ACC Bowl Projections: 11-teams
The Confidential has been saying for weeks now that the ACC had a great chance of getting 11 bowl-eligible teams and detailed the scenarios needed to make it happen. I’m very proud to report that the scenarios we projected occurred almost exactly to plan.
The good news is that, thanks to Syracuse’s win over Boston College to close out their regular season, the Orange are now 6-6 and are bowl eligible for the second consecutive year. Furthermore, the ACC can now boast that they have 11 teams that are eligible for post-season play. That’s a record for the Conference and matches the SEC’s best.
The bad news is that thanks to Clemson’s complete meltdown on National TV against their in-state rivals, the ACC is likely to only have 1 representative in the BCS. Granted that one representative will likely be Florida State in the National Championship Game, but losing out on a 2nd BCS team not only means lost revenue (approx. $18M) but also makes it more difficult to find bowl sites for the remaining 9 bowl eligible teams.
Worst of all, that means that there is a good chance that at least one bowl-eligible team from a Power Conference will not be invited to a bowl game this year. Currently Syracuse, Pittsburgh, and North Carolina are all on the bubble.
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Until the Conference Championship Games are played-out, and the final BCS standings are released, it is very much a crap-shoot trying to figure out who will play where.
However, the following are some Bowl Projections that may occur in order to get all 11 bowl eligible ACC teams into post season play:
Bowl Eligible:
- Florida State (12-0)
- Duke (10-2)
- Clemson (10-2)
- Miami (9-3)
- Virginia Tech (8-4)
- Georgia Tech (7-5)
- Boston College (7-5)
- Maryland (7-5)
- North Carolina (6-6)
- Pittsburgh (6-6)
- Syracuse (6-6)
Eliminated:
- Wake Forest (4-8)
- North Carolina St. (3-9)
- Virginia (2-10)
Bowl Projections:
- BCS Title Game (Pasadena, CA) – Florida State vs. Oho State
- Chick-fil-A Bowl (Atlanta, GA) – Duke vs. Georgia
- Russell Athletic Bowl (Orlando, FL) – Miami vs. Louisville
- Hyundai Sun Bowl (El Paso, TX) – Clemson vs. UCLA
- Belk Bowl (Charlotte, NC) – Virginia Tech vs. Cincinnati
- Music City Bowl (Nashville, TN) – Georgia Tech vs. Vanderbilt
- AdvoCare V100 Bowl (Shreveport, LA) – North Carolina vs. Washington State (from SEC)
- Military Bowl (Annapolis, MD) – Maryland vs. Middle Tennessee
- Texas Bowl (Houston, TX) – Boston College (From Big XII) vs. Michigan
- Beef O’ Brady’s (St. Pete’s, FL) – Pittsburgh (from American) vs. North Texas
- Little Caesar’s Pizza Bowl (Detroit, MI) – Syracuse (from B1G) vs. Bowling Green
Pinstripe Bowl (New York, NY) – Notre Dame (from Big XII) vs. Rutgers
Russell Athletic Bowl (Orlando, FL) – Louisville (American Athletic Conf.) vs. Miami
Week 11 Projections
Week 12 Projections
Week 13 Projections
UPDATE: A full list of the projected bowl games:
| SCHEDULE | |||
| GAME | DATE | PRIMARY | PAIRINGS |
| SITE | TIME | CHOICES | |
| PER TEAM PAY-OUT | TV | (as of 6/8/13) | |
| New Mexico | 12/21/2013 | MWC #4 | San Diego State |
| Albuquerque, NM | 2:00pm | vs. | vs. |
| $456,250 | ESPN | PAC-12 #7 | Arizona |
| Las Vegas Bowl | 12/21/2013 | MWC #1 | Fresno State |
| Las Vegas, NV | 3:30pm | vs. | vs. |
| $1,100,000 | ABC | PAC-12 #5 | USC |
| Famous Idaho Potato | 12/21/2013 | MWC #6 | Colorado State |
| Boise, ID | 5:30pm | vs. | vs. |
| $325,000 | ESPN | MAC #3 | Buffalo |
| New Orleans | 12/21/2013 | Sun Belt #1 | Louisiana-Lafayette (8-3) |
| New Orleans, LA | 9:00pm | vs. | vs. |
| $500,000 | ESPN | CUSA #7 | Tulane |
| Beef ‘O’ Brady’s | 12/23/2013 | American #6 | Pittsburgh (at large) |
| St. Petersburg, FL | 2:00pm | vs. | vs. |
| $537,500 | ESPN | CUSA #5 | North Texas |
| Hawai’i | 12/24/2013 | *-Hawaii or MWC #5 | San Jose State |
| Honolulu, HI | 8:00pm | vs. | vs. |
| $650,000 | ESPN | CUSA #2 | Rice |
| Little Caesars Pizza | 12/26/2013 | MAC #2 | Bowling Green |
| Detroit, MI | 6:00pm | vs. | vs. |
