HJS {l Wrote}:Casey {l Wrote}:Seems to me Notre Dame is hurt the most by this. The ACC now has a much, much stronger incentive put a Big 10 TeAm in the Orange Bowl (rather than Notre Dame), because doing so gives the ACC the Big 10's spot in the Citris Bowl, which has a big purse and prime TV slot. In other words, the ACC gains a bowl by spurning Notre Dame for the Orange.
If you recall, Notre Dame proposed jointing the ACC with a six game conference commitment in return for access to the Orange & all other bowls. Instead the ACC took a 5 game commitment, with no guaranteed access to the Orange, or any bowl before the ACCCG runner-up is placed.
It gives the ACC more leverage to put the screws to ND when the ACC/ESPN deal expires ( the year before ND's NBC deal expires)
You could not be more wrong about any of this.
First... with regard to the Orange Bowl:
The selection of the ACC representative's opponent will be based on securing the highest-ranked team in the final standings available from either the Big Ten, the SEC or Notre Dame. However, the Big Ten and SEC teams must appear at least three times each during the 12-year life of the deal, while Notre Dame can appear in the game a maximum of only two times. There is no minimum number of requirements by Notre Dame.Second... with regard to the bowl arrangement between ND and the ACC:
Starting in the 2014 season -- and coinciding with the new college football playoff -- Notre Dame could step over an ACC team and take its place in one of the non-BCS bowls if its record is better than, equal to or within one win of the ACC team or ranked higher in the BCS standings. Notre Dame would share in the revenues if selected to any of those bowls, and get an expenses allowance. If Notre Dame is picked for a BCS game, it would keep its revenues from that appearance.
Well, not everything is wrong.
To the extent the ACC influences the Orange Bowl selection (and we do own all the TV rights to this, so we must have a stake), we still have much, much stronger incentive to pick a Big 10 team, over the SEC or ND, because it lets us take the Big 10 spot in the Capital One Citris Bowl. It sounds to me like the clear incentive is toselect the Big 9 times, the SEC 3 times, and leave ND. Out in the cold.
Once the payoff starts, I seriously doubt ND is going to have the strength of schedule to claim one of the 4 playoff spots. The Selection committe (run by power conferences will doc ND for the watered own schedule, particularly after dropping Michigan to keep the Academies). The SEC & Pac 12 will always claim 2 spots. The Big 10, Big 12, ACC & ND will fight it out for the last 2 spots ... And I don't see ND leaping 2 of the power conferences.
So ND is most likely looking for 2nd Bowl, but they might not have the record/ranking to steal our 2nd best bowl.
Also, isn't ACC conference runner-up guaranteed no worse than the 3rd or 4th Spot? Last year the Sun Bowl was the consololation. Not sure which one is the safety net this year or going forward, but that's one less option for ND. So barring a truly exceptions, it seems ND will do no better than our 3rd or 4th bowl.
On Good news Side, the ACC/Gator Bowl just announced a new deal involving the ACC & Big 10, it starts next year.
http://www.gatorbowl.com/wp-content/upl ... cement.pdfWith the edition of 2 big new years bowls in warm-weather Florida (Citris & Gator), and better opponent tie-ins in the Champs & Orange, I think the conference will travel much better ... BC included