ESPN: Ranking B1G Bowl Games

[Mavric]

5. Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl: Nebraska vs. No. 21 Tennessee

Twenty years ago, this would have been a battle for the ages. Instead, the Cornhuskers get a chance to regain some positive momentum and hit the 10-win mark for the first since 2012. We’ll spare you the obvious “championship of life” jokes just this once.

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Actually being #5 isn't too bad considering how well the B1G scored bowl games.

 

[Mavric]

Here's a CBS article ranking all the bowl games. Kind of see a theme in the narratives....

16. Music City Bowl -- Nebraska vs. No. 21 Tennessee -- Dec. 30, 3:30 p.m.: For a few hours on a late December afternoon, two fan bases will descend upon the city of Nashville and live their greatest dream: pretending it's still the 90s.

 

[NUance]

We'll get a nice bump in the rankings if we win, beating an SEC school and all.

btw. We beat five bowl teams this year. (And Oregon didn't make a bowl, or it would've been six.) So there's that.

 

[beorach]

I'm thinking that the conference has at least six favorites in those games (without figuring in home field advantage as it may apply). With that said, bowl season* is always surprising and will continue to be so long as there's so little meaningful out-of-conference play during the regular season.

* - This is the traditional bowl season. Maybe there will be a day soon when the postseason allows for the players to settle everything on the field.