Quote Originally Posted by Jarius View Post
If the SEC wanted to do that they would do it. Those 6 bowls do not get to chose their team. The SEC does. Those mid level bowls need the sec much more than the SEC needs them. The entire point of the SEC getting to chose who goes where was to prevent this happening. They are failing at their job, per the usual.
Pretty sure the entire point of the SEC getting to choose was to incentivize the lower paying of the Pool of 6 Bowls to up their payouts. So if say the Liberty wants whoever would go to them under the prior bowl order, then yes, the SEC would presumably make sure that happens at least some of the time to make sure the Liberty Bowl feels like they got a good return on their higher payout. But if the Liberty bowl wants say MSU b/c we are ranked and havea history of filling up their stadium, and the Outback wants someone taht should be below us in the pecking order, then the SEC doesn't have any indentive to change that, unless it's to keep the schools happy, which will generally be secondary to what the bowl committees want.