re: Baylor Nation returns 5,000+ tickets to fiesta bowl

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Ok. What happens then?

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Bowls pick based on attendance, not conference finish

They will be passed over by inferior teams. What if Baylor goes 11-1 or 10-2 like this year and are up for a BCS bid and gets passed over by a 9-3 Big 10 team? Or goes 10-2 and gets passed over by the Cotton Bowl for 8-4 Oklahoma.

Last year 5 teams finished 7-5 in the Big 12. Baylor, Texas Tech, WVU, TCU, and Oklahoma State.

TCU got picked first out of those 5 despite having the smallest enrollment, because they have had good attendance in past bowl games regardless of location or opponent.

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If Baylor doesn't travel for a huge bowl like this, expect them to end up getting shite bowls from the Big 12 for the next few years.

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Ok. What happens then?

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If they win the Big 12, then nothing. They get whatever bowl the Big 12 ties into, such as the playoff or the Sugar Bowl.


If they don't win the Big 12, it depends on the conference's rules with regards to bowl selections.



An inability to sell a bunch of tickets to the Fiesta Bowl when they have a Top 10 team means that the Cotton Bowl, Alamo Bowl, etc., would likely want other teams instead of them when picking from them in other seasons.

They'd probably end up in the Holiday Bowl or Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl and end up traveling poorly for those, too, as the Holiday Bowl is in San Diego while the BWW Bowl is in Tempe, like the Fiesta Bowl.