I'll update as more are posted by their respective sites...

CBS:
Camellia Bowl (Akron vs South Alabama)
New Orleans Bowl (Southern Miss vs Lafayette)
Cure Bowl (UCF Vs Troy)
Dollar General Bowl (Western Michigan vs App State)
Arizona Bowl: (Utah State vs Georgia Southern)
**AT LARGE**
St Petersburg Bowl (South Florida vs Arkansas State)

SB Nation:
New Orleans (Lafayette vs Louisiana Tech)
Cure (Georgia Southern vs UCF)
Camellia ( App State vs Central Michigan)
Dollar General (South Alabama vs Toledo)
Arizona (Troy vs Air Force)
**AT LARGE**
Hawaii (Idaho vs Hawaii)

Campus Insiders:
Cure (Arkansas State vs UCF)
Camellia (App State vs Akron)
New Orleans (Georgia Southern vs Louisiana Tech)
Dollar General (Troy vs Ohio)
Arizona (Lafayette vs Colorado State)
**AT LARGE**
St Petersburg (South Alabama vs Temple

To do our duty for the Sun Belt, Idaho will humbly accept a bowl game in Hawaii.

(10-30-2016 11:22 AM)RamblinRedWolf44 Wrote:  I'll update as more are posted by their respective sites...

CBS:
Camellia Bowl (Akron vs South Alabama)
New Orleans Bowl (Southern Miss vs Lafayette)
Cure Bowl (UCF Vs Troy)
Dollar General Bowl (Western Michigan vs App State)

Give me this.

Troy ain't going to Arizona

If we don't win the conference we will be in Montgomery

I think that if both the Sunbelt (Troy or App) and MAC (WMU) have ranked teams before the Bowls then the conferences (and ESPN) will work with the DG Bowl to make sure those two teams face off. Last year the bowl got really good ratings and if two ranked opponents face each other off (being the only bowl on TV that night) then the ratings would be even higher.


This is of course if WMU doesn't fall into an access bowl

I would be pretty mad if we get the same bowl in the same city two years in a row. I enjoyed it last year, but that would be redundant. I doubt I'd make it and I suspect 2/3 of the App fans who went last year would stay home too.

(10-30-2016 11:53 AM)Yosef Himself Wrote:  I think that if both the Sunbelt (Troy or App) and MAC (WMU) have ranked teams before the Bowls then the conferences (and ESPN) will work with the DG Bowl to make sure those two teams face off. Last year the bowl got really good ratings and if two ranked opponents face each other off (being the only bowl on TV that night) then the ratings would be even higher.


This is of course if WMU doesn't fall into an access bowl

DG is on a Friday now after two earlier games. It's also two days before Christmas.

They'll need all the help they can get for ratings to be good.


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I find it interesting that we're still seeing quite a number of projections with the Cajuns in. They have 4 losses with a money game still on the schedule. Not out of it, but having to either win at Georgia Southern or win at home vs Arkansas State along with beating Idaho and ULM is not exactly ideal.

All these projections are crap. Its not that hard to remember the rules.

1) The Go Daddy Bowl would rather NOT have USA
2) The Tuscon Bowl will get the last pick, not the first pick from the Belt
3) ULL's bowl chances are very dicey at this point. Idaho's are much more promising. Its also very difficult to see BOTH ULL and Ga Southern bowling.

Here's how I see things shaking out assuming the Bowls demand their picks first.

Troy - Dollar Genr'l
App - New Orleans as USM will be the other team (and therefore the game would be a rematch)
Ark State - Cure
Ga Southern - Camelia
Idaho-Arizona (they'll get screwed by the league as they are leaving and get placed in the crummy bowl. League will say its because of geograpy)
USA - One of the leftover slots.

Of course, that would probably mean that USA would get the best matchup. But know that the Belt would have to get 6 BE teams to get a team to another bowl. So lets assume Troy goes somewhere - say Birmingham or Shreveport (or maybe even Dallas) to play a P5. Then it would look like this

Birmingham - Troy
Dollar General - App State/Ark State
New Orleans - Ark State/App State
Orlando - Ga Southern/USA
Montgomery - Ga Southern/USA
Tuscon - Idaho

Of course this all assumes that USA doesn't get 'last pick' from the NCAA as a 6-6 team with 2 FCS wins (No idea how that really works - I know contracted bowls have to fill their slots with teams first), then it might be mandated that USA goes to the different bowl (which could mean playing EMU in Boise or playing Notre Dame in St Petersburg - total crap shoot)

(10-30-2016 12:21 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  All these projections are crap. Its not that hard to remember the rules.

