http://espn.go.com/college-football/bowl...anked-1-35

They aren't good bowls but at least 6 C-USA teams are going.

(12-11-2013 10:35 AM)BeliefBlazer Wrote:  They aren't good bowls but at least 6 C-USA teams are going.

Indeed, and every one of them deserving. We had 4 teams at 6-6 which to me, don't really deserve bowl slots. Future C-USA member WKU finished at 8-4 but we couldn't even buy them a spot.

5 of the bottom 6 bowls have a CUSA team..... If anything, ESPN is consistent.

(12-11-2013 11:58 PM)RUNVSFD MINER Wrote:  5 of the bottom 6 bowls have a CUSA team..... If anything, ESPN is consistent.

Fak ESPN.

(12-11-2013 10:35 AM)BeliefBlazer Wrote:  They aren't good bowls but at least 6 C-USA teams are going.

And cajun guy (ULL?) who started this thread, wasn't it about 5 Sun Belt bowl eligible schools who your Commish' Benson couldn't get bowl invites as to be ranked even lower?

There were other reasons that many of us wanted out of the 'Belt and I'd say that that is one of them. WKU is counting the hours, minutes and seconds to get out themselves.

ESPN sets the opponents with many of their bowl games of which one of their online writers has poo-poo'ed. Stop the presses! "1" ESPN writer has spoken (or written). Hell, didn't know they knew there were any other bowls as it is than the BCS bowl games that will determine a national champion. Question: How many lower tier Power 5 schools will really ever play for an NCAA national championship? That honor still seems to be reserved for only about 10 elite mega schools and none of that will change in most of your lifetimes.

Fact is, If not for Jerry Sandusky, North Texas would probably be playing a Big 10 opponent at the HOD who'd bring so many more fans than most G5 schools. UNT alums pumped in some bucks to turn $75 dollar bowl tickets into $25 dollar discounted tickets exclusvie for UNT students only....those ticket sales started today at the Apogee Stadium ticket office. Screw ESPN! I will still pay $75 for some tickets to go see my school play a bowl game on New Years Day in the historic Cotton Bowl stadium!

North Texas? We once traveled 20K fans for a UT-Austin game and last decade for a Tuesday night bowl game 8-9 hours away from DFW, we traveled 17,000 Mean Green fans. With those traveling numbers in mind, it's easy to say that we will have a bunch of celebrative New Years Day bowl fans all wearing green at the HOD Bowl which is about 50 minutes from UNT campus central.

Even 10 days ago Syracuse, Boston College and Pitt were interested in coming down to Big D to tee it up with a C-USA school. If that would have happened, ESPN and the very biased eastern sports media would have kicked the ranking of the HOD Bowl upward quite noticeably. Sorta' the thing we still (100 plus years later) have to deal with from that group down here in the Deep South, the Southwest and, uh, Texas, right?

(12-12-2013 09:54 AM)MeanGreenGem Wrote:  

(12-11-2013 10:35 AM)BeliefBlazer Wrote:  They aren't good bowls but at least 6 C-USA teams are going.

And cajun guy (ULL?) who started this thread, wasn't it about 5 Sun Belt bowl eligible schools who your Commish' Benson couldn't get bowl invites as to be ranked even lower?

There were other reasons that many of us wanted out of the 'Belt and I'd say that that is one of them. WKU is counting the hours, minutes and seconds to get out themselves.

ESPN sets the opponents with many of their bowl games of which one of their online writers has poo-poo'ed. Stop the presses! "1" ESPN writer has spoken (or written). Hell, didn't know they knew there were any other bowls as it is than the BCS bowl games that will determine a national champion. Question: How many lower tier Power 5 schools will really ever play for an NCAA national championship? That honor still seems to be reserved for only about 10 elite mega schools and none of that will change in most of your lifetimes.

Fact is, If not for Jerry Sandusky, North Texas would probably be playing a Big 10 opponent at the HOD who'd bring so many more fans than most G5 schools. UNT alums pumped in some bucks to turn $75 dollar bowl tickets into $25 dollar discounted tickets exclusvie for UNT students only....those ticket sales started today at the Apogee Stadium ticket office. Screw ESPN! I will still pay $75 for some tickets to go see my school play a bowl game on New Years Day in the historic Cotton Bowl stadium!

North Texas? We once traveled 20K fans for a UT-Austin game and last decade for a Tuesday night bowl game 8-9 hours away from DFW, we traveled 17,000 Mean Green fans. With those traveling numbers in mind, it's easy to say that we will have a bunch of celebrative New Years Day bowl fans all wearing green at the HOD Bowl which is about 50 minutes from UNT campus central.

Even 10 days ago Syracuse, Boston College and Pitt were interested in coming down to Big D to tee it up with a C-USA school. If that would have happened, ESPN and the very biased eastern sports media would have kicked the ranking of the HOD Bowl upward quite noticeably. Sorta' the thing we still (100 plus years later) have to deal with from that group down here in the Deep South, the Southwest and, uh, Texas, right?

