Miami, Tampa, Orlando, Dallas, Pasadena: all of these warm weather cities host bowl games that draw thousands of people looking to escape the beginnings of winter and bask in the pageantry of college football. Even if some of their names don’t evoke nostalgia – it is tough to get excited about Outback Bowl days of yore – the fact that they host major college bowl games seem pretty obvious.
There are cities, though, that people wouldn’t think about visiting in late December. Yet they too will host an ACC school for a bowl game in the “group of eight or nine” that will determine invitations amongst themselves after the NY6 gets their picks.