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Fiesta Bowl Payout

Posted:
Thu Jan 02, 2014 12:24 am
by SMU1990
Just curious. If UCF beats Baylor ... which it looks like they will. What will SMUs benefit be?
Re: Fiesta Bowl Payout

Posted:
Thu Jan 02, 2014 1:18 am
by sbsmith
Re: Fiesta Bowl Payout

Posted:
Thu Jan 02, 2014 11:54 am
by DiamondM75
This is why it was good for SMU to lose to UCF.
If we had won, then we would both be in minor bowls with a total pay out of 2mil before expenses.
We would have received about $100k.
Re: Fiesta Bowl Payout

Posted:
Thu Jan 02, 2014 12:06 pm
by PonyKai
DiamondM75 wrote:This is why it was good for SMU to lose to UCF.
If we had won, then we would both be in minor bowls with a total pay out of 2mil before expenses.
We would have received about $100k.
UCF already won the AAC and was going to the Fiesta regardless of whether we beat them or not. So no, it was not good for SMU to lose to UCF.
Re: Fiesta Bowl Payout

Posted:
Thu Jan 02, 2014 12:19 pm
by SMU2007
June was just trying to help.
Re: Fiesta Bowl Payout

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Thu Jan 02, 2014 2:52 pm
by East Coast Mustang
Please put that $1.5M towards the construction of our new IPF
Re: Fiesta Bowl Payout

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Thu Jan 02, 2014 6:32 pm
by SMULaxer
Stlhockeyguy02 wrote:DiamondM75 wrote:This is why it was good for SMU to lose to UCF.
If we had won, then we would both be in minor bowls with a total pay out of 2mil before expenses.
We would have received about $100k.
UCF already won the AAC and was going to the Fiesta regardless of whether we beat them or not. So no, it was not good for SMU to lose to UCF.
UCF would have had to be a top 16 team in bcs rankings to go. They certainly would not have if they lost to us.
Re: Fiesta Bowl Payout

Posted:
Thu Jan 02, 2014 6:48 pm
by mrydel
I could be very wrong on this and really do not care since the BCS is over but I think that UCF would have still gone. The conference champions get a spot. There would have been another qualifier that was not a conference champion that would have been left out, such as Baylor, if there was a high enough qualifying non BCS team. Again, I could be very wrong on that.
Re: Fiesta Bowl Payout

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Thu Jan 02, 2014 6:48 pm
by Grant Carter
SMULaxer wrote:Stlhockeyguy02 wrote:DiamondM75 wrote:This is why it was good for SMU to lose to UCF.
If we had won, then we would both be in minor bowls with a total pay out of 2mil before expenses.
We would have received about $100k.
UCF already won the AAC and was going to the Fiesta regardless of whether we beat them or not. So no, it was not good for SMU to lose to UCF.
UCF would have had to be a top 16 team in bcs rankings to go. They certainly would not have if they lost to us.
You are completely wrong. The AAC was an Automatic Qualifier conference this year. The winner was going to a BCS bowl no matter what they were ranked.
Re: Fiesta Bowl Payout

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Thu Jan 02, 2014 7:53 pm
by Oldmins
SMU1990 wrote:Just curious. If UCF beats Baylor ... which it looks like they will. What will SMUs benefit be?
Not sure about this either, but wouldn't SMU get the same amount (won't they get the same amount) whether UCF wins or loses? Didn't think the winner in these bowls gets more than the loser.
Re: Fiesta Bowl Payout

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Fri Jan 03, 2014 7:09 pm
by blackoutpony
Carter is right, lax is absolutely wrong. It was good that UCF won for our garbage conference
Re: Fiesta Bowl Payout

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Fri Jan 03, 2014 7:54 pm
by DanFreibergerForHeisman
I can't believe anybody thought the American did NOT have an automatic bid after all of the SMU to the BCS talk this year...
UCF was in no matter what.
Much different than Southern Miss beating Houston in 2011, which as hilarious as it was, cost SMU some serious $$$.
Re: Fiesta Bowl Payout

Posted:
Sun Jan 05, 2014 11:09 am
by SMULaxer
My mistake. Although, considering the weakness of the conference, you can certainly see where I was coming from.
Re: Fiesta Bowl Payout

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Sun Jan 05, 2014 1:18 pm
by fifty
Our conference isn't that bad. Same as old big east. Sill #6. Not Power5 yet still king of the rest....now next year might be another story

Re: Fiesta Bowl Payout

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Mon Jan 06, 2014 9:11 pm
by SMU2007
DanFreibergerForHeisman wrote:I can't believe anybody thought the American did NOT have an automatic bid after all of the SMU to the BCS talk this year...
No kidding...