(11-09-2021 11:31 AM)BirdofParadise Wrote:  New Orleans is a great spot to spend 3-4 nights prior to the bowl.
Mobile has a lot of things to do downtown and a lot of it is tied into the bowl.
There's plenty to do in Myrtle Beach, especially if you play golf.
I learned during the baseball tournament last year that Downtown Montgomery can be a lot of fun.
Orlando has the mouse.

All of our bowl tie ins are great.

I wish we would have had a few extra days in Dallas last year for the First Responder Bowl, but COVID killed that. (BTW. that game is at the SMU stadium not the Cotton Bowl.

The only other one that isn't out west is Boca and I'm not thrilled with it. Definitely not a college football town. The FAU stadium is nice, however.

Thanks. I'll correct it.

(11-09-2021 11:31 AM)BirdofParadise Wrote:  New Orleans is a great spot to spend 3-4 nights prior to the bowl.
Mobile has a lot of things to do downtown and a lot of it is tied into the bowl.
There's plenty to do in Myrtle Beach, especially if you play golf.
I learned during the baseball tournament last year that Downtown Montgomery can be a lot of fun.
Orlando has the mouse.

All of our bowl tie ins are great.

I wish we would have had a few extra days in Dallas last year for the First Responder Bowl, but COVID killed that. (BTW. that game is at the SMU stadium not the Cotton Bowl.

The only other one that isn't out west is Boca and I'm not thrilled with it. Definitely not a college football town. The FAU stadium is nice, however.

The one nice thing about Boca is you can roll down to Ft Lauderdale or Miami if you make it a multiday trip.

(11-08-2021 04:30 PM)All Dukes_All Day Wrote:  

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(11-08-2021 09:51 AM)Michael in Raleigh Wrote:  Currently, there are five bowl tie ins. The champion is not assigned one bowl game. It's just a selection order.

First, if the SB champion is the highest ranked G5 champion by the CFP, they go to a NY6 bowl.

Barring that, this is the order of selection:

1) ESPN-owned bowl game
2) New Orleans Bowl (vs. C-USA)
3) ESPN-owned bowl game
4) ESPN-owned bowl game
5) Mobile bowl game (currently called the Lending Tree Bowl) (vs. MAC)

ESPN-owned bowl games include Myrtle Beach, Cure (Orlando's MLS stadium), Camellia (Montgomery, AL), Frisco (north of Dallas, same stadium as FCS Championship), First Responder (Cotton Bowl Stadium in Dallas), Boca Raton, Idaho Potato (Boise),
and New Mexico (Albequerque). Most of these will be against C-USA or the MAC, some may be against the AAC, and the westernmost two would be against the MW.

I'm hoping that with the addition of four schools, we will get at least two additional tie-ins, keeping it at half the conference having bowl tie ins. One of the new ones I would hope can be against a P5 team, the other against archrival AAC. We have enough against the MAC and C-USA.

A lot of JMU fans are tired of Frisco and wished the championship game would rotate or flat out move. It'd be pretty funny if our first bowl ends up in Frisco after some "woohoo, no more trips to Frisco!" type reactions as one of many reasons to be excited for the move.

Frisco is okay but is a little too spread out to make it a fun destination for the FCS ship. I still remain bummed about 2008 and not being able to go to Chattanooga, which I hear was actually a pretty good destination town for the game.

The game is always a blast so really any complaint about the venue for me isn't a major one, somewhere that's cool to be aside from the game is just a nice bonus. Honestly the list of places I'd really be excited about isn't all that long anyway so if we weren't gonna really luck out and have the championship moved to Vegas then at least Chattanooga was easily drivable and Frisco was cheap to fly to. I was only 14 for the Chattanooga trip(actually the ride out was on my 14th birthday lol) and was sick so tough to judge there, but Frisco was alright the first time. Return trips just would've been nice to have some variety and I'd imagine NDSU fans feel that way even more.

Now with bowls at least there'll be some variety even if it's still not often anywhere I really care much about personally. A lot of them listed here are places I've never been though so hey, potential!

I agree. Myrtle Beach is obviously one of the top destinations and I imagine that it will essentially be a de-facto Sun Belt East game based on geography of the teams.

