GMAC Miami 4-3 vs La-Lafayette
Humanitarian NIU 5-2 vs Nevada
Little Ceasars Temple 5-2 vs Illinois
others with winning records
Toledo 4-3
Ohio 4-3
Toledo will get one over Miami if the MAC only gets three bowls, Toledo has played 2 in the top 10 of the computer polls. With a win against Purdue. Doesn't matter yet tho.
Bowls don't care much about all that, UTfan....they only care about putting "butts in seats' and TV revenues. Miami lost to Florida and Missou. Again, that certainly doesn't mean Miami would get the nod over UT, anyway.
CFN has Toledo and Nevada in the Humanitarian, NIU and UL-Laf in the Little Caesars, and Temple and Mid-Tenn in the GMAC.
CFN Bowl Projections
ESPN's bowl projections:
Mark S.:
GMAC Bowl: Temple vs. Florida International
Little Caesar's: Toledo vs. Indiana
Humanitarian: Northern Illinois vs. Fresno State
Andrea A.:
GMAC Bowl: Temple vs. Troy
Little Caesar's: Northern Illinois vs. Louisiana-Monroe
Humanitarian: Ohio vs. Idaho
Will be interesting to see how many MAC teams get to 7 wins, as I think there will be openings elsewhere ..... most likely the Pac-10 and SEC not filling all their slots.
Why is the MAC get penciled into the Humanitarian Bowl? That is in Boise, who wants to go to Boise in late December. I don't understand the connection.
(10-17-2010 09:24 PM)NIU05 Wrote: [ -> ]Why is the MAC get penciled into the Humanitarian Bowl? That is in Boise, who wants to go to Boise in late December. I don't understand the connection.
The Humanitarian Bowl is one of the MAC's three contracted bowl agreements.
Boise has ski resorts which makes it an interesting bowl to attend. Would be a nice trip as its a place lots of MAC fans haven't been too. I've been to Mobile, Detroit and Toronto. WAC vs MAC is a good bowl matchup. Game should be competitive and a chance for the MAC to play some teams we rarely face.
I assume the BT will have probably 9 (most likely number) bowl eligibles and one for Detroit.
Probably IL, IN or Purdue (two of those should hit 6 wins).
It could be our best team vs. a weak BT team.
Big 10 could still place 2 in BCS but I expect the league to beat each other up a bit as there's 4 real good teams - osu, wisky, iowa, msu- 2 good teams in michigan, nwestern and several decent teams - penn st, illinois, purdue, maybe indiana. 6 def bowl teams with the rest depending on how the chips fall.
indiana prob has the least bowl appeal in the league for most bowls but would be a nice pizza bowl team (nearby, would be excited as they seldom go bowling, decent name). penn st would go to a bigger bowl unless they were 6-6 and unable to go elsewhere due to ncaa regs. purdue might be coming together under henry but could also lose 5 in a row. illinois needs another small upset or 2 to get bowl eligible.
toledo-indiana would be a great pizza bowl matchup and prob be the best attendance option, imo, unless penn st manages to find a way to go 6-6 and tie for 8th w another 6-6 team.
niu-nevada in boise would be a nice matchup although the niu fans would prob prefer detroit (dont get to say that often).
temple in the bayou against a mediocre sun belt team sounds right. i could see the humanitarian folks interested but temple feels like a bad match for the offensive minded wac.
miami - ohio winner will be in the picture but may need a break to fill a non-mac slot elsewhere.