It's Official: UNT will play in Heart of Dallas Bowl!

Wonder where #67 Syracuse and #59 Pitt (both 6-6) are going to bowl. UNLV is rated #75 in the Massey Ratings with a good win over SDSU at home but not much else. That said, they also had close a four pt loss to Utah State which only lost by a TD at Fresno State last night in the MWC title game. Oh well, nice payback angles here with UNLV, a team that was 7-3 in its last ten games.

http://www.masseyratings.com/cf/compare.htm

I went to the 2012 HOD game vs. Penn State. HOD does a solid job of selling to the DFW area so you want to get tickets in the MG section so you can be part of the action. The UH band was in the allotment closest to its corner of the endzone. There are good activities at the stadium that morning and of course the Cotton Bowl is a nice venue thanks to the Red River Rivalry. That's unlike the Coogs' destination this year -- Legion Field.

I hope to get my '65 UNT grad dad to drive up from E TX to attend the HOD game with me. That would be a nice Christmas present. GMG!

Emmitt01 has some nice things to say about HOD, too.

Difference between HOD and the NO's Bowl of last decade is that there will apparently be more un-affiliated locals in attendance at this game than Wright Waters could ever get to show up at the NO's Bowl game. Emmitt also said they do pass out plenty of tickets for City of Dallas employees, too. If we happened upon 25K for our part, it would be a decent crowd.

Maybe UNLV will travel more than even they think they will travel. Neither school was going to play a Big 10 or P5 school at a bowl so fans of both the UNT and UNLV constituecies should get over it (if they haven't already). Yes, there is a case for the bowl on the other side of the turnpike with Navy as opponent but we have Big D. Someone in Denton needs to start selling tickets 24/7 starting tomorrow. NOTE: We should all get with those we want to sit with and buy in blocs to make that happen no matter how large or small the blocs.

GMG!

PS: Jeez, I saw the TV ratings for Okla. State vs. Purdue at last years HOD Bowl game and it was .05 which I think means 500,000 viewers? Among others we need to view this bowl game no matter how many view it in total are some key Texas HS or JUCO recruits that Coach McCarney & Staff are recruiting. This bowl game could really put the icing on the cake for Coach DMac's already quite fine 2014 class.

Edited December 8, 2013 by PlummMeanGreen

I would like to buy and donate some tickets to students. How can this be done?

Ads say 11AM start but ticket confirmation says 8 PM???

Wag Tag - I would post it on Twitter, or even better yet, depending on number you're willing to buy I would find a student organization and give it to them. Just thoughts.

A few more stats: UNLV has never lost a bowl game and they have never lost to UNT.