(11-27-2017 09:44 AM)BullsFanInTX Wrote:  From USF beat writer Joey Knight. Only posting because there was speculation USF may play in Gasparilla bowl vs. CUSA team.

Joey Knight‏
@TBTimes_Bulls
1h1 hour ago
More
I keep hearing #USF likely bound for Military Bowl or a game with a secondary AAC tie-in (i.e. Liberty, Independence). We'll probably know well before Sunday's bowl selection show.

How trustworthy is this beat? I would think that the conference would be obliged to fill all of its primary tie-ins before any secondaries. Even if by some massive screwjob, UCF/Memphis is left out of the NY6, the AAC only has seven eligible teams and seven tie-ins. I'd be interested to see the structure of the Indy Bowl's contracts with each conference.

My guesses:

Military: South Florida vs. Florida State
Independence: North Texas vs. Duke
Liberty: West Virginia vs. UCLA or Utah

The AAC has a clause where secondary ties or swaps can supersede primaries. They've done it before and left lower tier bowls unfulfilled. Since the inception of the champ game, both partcipants have ended the year ranked in the CFP. Looks likely again this year. Both will get P5 opponents. As USF is ranked in two polls, they will probably play a power school if at all possible as well.

Peter Fleischer@Peter_Fleischer
Multiple sources tell me that Memphis could wind up playing a Big 12 opponent in the Liberty Bowl on Dec 30th.

Relative shortage of bowl-eligible SEC teams could allow the Liberty Bowl to flex in the local Tigers.

(11-27-2017 07:09 PM)gulfcoastgal Wrote:  The AAC has a clause where secondary ties or swaps can supersede primaries. They've done it before and left lower tier bowls unfulfilled. Since the inception of the champ game, both partcipants have ended the year ranked in the CFP. Looks likely again this year. Both will get P5 opponents. As USF is ranked in two polls, they will probably play a power school if at all possible as well.

Peter Fleischer@Peter_Fleischer
Multiple sources tell me that Memphis could wind up playing a Big 12 opponent in the Liberty Bowl on Dec 30th.

Relative shortage of bowl-eligible SEC teams could allow the Liberty Bowl to flex in the local Tigers.

Would it be normal to get to play at home like that?

(11-27-2017 07:24 PM)wkuhilltopperfan Wrote:  

(11-27-2017 07:09 PM)gulfcoastgal Wrote:  The AAC has a clause where secondary ties or swaps can supersede primaries. They've done it before and left lower tier bowls unfulfilled. Since the inception of the champ game, both partcipants have ended the year ranked in the CFP. Looks likely again this year. Both will get P5 opponents. As USF is ranked in two polls, they will probably play a power school if at all possible as well.

Peter Fleischer@Peter_Fleischer
Multiple sources tell me that Memphis could wind up playing a Big 12 opponent in the Liberty Bowl on Dec 30th.

Relative shortage of bowl-eligible SEC teams could allow the Liberty Bowl to flex in the local Tigers.

Would it be normal to get to play at home like that?

It would be a first as the Tigers have never played in the local bowl game.

Both ESPN guys are projecting FAU to New Mexico Bowl vs. SDSU on Dec. 16. That makes absolutely no sense to me. First off, even if we lose the conference championship game, don't we, basically, get to punch our own ticket (Lane Train and what not)? Secondly, an at worst a 9-4 record can't move our bowl game later than December 16?

For the record, I do not mind SDSU as an opponent. I mind such an early indiscreet bowl.

(11-27-2017 07:24 PM)wkuhilltopperfan Wrote:  

(11-27-2017 07:09 PM)gulfcoastgal Wrote:  The AAC has a clause where secondary ties or swaps can supersede primaries. They've done it before and left lower tier bowls unfulfilled. Since the inception of the champ game, both partcipants have ended the year ranked in the CFP. Looks likely again this year. Both will get P5 opponents. As USF is ranked in two polls, they will probably play a power school if at all possible as well.

Peter Fleischer@Peter_Fleischer
Multiple sources tell me that Memphis could wind up playing a Big 12 opponent in the Liberty Bowl on Dec 30th.

Relative shortage of bowl-eligible SEC teams could allow the Liberty Bowl to flex in the local Tigers.

Would it be normal to get to play at home like that?

Boise State used to do it a lot. Hawaii still does.

Yahoo sports from Tuesday 11/28...all 10 in

New Orleans - USM vs Troy
Cure - Marshall vs Georgia St
New Mexico - UTSA vs Fresno St
Boca Raton - FIU vs Temple
Frisco - UNT vs SMU
Bad Boy Mowers - FAU vs USF
Bahamas - UAB vs Ohio
Armed Forces - MT vs Army
Heart of Dallas - WKU vs Texas Tech
Independence - La Tech vs Florida St


Buffalo and Western Michigan of MAC along with Utah St of MWC eligible but left out
New Mexico St in Arizona Bowl

(11-30-2017 07:23 PM)usm99 Wrote:  Yahoo sports from Tuesday 11/28...all 10 in

New Orleans - USM vs Troy
Cure - Marshall vs Georgia St
New Mexico - UTSA vs Fresno St
Boca Raton - FIU vs Temple
Frisco - UNT vs SMU
Bad Boy Mowers - FAU vs USF
Bahamas - UAB vs Ohio
Armed Forces - MT vs Army
Heart of Dallas - WKU vs Texas Tech
Independence - La Tech vs Florida St


Buffalo and Western Michigan of MAC along with Utah St of MWC eligible but left out
New Mexico St in Arizona Bowl

I would rather sit at home and stick tooth picks in my eyes than go back to the Armed Forces Bowl and play an academy.

(11-30-2017 07:32 PM)ThreeifbyLightning Wrote:  

(11-30-2017 07:23 PM)usm99 Wrote:  Yahoo sports from Tuesday 11/28...all 10 in

New Orleans - USM vs Troy
Cure - Marshall vs Georgia St
New Mexico - UTSA vs Fresno St
Boca Raton - FIU vs Temple
Frisco - UNT vs SMU
Bad Boy Mowers - FAU vs USF
Bahamas - UAB vs Ohio
Armed Forces - MT vs Army
Heart of Dallas - WKU vs Texas Tech
Independence - La Tech vs Florida St


Buffalo and Western Michigan of MAC along with Utah St of MWC eligible but left out
New Mexico St in Arizona Bowl

I would rather sit at home and stick tooth picks in my eyes than go back to the Armed Forces Bowl and play an academy.

Worked out good for us last year.