(11-21-2014 06:56 AM)AstroCajun Wrote:  

(11-21-2014 01:34 AM)The4thOption Wrote:  

(11-20-2014 08:00 PM)Louisianafanrcajun90 Wrote:  

(11-19-2014 08:21 PM)The4thOption Wrote:  

(11-16-2014 09:47 AM)Eagles Cliff Wrote:  Maybe we can close this thread that never needed to be started. We're in a conference with 3 Bowl tie-ins outside of being the highest ranked G5. The math will be easy every year. We are 0-3 OOC which should never be good enough for any team to go bowling.

Uh.. HUm.... We are 1-3 OCC. Just saying

You are pumped about beating Savannah State!??? I wish we would play you guys in a bowl game.

Cajun lack of reading comp.

Notice the "Just saying". Nowhere did I mention that anybody was "pumped" over that win. But it goes in the W column.

And the premise that it doesn't matter who you lost to or the fashion in which you lost it is simply wrong. (Same as the fashion in which you beat a cupcake.. Tell me beating Savannah state by 70 is the same as beating them by 3. I mean... Imagine only beating GAST by 3.. )

But a last 30 second loss to the ACC Coastal Division champs who are going to knock off FSU in the ACC CCG is more impressive than had we just been destroyed (like we were in Annapolis). The fact that they are top 20 and might finish higher - imop - makes it a quality loss. Don't believe in those? Ask the CFP Board about Miss State's loss to Alabama then.

Point being, lets not just look simply at the OOC W\L list to determine when a team deserves a bowl.

Except that's exactly what the bowls do. It sure was brought up in the first two years of the NO Bowl that North Texas was O-fer LOC and even once got a bowl when they were 5-6 because they were the conference champion.

I'm not arguing that. I think most Southern fans get that the Bowls are about money and who will bring the most fans and so regional teams at 6-6 might get invited over a 9-3 or 10-2 team. That's not the point of the above.

Not arguing more merit, but that you can't simply say... "If you dont win any OOC games, you don't ever "deserve" a bowl". The Merit I'm talking about is with the fans there and pointing out that if you were to schedule the top 3 teams in the country OOC and lost them all by a point - it would be better or more
"deserving" than scheduling 3 of the worst OOC and winning those by a little. I also think the polls would reflect that. Then again, Marshall is ranked pretty high.