Topic: Most current bowl projections (as of 10-19)

[herdadreh]

I wanna play Georgia Southern in Youngstown. Is there a bowl game in Youngstown?

[coloradoherd]

Have to agree that it's pretty surprising how only one projects us to the HoD Bowl. Makes me think most of these guys are just assuming that the West Division champ will end up there, without thinking about the larger picture.

Here's who's ticketed for HoD by the "others" who don't put us in a New Year's Six game.

ESPN Schlabach: La Tech vs. Michigan
ESPN McMurphy: North Texas vx. Rutgers
Orlando Sentinel Parsons: Rice vs. Northwestern
College Sports Madness: Rice vs. Louisiana-Monroe (assumes neither Big 12 or 10 can fill the opening)
SB Nation Kirk: UTEP vs. Northwestern
CBS Palm: Marshall vs. Iowa
USA Today Smith: Washington (not a typo) vs. Northwestern
College Football News: Rice vs. Northwestern

Seriously, are these people even paying attention at all?  Murphy predicting North Texas to win the conference?  Does he know they are 0-3 in conference play right now?  UTEP?  Rice doesn't look impressive this year either. 

The point is, don't be troubled by the bowl predictions about us playing a MAC team.  Access Bowl or not, we will get the HOD bowl if we win the conference.  And if we don't win the conference, well then we were never going to a huge bowl game anyway. 

[_sturt_]

Actually... Rice and UTEP are still very much in the running for the West Division... 3 losses, just like La Tech.

But, indeed, you have to think that these guys for the most part are just trying to get through a list of 20-something bowls expeditiously, and not really studying any given bowl or school's situation (beyond the NY6) to reach their conclusions. But otoh, it is intriguing that Northwestern shows up as the Big 10 rep as often as they do.