http://theamerican.org/news/2013/12/5/FB...34743.aspx

Interesting... and offers some insight on who CUSA could be seeing in some years in certain bowls as well.

So basically MAC, Belt, AAC, and C-USA will share many of the ESPN owned bowls.

To be honest, I thought you guys would do better than that. Not what I expected. You do have some nice secondary agreements though.

(12-05-2013 02:09 PM)BeliefBlazer Wrote:  So basically MAC, Belt, AAC, and C-USA will share many of the ESPN owned bowls.

To be fair, ESPN has what a 90% ownership in the number of bowl games anyway?

And it would take the market penetration of a ESPN to make them work versus a CBSSN, a NBCSSN, a FOX Sports Net Family (not FOX Network), ect... to get the tv money good enough to break it up.

(12-05-2013 02:13 PM)MUHERD76 Wrote:  To be honest, I thought you guys would do better than that. Not what I expected. You do have some nice secondary agreements though.

You can tell losing the Liberty Bowl was NOT part of the plan...but I also can't blame the liberty bowl...SEC v Big 12 is a good line-up

That said, it's a decent line-up...6-7 bowls per season, best we can hope for.

American Athletic Conference Bowl Lineup - 2014-19

2014 Season
BBVA Compass Bowl, Birmingham, Ala. – vs. SEC
Beef 'O' Brady's Bowl St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg, Fla. – vs. ACC
Miami Beach Bowl, Miami, Fla. – vs. Conference USA
Military Bowl presented by Northrop Grumman, Annapolis, Md. – vs. ACC
Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl, Fort Worth, Texas – vs. Army/Big 12
Bahamas Bowl, Nassau, Bahamas – vs. MAC

2015 Season
BBVA Compass Bowl, Birmingham, Ala. – vs. SEC
Beef 'O' Brady's Bowl St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg, Fla. – vs. Conference USA
Miami Beach Bowl, Miami, Fla. – vs. Conference USA
Military Bowl presented by Northrop Grumman, Annapolis, Md. – vs. ACC
Sheraton Hawaii Bowl, Honolulu, Hawaii – vs. Mountain West
Boca Raton Bowl, Boca Raton, Fla. – vs. MAC

2016 Season
BBVA Compass Bowl, Birmingham, Ala. – vs. SEC
Beef 'O' Brady's Bowl St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg, Fla. – vs. ACC
Miami Beach Bowl, Miami, Fla. – vs. MAC
Military Bowl presented by Northrop Grumman, Annapolis, Md. – vs. ACC
Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl, Fort Worth, Texas – vs. Big 12
Bahamas Bowl, Nassau Bahamas – vs. MAC
Boca Raton Bowl, Boca Raton, Fla. – vs. Conference USA

2017 Season
BBVA Compass Bowl, Birmingham, Ala. – vs. SEC
Beef 'O' Brady's Bowl St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg, Fla. – vs. Conference USA
Miami Beach Bowl, Miami, Fla. – vs. Sun Belt
Military Bowl presented by Northrop Grumman, Annapolis, Md. – vs. ACC
Sheraton Hawaii Bowl, Honolulu, Hawaii – vs. Mountain West
Boca Raton Bowl, Boca Raton, Fla. – vs. Conference USA

2018 Season
BBVA Compass Bowl, Birmingham, Ala. – vs. SEC
Beef 'O' Brady's Bowl St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg, Fla. – ACC
Miami Beach Bowl, Miami, Fla. – vs. MAC
Military Bowl presented by Northrop Grumman, Annapolis, Md. – vs. ACC
Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl, Fort Worth, Texas – vs. Big 12
Bahamas Bowl, Nassau, Bahamas – vs. Conference USA
R&L Carriers New Orleans Bowl, New Orleans, La. – vs. Sun Belt

2019 Season
BBVA Compass Bowl, Birmingham, Ala. – vs. SEC
Beef 'O' Brady's Bowl St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg, Fla. – vs. Conference USA
Miami Beach Bowl, Miami, Fla. – vs. Sun Belt
Military Bowl presented by Northrop Grumman, Annapolis, Md. – vs. ACC
Sheraton Hawaii Bowl, Honolulu, Hawaii – vs. Mountain West
Boca Raton Bowl, Boca Raton, Fla. – vs. MAC
R&L Carriers New Orleans Bowl, New Orleans, La. – vs. Conference USA

Maybe its just me?.....does anybody else looking at that AAC lineup think we have slightly better bowls? I think we do.

They get 2 to 4 matchups with P5 schools a year. I'd say they are slightly ahead.

(12-05-2013 02:25 PM)BeliefBlazer Wrote:  They get 2 to 4 matchups with P5 schools a year. I'd say they are slightly ahead.

Not by much though. I like our destinations better than some of the ones they have. To me that makes it a wash.

(12-05-2013 02:29 PM)MUHERD76 Wrote:  

(12-05-2013 02:25 PM)BeliefBlazer Wrote:  They get 2 to 4 matchups with P5 schools a year. I'd say they are slightly ahead.

Not by much though. I like our destinations better than some of the ones they have. To me that makes it a wash.

We have 6 to 7 bowls EVERY year for 12 teams CUSA has 5 to 6 bowls every year for 14 teams. AAC has 3 backup deals CUSA has one. Any other questions?

