Mean Green Matt

I don’t remember when the news about Myrtle Beach came out last year (and honestly didn’t bother to look), but I feel like that leaked out a few days early. Hopefully we get news in the next couple of days.

Maybe I'm underselling it. Sweet 16 or bust!

Doesn't alter my opinion on whether I view Drake as a team we should be competitive with.

I like it. Not exactly the same thing, but kind of feels like the Alabama has one loss, but that team beat Alabama, so it's a good loss argument.

Yes but I think the expectations have shifted quite a bit. Quite frankly we shouldn’t have even been playing Drake, we should have been playing Alabama. Expectations dictate experience. So maybe I am underselling it. But despite their history and recent success I consider Drake a team we should be beating in basketball.

We already kicked UTSAs rear ourselves. I don’t care if they are good as long as we are better. I don’t feel the need to root for against them when they are playing a team not coming with us to the AAC.

I didn’t mean it wasn’t a good win. But they aren’t Purdue.

I could be underselling it but I didn’t consider the basketball win over drake to be that significant.

When do we get to win our Rose Bowl?

Who do they think they are? The Texas Longhorns?

I thought so too, but I've seen differing interpretations...especially when it comes to contractual tie-ins.

Yahoo believes it will be 7-5 Liberty that gets left out not having a conference with tie-ins (believes the 6-6 MAC teams are the other candidates to stay home) Has us in the Armed Forces Bowl against Army. https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/ncaafb/bowl-projections-one-eligible-team-will-get-left-out-of-a-bowl-in-2021/ar-AARlsEq

I get the sentiment, but we are in all out battle now for the top G5 conference. The AAC is no longer the clear front runner. We need to win these football games.

We need to be rooting for the fellow AAC team that we just annihilated.

All good. This is the concern being discussed in the bowl eligibility thread as well as the CUSA message board. You have to assume CUSA is going to freeze out either us or ODU from its bowl spots (since those are the two 6-win teams leaving CUSA).

Except that there are 8 CUSA teams with 6 wins or more...

Do we take that to mean we have an actual invite? They’ve seemingly been using bowl bound and eligible interchangeably since Saturday.

Agree. And our media guide uses AP poll for history vs. ranked teams. Not CFP.

I’m aware of all the things.

I guess we will see. But I am basically attendance Nostradamus.

Not likely.

That’s not what I mean. We should never see Appalachian State on the opponent line and think “well, stinks we got drawn into a game we can’t win”. We should not have to hope for weak bowl opponents so we have a chance to win. I actually hope we end up by chance getting a borderline top 25 team in a bowl game to see how far Littrell has brought this team. That’s going to do us a lot better than playing Kent State, with all due respect to the Golden Flashes.

We haven’t played any teams in bowl games that our fan base doesn’t have an expectation of being able to beat.

2014 sounds way more fun.