Sun Belt Bowl Shaft

[Harry]

I am counting 6 C-USA teams made bowls as opposed to 2 in the Belt? Is that correct? Belt had 5 more bowl eligible teams not get in which is a bummer but at least benson tried: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaaf-dr-saturday/sun-belt-offered-pay-little-caesar-bowl-independence-025015130--ncaaf.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Sorry for FAU and WKU being eligible and not getting one.

Also notice that C-USA has a good shot to win all six bowl games which would be great.

AAC in 5 games but of course get the last year of the auto BCS again Baylor...

[greenit]

So if we were still in Sun Belt, and we finished 4th or whatever we did, we would be sitting at home, correct?

Winning! Can't say CUSA isn't already paying dividends.

Would have preferred some middle of the pack P5 team, but in reality the ACC teams that were being discussed probably would not have generated a significant amount of additional real interest, some for sure, but doubt reality would have been a night and day difference.

So UCF is playing Baylor. If they get blown out, it will be used to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the best of the G5 is no match for the P5. Be careful what you wish for I guess. It will be imperative that UCF is competitive and that they show up in droves for the game. I have my doubts on both fronts. UCF fans are already complaining about HAVING to play in the Fiesta.?. Really? Complaining? Really?

[MeanGreenTexan]

Bummer for WKY.

[oldguystudent]

Karl Benson: Lulz

As for three MORE bowl games next year? There aren't enough participation trophies yet?

Edited December 9, 2013 by oldguystudent

[UNTMike81]

Everywhere Benson has been his conferences have been shafted or re-constructed out of existance. To bad for our old conference mates. I fear under new play off system if you're not in an AQ conference with a really good team you're probably going to feel like you've been shafted.

Have you noticed under new play off system no allowances have been made for a non AQ team like Boise St. that beat Okahoma in the Sugar Bowl. I believe they played in Sugar bowl if memory serves.

[Harry]

Yes it's saddest for WKY they were 8-4 like us.

[Cerebus]

Thank merciful heaven we are out of the Sun Belt. For this reason alone. The SBC was so desperate, they offered to pay bowl games to take them.

This year a 6-6 FAU team was left out, that hasn't happened in four or five years, when a 6-6 SMU team was also left out.

Edited December 9, 2013 by Cerebus

[GrayEagle]

WKY's attendance average hurt them from securing an at-large berth. The ACC was also a major factor as they had an excess of about six bowl-eligible teams which about covered the bowls that the Big Ten, Big XII, etc. could not fulfill.

[BeliefBlazer]

C-USA goes from 6 guaranteed bowls to only 5 starting next year. Luckily the SEC has way over signed on bowls. Shreveport will be open every year barring a large swath of 6-6 SEC teams. No great bowl for champ, though, if B1G doesn't qualify for HOD.

[That_Guy_Arlo]

I believe they played in Sugar bowl if memory serves.

Fiesta Bowl*

Quite possibly the greatest game I've ever watched live.

[Mean Green 93-98]

Thank merciful heaven we are out of the Sun Belt. For this reason alone. The SBC was so desperate, they offered to pay bowl games to take them.

This year a 6-6 FAU team was left out, that hasn't happened in four or five years, when a 6-6 SMU team was also left out.

I'm okay with 6-6 teams staying at home. Mediocrity deserves no reward. But when 7- and 8-win teams sit at home while 6-6 ACC teams go bowling, that's a travesty.

[foutsrouts]

C-USA goes from 6 guaranteed bowls to only 5 starting next year. Luckily the SEC has way over signed on bowls. Shreveport will be open every year barring a large swath of 6-6 SEC teams. No great bowl for champ, though, if B1G doesn't qualify for HOD.

So is the HOD game basically becoming CUSA's new Liberty Bowl game beginning next year?

[NM Green]

I saw a good size group of UCF fans at World of Beer by SMU on Saturday afternoon and they were rooting hard for Texas to beat Baylor. I think they are bummed they are going to pay a lot of money to travel across the country to get throttled on national TV. I think they will take a good size group to PHX.

GMG