Bottom line is that we go wherever we are fortunate enough to be selected. If it’s against UK in the Music City Bowl, some of our fans won’t like it, but we take it.
There are no ACC-Sun Belt Bowl matchups, so it is very unlikely that we would be matched up with App State. It could happen in the college football playoffs if we were ranked 1 and 4 or 2 and 3 (definitely not happening for either of us), or if App State and Louisville were both chosen for the Cotton Bowl. That could happen this year for App State, but UofL is not going to be ranked in the top 10, which is what it would take for UofL to be selected.
It appears likely that the SEC is not going to be able to fill all of its bowl slots, so it’s possible that App State could be chosen for a game that the SEC cannot fill. The Belk Bowl would be a likely destination. UofL could be chosen from the ACC as the opponent.
And if that’s what the Bowl committees decide, that’s where we go.