C-USA Champion may play in the Hawaii Bowl

[Garret]

If the SEC does not get 1 more bowl-eligible team, the *Big East* will send a team to the Liberty Bowl instead of C-USA.

But an official of ESPN Regional Television, which owns and operates the Hawaii Bowl and six other games, confirmed that a clause in the C-USA-Liberty Bowl agreement mandates the Liberty Bowl accept a Big East team to play a Southeastern Conference representative in the event the SEC cannot fulfill its obligation to the BBVA Compass Bowl in Birmingham, Ala.

In that case, according to Pete Derzis, ERT vice president, C-USA and the impacted team would choose among the available bowls the conference has ties with.

http://www.staradvertiser.com/sports/sp ... _Bowl.html

[Dr.7432]

In this case, would all the teams roll down to the other bowls and leave a 6-6 SMU team out in the cold?

[Nacho]

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/w ... ojections/

here is where we are projected to go if the be and sec play in the liberty bowl.

[Harry0569]

Going to Birmingham eh? I have reason to believe that not many people will watch that game..

[leopold]

Go Georgia! Beat Tech!

Go Vols! Beat Vandy! Beat Kentucky!

Damnit. Our conference does NOT need to lose this bowl game. It costs our schools money and publicity. Hell, a 11-2 and top 25-ranked UCF would be much more interested and interesting in going to the LB than a 7-5 Rutgers team, or whatever worthless yankee football school shows up.

BTW, why does the SEC insist on playing a Big East team in the LB if the SEC can't fulfill its bowl obiligations? Anybody care to explain why this makes sense?

[Harry0569]

If Aaron Murray, UGA's QB, plays vs. Tech between the Hedges, they will roll. We need the Vols to channel the same magic vs UK and Vandy that they did against Ole Miss. It could happen my friends, it WILL happen.

[mustangbill67]

Most of the bowl predictors do not realize that the AF bowl has been moved to Ford. Again, if we are bowl eligible, I see us in the AF bowl. The bowls choose the teams and it just makes financial sense for SMU to be at Ford.

[Nacho]

we may as well win the next 2 and go back to hawaii.

[ponyboy]

nm

[PonyKai]

BTW, why does the SEC insist on playing a Big East team in the LB if the SEC can't fulfill its bowl obiligations? Anybody care to explain why this makes sense?

Probably for reasons such as CUSA is a crappy conference, with zero teams in the Top-25, a West Division that multiple teams seem allergic to winning, terrible fan bases and poor travel attendence, bad TV drawings, multiple small, private schools, and the fact that CUSA is 0-4 against the SEC since 2006 in the Liberty Bowl.

[leopold]

Great.

And their answer to this is to replace that with the bottom feeder bowl team from a crappy conference that has zero teams in the top-25, multiple conference leaders that seem allergic to winning, terrible fan bases and poor travel attendence, bad TV drawings, mulitple large commuter schools, and is what? 0-2 against the SEC this year?

Dummies.

[leopold]

Excuse me. 1-3. UConn beat Vandy.

My bad.

Truth be told, no Guarantees the BE has enough teams to make this happen, either.

[PonyKai]

Big, dumb, land grant schools also come with big, dumb, alumni populations that are more apt to travel to a bowl game than a Rice/SMU/Tulane/Tulsa/UAB, but that's kind of stating the obvious. Common perception is probably Crappy BCS > Crappy Non-BCS, and will draw better TV ratings.

[Harry0569]

Big, dumb, land grant schools also come with big, dumb, alumni populations that are more apt to travel to a bowl game than a Rice/SMU/Tulane/Tulsa/UAB, but that's kind of stating the obvious. Common perception is probably Crappy BCS > Crappy Non-BCS, and will draw better TV ratings.

Are people from UCONN (Storrs, CT) or Syracuse really going to make the trip to Memphis? I mean, I guess, but I have to believe that if we won C-USA, a ton of SMU people would come out of the woodwork to go to Memphis.

[Stallion]

I seriously doubt SMU could scrape together a decent crowd for the Liberty Bowl. I have ZERO interest in traveling to Memphis and freeze my [deleted] off in late December. CUSA's strategy should be to dump the Liberty Bowl and try to put their champion in the Texas Football Classic. New Year's Day Game that pits either Big 12 or Big 10 teams. CUSA gets alternating bids right now.