New Mexico Bowl
Schlabach: Air Force vs. UTEP
McMurphy: Utah State vs. UTEP

New Orleans Bowl
Schlabach: Georgia Southern vs. Southern Miss
McMurphy: UL Lafayette vs. Southern Miss

Boca Raton Bowl
Schlabach: Louisiana Tech vs. South Florida
McMurphy: Marshall vs. Memphis

Bahamas Bowl
Schlabach: Old Dominion vs. Temple
McMurphy: Louisiana Tech vs. Tulsa

Hawaii Bowl
Schlabach: Marshall vs. New Mexico
McMurphy: Middle Tennessee vs. Air Force

Heart of Dallas Bowl
Schlabach: Minnesota vs. Western Kentucky
McMurphy: Penn State vs. Western Kentucky

Arizona Bowl
Schlabach: Middle Tennessee vs. Utah State
McMurphy: Texas San Antonio vs. Nevada

http://www.espn.com/college-football/sto...son-week-2

I will take any bowl that I can get. If there was going to be a year that Tech plays one way off, this would be the year to do it. I am building a house, Coaching PeeWee Football,raising 3 kids and over all busy as Heck. Unless its in Dallas, New Orleans, or Shreveport, there was no way I am going to make it. He Tech goes to Boca or Bahamas, I will feel a lot less guilty by not making it this year.

Travel to Arizona to play Utah State or Hawaii to play Air Force...

Joy.

Fun Story: Louisiana Lafayette was 4-8 last season and if Week 1 is any indication they haven't improved. Also, the Arizona Bowl no longer is a C-USA bowl as the C-USA dropped their spot which the Sun Belt picked up.

(09-06-2016 02:13 PM)ericsaid Wrote:  Fun Story: Louisiana Lafayette was 4-8 last season and if Week 1 is any indication they haven't improved. Also, the Arizona Bowl no longer is a C-USA bowl as the C-USA dropped their spot which the Sun Belt picked up.

Yeah, but if we don't have five bowl eligible teams the AZ Bowl will have to find someone at large.

(09-06-2016 02:13 PM)ericsaid Wrote:  Fun Story: Louisiana Lafayette was 4-8 last season and if Week 1 is any indication they haven't improved. Also, the Arizona Bowl no longer is a C-USA bowl as the C-USA dropped their spot which the Sun Belt picked up.

That was a fun story!

I just want us to go back to 6-6 so we can qualify for a bowl. WHICH and WHERE are secondary questions.

(09-06-2016 02:16 PM)MTPiKapp Wrote:  

(09-06-2016 02:13 PM)ericsaid Wrote:  Fun Story: Louisiana Lafayette was 4-8 last season and if Week 1 is any indication they haven't improved. Also, the Arizona Bowl no longer is a C-USA bowl as the C-USA dropped their spot which the Sun Belt picked up.

That was a fun story!

It just seems ridiculous to suggest that UL will win the conference over Southern or App (or Arkansas State for that matter given their recent levels of suck OOC only to win every game in conference) given UL showed no improvement in Week 1 versus how they performed last season. Also the fact that they fail to realize that the Arizona Bowl changed hands (not that they care anyway).

Our bowl lineup is crap.

Boom! Texas San Antonio to the non-televised Zona bowl. #Respect

(09-06-2016 02:21 PM)ericsaid Wrote:  

(09-06-2016 02:16 PM)MTPiKapp Wrote:  

(09-06-2016 02:13 PM)ericsaid Wrote:  Fun Story: Louisiana Lafayette was 4-8 last season and if Week 1 is any indication they haven't improved. Also, the Arizona Bowl no longer is a C-USA bowl as the C-USA dropped their spot which the Sun Belt picked up.

That was a fun story!

It just seems ridiculous to suggest that UL will win the conference over Southern or App (or Arkansas State for that matter given their recent levels of suck OOC only to win every game in conference) given UL showed no improvement in Week 1 versus how they performed last season. Also the fact that they fail to realize that the Arizona Bowl changed hands (not that they care anyway).

The Cajuns don't need to win the conference to go to NOLA, they played in four consecutive New Orleans bowls with only one conference co-championship in that time.

(09-06-2016 02:40 PM)SApuro Wrote:  Boom! Texas San Antonio to the non-televised Zona bowl. #Respect

You haven't heard???? It's now called The Duct Tape Shhhhhhhhh! Bowl...

(09-06-2016 02:41 PM)MTPiKapp Wrote:  

(09-06-2016 02:21 PM)ericsaid Wrote:  

(09-06-2016 02:16 PM)MTPiKapp Wrote:  

(09-06-2016 02:13 PM)ericsaid Wrote:  Fun Story: Louisiana Lafayette was 4-8 last season and if Week 1 is any indication they haven't improved. Also, the Arizona Bowl no longer is a C-USA bowl as the C-USA dropped their spot which the Sun Belt picked up.

That was a fun story!

It just seems ridiculous to suggest that UL will win the conference over Southern or App (or Arkansas State for that matter given their recent levels of suck OOC only to win every game in conference) given UL showed no improvement in Week 1 versus how they performed last season. Also the fact that they fail to realize that the Arizona Bowl changed hands (not that they care anyway).

The Cajuns don't need to win the conference to go to NOLA, they played in four consecutive New Orleans bowls with only one conference co-championship in that time.

It seemed to me that a lot of discussion last year centered around who would be the Conference Champions when discussing NOLA. Either way, I see them as having an uphill battle to even being bowl eligible with having to face stAte, App and Southern (finally).

