TheKnightReport - Bowl projections for Rutgers Football entering week 10
With Rutgers Football now sitting at 6-2 on the season, they are bowl eligible for first time since 2014.
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Let’s knock off Iowa and get the Michigan loss turned to a W and get the Cheez it BowlMy thoughts as of now:
CFB final four - OSU and Michigan
NY6 bowl - PSU
Reliaquest bowl - goes away since we got 3 teams up top
Cheez It Bowl - Iowa
Music City Bowl - Wisconsin
Vegas - Nebraska
Pinstripe - Rutgers
Guranteed Rate - Minnesota
Motor City - Maryland or Northwestern
If all of these teams pull off bowl eligibility, that opens up another TBD bowl for the conference. In that case, I think you'd slot Northwestern into the Motor City Bowl and Maryland would get shipped off.
Any bowl but pinstripe
Any bowl but pinstripe
My personal feeling is that if RU loses the last 4 games of the year they deserve whatever crap bowl they get.Be careful of what you ask for. Quick Lane Bowl is still lurking.
Still better than PinstripeBe careful of what you ask for. Quick Lane Bowl is still lurking.
Maybe for the people traveling. As a game it is much worse with a MAC opponent v the Pinstripe’s ACC team.Still better than Pinstripe
Baseball stadium vs a football stadium. Plus indoor vs outdoor in Dec.Maybe for the people traveling. As a game it is much worse with a MAC opponent v the Pinstripe’s ACC team.
Like I said, “for the people traveling”.Baseball stadium vs a football stadium. Plus indoor vs outdoor in Dec.
This looks great. But it assumes that given the choice between Rutgers, Nebraska, and Wisconsin, Vegas would choose Rutgers. I wish that were true but I think it's a tough argument to say RU would bring more fans than either of those programs, particularly Nebraska, who is also on a bowl drought.
Anything is better than the Pimpstripe Bowl ….Be careful of what you ask for. Quick Lane Bowl is still lurking.
Anything is better than the Pimpstripe Bowl ….
Boycott the pinstripe time to end the RU screw, as being sent to the Bronx is the biggest post season screw job imaginableAny bowl but pinstripe
Anything is better than the Pimpstripe Bowl ….
I sort of go with PS is better than nothing. And great for fans tgat don’t travel and would buy tickets for a NYC game.Detroit in December against a MAC?
Already have a Vegas room on standby.
Better at Ford Field NFL Stadium than the Bronx in late December against a low hanging ACC opponent. Hello BC French !Detroit in December against a MAC?
I'll bet that the kids would rather do the QL than the PS.I hate to say it but giving the kids a chance to travel for a bowl-play indoors and most likely end 8-5...seems like the best thing possible for the team as opposed to the easy travel day for fans for sucky bowl, sucky weather and a possibility to lose.
Toledo and Miami (OH) are very good. They played each other earlier this year and are likely to matchup again in the conf title game. It's not the gimme you think it is. Would rather pummel a low level ACC team in Pinstripe Bowl. With that said, I'll be traveling to ANY bowl game. Wouldn't miss it.When it comes to a bowl game- first- I am just happy as shit we earned it already.
But let's say we win 1 more and are 7-5. We go to PS against a ACC team that may be able to beat us- and either end 8-5 against a blah ACC team or end up 7-6 against a blah ACC team. No recruits are watching it anyway. Or- team gets to have the fun of travel and even though it is Detroit- it is indoors- fun travel and a MAC team with about a 80-=85% chance to win and we are 8-5 with a bowl win...and recruits didn't watch that either.
I hate to say it but giving the kids a chance to travel for a bowl-play indoors and most likely end 8-5...seems like the best thing possible for the team as opposed to the easy travel day for fans for sucky bowl, sucky weather and a possibility to lose.
Think the MAC teams for QL are probably better than the ACC teams in the PS.When it comes to a bowl game- first- I am just happy as shit we earned it already.
But let's say we win 1 more and are 7-5. We go to PS against a ACC team that may be able to beat us- and either end 8-5 against a blah ACC team or end up 7-6 against a blah ACC team. No recruits are watching it anyway. Or- team gets to have the fun of travel and even though it is Detroit- it is indoors- fun travel and a MAC team with about a 80-=85% chance to win and we are 8-5 with a bowl win...and recruits didn't watch that either.
I hate to say it but giving the kids a chance to travel for a bowl-play indoors and most likely end 8-5...seems like the best thing possible for the team as opposed to the easy travel day for fans for sucky bowl, sucky weather and a possibility to lose.
All the more reason you want to play the ACC team. Rutgers would get more credit nationally for beating a mediocre ACC team than they would for beating the MAC champion.Think the MAC teams for QL are probably better than the ACC teams in the PS.
I would say that if we played Clemson in the PS- that would be epic if we beat them. Not sure if I can really buy that Ohio/Toledo/Miami OH are harder than Clemson/Duke/GT/NC State - I don't mention VaTech or BC because either of those matchups would just be boring as hell.
I think the wildcard when it comes to the Pinstripe is Nebraska. Virtually any bowl would want them, because they always travel well and now it is the first time they are going to one in a while.I could be proven wrong, but any discussion about RU playing in the Quick Lane or Guaranteed Rate Bowl is wasted breath. The Pinstripe picks before them, and there is no way the Pinstripe is going to pass on RU.
The only way we're not going to the Pinstripe is if one of the higher tier bowls takes us first.
Sorry, but the pinstripe toilet-bowl is worse than any conceivable thing. Doesn't matter who the opponent is.Maybe for the people traveling. As a game it is much worse with a MAC opponent v the Pinstripe’s ACC team.
Then let me clarify. I'd rather watch, on TV, the team playing with itself in any other location than endure watching my fellow football fans be forced to watch a football game in a cold soulless hellhole of a baseball stadium.Like I said, “for the people traveling”.
For any fan not at the game, and for the perception of the program, it is no contest that playing an ACC team rather than a MAC team makes the Pinstripe much better.
Is it a football stadium? Then it's massively better. It's better multiplied by improved raised to the power of enlightened.Detroit in December against a MAC?
There can be nothing epic about playing football in the pinstripe bowl except the total combined post-game earnings of Chiropractors in the area.I would say that if we played Clemson in the PS- that would be epic if we beat them. Not sure if I can really buy that Ohio/Toledo/Miami OH are harder than Clemson/Duke/GT/NC State - I don't mention VaTech or BC because either of those matchups would just be boring as hell.