1) The Go Daddy Bowl would rather NOT have USA
2) The Tuscon Bowl will get the last pick, not the first pick from the Belt
3) ULL's bowl chances are very dicey at this point. Idaho's are much more promising. Its also very difficult to see BOTH ULL and Ga Southern bowling.

Here's how I see things shaking out assuming the Bowls demand their picks first.

Troy - Dollar Genr'l
App - New Orleans as USM will be the other team (and therefore the game would be a rematch)
Ark State - Cure
Ga Southern - Camelia
Idaho-Arizona (they'll get screwed by the league as they are leaving and get placed in the crummy bowl. League will say its because of geograpy)
USA - One of the leftover slots.

Of course, that would probably mean that USA would get the best matchup. But know that the Belt would have to get 6 BE teams to get a team to another bowl. So lets assume Troy goes somewhere - say Birmingham or Shreveport (or maybe even Dallas) to play a P5. Then it would look like this

Birmingham - Troy
Dollar General - App State/Ark State
New Orleans - Ark State/App State
Orlando - Ga Southern/USA
Montgomery - Ga Southern/USA
Tuscon - Idaho

Of course this all assumes that USA doesn't get 'last pick' from the NCAA as a 6-6 team with 2 FCS wins (No idea how that really works - I know contracted bowls have to fill their slots with teams first), then it might be mandated that USA goes to the different bowl (which could mean playing EMU in Boise or playing Notre Dame in St Petersburg - total crap shoot)

If I was to take a wild guess, if it gets down to Camelia and Orlando and both Southern and Arkansas State are available, the two bowls will come to an agreement to send Southern to Orlando.

Reality is that Both fan bases would travel well to Montgomery, but only one will travel well to Orlando.

CFN
Camellia: eastern Michigan vs Troy
New Orleans: Louisiana tech vs Arkansas state
Cure: Tulsa vs Georgia southern
Dollar general: central Michigan vs south al
Arizona: Air Force vs app state

(10-30-2016 12:21 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  All these projections are crap. Its not that hard to remember the rules.

1) The Go Daddy Bowl would rather NOT have USA
2) The Tuscon Bowl will get the last pick, not the first pick from the Belt
3) ULL's bowl chances are very dicey at this point. Idaho's are much more promising. Its also very difficult to see BOTH ULL and Ga Southern bowling.

Here's how I see things shaking out assuming the Bowls demand their picks first.

Troy - Dollar Genr'l
App - New Orleans as USM will be the other team (and therefore the game would be a rematch)
Ark State - Cure
Ga Southern - Camelia
Idaho-Arizona (they'll get screwed by the league as they are leaving and get placed in the crummy bowl. League will say its because of geograpy)
USA - One of the leftover slots.

Of course, that would probably mean that USA would get the best matchup. But know that the Belt would have to get 6 BE teams to get a team to another bowl. So lets assume Troy goes somewhere - say Birmingham or Shreveport (or maybe even Dallas) to play a P5. Then it would look like this

Birmingham - Troy
Dollar General - App State/Ark State
New Orleans - Ark State/App State
Orlando - Ga Southern/USA
Montgomery - Ga Southern/USA
Tuscon - Idaho

Of course this all assumes that USA doesn't get 'last pick' from the NCAA as a 6-6 team with 2 FCS wins (No idea how that really works - I know contracted bowls have to fill their slots with teams first), then it might be mandated that USA goes to the different bowl (which could mean playing EMU in Boise or playing Notre Dame in St Petersburg - total crap shoot)

I don't really view the Arizona Bowl as a screwing the way the rest of you would. We'll travel better to that one and play a Mountain West team. Fine with me.

Well Tucson is a loooong trip. Almost the same distance from Moscow as Jonesboro. The TV situation there is awful as well.

(10-30-2016 01:22 PM)arkstfan Wrote:  Well Tucson is a loooong trip. Almost the same distance from Moscow as Jonesboro. The TV situation there is awful as well.

Arizona is where Idahoans buy 2nd homes to escape the winter. There'll be plenty of us down there already in late December. Practically everybody has at least a few friends/family there and want an excuse to visit.

(10-30-2016 01:22 PM)arkstfan Wrote:  Well Tucson is a loooong trip. Almost the same distance from Moscow as Jonesboro. The TV situation there is awful as well.

Yep. The TV is what makes it a bad deal. But maybe for you guys it would be nice.

(10-30-2016 01:28 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  

(10-30-2016 01:22 PM)arkstfan Wrote:  Well Tucson is a loooong trip. Almost the same distance from Moscow as Jonesboro. The TV situation there is awful as well.

Yep. The TV is what makes it a bad deal. But maybe for you guys it would be nice.

