(08-10-2019 05:43 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  

(08-10-2019 05:03 PM)Kit-Cat Wrote:  I'm not sure if either Shreveport of Mobile are going to make it.

Mobile will be fine. They have done a good job of creating their own niche in the bowl world. Thier expenses are in line with what they are and they get good local support. Mobile doesn't need P5 ties to survive. Frankly, the Indy would do very well as a premier G5 game. But because they waited too long trying to get a P5 tie. Lets be honest, a Pac12 tie wasnt really going to help them anyway. I doubt Pac12 fans were going to show up big in Shreveport. No the Indy Bowl has to figure out a way to survive the next 6 years as a bottom of the barrel scrub game before they can try to reinvent themselves as a premier G5 bowl game. Im not sure if they can make it 6 years or not.

Mobile doesn't have a title sponsor. Neither them or Shreveport have shown up in the official bowl pool release for the AAC, MWC or MAC.

I don't know if at the end of the day we might see a city move for one of these games to land a title sponsor.

Shreveport (49k) to Little Rock (54k)
Mobile (25k) to San Marcos (30k)

Upgraded venues and recruiting markets.

Independence Bowl at War Memorial Stadium would make a healthy addition to the AAC bowl pool.

San Marcos could make a good CUSA/SBC game with all the Texas area programs.