Bowl Game

[BUSMAN.sixpack]

The Liberty will be Vandy vs. Louisville or Cincinnati...

Their will be no CUSA team in the Liberty Bowl...

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[Hump4Hoops]

USM escapes having to get smashed by an SEC team, and gets to play around with a 6-6 big east team in the Birmingham who gives a **** bowl.

 

[dawgstudent]

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[was21]

asdf

 

[MagnificentBastard]

I hope they beat Houston now. It would be awesome for them to be conference champs and relegated to Legion Field. The site of their undoing.

 

[Shmuley]

nm

 

[Chuck Cunningham]

at the time they did this. Plus, I think Louisville was still in the league (one of Memphis' big rivals from the Metro Conference days.)

 

[rem101]

ask a usm fan, seriously.

 

[Hump4Hoops]

If Houston wins this week, they get a BCS bowl, the highest bowl tie in the SEC has. This is an 18 million dollar payout.

If Houston loses this week, they probably get a bid to the Hawii bowl, a bowl less prestigious than the BVBA compass bowl, and with less than half its payout (398K).

For comparison's sake, our likely destination, the Music City bowl, has a 1.6 million dollar payout (100K less than Liberty, 800K less than Gator, and about half of Peach - and a reasonable stepladder continues upward)

It's just crazy to think that Houston will go to either a bowl that's the same reward for the SEC champ, or a bowl that's significantly worse than our worst bowl, by the outcome of one game. (Similar situation to BSU dropping to the Las Vegas bowl from a BCS bowl last year from 1 game - cost every team in your conference about a million and a half dollars.)

I'm not saying if it's fair or not, it's just strange to me.