Uh, I think I clearly stated that only 3 Belt teams deserved a bowl this year.....6-6 doesn't cut it in my book, and there were 4 of them. According to the conference commissioner, he even tried to buy a spot for WKU but wasn't successful.

I was honestly shocked and disappointed when UNT lost at home to UTSA with so much on the line. Win that game and I suspect you guys would have been playing a P-5 in the HOD bowl if you hadn't gone on to win the conference outright which was another possibility.

(12-12-2013 11:48 AM)CajunFanatico Wrote:  

(12-12-2013 09:54 AM)MeanGreenGem Wrote:  

(12-11-2013 10:35 AM)BeliefBlazer Wrote:  They aren't good bowls but at least 6 C-USA teams are going.

And cajun guy (ULL?) who started this thread, wasn't it about 5 Sun Belt bowl eligible schools who your Commish' Benson couldn't get bowl invites as to be ranked even lower?

There were other reasons that many of us wanted out of the 'Belt and I'd say that that is one of them. WKU is counting the hours, minutes and seconds to get out themselves.

ESPN sets the opponents with many of their bowl games of which one of their online writers has poo-poo'ed. Stop the presses! "1" ESPN writer has spoken (or written). Hell, didn't know they knew there were any other bowls as it is than the BCS bowl games that will determine a national champion. Question: How many lower tier Power 5 schools will really ever play for an NCAA national championship? That honor still seems to be reserved for only about 10 elite mega schools and none of that will change in most of your lifetimes.

Fact is, If not for Jerry Sandusky, North Texas would probably be playing a Big 10 opponent at the HOD who'd bring so many more fans than most G5 schools. UNT alums pumped in some bucks to turn $75 dollar bowl tickets into $25 dollar discounted tickets exclusvie for UNT students only....those ticket sales started today at the Apogee Stadium ticket office. Screw ESPN! I will still pay $75 for some tickets to go see my school play a bowl game on New Years Day in the historic Cotton Bowl stadium!

North Texas? We once traveled 20K fans for a UT-Austin game and last decade for a Tuesday night bowl game 8-9 hours away from DFW, we traveled 17,000 Mean Green fans. With those traveling numbers in mind, it's easy to say that we will have a bunch of celebrative New Years Day bowl fans all wearing green at the HOD Bowl which is about 50 minutes from UNT campus central.

Even 10 days ago Syracuse, Boston College and Pitt were interested in coming down to Big D to tee it up with a C-USA school. If that would have happened, ESPN and the very biased eastern sports media would have kicked the ranking of the HOD Bowl upward quite noticeably. Sorta' the thing we still (100 plus years later) have to deal with from that group down here in the Deep South, the Southwest and, uh, Texas, right?

Uh, I think I clearly stated that only 3 Belt teams deserved a bowl this year.....6-6 doesn't cut it in my book, and there were 4 of them. According to the conference commissioner, he even tried to buy a spot for WKU but wasn't successful.

I was honestly shocked and disappointed when UNT lost at home to UTSA with so much on the line. Win that game and I suspect you guys would have been playing a P-5 in the HOD bowl if you hadn't gone on to win the conference outright which was another possibility.

But you ran to your Belt board as quick as you could and started this thread.

I See The Whining Has Started Across The Street
http://csnbbs.com/thread-666370.html

Yes, and it was accurate, was it not? Didn't look, but I wouldn't be surprised if one of those comments wasn't yours.

Teams that are good enough to beat a P-5 team, but whine about not getting a 'worthy' opponent, often lose the game. Happens all the time in March Madness.

BTW, thanks for linking to the Belt forum, your second home.

(12-12-2013 12:49 PM)CajunFanatico Wrote:  Yes, and it was accurate, was it not? Didn't look, but I wouldn't be surprised if one of those comments wasn't yours.

Teams that are good enough to beat a P-5 team, but whine about not getting a 'worthy' opponent, often lose the game. Happens all the time in March Madness.

BTW, thanks for linking to the Belt forum, your second home.

Nope, didn't comment. Belt wouldn't be of interest if you folks didn't have such a fixation with CUSA. You're a busy little beaver scouting for stuff to post about CUSA on your Belt board.

(12-12-2013 01:00 PM)MG61 Wrote:  

(12-12-2013 12:49 PM)CajunFanatico Wrote:  Yes, and it was accurate, was it not? Didn't look, but I wouldn't be surprised if one of those comments wasn't yours.

Teams that are good enough to beat a P-5 team, but whine about not getting a 'worthy' opponent, often lose the game. Happens all the time in March Madness.

BTW, thanks for linking to the Belt forum, your second home.

Nope, didn't comment. Belt wouldn't be of interest if you folks didn't have such a fixation with CUSA. You're a busy little beaver scouting for stuff to post about CUSA on your Belt board.

And hellbells, MG61, I've been one touting for ULL to be the next CUSA addition as it is! Go figure....