Last year, Vandy didn't get invited to the Gator Bowl because they didn't want a rematch of Northwestern-Vandy. This year, the Gator bowl selected Georgia-Nebraska, who played each other in the Capitol One Bowl last year.
Vandy was 8-4, tied with Texas A&M and Georgia and better than 7-5 Ole Miss and 6-6 Miss State. Yet they go to the worst of the SEC bowls, the Compass Bowl is Birmingham.I guess beating UT prevented us from going to Shreveport, but that's about it. The SEC just doesn't care about Vandy, despite Vandy being one of the best teams in the SEC in selling bowl tickets. (At least they play a good opponent in Houston).
The Sugar Bowl could have been Bama-Oregon, but instead it is a much more boring matchup of Bama-Oklahoma. The SEC and Big12 will be playing bowl games against each other next year, and this matchup was apparently a way of kicking this off.
UCF is a tiny school with a limited budget, but they are being shipped off way out west to the Fiesta Bowl instead of the much closer Orange Bowl.
Notre Dame gets to play a weak 6-6 Rutgers team in Yankee Stadium.
Now that Vandy is in bowls regularly, the hypocrisy of the whole system is more apparent.
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