In reality, no one knows how a team is going to produce all season long. USA beat SDSU last season and finished 5-7. Part of me expects something similar to occur this year. As far as the C-USA is, in my opinion the top teams are set as MTSU, WKU, Southern Miss, La Tech and Marshall.

(09-06-2016 05:44 PM)ericsaid Wrote:  It seemed to me that a lot of discussion last year centered around who would be the Conference Champions when discussing NOLA. Either way, I see them as having an uphill battle to even being bowl eligible with having to face stAte, App and Southern (finally).

Forgive me if I don't get this exactly right being several years removed from the Belt now(I'm sure someone can clarify) and it's possible it has changed, but while the New Orleans bowl is technically SBC #1, so long as the champion is accomodated elsewhere, NOLA can take whomever they like.

When we beat Southern Miss in the 2009 New Orleans Bowl we set a new attendance record(30,288) with a combination of proximity to Hattiesburg and first bowl that was travel friendly for MT(2006 Motor City Bowl was our first bowl, December 26th in Detroit was less than ideal, though I went on the student bus trip). The Cajuns destroyed that number three out of four years. Even by the fourth consecutive year the Cajuns were bringing 20k+ by themselves.

I could see any of stAte, App or GS traveling very well to NOLA, but none of you would bring the numbers the Cajuns will. It's probably the closest thing to a de facto bowl tie as there is. I'm not saying the Cajuns would never take another bowl, I'm not saying the New Orleans bowl won't ever take someone else over the Cajuns, but it's a mutually beneficial pairing.

At any rate, it's a must do trip if your school is ever invited.

(09-06-2016 02:36 PM)banker Wrote:  Our bowl lineup is crap.

I agree, good thing it's just someones pull it out of their a$$ guess.

Where's Rice? Oh yeah, 46-14. Never mind. See you when we surface again with our "late season surge" against the teams rated lower than our #108, and our Coach Bailiff tells us how we had another great season and signs yet another contract extension.

(09-06-2016 05:44 PM)ericsaid Wrote:  

(09-06-2016 02:41 PM)MTPiKapp Wrote:  

(09-06-2016 02:21 PM)ericsaid Wrote:  

(09-06-2016 02:16 PM)MTPiKapp Wrote:  

(09-06-2016 02:13 PM)ericsaid Wrote:  Fun Story: Louisiana Lafayette was 4-8 last season and if Week 1 is any indication they haven't improved. Also, the Arizona Bowl no longer is a C-USA bowl as the C-USA dropped their spot which the Sun Belt picked up.

That was a fun story!

It just seems ridiculous to suggest that UL will win the conference over Southern or App (or Arkansas State for that matter given their recent levels of suck OOC only to win every game in conference) given UL showed no improvement in Week 1 versus how they performed last season. Also the fact that they fail to realize that the Arizona Bowl changed hands (not that they care anyway).

The Cajuns don't need to win the conference to go to NOLA, they played in four consecutive New Orleans bowls with only one conference co-championship in that time.

It seemed to me that a lot of discussion last year centered around who would be the Conference Champions when discussing NOLA. Either way, I see them as having an uphill battle to even being bowl eligible with having to face stAte, App and Southern (finally).

In reality, no one knows how a team is going to produce all season long. USA beat SDSU last season and finished 5-7. Part of me expects something similar to occur this year. As far as the C-USA is, in my opinion the top teams are set as MTSU, WKU, Southern Miss, La Tech and Marshall.

Ok, in my mind if you are going to visit a foreign message board (and this one is about as foreign as you can get) and you name 5 top teams in a 13 team conference, you should just go ahead and name 6. You can add UTEP to the list that way. Thanks a bunch.

I certainly liked the looks of Schlabach's Bahamas Bowl. That's a trip I would be making in a heartbeat.

(09-07-2016 01:11 PM)MinerInWisconsin Wrote:  

(09-06-2016 05:44 PM)ericsaid Wrote:  

(09-06-2016 02:41 PM)MTPiKapp Wrote:  

(09-06-2016 02:21 PM)ericsaid Wrote:  

(09-06-2016 02:16 PM)MTPiKapp Wrote:  That was a fun story!

It just seems ridiculous to suggest that UL will win the conference over Southern or App (or Arkansas State for that matter given their recent levels of suck OOC only to win every game in conference) given UL showed no improvement in Week 1 versus how they performed last season. Also the fact that they fail to realize that the Arizona Bowl changed hands (not that they care anyway).

The Cajuns don't need to win the conference to go to NOLA, they played in four consecutive New Orleans bowls with only one conference co-championship in that time.

It seemed to me that a lot of discussion last year centered around who would be the Conference Champions when discussing NOLA. Either way, I see them as having an uphill battle to even being bowl eligible with having to face stAte, App and Southern (finally).

In reality, no one knows how a team is going to produce all season long. USA beat SDSU last season and finished 5-7. Part of me expects something similar to occur this year. As far as the C-USA is, in my opinion the top teams are set as MTSU, WKU, Southern Miss, La Tech and Marshall.

Ok, in my mind if you are going to visit a foreign message board (and this one is about as foreign as you can get) and you name 5 top teams in a 13 team conference, you should just go ahead and name 6. You can add UTEP to the list that way. Thanks a bunch.

UTEP seems to be getting quite a bit of respect from the media this season. Time will tell how good you are however without Larry Rose for NMSU it's difficult to say how meaningful Week 1 really is.

Sadly, Texas has an offense set up to demolish most G5 teams now so I don't think a lot will be learned from this weekend either. My opinion of the Top 5 teams is drawn primarily from the past couple of seasons and the fact that the gap between those 5 teams and the rest of the conference is so large that it's difficult to find a reason to rank the others.