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407cane said:
miamifan007 said:
EmileLilly said:
PUNCICANE said:
Tim Reynolds ‏@ByTimReynolds 1m
Quick Canes update: If Chick-fil-A, expected foe is Georgia. If Russell Athletic, Louisville. And honestly, I'm not sure now which it'll be.


please be Louisville! Gurley will go for 300. Teddy is overrated as ****
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Georgia has been completely decimated with injuries, and they lost their QB Murray to an ACL. They would give us the best chance of winning.
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Yeah I thought the same against LSU in 2005 with their back up QB.
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Thanks for bringing up that suppressed memory. My worst day as a hurricanes fan, right next to Virginia shutting us out in the orange bowl
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I was there believe me. The worse was seeing Jon Beason run after an LSU player than both teams running into the tunnel.
 
This thread is getting my hopes up about playing Georgia at a rowdy Dome on New Years eve.


Which means, i'm sure we'll end up at the Citrus Bowl against Duh-ville.
 
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Notsince1985 said:
CaneMutiny06 said:
Notsince1985 said:
Only bad thing about UGA is that it will be a home game for them in the GA Dome.
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It would be, though interestingly UGA has a surprisingly poor record in the Dome.
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Because they've played #1 Alabama or #1 LSU or #5 Boise State, not unranked Miami.
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Sure, though most of those UGA teams that played in SEC CGs were a lot better than this banged up version as well. It just hasn't seemed to afford them much of an advantage going back to the 90s.

At any rate, I think it would be a "home game" for whatever SEC opponent we play. All travel a lot better than we do. We do have a nice fan presence in ATL for whatever that's worth.
 
Notsince1985 said:
Ernie McCracken said:
The only people happy about this *** matchup are the Louisville people. They gain everything.... they get to come to Florida, they get to send their recruiters out and pick off the partial qualifiers or whoever they usually get, they get the opportunity to beat a marquis opponent like Miami.

What does Miami get out of this? If we beat Louisville, nobody will care.... it's a ****ty Big East team and a basketball school. If by some chance we lose to Louisville, then we just lost to a big east team and a basketball school.

This is *** all around. I want a real matchup. Why can't we play Georgia or something like that?
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What does this even mean? Georgia is 8-4. Georgia barely beat Georgia Tech yesterday. UGA is not a better matchup than Texas A&M or Louisville. Just because they have the name "Georgia" doesn't mean they're better than Louisville. Heck, UCF is probably better than UGA, especially without Murray.
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First, it means I took a stab in the dark and ended up being right. ESPN is now predicting Miami vs Georgia in the Peach Bowl.

So they should put me on a bowl committee.

Second, UGA is a much better matchup. A win against them is a win against one of the premier SEC teams. Louisville ain't that. Also, we can recruit the state of Georgia.
 
By the way, I agree that A&M is just as much of a marquis matchup as Georgia would be. I just think Georgia would be a more competitive game whereas A&M is a notch above us right now.
 
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SpikeUM said:
Bowl games are about filling seats, so that money is spent locally. The tv money is already guaranteed. You fill seats by having an attractive matchup, and/or having geographically desirable teams. Duke alumni will travel to Atlanta for their first meaningful bowl game in a long time. Miami fans will travel to Orlando, not so much to Atlanta for a non BCS game. I think the ACC would also want a Miami Louisville matchup, and will lobby for that.
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The ACC will not lobby for a UL Miami match up. Miami opens next year at home vs UL
 
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