It's almost Christmas! Time to go to bed. Check back here in the morning and I'll have some good HOD news to share with C-USA.

Merry Christmas!

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(12-25-2016 12:00 AM)Side Show Joe Wrote:  It's almost Christmas! Time to go to bed. Check back here in the morning and I'll have some good HOD news to share with C-USA.

Merry Christmas!

Don't you tease me like that. If you've got something to say, spill it! lol

The Heart of Dallas Bowl is our last one of the season.

Here is the layout for the game. North Texas will again be on the visitors side, while Army will have the home side. This year they are not selling tickets in the upper deck, or in one of the end zones. With that said, it appears Army is bringing a large crowd. After looking at the available tickets, Army appears to have filled most of their seats! By my estimation, Army has filled all of the home side except for about 1,500 seats. That's really good. UNVL didn't even bring 3K when we played them.

You might be thinking Army is going to really have a home field advantage right in the heart of North Texas, but not so fast... North Texas has filled all of their seats on the visitors side, except 7. That's right. Here on Christmas Day, two days before the HOD, there are only 7 seats available on the Mean Green's side of the field.

General admission is located in the end zone and I have no idea how many of those tickets are still available. But it looks like North Texas will again outnumber our opponent in this bowl (though not by much), and we still have a good chance of setting a new attendance record for the HOD.

I want to give Army lots of credit for bringing their fans. Hope all C-USA fans get to watch this one. It should be fun to see on TV.

Here is a link to the HOD interactive ticket page where you can see the available seating.

http://heartofdallasbowl.tix.com/Generic...ode=888623

The subject says Breaking news. Well the news wasn't posted when it was breaking. It was posted in the morning. I'm suing for false advertising.

(12-25-2016 09:23 AM)Hilltopper2K Wrote:  The subject says Breaking news. Well the news wasn't posted when it was breaking. It was posted in the morning. I'm suing for false advertising.

Just wanted to get everyone a Christmas surprise. Merry Christmas!!!

As somebody else noted , a losing record bowl team has never lost in a bowl game......dont screw this up North Texas.....cheers and good luck

(12-25-2016 09:26 AM)wkuhilltopperfan Wrote:  As somebody else noted , a losing record bowl team has never lost in a bowl game......dont screw this up North Texas.....cheers and good luck

if there is one thing that north texas football can do...it's to screw shiatt up...

A packed stadium is bad for parking but great for the game.

I am pumped.

They arent selling upper deck? They had end zones roped off in 2014 so I assumed they didnt sell tickets then either.

(12-25-2016 09:18 AM)Side Show Joe Wrote:  The Heart of Dallas Bowl is our last one of the season.

Here is the layout for the game. North Texas will again be on the visitors side, while Army will have the home side. This year they are not selling tickets in the upper deck, or in one of the end zones. With that said, it appears Army is bringing a large crowd. After looking at the available tickets, Army appears to have filled most of their seats! By my estimation, Army has filled all of the home side except for about 1,500 seats. That's really good. UNVL didn't even bring 3K when we played them.

You might be thinking Army is going to really have a home field advantage right in the heart of North Texas, but not so fast... North Texas has filled all of their seats on the visitors side, except 7. That's right. Here on Christmas Day, two days before the HOD, there are only 7 seats available on the Mean Green's side of the field.

General admission is located in the end zone and I have no idea how many of those tickets are still available. But it looks like North Texas will again outnumber our opponent in this bowl (though not by much), and we still have a good chance of setting a new attendance record for the HOD.

I want to give Army lots of credit for bringing their fans. Hope all C-USA fans get to watch this one. It should be fun to see on TV.

Here is a link to the HOD interactive ticket page where you can see the available seating.

http://heartofdallasbowl.tix.com/Generic...ode=888623

Just remember, HogDawg called on it on 12/19 right here on this board (another thread, post #30).....attendance for this game will be 50K+.

(12-25-2016 12:27 PM)HarmonOliphantOberlanderDevine Wrote:  A packed stadium is bad for parking but great for the game.

I am pumped.

you could always take the DART trains from various spots around the city, depending on where you are staying. 5 bucks for an all day pass

https://www.dart.org/schedules/schedules.asp

many north texas fans are taking the train from denton or other spots along I35 and the plano/addison area. the green line stops right at fair park (cotton bowl)

Good for you Mean Green. Beat the Army, Again and bring home the win.

Just like last time, there will be many NT fans on the Army side. I doubt Army brings a large contingent but it would be cool if they did.


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(12-25-2016 02:30 PM)JimBowiesKnife Wrote:  Just like last time, there will be many NT fans on the Army side. I doubt Army brings a large contingent but it would be cool if they did.


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Army will be well represented and casual fans will be there to support Army, so I expect Army will have at least 20k.

Army will bring out more casual fans and veterans from Dallas plus soldiers from Ft. Hood. The Armed Forces Bowl has more community support (from the locals in Ft. Worth (TCU fans) than the HOD bowl but I wouldn't be surprise with 30k UNT and 20-25k Army fans

(12-25-2016 03:49 PM)Dawgxas Wrote:  

(12-25-2016 02:30 PM)JimBowiesKnife Wrote:  Just like last time, there will be many NT fans on the Army side. I doubt Army brings a large contingent but it would be cool if they did.


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Army will be well represented and casual fans will be there to support Army, so I expect Army will have at least 20k.

Army will bring out more casual fans and veterans from Dallas plus soldiers from Ft. Hood. The Armed Forces Bowl has more community support (from the locals in Ft. Worth (TCU fans) than the HOD bowl but I wouldn't be surprise with 30k UNT and 20-25k Army fans

This is the way I see it too. Army is going to have a large crowd. I know North Texas fans are buying some tickets on the home side, but most on the home side are being purchased by Army fans. I believe we will have over 45K. Maybe as many as 55K. If the HOD opens up seats in the upper deck, then we know it is going to be one of the highest attended non-New Years Day bowl games.

(12-25-2016 09:26 AM)wkuhilltopperfan Wrote:  As somebody else noted , a losing record bowl team has never lost in a bowl game......dont screw this up North Texas.....cheers and good luck

too late

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_New_Orleans_Bowl

Good luck, Mean Green!

The claim was that no team participating in a bowl via APR exemption has lost. There have been a few teams through history that have played in a bowl due to conference championship (such as North Texas winning the Sun Belt in 2001).

If you go back to the dawn of time, when teams were actually invited, SMU got an invitation at 4-6, although they were at 4-4 when the invitation was extended and accepted. Very rare in the days when a lot of 8-2 and 7-3 teams sat home.