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Alan Swank
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Peach Bowl

Posted: 12/31/2014 6:08:20 PM

Read this at the end of a Peach Bowl article today. Any thoughts on why/what this means?

Attendance was 65,706, ending the Peach Bowl's streak of 17 consecutive sellouts.

The bowl is sponsored by Chick-fil-A.

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RE: Peach Bowl

Posted: 12/31/2014 6:23:33 PM

The game has always been ACC-SEC, and TCU did not bring half a stadium of people.

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RE: Peach Bowl

Posted: 12/31/2014 6:26:42 PM

A fading SEC team with less history than the elites in its league against a jilted P5 team that every thinks it should be playing tomorrow.

That, along with the usual reasons not to attend a bowl game (cost, travel planning, better to watch on TV, etc.).

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RE: Peach Bowl

Posted: 12/31/2014 6:52:15 PM

Alan Swank wrote:

It seems pretty self explanatory

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RE: Peach Bowl

Posted: 12/31/2014 8:03:02 PM

Due to the Playoff and their structuring of the "New Year's Six", the time of the game was moved from its typical prime time spot (it has been at 7 or 8 PM on NYE lately, and when not on NYE it was always at night at least) to 12:30 PM, which is a terrible time for a game.

Usually lunch time bowls are the crap ones, not the Peach Bowl (which has generally been considered a higher tier bowl, hence its inclusion in the New Year's Six) There's no way that helped anything.

Last Edited: 12/31/2014 8:04:50 PM by ts1227

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RE: Peach Bowl

Posted: 12/31/2014 8:13:35 PM

To follow up on my own post, maybe I'm wrong, as there is NO ONE in Miami right now for the Orange Bowl.

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RE: Peach Bowl

Posted: 12/31/2014 9:01:52 PM

I noticed the same thing when I flipped the channel. The upper decks in end zones are empty and a lot of orange seats everywhere. My wife noticed it immediately.

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RE: Peach Bowl

Posted: 12/31/2014 9:14:22 PM

ts1227 wrote:

To follow up on my own post, maybe I'm wrong, as there is NO ONE in Miami right now for the Orange Bowl.

Hmm . . . people must be boycotting the sponsor -- an evil credit card company from Virginia, the heart of the old Confederacy! ;-)

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RE: Peach Bowl

Posted: 12/31/2014 10:21:53 PM

The powers that be fought the playoff for a long time out of fear that the non-playoff bowls would then become irrelevant (as if they were actually relevant). Perhaps it will be time to go to a full-fledged playoff, and make all the bowls relevant.

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RE: Peach Bowl

Posted: 12/31/2014 10:33:50 PM

L.C. wrote:

This makes perfect sense - kind of like the basketball tournaments other than the NCAA.

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RE: Peach Bowl

Posted: 1/1/2015 9:14:15 AM

Pete,
TCU may not have brought have the stadium but they sure "brought the Wood shed"!

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RE: Peach Bowl

Posted: 1/1/2015 9:37:26 AM

If emoticons were enabled, I would remark that fan support means little to the players and coaches on the field.

But there are no emoticons, and the inability of the general populace to detect sarcasm makes me reticent to put such thoughts in writing.

Instead, I think people aren't coming to the games because they won't throw the ball to the tight end.

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RE: Peach Bowl

Posted: 1/1/2015 9:53:55 AM

Alan Swank wrote:

Could this be the real reason A&M is playing today instead of TCU? No matter what the bull about the best teams they still have tv and the local hosts to please.

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RE: Peach Bowl

Posted: 1/1/2015 10:50:27 AM

Pete Chouteau wrote:

You can always use the old fashioned emoticons.
;)

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RE: Peach Bowl

Posted: 1/1/2015 11:16:41 AM

Maybe some of you missed the article about playing the games with no fans present. It seems to be all about the ratings that are going very well for the lesser bowls at least. 24/7 TV sports may be impacting fan attendance more than we think.
Regarding the Bahamas bowl, why would anyone expect more than a few thousands attending such a game? It's all for TV.

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RE: Peach Bowl

Posted: 1/1/2015 1:26:22 PM

Pete Chouteau wrote:

This is what happens when your program is mired in mediocrity and most of the fanbase (what fanbase?--37 regulars on this board?) is fine with it.

Where's the band?!
WHERE"S THE BAND?!

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RE: Peach Bowl

Posted: 1/1/2015 6:26:13 PM

Bowl games are scheduled now to please ESPN, which airs all but two, I think; CBS still has the Sun Bowl and I think Fox still has one. Until sometime in the '80s or '90s NBC had the Rose and Orange Bowls, CBS had the Cotton and ABC had the Sugar and (I think) the Gator, which all ran NYE or NYD. Cotton and Gator would run NYD afternoon, Rose would start at 4:45 and Orange would go around 8:30. Sometimes Sugar would go New Year's night, but most times it would be NYE night. Then bowls like Outback, Fiesta and some others wanted to be on NYD, so there were as many as seven or eight on NYD. Although the games got good overall ratings. the ratings for each game airing opposite another game suffered. Someone at ESPN has determined that it's better not to counter-program against itself so much and has spread out the games. That's why Peach and some others that used to have prime time slots are now starting at noon on 12/30 or 31. It's not to boost their ratings so much as it is to not harm the ratings of the "more important" bowls.

Last Edited: 1/1/2015 6:27:45 PM by Pataskala

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RE: Peach Bowl

Posted: 1/2/2015 12:05:59 PM

davepi2 wrote:

Alan Swank wrote:

Could this be the real reason A&M is playing today instead of TCU? No matter what the bull about the best teams they still have tv and the local hosts to please.

OSU showed why they are playing last night.

I'd listen to the Baylor argument, but TCU lost to Baylor, marking them irrevelant in that conversation.

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RE: Peach Bowl

Posted: 1/2/2015 12:20:54 PM

And OSU lost to VaTech, who lost to Pitt, who lost to Akron, who lost to OUr beloved institution. So why are we not in the discussion?😳

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