SI Bowl Rankings

[meangreen24]

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/college-football/news/20131210/college-football-bowl-rankings/#ixzz2n62vhuzf

Haha wow.

35. Heart of Dallas (Jan. 1): North Texas (8-4) vs. UNLV (7-5). At the dawn of 2014, the least interesting matchup of bowl season is a New Year's Day game played in the Cotton Bowl. That sound you heard was 1964 turning over in its grave.

Edited December 10, 2013 by meangreen24

[DirtySavage]

Lets give them something compelling to watch then.....

[Andrew]

Yea I have a bunch of friends who said they rather 1a playoff game then UNT ever grace the field. At what point did we lose all credibility? Because this year has been amazing and we should be getting some recognition! Still our basketball team is much better know then the football even with their success this year. Next year we need to push this bowl win big time!

[DirtySavage]

Yea I have a bunch of friends who said they rather 1a playoff game then UNT ever grace the field. At what point did we lose all credibility? Because this year has been amazing and we should be getting some recognition! Still our basketball team is much better know then the football even with their success this year. Next year we need to push this bowl win big time!

This is where we begin the slow process of building back our credibility..... Baby steps..... A bowl win on NYD would be a very good step in the right direction.

Edited December 10, 2013 by DirtySavage

[PlummMeanGreen]

Who cares what SI says? Didn't know they even knew there were more than the BCS bowls as it is but....

.... the HOD is the only bowl game I'm really interested in seeing (in person) since most of us on this board are going to spend $75 a ticket to go watch our school's team kick some butt I'm biased, but I think we have a very fun & interesting team to watch especially when all cylinders are running. We hope America gets up on New Years Day and gets to see that team.

I stopped subscribing to S.I. long ago--they're irrevelant in my day in and day out sports world as it is. I'd rather read the Farmers Almanac.

GMG!

When Boise Was Bozo!

When Boise first started going to bowl games they received similar treatment from the national media. The sports media court jestors most always want to devaluate newbie bowl teams to clown status, but I don't think any of the S.I. staff writers have seen our school's football team, especially that Mean Green D, now have they?

? Can't recall any of Boise State's first few bowl games ever being on New Years Day, though. Then they had several winning seasons in a row, annual Top 25 ranked football teams (even while losing one HFC after another) then they beat OU in that most exciting Fiesta Bowl and the rest is history for a school that would then finally get the attention of the S.I crowd & national media in a most positive way. We have 1 winning season in almost a decade, so I don't think any of us could really expect the national media to genuflect in our direction.........yet.

? ADDENDUM: Just like Syracuse, Boston College and PItt showed a definite interest in coming down here to play a CUSA team in the HOD Bowl game, would SMU & TCU gladly change places with North Texas right now?

Edited December 10, 2013 by PlummMeanGreen

[UNTcrazy727]

This is what happens when you have a team that hasn't been in a bowl since 2004 playing a team who hasn't made one since 2000! I'm beyond excited for the game, but to the average sports fan this game is nothing more than a "meh..."

[mattmartin817]

Don't care. We are going bowling.

[SHOSS]

Well, when you have been as bad as we have for the last DECADE, this is what national blowhards will say.

Just enjoy our alma mater playing on New Year's Day and keep supporting. Credibility takes time. Get mac's contract done, keep on investing in the product, and increase our attendance numbers.

National blowhards like this guy will only like the best of the best. Just like the rest of America, they see great and suck. No in between.... I am f'ing pumped. My group of 21 will be there, ready to go.

[oldguystudent]

A) Sports Illustrated still exists?

B ) Don't give a crap. Going to see North Texas in a bowl game for the first time. North Texas football is my primary entertainment expenditure, so I'm going to enjoy it.

C) Theoretically, each season in college football should stand independent of all others. Reality, they don't. Two words -- Todd Dodge. It'll be a while before anybody cares about us. A while. We gotta earn it.

Edited December 10, 2013 by oldguystudent

[MeanGreenTexan]

THIS is the perception of our football program folks.
Can't change it overnight, but we're heading in the right direction.

[Eagle96]

Well, I won't be able to go, but just upgraded my cable so I could get ESPNU. Of course, THIS had to be the year I'm not living in Texas! Arrrrrgh!!!! Oh well, got my HOD Bowl t-shirt on order. Go Mean Green!!

[AstroMike]

It's hard for me to take this serious when the supposed SI College Football is name "Stewart Mandel." It sounds like he should be a critic of ballet or on the Family Guy.

[AstroMike]

"Inside" that is

[meaniegreenie]

Yea I have a bunch of friends who said they rather 1a playoff game then UNT ever grace the field. At what point did we lose all credibility? Because this year has been amazing and we should be getting some recognition! Still our basketball team is much better know then the football even with their success this year. Next year we need to push this bowl win big time!

Somewhere around 1978. But we're on our way back now!!!

[greenminer]

ESPN thinks the same as SI

It's perception.

I wonder where we'd line up if 'Cuse, Pitt or Michigan had been picked against us.

[Got5onIt]

Just win and perception will change. What did you expect after a decade of futility?

[drex]

SI has stood for 'stick it' for some time...the ghost of a relevant SI rears its ugly head in 2013.

[oldguystudent]

This is no hyperbole. This is the last SI cover I remember ever reading

[jredallas]

. . . I'd rather read the Farmers Almanac. . . .

Which I really hope is wrong:

“South Central U.S. Long Range Weather Forecast for December 8th, 2013 - February 7th, 2014 (Includes Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico)

December 2013

28th-31st. Fair, then more unsettled weather.

January 2014

1st-3rd. Showers, much colder.”

Edited December 10, 2013 by jredallas

[PlummMeanGreen]

Which I really hope is wrong:

“South Central U.S. Long Range Weather Forecast for December 8th, 2013 - February 7th, 2014 (Includes Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico)

December 2013

28th-31st. Fair, then more unsettled weather.

January 2014

1st-3rd. Showers, much colder.”

One on GMG.com has posted that............ all's well and clear sailing for New Years Day from wherever he got his forecast and now those darn farmers are saying "THAT?"

Addendum: And best forecast of all? Mean Green Coach Dan McCarney on his radio show last night at Rudy's said it will be blue skies and sun'shiny on New Years Day! Heck yeah!

Edited December 11, 2013 by PlummMeanGreen

[ChristopherRyanWilkes]

I'd rather be in the least interesting bowl game then no bowl game at all.

[NM Green]

Exactly. This person reminds me of the tool who says there are too many bowl games - usually an OU or big program fan. Are you kidding me I cannot have too much college football.

I also had two persons text me to get them tickets - one a UH fan and the other a USC fan. Yeah, that non-interesting bowl does have some allure and a lot for Green starved fans. TCU and SMU would love to have our tragic bowl to play in.

Choose excitement.

GMG

[greenminer]

I'd rather be in the least interesting bowl game then no bowl game at all.

If you're trying to raise spirits, try harder.

[CMJ]

I think CBS's breakdown (which had us at a still low #31) -- had the #35 game pegged correctly. The New Mexico Bowl, a 7-6 CSU vs a 6-6 Washington State. In what world is that a compelling game?

The only cool thing about that game is the trophy, which I've always kinda dug.

[Proud North Texan]

I really don't care!! We are going bowling, playing at the historical Cotton bowl, New year, bowl that pays more than 12 other bowl in the nation, and we are going to WIN that game.

Go Mean F Green