New Orleans is obviously a cool destination and even Mobile would be a nice break from the cold weather most of our fans and alums will be experiencing in late December/early January, with the added bonus of the AL gulf shores being very close.

Been to both NO and Mobile bowls, and my opinion there couldn’t have been a different experience, NO is one big 3 day party, with so much to do during the day, and then you get to watch your team in the SuperDome, great time! On the other hand, Mobile is this industrial, gritty, high crime city, which doesn’t have a lot to do other than attending the game.

(11-09-2021 06:07 PM)moehler Wrote:  On the other hand, Mobile is this industrial, gritty, high crime city, which doesn’t have a lot to do other than attending the game.

Exact opposite experience. Mobile was a party.

NOLA couldn't have given less of a crap. A few bars and drinking. Whooopdeedooo

(11-09-2021 06:19 PM)Yosef Himself Wrote:  

(11-09-2021 06:07 PM)moehler Wrote:  On the other hand, Mobile is this industrial, gritty, high crime city, which doesn’t have a lot to do other than attending the game.

Exact opposite experience. Mobile was a party.

NOLA couldn't have given less of a crap. A few bars and drinking. Whooopdeedooo

Both are good bowl destinations. I’m more partial to NO because I go at least once a year anyway. I know the city better, and I know all the good hidden spots to hit.

I’ve been to Mobile twice in the last two years and also been a couple of times in the past when USA first started playing football. I find the experiences have gotten better with each trip. If you can’t find fun things to do in downtown, well then I pity you, but as an alternate option you can always take a drive to the beach, hit up the battleship, or drive like an hour to the casinos in MS.

Even if the cities aren't particularly great, I do like that all of the SBC bowl tie-in locations have good weather for late December. Remember, most of our alums live north of Richmond so we'll be coming from two months of fairly cold/wet weather typically.

(11-08-2021 02:04 PM)BirdofParadise Wrote:  Barring upsets, it looks like we will fill only four bowl slots this year.

I think we’ll see five teams bowling, which means yes I think App, CCU, or ULL drop a game they’re “not supposed to”.

Is it better for the conference to have three teams ranked going into the CCG or five bowl eligible teams?

(11-10-2021 02:14 PM)Saint3333 Wrote:  

(11-08-2021 02:04 PM)BirdofParadise Wrote:  Barring upsets, it looks like we will fill only four bowl slots this year.

I think we’ll see five teams bowling, which means yes I think App, CCU, or ULL drop a game they’re “not supposed to”.

Is it better for the conference to have three teams ranked going into the CCG or five bowl eligible teams?

I think having 4 bowl eligible teams with 3 being ranked is better than having 5 and only 1 team ranked.

(11-10-2021 02:14 PM)Saint3333 Wrote:  

(11-08-2021 02:04 PM)BirdofParadise Wrote:  Barring upsets, it looks like we will fill only four bowl slots this year.

I think we’ll see five teams bowling, which means yes I think App, CCU, or ULL drop a game they’re “not supposed to”.

Is it better for the conference to have three teams ranked going into the CCG or five bowl eligible teams?

I hope App or CCU does drop a game to South to get us bowl eligible.

(11-09-2021 06:19 PM)Yosef Himself Wrote:  

(11-09-2021 06:07 PM)moehler Wrote:  On the other hand, Mobile is this industrial, gritty, high crime city, which doesn’t have a lot to do other than attending the game.

Exact opposite experience. Mobile was a party.

NOLA couldn't have given less of a crap. A few bars and drinking. Whooopdeedooo

I've been to quite a few of USM's bowl games since 1997 and between Mobile (2 bowl appearances) and New Orleans (5 bowl appearances) I would say Mobile rolled out the red carpet and treated teams like the main attraction. New Orleans is a fun town don't get me wrong but as far the bowl experience Mobile definitely was more family friendly and welcoming. Now if were to include Memphis/Liberty Bowl (3 appearances) we may have some debate.

While I enjoy NO and it's close, I wont get excited about it anymore though its a good place to visit.
If we could get the Liberty Bowl (Memphis)...WOW! The Peabody, Elvis, Beale St, walking distance to the river boat tours and likely playing against a P5 opponent.