On Sunday, Twitter was having some wonderful Syracuse Orange football talk about New Year’s Six Bowls, a lack of love for the Pinstripe Bowl, and what we deserve.
Here’s the thing that everyone knows and yet hates to admit: The new conference bowl tie-in system the ACC has created almost guarantees us a Pinstripe Bowl every few seasons. The Pinstripe Bowl is a tier 1 bowl, along with three others that we have little history with, and has a nice $2 million payout. We feel like a team ranked 13th deserves a better bowl than the one the unranked Co-Big East Champs won, but it’s not the Pinstripe Bowl’s fault the ACC swallowed them and put them as a top choice in the conference.