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  1. UL Football Low attendance the culprit in Troy's snub


    NEW ORLEANS - As unlikely as it seems, Florida Atlantic carries the banner for the Sun Belt Conference tonight.

    And Troy, the league's best football team all season except for a four-hour period, is sitting at home, still trying to figure out what happened.

    The Trojans were on their way to the New Orleans Bowl, or surely some bowl game. They'd beaten their first six Sun Belt opponents by at least 17 points, and their only losses all year were respectable ones to three Southeastern Conference teams who are all playing in January bowls. The Trojans scored 93 points in those games against Arkansas (46-26), Florida (59-31) and Georgia (44-34).

    All that came tumbling down on Dec. 1 when, on their home turf, Troy watched a 9-7 lead turn into a 35-12 deficit in a period of 13 minutes. That was too much of a hole for even the Trojans' potent offense, and Florida Atlantic stole away from the Alabama plains with a share of the league title and the Sun Belt's berth in tonight's Crescent City game.

    The rest of the story

    Dan McDonald
    dmcdonald@theadvertiser.com



  2. #22

    Default Re: Troy deserved a Bowl Bid

    Troy and Alabumble ought to be playing in the Birmingham Bowl except that Tide fans wouldn't want any possibility of going 0-2 record against the SBC this season.

    But, I would have watched it.


  3. #23

    Default Re: Troy deserved a Bowl Bid

    As many of you know I currently live up in Columbus, Ohio. There is a MAC school call Bowling Green which was invited to the GMAC Bowl to face Tulsa in Mobile. There is one problem. Bowling Green can't fulfill it's 7,500 ticket sale allotment to meet requirements and will have to pay the GMAC Bowl for the unused tickets. They are actually asking Ohio State fans(who will already be down there for the National Title Game) to buy a ticket and go to the game which will be played the day before.

    It's hard to believe that with all the Alabama based bowl games that Troy wasn't invited.


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