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ESPN Still has us in the HOD bowl.


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Look, in the history of this bowl, Tech vs Northwestern brought about 25k, UH vs Penn State brough about 30k, and OSU vs Purdue probably brought about the same. If they can get UNT versus Iowa, they will get at least 40k.

Where did you pull these numbers from?

Tech vs. Northwestern - 40,121

UH v. Penn State - 46,817

Purdue v. Ok State - 48,313

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Are you sure about that? Discussion on The American board says that the SEC is contractually obligated to play an AAC team in a bowl. If the SEC does not have enough teams to fill it's BBVA bowl slot which has SEC vs AAC, then the Liberty will be SEC vs AAC instead of CUSA.

Right now there are 9 SEC teams bowl eligible. Assuming 2 BCS bids (pretty much a given), they do not currently have enough teams to fill the BBVA spot. Miss State is 5-6 right now and plays Ole Miss on Thanksgiving. If Miss State wins and becomes bowl eligible, the SEC has enough to fill the BBVA slot. If Miss State loses, the CUSA spot in the Liberty is taken by an AAC team.

That's why on the original link Troy vs ECU is listed as a possibility for the BBVA bowl, and Houston vs Vanderbilt is listed as possibility for the Liberty.

well then, I guess we should all be cheering for Mississippi State tomorrow night? Go Dogs

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I'm sorry but if SMU's political connections can do what you are "maintaining", we might as well just quit playing football. If a school that has 36k students and over 200k alumni cannot overcome a non-AQ private school's influence within its own market, then we might as well just give up. SMU left the conference that has a tie-in to this bowl, which should be enough for the CUSA leadership to easily overcome with anyone on the HoD board that thinks Rice would be a more "appropriate" team to host. That would be complete 100% Bullshit if it worked out that way. I firmly believe ECU goes to the Liberty, Marshall goes to the Military, UNT goes to the HoD, Tulane goes to the NO Bowl, MUTS goes to the BBVA Compass Bowl, and Rice goes to the Hawaii Bowl.

If the HoD bowl passes on us for their bowl game, that bowl will be passing up its easiest money that it could ever make. And if they did, RV and Lee Jackson should go off as much as possible in every media form on the HoD bowl and let them clearly know that we will never accept an invite to their bowl game in the future. If we cannot get any respect in this market with our best team in 10 years and one that is 45 minutes up the road with this big of a fanbase to appeal to, again, we might as well just accept that we will never get overthe hump in the college football world if our own market won't even give us a chance to play a 3rd tier bowl game in our backyard basically. Look, in the history of this bowl, Tech vs Northwestern brought about 25k, UH vs Penn State brough about 30k, and OSU vs Purdue probably brought about the same. If they can get UNT versus Iowa, they will get at least 40k. The only thing that kills us with potential HoD attendance is if they are forced to pick an at-large team from the MAC or the SBC, as in Buffalo or Texas State.

SMU attendance vs. Connecticut (last home game): 14,639

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I believe the Iowa Hawkeyes won today so does that affect anything for the HOD Bowl game?

Possibly, in terms of seeding. The B1G only has 7 teams for bowls. What was the Big 10 selection # for HoD? If it's below 7 we may not see a Big 10 team in the bowl. Guess it depends on if one of the other bowls opts out of a Big 10 team (if HoD is #8, that is).

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