This year’s bowl schedule has just recently been solidified, so Fox Sports thought it was a good time to project this year’s bowl games.
For a more clear look at this year’s bowl schedule, you can click here.
I guess this is what you do in the dead months of the summer.
Fox selects:
* LSU to battle USC for the National Championship
* Virginia Tech to win the ACC Championship and play in the Orange Bowl
* Georgia Tech to go back to the Gator Bowl (which we don’t think is much of an option)
* Miami to play Pitt in Charlotte.
* Maryland to play in the Peach Bowl in a rematch of their last Peach Bowl appearance when the spanked Tennessee.
* East Carolina to earn a 2nd consecutive bowl bid.
You will note that the exercise included a list of “other teams considered” for each bowl selection. NC State wasn’t even considered for a single bowl game by Fox.
While we are talking about bowls, you can click here to see an very interesting review of the television ratings from last year’s bowl games. I think that the performances of some of the bowls will surprise you. The Emerald, Meineke and Champs Sports Bowls of the ACC all performed better than I think many people would have expected. (We would be letting you down if we didn’t link up this entry from last bowl season that makes fun of the ‘turnout’ for the PapaJohns bowl.)
