I thought this was interesting... 04-05 New Orleans Bowl -- Southern Miss-North Texas -- Rating: 1.4 -- Attendance: 27,253 05-06 New Orleans Bowl -- Southern Miss-Arkansas State --Rating 1.71 -- Attendance: 18,338 06-07 New Orleans Bowl -- Rice-Troy -- Rating: 1.32 -- Attendance: 24,791 07-08 New Orleans Bowl -- Fla. Atlantic-Memphis -- Rating: 1.63 -- Attendance: 25,146 Not as low a rating as Rice-Troy and the largest attendance numbers of the last 4 NO Bowls!! The attendance can't jsut be about S. Miss. They also played the following year and the attendance dropped by almost 9,000!! No one can say that UNT doesn't "travel" well.