I would consider Birmingham. Not an awful drive.
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Birmingham is an easy drive, besides having to get through/around atlanta.
If I have to rank it would be:
Belk
Tampa
Birmingham
Boca
Shreveport
Bahama
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Birmingham would be the one I’d most likely be able to attend.
I’m all out of leave for 2019, so that game being on Jan 2 would actually let me take a day or two off to go.
That said, if it’s Belk Bowl I’ll find a way. Even with the playoffs now messing everything up, a bowl game’s date says a lot about its status. Playing on 12/31 is a big deal, big enough to outweigh any chance of getting our ass handed to us.
Me too. Those too close to Christmas are no-goes.
Does the money just roll into your 49er club account if we put the bowl deposit down and end up not being able to make the game?
Per their website: https://charlotte49ers.com/sports/2019/11/21/bowl-central.aspx?path=football
In the event the 49ers are not invited to a Bowl, two options will be provided for those that made non-refundable deposits:
- Deposits are rolled into your 2020 Football Season Tickets
- Deposits are donated to the 49er Club.
I’m not sure with your example of not being able to make the game, but I’d assume the same applies. It does state non-refundable though.
We all need to buy tickets to whatever bowl wherever it is regardless of being able to attend. Our ticket buying numbers will help us in the future with bowl invites.
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I have no problem with it being non-refundable. Would just prefer it rolls into the account as a donation
As far as bowl eligibility is concerned:
There are six teams with at least seven wins and bowl eligibility – Florida Atlantic (8-3), Louisiana Tech (8-3), UAB (8-3), Marshall (7-4), Southern Miss (7-4) and WKU (7-4).
There are two teams with six wins and bowl eligibility – Charlotte (6-5) and FIU (6-5).
Conference USA will have eight bowl-eligible teams this season.
C-USA has six guaranteed bowl selections in 2019: Bad Boy Mowers Gasparilla Bowl (Tampa Bay, Fla.) the Makers Wanted Bahamas Bowl (Nassau, Bahamas), New Mexico Bowl (Albuquerque, N.M.), R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl and SERVPRO First Responder Bowl (Dallas, Texas), along with either the SoFi Hawai’i Bowl (Honolulu, Hawai’i), or the Tropical Smoothie Cafe Frisco Bowl (Frisco, Texas) . The league has a secondary agreement with the Walk-On’s Independence Bowl (Shreveport, La.), should the ACC or SEC not be able to fill its spot in that game, and a secondary agreement with the Cheribundi Boca Raton Bowl.
Could CHARLOTTE turn down a cusa bowl game offer if Belk was to offer at same time? How does that work? Do teams get multiple requests from bowl games which to choose? Or all assigned?
Nothing formal on this that I know of. I would assume it would be done behind closed doors, and since C-USA has plenty of other teams to choose from I don’t think there would be any hurt feelings. Charlotte, ODU, Marshall don’t really have very close bowls to start with (till MB Bowl). If any non-conference bowl wants a team, they’ll make that clear to the conference office very quickly (maybe already have). With a bowl that pays more, no way that get’s blocked by anyone involved.
I don’t think we can say no to One of the CUSA primary tie ins, but I think it can get wild Wild West after that.
I’d imagine if the Belk Bowl had the slots and wanted us, CUSA wouldn’t stop that.
If we had less teams than conference bowl slots we’d have issues getting into the Belk Bowl, but that’s not happening this year, so we’re probably good if they want us. Plenty of other teams available this year. Also helps we are currently in the #7 position among bowl qualified CUSA teams.
NYE bowl against the ACC would be great publicity for the conference. I would imagine the payout is a bit better too.
Belk bowl pays out a million I believe, maybe more. The heart of Dallas bowl was the only cusa bowl paying a million.
Maybe I’m misunderstanding what I’m looking at, but Google indicates a $4.5M payout for Belk.
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Root for ole miss and two teams in the playoff from the SEC
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Two teams plus conferences get money. I think each team gets a millionish.
The fun part is technically we still don’t have a winning season, just a .500 one. We really need a solid performance against ODU to lock down a bowl bid of any kind. I would imagine Healy’s story alone would make us a draw for a bowl, but we are competing for that potential bowl slot with a team that beat us fairly soundly too (FIU). Also need the remaining teams that can get bowl eligible to stop at the magic number 78 or come up a little short of that. Going to be a weekend much longer than the ODU game itself.