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i reached out on twitter to the football and university account regarding a travel package. no answer yet. I'd like to support the school, but I'm not going to do it if I can get it much cheaper somewhere else.

Proud to be a Zip! Way to represent guys.

Taking a look over there, they seem pretty disappointed about their season. I think they lost Chuckie Keeton (has been one of the better G5 players the past few years) earlier in the season which may have had a nice impact on their record. They are probably more talented as they've been an above average program (lost a few coaches I believe) for the past few seasons, but I think they'll come in lethargic and we will obviously come in excited and proud to be there. Should have a good chance to win if we come in and play the game we can, but certainly won't be easy.

Appears to be only $325k. Only one lower is the Camelia bowl with $100K (yikes). http://www.statisticbrain.com/college-bowl-game-payouts/

My God. Leave it to some fans on here to find a way to bitch about going to a bowl game against a winnable opponent. Is the location preferable? No. Is the opponent preferable? No. Who gives a damn?! Go out there and win the thing. I'll see anyone else who goes there. It will probably be around a $500 round trip flight. Game tickets should be cheap and lodging shouldn't be bad. It's just money. More than worth the experience. Go Zips!

hope to see some of you in Boise!

assuming utah state

When is the official announcement for all bowls?

I'd say Carey, but he didn't have a good enough year to get poached, IMO.

Feel like a kid on Christmas eve. Can't wait!

Babers officially out per Syracuse. Hopefully (not) BG has been looking into a replacement as it was bound to happen. I think he'll do good things there if given the chance.

Agree with the above. WKU would embarrass us

Named Ohio Mr. Football and has offers from Can't St, BG, and Toledo. Go get 'em, Terry! http://www.fridaynightohio.com/news/perrys-keishaun-sims-set-be-ohios-mr-football

I don't see any MAC coach leaving for freakin Tulane

Congrats to Jatavis! Well deserved. I feel like we may have had at least one snub on the All-MAC teams, however. Feel like anyone of Marcus, Pittman, Coe, or Scott could have been on there. Yet our friends over in Can't had 3 1st team selections on defense..

FoxSports has us in Boise vs Utah State http://www.foxsports.com/college-football/story/bowl-projections-2015-week-14-alabama-oklahoma-clemson-michigan-state-playoff-120115 CBSSports has Akron vs Illinois in the Quick Lane bowl (I'd love the matchup). http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/bowls/predictions Whatever College Sports Madness is has us in the Heart of Dallas bowl vs Marshall. http://www.collegesportsmadness.com/football/bowl-projections SportingNews has us in the Arizona bowl vs Boise St. http://www.sportingnews.com/ncaa-football-news/4662400-week-14-bowl-projections-college-football-playoff-iowa-michigan-state-big-ten-championship-alabama-clemson What I take from all of this - who the hell knows. Sunday can't get here fast enough.

I would imagine it means the school has paid some of the leases that the baseball players were stuck with that everybody was bitching about.

Thanks for starting the thread. Should be interesting to watch. Hopefully a few more dominoes will fall. If his reasoning is true, I find it hard to believe he would commit to ISU, but it seems to be his only P5 offer, so you never know.

I agree. With our current lack of commits, I'm expecting a pretty strong ending relative to the rest of Bowden's tenure. Those decommits from MAC HC vacancies should be ripe for the taking.

Wasn't aware of that. They should bring it back.

I think Toronto would be a good fit, assuming they can fit a football field inside that dome of theirs used for baseball like the Pinstripe bowl.

Interesting. That same guy also said Babers to UCF, though. He's bound to get it right sometime.

https://twitter.com/MACSports/status/671682884713979904 Re: Bahamas Bowl

I'd prefer going to Florida, but I can't complain to much about Detroit (for obvious reasons, not including destination) compared to somewhere like Boise. Also, I have no reason to doubt Hilltopper, but if for some reason it happens to be the Bahamas bowl instead, you DO NOT need a passport for boat travel. Just your birth certificate and drivers license. Traveling by air is a different story. Source: took a cruise to the Bahamas last year without a passport.

I think I saw him linked to Rutgers, but if that doesn't happen then great for WMU. The MAC needs a new bar set. Losing coaches to P5 conferences is one thing, but losing them to other G5 programs and/or having salaries much less is a bad look. Edit: See exhibit A. http://www.hustlebelt.com/2015/11/29/9816274/dino-babers-new-ucf-football-head-coach