NOLA Bowl Opponent

[wcd35]

That being said, we beat last years team not this years. In fact our conf champ last year got worked by a MAC team in a bowl last year. Their best teams are every bit as good as the belts.

With the asterisk that ASU had no coaching staff in the bowl basically

[HoustonCajun]

Rice has been ducking us for years. We whipped their sorry butts the last time we played them in football. Was a very rewarding road game.

Pompous is too kind a word for them, but unlike TooLame they do have some success in the past decade.

If my memory serves me correct their band was not even in uniform, but some sort of casual look.

Their band is called the MOB, Marching Owl Band. They are a private school and have a band like Stanford - organized chaos making fun of their opponent. Pretty funny to watch and usually entertaining.

[ATXCajun]

That being said, we beat last years team not this years. In fact our conf champ last year got worked by a MAC team in a bowl last year. Their best teams are every bit as good as the belts.

Had to check some stats to see if my perception was reality. It is not. I'm right that there is no consistently strong team, except maybe Toledo. Crapdaddy is very right that the top teams are tough in thier bowl games. Looking at 10+ win MAC teams since 2000:

2000 Toledo 10-1 No bowl game
2001 Toledo 10-2 Won Motor City
2003 Miami 13-1 Won GMAC
2003 Bowling Green 11-3 Won Motor City
2003 NIU 10-2 No bowl game
2008 Ball St 12-2 Lost International
2009 CMU 12-2 Won GMAC
2010 NIU 11-3 Won Humanitarian
2011 NIU 11-3 Won GoDaddy
2011 Ohio 10-4 Won Idaho Potato

Interesting tidbit: Ball St is 0-7 in bowl games.