No. That is what the NO Bowl wants, since it was formed by the GNOSF to get people into hotel rooms and spending money in casinos and on Bourbon.
ServePro is owned by ESPN for TV ratings. LaTech isn't going to get any more viewers that NT is. That's just the fact of G5 life. If you have two schools that will bring in about the same what makes better TV? A big crowd.
Here is the bowl attendance numbers:
OkieSt vs Purdue 48,313
Houston vs Penn St 46,817
Texas Tech vs Northwestern 40,121
North Texas vs Army 39,117
North Texas vs UNLV 38,380
LaTech vs Illinois 31,297
Utah vs WV 20,507
Washington vs Southern Miss 20,229
USM and LaTech each got a P5 and we still had better attendance. More or less by ourselves, especially against UNLV.
CUSA always does it's best to get the champion in whatever bowl they want. After that it's working out who the bowls want.