Christmas in Hawaii anyone?

[untjim1995]

Most of these bowls have these tie-ins on paper, but when push comes to shove, and several AQ spots open up, then these bowl committees start negotiating deals, especially the non-AQ bowl spots. There's no way that the HoD Bowl won't take UNT unless we win the conference. The Hawaii Bowl has to get teams that Hawaiians want to watch, which means Hawaii versus anyone, a MWC team versus SMU and June Jones, or that you get BYU or Notre Dame to play there. UNT and Troy will not ever play each other in Hawaii, ever. Maybe New Orleans, for sure, or Tampa, but not Hawaii.

I think the HoD bowl wants UNT badly to be there against a Big Ten team, especially Iowa, since they travel well and have lots of DFW alumni. I guarantee that the HoD bol committe is looking at this as their chance to have their game look like the Motor City Bowl when a Big Ten team plays Central Michigan in Detroit. They have had 70k attendance figures when CMU has played there against a Big Ten team. Not saying the Cotton bowl would be that full at 10am on New Years Day for a UNT-Iowa game, but it would surely be a big crowd of over 40k in actual attendance for this game that usually is lucky to have 30k in attendance. I will say this, if we get invited to the HoD Bowl and don't have strong attendance numbers, it would be an absolute killer for North Texas Football. Literally, we couldn't ask for a better scenario for a bowl game than this, as far as location goes...if it plays out like so many think it will, we cannot blow it by not showing up.

[JesseMartin]

Holy crap...it's at 10am on New Year's Day?! Whose freaking idea what that? That's 8am here...and I don't have a DVR.

[North Texas Shep]

It will be the Heart of Dallas and I am happy about it. Let's beat RICE!

[Rudy]

I've been to the last couple of Ticket City/Heart of Dallas Bowls. It's not a bad bowl game, they just haven't had good matchups. I think it has potential. We could have a big ass New Year's party/Tailgate, get a few hours of sleep, then ride DART down to the game. It's not my first choice, but it wouldn't be a bad choice