This year's bowl lineup

[RGV Pony]

has just begun, and I'm wondering if I'm the only one as aggravated as I am.

Just today, here's what I've seen and heard:

South Florida: "only their tenth year in existence, and 1st bowl win in two tries"
San Jose State: "what a story! They were talking about eliminating football two years ago!"
East Carolina: "what a job by Skip Holtz bringing this program from a doormat to a bowl"
Tulsa: "here's a list of small private schools [Rice, Tulsa, Navy, Wake], and they're all in bowl games!"
Rice: We've already discussed their accomplishments.
Troy: "Only D1 for [short amount of time]. Great bowl win, and great job by SunBelt POY Omar Hougabook!"

Ugh...yes, I'm [deleted], but man...the stuff gets old, at least from a Mustang point of view. Hopefully in a couple years bball will give us a trip to the sweet 16. Or something.

[ponyfan84]

Yea, its frustrating to see the media praise all these teams. SMU should be on this list. Too bad C-USA is a dismal 0-3 in bowl play, and probably will finish 1-4. I have a question though for anyone to answer, and this may be a stupid question but I am dead serious:

With C-USA looking bad thus far, do you think next season if it comes down to it, teams that didn't make a bowl this year that were on the brink like SMU, Marshall and UTEP, would get the nod by a bowl committee over teams that looked like crap this year? In other words, say SMU, Marshall, UTEP, Rice, Tulsa, ECU, UH, USM, and UCF are all fighting for bowl spots....would the bowls tend to go with SMU or Marshal or any team that didn't make a bowl this year and got killed? You know, to fix the image of C-USA, because its looking mighty, mighty bad right now. Just a dumb question I was curious about...

[SMUballboy]

Ponyfan 84, about your question, I'm guessing a bowl committee would look at conference record and then probably see who they played out of conference and how good they did

[EastStang]

Sad fact is that if we had managed to beat Rice or East Carolina we would have taken their place in getting smoked by another team. Clearly, CUSA needs to step things up a notch. The 7-5 CUSA teams are just not very good.