New Orleans Bowl!

Nevada D getting tired. Need a long drive from their offense or Cajuns will start putting it away.
 
Is it me, or did the receiver #2 look like he didn't think a pass would be coming.
 
I just started watching in the 4th, please tell me ULL has been blitzing all game cause Nevada's receivers look like they could be covered 1 on 2.
 
wooot... i'm 1-0 bitches..

bring on the next bowl.
 
Any reason why ESPN went away from the in-game scoreboard layout they've been using for several years?
 
Is Ga Southern in a bowl? I see Sun Belt teams except the Eagles in bowls and GSU won the Sun Belt, unbeaten in SB play. . Have not found a bowl they are playing in.
 
Southern is not in a bowl due to this being the last year of their transition to fbs. they applied for a waver but, and this is the shocking part, was denied by the ncaa. and even more shocking, the appeal was denied.
 
I don't have any interest in Ga Southern, but not allowing the conference champion (8-0 in league the article notes) to play in a bowl on the sole fact that this is their first year in FBS is asinine. If I was affiliated with GA Southern, I would be pretty upset my new league didn't do a little more to help me out or at least lobby for me in this situation.

Maybe they should join the Big 12 - help them get that championship game.
 
GT3000 said:
I don't have any interest in Ga Southern, but not allowing the conference champion (8-0 in league the article notes) to play in a bowl on the sole fact that this is their first year in FBS is asinine. If I was affiliated with GA Southern, I would be pretty upset my new league didn't do a little more to help me out or at least lobby for me in this situation.

Maybe they should join the Big 12 - help them get that championship game.
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I don't have an interest either except I was checking to see how they did since they darn near upset us. I agree with your post
 
GaTech63 said:
Thanks! I would like to hear the reasoning behind that rule. Ridiculous the conference champion can't play in a bowl.
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It is the "Marshall" rule. They loaded up on transfers the year before they moved up and dominated their conference. You could call it the Randy Moss rule.
 
olgoldandwhite said:
It is the "Marshall" rule. They loaded up on transfers the year before they moved up and dominated their conference. You could call it the Randy Moss rule.
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So it is basically, insuring transfers can't play in a bowl, even though they get to play the season by transferring down and not having to lay out for a year.
 
The rule prohibiting Southern from playing in a bowl has been in effect since 2002. I'm a Southern fan but I'm not in a twist about not being in a bowl. Southern fans would have watched but this weekend, with two Sun Belt bowl games on Saturday up against two pretty big NFL games, I don't know that many others would have. I want to see the ratings next week when they come out.

Southern signed up for this when they wanted to move up to FBS. They knew it going in. Now, there weren't a lot of people thinking GSU (the real one) could win the conference in its first year. But ... they signed up for it. They knew that no matter what happened, there wasn't any playoffs last year and no bowl this year.

App State went 6-2 in the league and wasn't eligible, either. The two newcomers, playing under the scholarship limit, go 14-2 in the first year in the Sun Belt? Says a lot about the Sun Belt ... or rather says a lot about what it isn't.

That Marshall team was Moss, Eric Kresser from Florida, Olandis Gary from Georgia and I think Doug Chapman might have been a transfer, too.
 
swampsting said:
The rule prohibiting Southern from playing in a bowl has been in effect since 2002. I'm a Southern fan but I'm not in a twist about not being in a bowl. Southern fans would have watched but this weekend, with two Sun Belt bowl games on Saturday up against two pretty big NFL games, I don't know that many others would have. I want to see the ratings next week when they come out.

Southern signed up for this when they wanted to move up to FBS. They knew it going in. Now, there weren't a lot of people thinking GSU (the real one) could win the conference in its first year. But ... they signed up for it. They knew that no matter what happened, there wasn't any playoffs last year and no bowl this year.

App State went 6-2 in the league and wasn't eligible, either. The two newcomers, playing under the scholarship limit, go 14-2 in the first year in the Sun Belt? Says a lot about the Sun Belt ... or rather says a lot about what it isn't.

That Marshall team was Moss, Eric Kresser from Florida, Olandis Gary from Georgia and I think Doug Chapman might have been a transfer, too.
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You know my doubts about the wisdom of moving up. This is the upside of going FBS in a non-power five conference. Wouldn't it be much more exciting to win a national championship? I simply don't get these decisions made on the taxpayers dollar for the most part.
 
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