02-18-2013, 01:12 PM
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Originally Posted by WESGATORS
Apples and oranges:
- Sugar Bowl is an exhibition game played after the regular season is complete. Bowl games outside the championship game are the NIT of college football
- A conference championship is the one thing that you can play for and win without having to have the assistance of the voters
- The face value for a post-season exhibition game vs. a regular season championship game
- Nobody's wearing a "non-national-championship bowl game" championship ring, but you bet your tail they'll be wearing a conference championship ring (at least in the SEC they will be)
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I hear the same thing from ex players. I wonder if there are any ex or current players on this board that can confirm or refute this.
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02-19-2013, 08:48 AM
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Sign of the times. Years ago Florida fans showed up in great numbers for "ALL" games not just games of greater impact. Now with the upcoming national championship series
the bowl games have been made second tier and that is not a good thing for college football. Those who insisted on a true NC game have inadvertantly hurt the game. Going to any of the major bowls (Orange,Sugar, Rose, Cotton &even the Gator Bowl) used to be a great thing for fans but like the age of today it's a disappointment and that's too bad.
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02-19-2013, 09:21 AM
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Well, that combined with the fact that anything less than a crystal ball is a letdown for all of the upper tier programs now. When ole miss, vandy, miss st, uk, or Tenn go to the sugar, it will be packed. Just like it was in 93.
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02-19-2013, 09:43 AM
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Originally Posted by gator7_5
Well, that combined with the fact that anything less than a crystal ball is a letdown for all of the upper tier programs now. When ole miss, vandy, miss st, uk, or Tenn go to the sugar, it will be packed. Just like it was in 93.
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Ouch!!! Tenn lumped in with the likes of the two Miss schools, UK and Vandy . . . . how the mighty have fallen. 
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02-19-2013, 01:56 PM
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Taking the BCS games off New Year's Day has also hurt the attendance as well.
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02-19-2013, 02:29 PM
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Originally Posted by BobK89
That doesn't look like Raymond James. But I'm on my phone so I can't tell
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I think you're right. I believe both those photos are in Jax. You can see the same jaguar logo banner in the endzone of both photos. And I think the seat at RayJay are red.
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02-19-2013, 02:53 PM
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Originally Posted by ofmgator
Sign of the times. Years ago Florida fans showed up in great numbers for "ALL" games not just games of greater impact. Now with the upcoming national championship series
the bowl games have been made second tier and that is not a good thing for college football. Those who insisted on a true NC game have inadvertantly hurt the game. Going to any of the major bowls (Orange,Sugar, Rose, Cotton &even the Gator Bowl) used to be a great thing for fans but like the age of today it's a disappointment and that's too bad.
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There still are teams and fans happy to go to a BCS bowl or even one of the second-tier bowls like Capitol One. I think the only ones that are really unhappy are fans who thought their team had a realistic chance at the NC game and blew it (e.g. UGa fans).
What IMO is really killing the bowls is partly the proliferation in the number of them but even worse is the sorry match-ups brought on by conference affiliations and the rules about what teams can and can't go where. For example, if UF had played Oregon instead of Louisville I think the attendance would have been much better.
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02-19-2013, 02:59 PM
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Originally Posted by WESGATORS
Apples and oranges:
- Sugar Bowl is an exhibition game played after the regular season is complete. Bowl games outside the championship game are the NIT of college football
- A conference championship is the one thing that you can play for and win without having to have the assistance of the voters
- The face value for a post-season exhibition game vs. a regular season championship game
- Nobody's wearing a "non-national-championship bowl game" championship ring, but you bet your tail they'll be wearing a conference championship ring (at least in the SEC they will be)
Go GATORS!
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Amen.
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02-19-2013, 03:18 PM
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the ACC should start scheduling their title game as a home game for the higher seeded team to avoid these embarrassing games with low attendance.
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02-19-2013, 03:41 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by WESGATORS
Apples and oranges:
- Sugar Bowl is an exhibition game played after the regular season is complete. Bowl games outside the championship game are the NIT of college football
- A conference championship is the one thing that you can play for and win without having to have the assistance of the voters
- The face value for a post-season exhibition game vs. a regular season championship game
- Nobody's wearing a "non-national-championship bowl game" championship ring, but you bet your tail they'll be wearing a conference championship ring (at least in the SEC they will be)
Go GATORS!
,WESGATORS
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I expect Louisville to come out with a Sugar Bowl ring rather than a Big East Tri-Champions ring.
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02-19-2013, 04:34 PM
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Well sure, a win over FLORIDA is a much bigger deal than a win over Cincinnati, Rutgers, and Pittsburgh. I would imagine Utah was more proud of their Sugar Bowl victory over a team that didn't win its conference than they were over winning the Mountain West in 2008.
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02-19-2013, 05:45 PM
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Poor taxpayers of florida. The state may not tax income, but there's now a Florida State attendance tax.
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02-19-2013, 07:45 PM
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Originally Posted by ufgator4ever
Poor taxpayers of florida. The state may not tax income, but there's now a Florida State attendance tax.
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+1
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