I get where you are coming from because I'm a Pac 12 fan and I know how the Bowls work but still I like the Sun Bowl more than the Alamo and Holiday Bowl. I'd love for Oregon to get in the Cotton Bowl if they can't make the playoffs or Rose Bowl. Also, I don't like that Utah is the only Pac 12 team with a Sugar Bowl win. I'd like Oregon to get a Sugar Bowl win someday. However, if you are talking non new year's 6 bowls my favorite is the Gator Bowl and I think that an 8-4 Duck team could easily qualify for that but it seems we always get stuck in the Pac 12 Bowls that have lasted from the 90's.SuperDuck wrote:I'd still like to see a top-3 finish in the conference. That would get us to the Rose, Alamo or Holiday Bowl.duck023 wrote:I'm hoping 8-4 with a Sun Bowl victory. I wished Oregon was allowed in the Gator Bowl because that is my favorite non-New Year's 6 bowl. However, I think of the Sun Bowl as the lesser Rose Bowl so I wouldn't mind Oregon playing in that bowl.
I don't want to see too much of a drop off from the last couple years as it could affect recruiting.
I might be crazy for calling the Sun Bowl the lesser Rose Bowl when Holiday Bowl and Alamo Bowl are above it but the fact that the Sun Bowl is played on CBS is sort of proof of what I'm saying. The only time an SEC commentator is ever going to call an Oregon game is at the Sun Bowl. Also, the year before I started watching Oregon, they won the Sun Bowl, so I felt that Bowl was always special. If Oregon is a mediocre team, I don't really want to watch them in another Alamo Bowl I'd rather see them play an ACC team in the Sun Bowl.
Also, I remember when Steve Spurrier made fun of the Citrus Bowl but I wouldn't mind the Ducks playing in the Citrus Bowl. However, I'll take the lesser Gator Bowl. I'd love the Ducks to play in another bowl besides the typical two that they seem to play in every year (Alamo and Holiday). I was actually excited when they played in the Vegas Bowl even though its less than the Sun bowl because it was different.
