1. How does this bowl matter in the grand scheme of the world?
It’s okay to now say that Louisiana is officially over the hump. After year and years of coming close to improving and becoming a real Sun Belt power, now it has all the makings of a program ready to do even more with three straight New Orleans Bowl wins and three straight nine-win campaigns.
There might not be a slew of big wins over top teams over the last three seasons, but 27 victories following a 3-9 2010 season has made this the Sun Belt’s premier team and Mark Hudspeth a hot head coaching prospect