(12-07-2014 05:59 PM)cleazer Wrote:  Looks like Rutgers and North Carolina in the Detroit Bowl.

Heh. I hope the game draws flies.

(12-07-2014 08:24 PM)Motown Bronco Wrote:  

(12-07-2014 05:59 PM)cleazer Wrote:  Looks like Rutgers and North Carolina in the Detroit Bowl.

Heh. I hope the game draws flies.

+1.

(12-07-2014 05:59 PM)cleazer Wrote:  Looks like Rutgers and North Carolina in the Detroit Bowl.

They probably picked up that bowl thinking about their new "cold weather" schools, but the 6-6 ACC schools were the Tarheels, Pitt, MiamiU and VTech, and Pitt got to go to Fort Worth, instead.

(12-07-2014 08:39 PM)MidnightBlueGold Wrote:  

(12-07-2014 08:24 PM)Motown Bronco Wrote:  

(12-07-2014 05:59 PM)cleazer Wrote:  Looks like Rutgers and North Carolina in the Detroit Bowl.

Heh. I hope the game draws flies.

+1.

it's a September game...

I sincerely doubt they'll get 20K on hand for that match-up in Detroit.

I bet the bowl draws 23.5k there. Big schools still travel and the game promotes decently well. It's a Michiganders fill for football during the holidays with UM staying at home.

We can have a spirited over/under bet! I am sure they'll find a way to announce more than 23K but I really doubt they'll get that many butts in seats.

Quote:I bet the bowl draws 23.5k there. Big schools still travel and the game promotes decently well

Rutgers is new the B1G, and UNC is not going to be wanting to travel To cold weather for a Detroit Bowl. However, this December's not going to be bad at all as far as weather -- Rutgers fans won't mind it, and UNC won't be totally turned off...

... but I would guess a little shy of 25k. If it were a New Years Eve bowl -- sure, it'd hit around 45k. But this is an Xmas bowl in Detroit -- bottom-P5-matchup. Will go from 20-low to 20-mid depending on how many non-Rutgers & non-UNC fans show up due to marketing and cheap tickets.

(12-08-2014 04:38 PM)UofToledoFans Wrote:  I bet the bowl draws 23.5k there. Big schools still travel

That's kind of a myth. Some years back, when ZSU was repeating at the Sugar Bowl or the Fiesta Bowl for the nth time in a row, they only brought about 6K fans.

Stanfraud at the Music City Bowl some years ago only brought about 3K fans (weather was bad too).

I'd be surprised to see UNC bring a lot of fans up to Detroit.

UNC will NOT travel well to this game..you can "bank" on it.

(12-07-2014 02:57 PM)BarsemaBone2 Wrote:  Toledo's going to Mobile for the godaddy, so they were the next pick.

Nope. Bowling Green vs. state in GoDaddy

(12-09-2014 10:55 PM)southernwolf Wrote:  

(12-07-2014 02:57 PM)BarsemaBone2 Wrote:  Toledo's going to Mobile for the godaddy, so they were the next pick.

Nope. Bowling Green vs. state in GoDaddy

Watcha talkin 'bout, Willis? The GoDaddy.com Bowl says:

Quote:Mobile, Ala (Dec. 7, 2014) – The GoDaddy Bowl announced today that the University of Toledo (8-4, 7-1) with the Mid-American Conference has accepted an invitation to play in the 2015 GoDaddy Bowl against the Sun Belt Conference representative, Arkansas State University. The 16th annual GoDaddy Bowl will be played on Sunday, Jan. 4, 2015, at Ladd-Peebles Stadium and televised nationally at 8:00 pm on ESPN.

You sayin' the GoDaddy.com Bowl folks don't know who is playing in their own bowl?

(12-08-2014 04:38 PM)UofToledoFans Wrote:  I bet the bowl draws 23.5k there. Big schools still travel and the game promotes decently well. It's a Michiganders fill for football during the holidays with UM staying at home.

*cough* GoDaddy Bowl *cough*