"The Big Ten is also trying to increase its bowl presence in California and is expected to add the Holiday Bowl in San Diego and the Fight Hunger Bowl in San Francisco to its postseason roster."

What's the long term deal with these 2 bowls re: the Pac12?





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Pac 12 needs a Bowl tie in with the SEC above all else IMO. I think the SEC and Big 10 have something like 3 bowls they play against each other....we need at least one for crying out loud...

Cal_Fan2;842127668 said:

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Pac 12 needs a Bowl tie in with the SEC above all else IMO. I think the SEC and Big 10 have something like 3 bowls they play against each other....we need at least one for crying out loud...

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Would love to see PAC 12 / SEC tie in but PAC 12 fans don't travel well to places like the south and SEC programs are afraid to play on the west coast.

This is not good news for Cal imo, because it will allow B1G teams access to the deep California recruiting pool when we're already fighting for scraps behind SC, Oregon, Stanford and UCLA.

During their glory years, Michigan and Nebraska recruited well in California... Tom Brady and Amani Toomer come to mind as California kids who went to Ann Arbor... look for UM, NU and Urban Meyer and Ohio State to be here looking to poach Northern California.

LocoOso;842127690 said:

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This is not good news for Cal imo, because it will allow B1G teams access to the deep California recruiting pool when we're already fighting for scraps behind SC, Oregon, Stanford and UCLA.

During their glory years, Michigan and Nebraska recruited well in California... Tom Brady and Amani Toomer come to mind as California kids who went to Ann Arbor... look for UM, NU and Urban Meyer and Ohio State to be here looking to poach Northern California.

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Those bowls currently have tie-ins with the Big-12 and ACC respectively. What's the difference if they replace one non-West coast conference with another?

Besides, that wouldn't really give the Big10 recruiting access out here because no single team can count on playing on the West coast in a given year. Compare that to when teams like Notre Dame schedule regular series with West Coast schools. They do that so they can tell California recruits: you'll have two chances in your college career to play in front of all your family and friends. A Big10 school wouldn't be able to sell that same line just because their conference has a west coast bowl tie-in.

Calcoholic;842127737 said:

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Those bowls currently have tie-ins with the Big-12 and ACC respectively. What's the difference if they replace one non-West coast conference with another?

Besides, that wouldn't really give the Big10 recruiting access out here because no single team can count on playing on the West coast in a given year. Compare that to when teams like Notre Dame schedule regular series with West Coast schools. They do that so they can tell California recruits: you'll have two chances in your college career to play in front of all your family and friends. A Big10 school wouldn't be able to sell that same line just because their conference has a west coast bowl tie-in.

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I'm not sure of the upcoming schedules, but ND has played in California every year for as long as they've had stanfurd on the schedule too.

I agree about the SEC tie-in. I think travel is related to how good of a season a team..if the number 2 team gets tied to the Chick Fil A Bowl, against a 2 or 3 SEC team, then that would be great...a lot of Alums with easy access to Atlanta. A 7-5 Number 6 team isn't going to do it. The other reality of bowl game of this magnitude: they will draw no matter how well one of the team travels, and the TV ratings might actually drive the marriage; the crowd isn't a guarantee for many of the cities however...
Obviously, you don't have Cal fans using a bowl game to go to warmer weather like the Big 10 might have, so there is that drawback....