LOUISIANA VS. MIAMI - Jan 6th, 2020 -Lending Tree Bowl-Mobile, AL

[SMD7636]

I am glad the bowl game is after the holidays. It will be a great opportunity to show that we travel well. No excuses! Mobile has a nice downtown area. Let’s geaux beat the MAC champion!

[Jacob81]

I will be there.

[Jeaux]

I'd love to be there and support my team. But Monday January 6th.. Not gonna happen. Feel bad for the Mobile bowl though. They final get a good matchup with a close by school that has shown they can travel well when things are reasonable but the CCPspn thinks Monday after the holidays is a good time to have a game. You know because people have tons of vacation time and no one uses it in December. /s

Why not have it Sunday? I know nfl wildcard weekend. But there's NFL games Saturday but CCSPN is still showing the Armed Force's Bowl. Just have the game 11AM since they love to broadcast our games at that time anyways.

[Turbine]

That’s a great matchup for you guys. At least you got a conference champion

Well there is that, because if they ever go to an expanded playoff formula, conference champions will be the contenders.

[CajunAlum10]

One fan site I found:

http://test.miamihawktalk.com/talk/

There is a thread about us already there started over a month ago. Title:


“Nobody in the MAC should want Louisiana in a bowl”

That was fun to read.

[Cajunrunner]

We’re playing a conference champion. May not be a big name, but I’ll take an opportunity to defeat a conference champ in a bowl game.

[talktomewillis]

Here's a recap of the last time we play the 'Hawks.

Jake's first career start. Led Miami 28-3 at the half, only to have them storm back and win 29-28.

When the team landed, Nelson Stokley found out his daughter Jamie gave birth to twins and neither survived more than a few minutes.

The image of him holding onto the chain link fence and racked with sobs is a picture I'll always remember. Probably the toughest day of Nelson's life.

[basinbear]

Here's a recap of the last time we play the 'Hawks.

Jake's first career start. Led Miami 28-3 at the half, only to have them storm back and win 29-28.

When the team landed, Nelson Stokley found out his daughter Jamie gave birth to twins and neither survived more than a few minutes.

The image of him holding onto the chain link fence and racked with sobs is a picture I'll always remember. Probably the toughest day of Nelson's life.

I didn't just need to relive that one.......that's as bad as it gets and there was no consoling him that day.

[Big Buds]

Here's a recap of the last time we play the 'Hawks.

Jake's first career start. Led Miami 28-3 at the half, only to have them storm back and win 29-28.

When the team landed, Nelson Stokley found out his daughter Jamie gave birth to twins and neither survived more than a few minutes.

The image of him holding onto the chain link fence and racked with sobs is a picture I'll always remember. Probably the toughest day of Nelson's life.

That’s awful

[Cajunrunner]

Here's a recap of the last time we play the 'Hawks.

Jake's first career start. Led Miami 28-3 at the half, only to have them storm back and win 29-28.

When the team landed, Nelson Stokley found out his daughter Jamie gave birth to twins and neither survived more than a few minutes.

The image of him holding onto the chain link fence and racked with sobs is a picture I'll always remember. Probably the toughest day of Nelson's life.

Sobering reminders that this is just a game (even though it was also a job and career for Coach Stokley), where other realities are so much more important.

Sometimes I think we expect all these people, the coaches and athletes, to be robots. But how many of us, when there something seriously troubling from a personal standpoint, are always able to flip the switch when we’re at the office and completely tune everything else out?

[Bankruptcyman]

Here's a recap of the last time we play the 'Hawks.

Jake's first career start. Led Miami 28-3 at the half, only to have them storm back and win 29-28.

When the team landed, Nelson Stokley found out his daughter Jamie gave birth to twins and neither survived more than a few minutes.

The image of him holding onto the chain link fence and racked with sobs is a picture I'll always remember. Probably the toughest day of Nelson's life.

Was that the game where there was a play on the goal line late in the game that Miami OH got a home town call that decided the game?

[RaginScotsman]

It's not a particularly attractive match up to the casual fan, but the game may be good. The bowl rankings have started to come out and we're not scrapping the top 30s.

From CBS: #26. LendingTree Bowl -- Louisiana vs. Miami (OH) -- Jan. 6, 7:30 p.m.: The Ragin' Cajuns have been one of the best teams you haven't noticed, and Miami won the MAC this year. This is a matchup between two of the better Group of Five teams in the country. It has that sneaky potential.