Being ranked seems likely but running the table is not easy. We had aspirations to do that this year after beating OU but the Navy and SMU losses happened. If we couldn't do it with CTH, his uncertain future doesn't mean it's more likely to happen next year.
No. It is the highest ranked G5 champion that gets the bid. Unless we end up ranked in like the top 10, there really isn't a chance.
The Cotton Bowl is the only possible destination, and if we do go there, it will be against the defacto G5 rep (Boise or Navy). There's no way we'll get selected to play a rematch vs. Navy, so that's out. A Cotton Bowl matchup of Boise vs. Houston would be very compelling, but there's going to be a lot of competition for that other at-large spot. Beating Memphis next week probably won't vault us into the top 10 unless there's a huge number of upsets. Kinda sucks that there's so few at-large NY6 bids this year, any OTHER year and we would likely be playing in the Peach, Fiesta, or Cotton for sure.
I honestly wouldn't be mad if this happened. It's one matchup that I've always wanted to see and very unlikely to happen in the regular season.
We killed it on TV and online last night. ESPN PRVerified account@ESPNPR Louisville-Houston: 77,000 average viewers, 354k uniques watching 17,100,000 minutes - New streaming records for ESPN Thursday Night CFB @ESPNPR Louisville-Houston: 1.8 overnight & 77,000 average streaming viewers - best overnight for a Thursday night CFB game in 2016 across all nets
I don't really care who we play in the bowl game now or what bowl. Prefer a high profile team on a down year. Get the win and get out. Boise St is not high profile in my opinion. Would rather play a P5 team.
Going to suck western Michigan making a New Years six bowl playing a jv schedule and we beat two top 5 teams and go to the Birmingham bowl.
Long-shot, but let's hope the CFP committee considers we're the only team that beat two top-5 teams this season in a commanding fashion.
