who's breaking a bowl drought

[outoftown]

http://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2013/8/26/4621722/longest-college-football-bowl-game-streak

Patrick Vint: North Texas might be the biggest beneficiary of realignment. The Mean Green move from the Sun Belt, a conference with two automatic bowl tie-ins, to Conference USA, which has six. And while North Texas likely won't compete with Tulsa and Louisiana Tech for the C-USA West title, the rest of the division -- Texas-San Antonio, UTEP, Rice, and Tulane -- are eminently beatable. The non-conference slate, with Idaho and Ball State traveling to Denton, presents the opportunity for at least two wins.

Dan McCarney's team returns senior Derek Thompson at quarterback and senior Brandin Byrd at halfback, with three two-year starters on the offensive line. Further, if there's one thing McCarney has proven he can do, it's taking a bag of spare parts and turning it into a competent defense. North Texas gets seven wins and sneaks into a game against its old conference in the New Orleans Bowl.

[Mean Green 93-98]

A couple of decades ago, who could have imagined a list of teams suffering "bowl droughts" . . . for going 2 years without a bowl?!?