I do agree on the TV. But I'd make the trip anyway so I don't care. Not likely to see another Idaho bowl game anytime soon given the situation.

(10-30-2016 12:03 PM)DrGonzo Wrote:  I would be pretty mad if we get the same bowl in the same city two years in a row. I enjoyed it last year, but that would be redundant. I doubt I'd make it and I suspect 2/3 of the App fans who went last year would stay home too.

Oh, you poor thing. I wouldn't feel sorry for you one bit. Try same bowl 4 years in a row.

(10-30-2016 01:38 PM)GoBigRed26 Wrote:  

(10-30-2016 12:03 PM)DrGonzo Wrote:  I would be pretty mad if we get the same bowl in the same city two years in a row. I enjoyed it last year, but that would be redundant. I doubt I'd make it and I suspect 2/3 of the App fans who went last year would stay home too.

Oh, you poor thing. I wouldn't feel sorry for you one bit. Try same bowl 4 years in a row.

To be fair the SBC only had two bowl tie-ins for a time.

(10-30-2016 12:21 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  All these projections are crap. Its not that hard to remember the rules.

1) The Go Daddy Bowl would rather NOT have USA
2) The Tuscon Bowl will get the last pick, not the first pick from the Belt
3) ULL's bowl chances are very dicey at this point. Idaho's are much more promising. Its also very difficult to see BOTH ULL and Ga Southern bowling.

Here's how I see things shaking out assuming the Bowls demand their picks first.

Troy - Dollar Genr'l
App - New Orleans as USM will be the other team (and therefore the game would be a rematch)
Ark State - Cure
Ga Southern - Camelia
Idaho-Arizona (they'll get screwed by the league as they are leaving and get placed in the crummy bowl. League will say its because of geograpy)
USA - One of the leftover slots.

Of course, that would probably mean that USA would get the best matchup. But know that the Belt would have to get 6 BE teams to get a team to another bowl. So lets assume Troy goes somewhere - say Birmingham or Shreveport (or maybe even Dallas) to play a P5. Then it would look like this

Birmingham - Troy
Dollar General - App State/Ark State
New Orleans - Ark State/App State
Orlando - Ga Southern/USA
Montgomery - Ga Southern/USA
Tuscon - Idaho

Of course this all assumes that USA doesn't get 'last pick' from the NCAA as a 6-6 team with 2 FCS wins (No idea how that really works - I know contracted bowls have to fill their slots with teams first), then it might be mandated that USA goes to the different bowl (which could mean playing EMU in Boise or playing Notre Dame in St Petersburg - total crap shoot)

Dang, Tucson is the crummy bowl? I'll take it in a heartbeat over getting stuck in Boise again. Of course, gotta win two more first.

(10-30-2016 12:28 PM)chiefsfan Wrote:  

(10-30-2016 12:21 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  All these projections are crap. Its not that hard to remember the rules.

1) The Go Daddy Bowl would rather NOT have USA
2) The Tuscon Bowl will get the last pick, not the first pick from the Belt
3) ULL's bowl chances are very dicey at this point. Idaho's are much more promising. Its also very difficult to see BOTH ULL and Ga Southern bowling.

Here's how I see things shaking out assuming the Bowls demand their picks first.

Troy - Dollar Genr'l
App - New Orleans as USM will be the other team (and therefore the game would be a rematch)
Ark State - Cure
Ga Southern - Camelia
Idaho-Arizona (they'll get screwed by the league as they are leaving and get placed in the crummy bowl. League will say its because of geograpy)
USA - One of the leftover slots.

Of course, that would probably mean that USA would get the best matchup. But know that the Belt would have to get 6 BE teams to get a team to another bowl. So lets assume Troy goes somewhere - say Birmingham or Shreveport (or maybe even Dallas) to play a P5. Then it would look like this

Birmingham - Troy
Dollar General - App State/Ark State
New Orleans - Ark State/App State
Orlando - Ga Southern/USA
Montgomery - Ga Southern/USA
Tuscon - Idaho

Of course this all assumes that USA doesn't get 'last pick' from the NCAA as a 6-6 team with 2 FCS wins (No idea how that really works - I know contracted bowls have to fill their slots with teams first), then it might be mandated that USA goes to the different bowl (which could mean playing EMU in Boise or playing Notre Dame in St Petersburg - total crap shoot)

If I was to take a wild guess, if it gets down to Camelia and Orlando and both Southern and Arkansas State are available, the two bowls will come to an agreement to send Southern to Orlando.

Reality is that Both fan bases would travel well to Montgomery, but only one will travel well to Orlando.

If we're only 6-6 And playing no better than we have been I'm inclined to think that we won't travel well to anywhere, certainly not to Montgomery.