(12-05-2013 02:29 PM)MUHERD76 Wrote:  

(12-05-2013 02:25 PM)BeliefBlazer Wrote:  They get 2 to 4 matchups with P5 schools a year. I'd say they are slightly ahead.

Not by much though. I like our destinations better than some of the ones they have. To me that makes it a wash.

I think the AAC's bowls might be ever so slightly better, but not enough that it's worth bragging about. I'd argue that Ban Ban with the schools he had to work with did a much better job in this area than Aresco did with the schools he had to work with. As an ECU fan at least most of the bowls are on the east coast. The Military is one I wouldn't mind going to any year we are in it just because of proximity and then the 3 games in Florida I might would attend depending on date and matchup.

I've been piecing this together through the many conference releases. The only thing that isn't confirmed is which other two years we have New Orleans, but it's pretty easy to see which two years we need that fifth slot (2016 and 2017). See the image below. We'll get Independence either every year, at least 4-5 times.

Like I posted on the AAC board...all this announcement really means to me is that if my Tigers get to 6-6...we will make a bowl game...so that's cool with me.

12 teams...6-7 bowls per season...3-4 P5 match ups per season...I'm down with that.

(12-05-2013 02:38 PM)b0ndsj0ns Wrote:  

(12-05-2013 02:29 PM)MUHERD76 Wrote:  

(12-05-2013 02:25 PM)BeliefBlazer Wrote:  They get 2 to 4 matchups with P5 schools a year. I'd say they are slightly ahead.

Not by much though. I like our destinations better than some of the ones they have. To me that makes it a wash.

I think the AAC's bowls might be ever so slightly better, but not enough that it's worth bragging about. I'd argue that Ban Ban with the schools he had to work with did a much better job in this area than Aresco did with the schools he had to work with. As an ECU fan at least most of the bowls are on the east coast. The Military is one I wouldn't mind going to any year we are in it just because of proximity and then the 3 games in Florida I might would attend depending on date and matchup.

I'll agree with that assessment.

(12-05-2013 02:36 PM)Bleeds_Purple Wrote:  

(12-05-2013 02:29 PM)MUHERD76 Wrote:  

(12-05-2013 02:25 PM)BeliefBlazer Wrote:  They get 2 to 4 matchups with P5 schools a year. I'd say they are slightly ahead.

Not by much though. I like our destinations better than some of the ones they have. To me that makes it a wash.

We have 6 to 7 bowls EVERY year for 12 teams CUSA has 5 to 6 bowls every year for 14 teams. AAC has 3 backup deals CUSA has one. Any other questions?

Yeah I got one, WTF are you bragging about? And CUSA has more than one backup deal but whipeedamndo!!!

I like the AAC lineup better, only because they have half their bowls against P5 teams. Whats CUSA have 1-3? They also have a good point that they are guaranteed 6 bowls+ a year. CUSA will do that well most seasons too, but its not guaranteed.

from twitter

(12-05-2013 02:36 PM)Bleeds_Purple Wrote:  

(12-05-2013 02:29 PM)MUHERD76 Wrote:  

(12-05-2013 02:25 PM)BeliefBlazer Wrote:  They get 2 to 4 matchups with P5 schools a year. I'd say they are slightly ahead.

Not by much though. I like our destinations better than some of the ones they have. To me that makes it a wash.

We have 6 to 7 bowls EVERY year for 12 teams CUSA has 5 to 6 bowls every year for 14 teams. AAC has 3 backup deals CUSA has one. Any other questions?

Yes. When is ECU finally going to win one?

(12-05-2013 03:06 PM)BamaScorpio69 Wrote:  

(12-05-2013 02:36 PM)Bleeds_Purple Wrote:  

(12-05-2013 02:29 PM)MUHERD76 Wrote:  

(12-05-2013 02:25 PM)BeliefBlazer Wrote:  They get 2 to 4 matchups with P5 schools a year. I'd say they are slightly ahead.

Not by much though. I like our destinations better than some of the ones they have. To me that makes it a wash.

We have 6 to 7 bowls EVERY year for 12 teams CUSA has 5 to 6 bowls every year for 14 teams. AAC has 3 backup deals CUSA has one. Any other questions?

Yeah I got one, WTF are you bragging about? And CUSA has more than one backup deal but whipeedamndo!!!

Who's bragging? Dude said CUSA's lineup is better and it's not.

(12-05-2013 02:36 PM)Bleeds_Purple Wrote:  

(12-05-2013 02:29 PM)MUHERD76 Wrote:  

(12-05-2013 02:25 PM)BeliefBlazer Wrote:  They get 2 to 4 matchups with P5 schools a year. I'd say they are slightly ahead.

Not by much though. I like our destinations better than some of the ones they have. To me that makes it a wash.

We have 6 to 7 bowls EVERY year for 12 teams CUSA has 5 to 6 bowls every year for 14 teams. AAC has 3 backup deals CUSA has one. Any other questions?

I think the AAC overall has a better bowl situation. Not by a bunch though. Having 3 backup roles is great except the backup to the Liberty will likely never kick in. The Liberty gets the 4th B12 choice and gets an SEC ahead of the Birmingham and Shreveport bowls. Interesting that C-USA already announced it has a backup role in Shreveport and now the AAC does too. Is the AAC backing up the backup there? Poinsettia is a nice backup and you will likely get to use that one fairly often I would think.