Week 5 Bowl Projections, Updated

[meangreenlax]

• SBNation
  • SERVPRO First Responder Bowl (aka HOD)
    • Washington State* vs. North Texas
• ESPN
  • SERVPRO First Responder Bowl (aka HOD)
    • Eastern Michigan vs. North Texas
    • Utah vs. North Texas
• Orlando Sentinel
  • New Mexico Bowl
    • North Texas vs. Utah State

Edited October 1, 2018 by meangreenlax

[Jason Howeth]

• CBS Sports
  • New Mexico Bowl
    • North Texas vs. San Diego State
• College Sports Madness
  • Bahamas Bowl
    • North Texas vs. Cincinnati
• College Football News
  • Bahamas Bowl
    • North Texas vs. Tulane
• Sporting News
  • Hawai'i Bowl
    • North Texas vs. Hawai'i

The point is, these will be all over the place until about week 10.

[UNTLifer]

If we stay with one loss, these predictions will change everything.

[trud1966]

need to shoot for at least #hit9 so we don't get stuck going to Bahamas or Hawaii

[oldguystudent]

The reality of the situation:

ESPN puts us in whatever the hell the Heart of Dallas Bowl is called these days because they know that 40,000 of us will show up at 4 o'clock on a Tuesday morning, and throws in whatever the hell opponent they feel like who has nowhere else to go, doesn't travel, and doesn't bring in TV revenue. 

ESPN uses the situation to further extort the City of Dallas for exorbitant payments going forward. 

It's a G5 world -- 15-0 or GTFO.  We just GTFO'd.

[UNTFan23]

4 minutes ago, oldguystudent said:

The reality of the situation:

ESPN puts us in whatever the hell the Heart of Dallas Bowl is called these days because they know that 40,000 of us will show up at 4 o'clock on a Tuesday morning, and throws in whatever the hell opponent they feel like who has nowhere else to go, doesn't travel, and doesn't bring in TV revenue. 

ESPN uses the situation to further extort the City of Dallas for exorbitant payments going forward. 

It's a G5 world -- 15-0 or GTFO.  We just GTFO'd.

I thought the City of Dallas has pretty much cut off the gravy train for the sole bowl game being played within its limits?

[meangreenlax]

2 hours ago, trud1966 said:

need to shoot for at least #hit9 so we don't get stuck going to Bahamas or Hawaii

This would be the absolute worst case scenario. 

[Cr1028]

3 hours ago, UNTLifer said:

If we stay with one loss, these predictions will change everything.

There is a chance we win every game left and still not end up west division champs, much less conference champs.

[RiseUNT]

I will say it again. UNT will only play in a cusa bowl tie in game. If we went undefeated we still will not play in a ny6 game because a 1 loss UCF team will be ranked higher than us. The "higher up bowls" have tie ins also and will not choose UNT over a 6-6 Florida or 8-4 Michigain. 

For me I want a bowl win over anything else this year.

[THOR]

6 minutes ago, Cr1028 said:

There is a chance we win every game left and still not end up west division champs, much less conference champs.

so just like alabama last year

[UNTcrazy727]

5 minutes ago, RiseUNT said:

I will say it again. UNT will only play in a cusa bowl tie in game. If we went undefeated we still will not play in a ny6 game because a 1 loss UCF team will be ranked higher than us. The "higher up bowls" have tie ins also and will not choose UNT over a 6-6 Florida or 8-4 Michigain. 

For me I want a bowl win over anything else this year.

I could see the Armed Forces Bowl making a play for us if the American or Big 12 don't have a team to send. 

Edited October 1, 2018 by UNTcrazy727

[RiseUNT]

1 minute ago, UNTcrazy727 said:

I could see the Armed Forces Bowl making a play for us if the American or Big 12 doesn't have a team to send. 

I could see liberty bowl also. But odds are small for both. And like I said I we need to win the bowl we are in.

[drex]

My my my, throwing around bowl projections and knowing that we will be involved.....sure seems like more fun than it used to be when we had 2 or 3 wins and headed to the toilet bowl.

[MeanGreenTexan]

3 minutes ago, RiseUNT said:

I could see liberty bowl also. But odds are small for both. And like I said I we need to win the bowl we are in.

Liberty?   Or, do you mean Independence?

It's looking like (unless we get help from at least 1 other West Division team beating LATech... looking at you UAB... while we go undefeated) we're not going to get to choose our bowl or play for the C-USA championship.   So hey, maybe we'll be in a position to play the Independence bowl like USM did last year.

[RiseUNT]

36 minutes ago, MeanGreenTexan said:

Liberty?   Or, do you mean Independence?

It's looking like (unless we get help from at least 1 other West Division team beating LATech... looking at you UAB... while we go undefeated) we're not going to get to choose our bowl or play for the C-USA championship.   So hey, maybe we'll be in a position to play the Independence bowl like USM did last year.

Yes.

[Wag Tag]

Any bowl that is not a Sunbelt Team!! Washington  SDSU WOULD BE GREAT!

[Cr1028]

2 hours ago, THOR said:

so just like alabama last year

You know what they call an 11-1 G5 that didn’t win its conference? They don’t.

Edited October 1, 2018 by Cr1028

[CaribbeanGreen]

6 hours ago, Prettylittleeagle said:

boy how one loss changes everything. 

Honest question though - aren't these projections virtually identical to last week? I remember a HoD vs. Leach thread this time last week, about all the cool storylines.....