractive option for the Russell Athletic Bowl (formerly the Champs Sports Bowl), which picks after the Orange and Chick-fil-A.

 

Virginia Tech has never played in the bowl, which has been in Orlando since 2001, always finishing slightly above it in the selection process since joining the ACC.

 

N.C. State, which is the only bowl eligible ACC team other than Florida State and Clemson with a winning record, figures to be an option, although it's unclear if coach Tom O'Brien's firing Sunday will have any effect on the team's postseason attractiveness.

 

The Wolfpack have also played in the bowl five times in the game's 22-year history, including as recently as two years ago, when it beat West Virginia 23-7.

 

Complicating the issue is Georgia Tech's status. The Yellow Jackets will play in the ACC championship game Saturday against Florida State only because Miami self-imposed a postseason ban and removed itself from consideration to represent the Coastal Division.

 

The Yellow Jackets, who are 14-point underdogs to the Seminoles, would fall below .500 with a loss. The NCAA postseason handbook states that teams are required to have as many wins as losses to be bowl eligible.

 

Last season, UCLA was granted a waiver to play in a bowl with a 6-7 record after losing the Pac-12 title game to Oregon. But the NCAA's Board of Directors specifically addressed that scenario in August, outlining a selection protocol that created a pecking order of pools of teams to be chosen for a bowl should there not be enough eligible schools.

 

Conference champions who finished 6-7 are on that list, but that's only if there aren't enough bowl-eligible teams. Right now, there are 70 eligible teams for 70 slots in 35 bowls, which could create a BCS-or-bust scenario for the Yellow Jackets.

 

ACC officials confirmed that Georgia Tech has filed a waiver to be bowl eligible in the event of a loss in the league title game, although no one seems quite certain how the NCAA will rule now that the scenario is written explicitly into the rules. It's unclear if the ACC's contractual agreements with certain bowls will play into that decision.

 

If the Yellow Jackets lose the championship game but are considered bowl eligible, the ACC has a rule stating the title game loser can't fall below the Sun Bowl in the selection process. Georgia Tech played in the Sun Bowl last year.

 

How exactly the NCAA interprets the Yellow Jackets' postseason fate could play a large role in where the Hokies go. If the Russell Athletic Bowl chooses N.C. State and the Sun Bowl is required to take Georgia Tech, Virginia Tech would be pushed down to either the Belk or Music City bowls.

 

Duke, which will play in the postseason for the first time since the 1994 season, figures to be an attractive option for the Belk Bowl in Charlotte because of proximity.

 

Of course, a wrench could be thrown into all postseason plans should Georgia Tech upset Florida State in the ACC title game, sending a ripple down the entire bowl chain. The Yellow Jackets would go to the Orange Bowl, the Chick-fil-A would chose between Clemson and Florida State and the Russell Athletic Bowl would take the team the Chick-fil-A passes on.

 

Because of that possibility, Virginia Tech won't likely know its postseason destination until the dust settles from the ACC championship game this Saturday.