Rutgers is bowl eligible after winning today so they're going to Pinstripe Bowl. Was hoping we'd get to play Notre Dame. Coogs most likely get BBVA Bowl in Birmingham.
And if that is Vanderbilt, not good news. I would rather play a football legend like ND rather than a non football school that this season is freakishly good.
It is either Vandy or Mississippi State. Personally, I was hoping to see us in the more prestigious bowl but oh well.
Really disappointed. I had a hotel already reserved for NYC, cancelled it this morning. Not going to Alabama unless it's at gunpoint.
I plan on going to Alabama for the game, you have to remember just because the game is there you don't have to stay there.
Bowl games should be in or near large/ interesting cities so it's easier to convince casual fans/spouses to make the trip.
UH looked like a real team there against Connecticut. Most impressive was letting the lead slip twice, and bouncing back both times.
I was there also...front row in the student section and stood the whole game. The best game I have ever been to as a student and that includes 2009 when we played Texas Tech in football. We beat UCONN without our starting PG (LJ Rose) and SF (Daniel House)
The first bowl games were sponsored by Southern and Western cities back when they were significantly less populous than the East coast and commercial tourism might have still been a novelty or luxury of the wealthy. Larger, better-known cities are more likely to have sufficiently large tourist attractions and their stadiums have major league tenants; so the marginal economic bump might not be worth an overly large bowl purse, unless you're a smaller city with no visitors.
I casually follow UH football. O'Korn is a true freshman, right? Because they just introduced him as a RS Freshman on the teaser for the ESPN broadcast.
