AAC #1 vs MWC #1 Rotating each year Between the Miami bowl nd the Los Angeles Christmas bowl 3/3. In the years that its in Miami the other G5 conferences get the Los Angeles bowl and in the years that is in Los Angeles the other G5 conferences get the Miami bowl.

Maybe, but I am worried about further grouping ourselves in this mid-tier of football, when we're shooting to be where our conference was before.

I literally only care enough to post that I don't care, you can paint our bowls all you like, but a turd is still a turd.

(10-14-2013 01:31 PM)Lord2FLI Wrote:  I literally only care enough to post that I don't care, you can paint our bowls all you like, but a turd is still a turd.

It would be American Champion vs Mountain West champion. That's a good bowl no matter where it is. And of course in the years tthat he American or MWC champion go to the access bowl then The Miami/LA bowl would just be MWC vs AAC With the number one from whichever conference didn't make the Access bowl being allowed to go to another bowl.

I'm all for #1 MWC vs #1 American. Don't care how, just get it done.

Reality is that most year it would be the number one of one conference vs the number 2 because the champion of either would most likely be in the BCS

hell no. I couldn't care less about MWC#1 outside of the years its boise. Would rather play ACC #7 or SEC #10. What is a more interesting opponent to you, NC State or Fresno St? I know to 99% of UCF fans it would be whatever the P5 team is. A game against MWC#1 or #2 might as well be against MAC, CUSa, Sunbelt, etc. They are all the same to most fans if you aren't in the P5.

(10-14-2013 02:01 PM)Cubanbull Wrote:  Reality is that most year it would be the number one of one conference vs the number 2 because the champion of either would most likely be in the BCS

Well on that note, what if we turned it into like a de-facto play in game for the access bowl?

(10-14-2013 02:09 PM)dezagcoog Wrote:  

(10-14-2013 02:01 PM)Cubanbull Wrote:  Reality is that most year it would be the number one of one conference vs the number 2 because the champion of either would most likely be in the BCS

Well on that note, what if we turned it into like a de-facto play in game for the access bowl?

lol why would we do that? Give ourselves less of a chance of making it? Have to have a good record, win our own champ game, then beat MWC champ in a "play in game?"

Also doubt MAC would sit back and be quiet about it. Some of you guys must live in an alternate reality with some of these ideas.

(10-14-2013 02:10 PM)Knights_of_UCF Wrote:  

(10-14-2013 02:09 PM)dezagcoog Wrote:  

(10-14-2013 02:01 PM)Cubanbull Wrote:  Reality is that most year it would be the number one of one conference vs the number 2 because the champion of either would most likely be in the BCS

Well on that note, what if we turned it into like a de-facto play in game for the access bowl?

lol why would we do that? Give ourselves less of a chance of making it? Have to have a good record, win our own champ game, then beat MWC champ in a "play in game?"

Also doubt MAC would sit back and be quiet about it. Some of you guys must live in an alternate reality with some of these ideas.

LOL well the MAC is exactly who I was thinking we could gang up on and shield ourselves from.

LOL we do, it's called online forums. Nothing we say on here has any bearing in reality. LOLOLOL what world do you live in? Do you actually think these ideas have to be extremely realistic cause maybe...just maybe they'll listen to us???

(10-14-2013 01:29 PM)Brian Reading Wrote:  Maybe, but I am worried about further grouping ourselves in this mid-tier of football, when we're shooting to be where our conference was before.

The old teams really left from the BCS Big East after Louisville and Rutgers leave after this season is Cincinnati, Connecticut and South Florida. The New AAC is no where even closest to what the Big East was!

Connecticut
Syracuse
Rutgers
Pitt
West Virginia
Cincinnati
Louisville
South Florida

Now if the Big East football schools had split earlier from the C7 schools, this would have been a sweet conference:

Connecticut
Syracuse
Rutgers
Pitt
West Virginia
Cincinnati
Louisville
Memphis
East Carolina
Central Florida
South Florida
Houston
TCU
SMU
BYU
Boise State

However, the question is would it have survived the raids?

At this point I no longer care about what happens with the bowls. We've got the "best" bowl lineup of the G5 and that's all that really matters. I'm also of the opinion that bowls (for the most part) are a boondoggle in the first place. Most of these lower tier garbage bowls (75%) of our lineup are just a money trap. Seems people would have figured that out by now.

As others have said, likely it wouldn't work out to be #1 vs #1 many times.

(10-14-2013 02:09 PM)dezagcoog Wrote:  

(10-14-2013 02:01 PM)Cubanbull Wrote:  Reality is that most year it would be the number one of one conference vs the number 2 because the champion of either would most likely be in the BCS

Well on that note, what if we turned it into like a de-facto play in game for the access bowl?

You mean a conference championship? Or push for a 15th game? Makes no sense.

(10-14-2013 02:52 PM)blunderbuss Wrote:  

(10-14-2013 02:09 PM)dezagcoog Wrote:  

(10-14-2013 02:01 PM)Cubanbull Wrote:  Reality is that most year it would be the number one of one conference vs the number 2 because the champion of either would most likely be in the BCS

Well on that note, what if we turned it into like a de-facto play in game for the access bowl?

You mean a conference championship? Or push for a 15th game? Makes no sense.

I guess something more like a push for a 15th game. If it gets us a more guaranteed way to get that access bowl it could make sense. It might also be impossible, but I was just tossing it out there.

I think I would be ok with a AAC #1 vs MW #1. If the MW#1 is in the BCS, Im not as hot on the idea---but that same thing is going to happen with the P-5 top bowls a lot--so maybe its not that big a deal. I think there is probably a decent chance that the MW #2 would be ranked higher than any P-5 appearing in our other available bowls. Maybe if we each guaranteed our #1 or #2----that would be work better. When available we match #1's. When not, we send our #1 to face the highest ranked opponent (which may or may not be the MW#2). But the game would always at least be a nice #2 vs #2 matchup while preserving the best available outcome for each conference champ.

(10-14-2013 03:47 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  I think I would be ok with a AAC #1 vs MW #1. If the MW#1 is in the BCS, Im not as hot on the idea---but that same thing is going to happen with the P-5 top bowls a lot--so maybe its not that big a deal. I think there is probably a decent chance that the MW #2 would be ranked higher than any P-5 appearing in our other available bowls. Maybe if we each guaranteed our #1 or #2----that would be work better. When available we match #1's. When not, we send our #1 to face the highest ranked opponent (which may or may not be the MW#2). But the game would always at least be a nice #2 vs #2 matchup while preserving the best available outcome for each conference champ.

If the MountainWest or American champion is in the Access bowl then the Miami/LA bowl just becomes MWC vs AAC that year with neither Champion playing in it. In those years we send our champion to the military or Birmingham bowl etc. to play the ACC or SEC or in the case of the MWC they would send their champ to the Las Vegas bowl to play the Pac 10.

I always said we share a tie in for a good bowl against the P5 and the champion goes to access bowl. So then mwc #2 vs aac #2. The year neither makes access we just make it #1vs#1 and send the highest #2 to the P5 bowl.... or some variation.

We should work to obtain as much separation from other G5 conferences as possible.
Play and beat P5 schools to show we can compete. Let the world forget about other G5 conferences.