| $750,000 | ESPN | Big 10 #8 | Syracuse (at large) |
| Poinsettia | 12/26/2013 | MWC #2 | Utah State |
| San Diego, CA | 9:30pm | vs. | vs. |
| $500,000 | ESPN | *-Army | Oregon State (at large) |
| Military Bowl | 12/27/2013 | ACC #8 | Maryland |
| Washington, DC | 2:30pm | vs. | vs. |
| $1,000,000 | ESPN | CUSA #6 or MAC | Middle Tennesse |
| Texas-(1) | 12/27/2013 | Big 10 #6 | Michigan |
| Houston, TX | 6:00pm | vs. | vs. |
| $1,700,000 | ESPN | Big 12 #6 | Boston College (at large) |
| Fight Hunger Bowl-(3) | 12/27/2013 | PAC-12 #6 | UCLA |
| San Francisco, CA | 9:30pm | vs. | vs. |
| $837,500 | ESPN | *-BYU or ACC #9 | BYU (8-4) |
| Pinstripe | 12/28/2013 | American #4 | Houston |
| Bronx, NY | 12:15pm | vs. | vs. |
| $1,800,000 | ESPN | Big 12 #7 | Notre Dame (at large) |
| Belk | 12/28/2013 | American #3 | Cincinnati |
| Charlotte, NC | 3:20pm | vs. | vs. |
| $1,700,000 | ESPN | ACC #5 | Virginia Tech |
| Russell Athletic | 12/28/2013 | American #2 | Louisville |
| Orlando, FL | 6:45pm | vs. | vs. |
| $2,275,000 | ESPN | ACC #3 | Miami |
| Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl | 12/28/2013 | Big 12 #4 | Kansas St. |
| Tempe, AZ | 10:15pm | vs. | vs. |
| $3,325,000 | ESPN | Big 10 #5 | Minnesota |
| Armed Forces | 12/30/2013 | MWC #3 | Boise St. |
| Ft. Worth, TX | 11:45am | vs. | vs. |
| $600,000 | ESPN | *-Navy or CUSA #3 | Navy (7-4) |
| Music City | 12/30/2013 | ACC #6 | Georgia Tech |
| Nashville, TN | 3:15pm | vs. | vs. |
| $1,862,500 | ESPN | SEC #7 | Vanderbilt |
| Alamo | 12/30/2013 | Big 12 #3 | Oklahoma |
| San Antonio, TX | 6:45pm | vs. | vs. |
| $3,175,000 | ESPN | PAC-12 #2 | Arizona State |
| Holiday | 12/30/2013 | Big 12 #5 | Texas Tech |
| San Diego, CA | 10:15pm | vs. | vs. |
| $2,075,000 | ESPN | PAC-12 #3 | Oregon |
| AdvoCare V100 Bowl-(2) | 12/31/2013 | SEC #10 | Washington State (at large) |
| Shreveport, LA | 12:30pm | vs. | vs. |
| $1,150,000 | ESPN | ACC #7 | North Carolina |
| Sun | 12/31/2013 | ACC #4 | Clemson |
| El Paso, TX | 2:00pm | vs. | vs. |
| $2,000,000 | CBS | PAC-12 #4 | UCLA |
| Liberty | 12/31/2013 | SEC #8 or #9 | Ole Miss |
| Memphis, TN | 4:00pm | vs. | vs. |
| $1,437,500 | ESPN | CUSA #1 | Marshall |
| Chick-fil-A | 12/31/2013 | ACC #2 | Duke |
| Atlanta, GA | 8:00pm | vs. | vs. |
| $3,967,500 ACC; $2,932,500 SEC | ESPN | SEC #5 | Georgia |
| Heart Of Dallas | 1/1/2014 | CUSA #4 | East Carolina |
| Dallas, TX | 12:00pm | vs. | vs. |
| $1,100,000 | ESPN-U | Big 10 #7 | UNLV (at large) |
| Gator | 1/1/2014 | Big 10 #4 | Nebraska |
| Jacksonville, FL | 12:00pm | vs. | vs. |
| $2,725,000 | ESPN-2 | SEC #6 | Texas A&M |
| Outback | 1/1/2014 | ^-SEC #3, or #4 | South Carolina |
| Tampa, FL | 1:00pm | vs. | vs. |
| $3,500,000 | ABC | Big 10 #3 | Iowa |
| Capital One | 1/1/2014 | Big 10 #2 | Wisconsin |
| Orlando, FL | 1:00pm | vs. | vs. |
| $4,250,000 | ESPN | SEC #2 | Missouri |
| Rose | 1/1/2014 | BCS (Big 10 tie-in) | Michigan State |
| Pasadena, CA | 5:10pm | vs. | vs. |
| $18,000,000 | ESPN | BCS (PAC-12 tie-in) | Stanford |
| Fiesta | 1/1/2014 | BCS | Northern Illinois |
| Glendale, AZ | 8:30pm | vs. | vs. |
| $18,000,000 | ESPN | BCS (Big 12 tie-in) | Oklahoma St. |
| Sugar | 1/2/2014 | BCS | Baylor |
| New Orleans, LA | 8:30pm | vs. | vs. |
| $18,000,000 | ESPN | BCS (SEC tie-in) | Auburn |
| Cotton | 1/3/2014 | ^-SEC #3 or #4 | LSU |
| Arlington, TX | 8 :00pm | vs. | vs. |
| $3,625,000 | Fox | Big 12 #2 | Texas |
| Orange | 1/3/2014 | BCS | UCF |
| Miami, FL | 8:30pm | vs. | vs. |
| $18,000,000 | ESPN | BCS (ACC tie-in) | Alabama |
| BBVA Compass Bowl | 1/4/2014 | American #5 | Rutgers |
| Birmingham, AL | 1:00pm | vs. | vs. |
| $1,000,025 SEC; $900,000 AAC | ESPN | SEC #8 or #9 | Mississippi State |
| GoDaddy.com | 1/5/2014 | Sun Belt #2 | Arkansas State |
| Mobile, AL | 9:00pm | vs. | vs. |
| $750,000 | ESPN | MAC #1 | Ball State |
| BCS Championship | 1/6/2014 | BCS #1 | Florida State |
| Pasadena, CA | 8:20pm | vs. | vs. |
| $22,000,000 | ESPN | BCS #2 | Ohio State |
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