PreGame 2011 New Orleans Bowl - Walking To New Orleans

[VObserver]

If stAte wins Saturday [and they should] they will clinch a share of the SBC title, and they hold the tiebreaker. That being the case, the NO Bowl can invite us, knowing that GoDaddy will HAVE to take stAte [who they want anyway]. The only problem we might have is if stAte loses out.

[RCAJUN90]

Where do those pesky Hilltoppers fit in? If they are bowl eligiable and win a share of the Sunbelt then where would that leave us? The Sunbelt to the best of my knowledge only has two sure bowl tie ins.

[Cajunsmike]

Where do those pesky Hilltoppers fit in? If they are bowl eligiable and win a share of the Sunbelt then where would that leave us? The Sunbelt to the best of my knowledge only has two sure bowl tie ins.

If ASU and WKU tie, ASU wins the tiebreaker as they beat the Toppers. Toppers are out of luck in that scenario as conference rules only state that the champion has to be accomodated. I would be shocked if ASU does not handle MT with ease. MT is struggling and ASU is playing for a title. I would not be surprised if ASU brings a few folks to MT for the game on Saturday.

[Hammer58]

Where do those pesky Hilltoppers fit in? If they are bowl eligiable and win a share of the Sunbelt then where would that leave us? The Sunbelt to the best of my knowledge only has two sure bowl tie ins.

They could go to whatever other bowl who couldn't fill their slots would be willing to take them. Or if no slots are available or no one wants them because they do not think they are an attractive draw they would just be SOL much as we and ASU were during the Memorandum of Undestanding debacle when Wright Waters expended all of his energy getting FAU a bowl slot and neglected to make sure that UL and ASU were accomodated. Sometimes, life's a _____; we know, we've been there.

[ET]

Where do those pesky Hilltoppers fit in? If they are bowl eligiable and win a share of the Sunbelt then where would that leave us? The Sunbelt to the best of my knowledge only has two sure bowl tie ins.

WKU is currently not even bowl eligible and I believe they will lose this weekend at North Texas. ASU beats MT this weekend and the announcement for the New Orleans Bowl can happen Monday. The Hilltoppers will probably beat Troy to go 6-6 but they would then be at the mercy of whatever bowls have openings. FIU is currently bowl eligible at 6-4 and they go to Funroe and Middle to finish - they will be in a bowl.

[moorecajun]

WKU is currently not even bowl eligible and I believe they will lose this weekend at North Texas. ASU beats MT this weekend and the announcement for the New Orleans Bowl can happen Monday. The Hilltoppers will probably beat Troy to go 6-6 but they would then be at the mercy of whatever bowls have openings. FIU is currently bowl eligible at 6-4 and they go to Funroe and Middle to finish - they will be in a bowl.

I agree; I think UNT knocks off WKU - UNT is also in the 6-6 hunt still!

If WKU does get bowl elgible I would fully expect WW to do whatever he could to get them into a bowl game; not trying to sound sarcastic or say there is favoritism here!

Not much.

I saw the favoritism in Hot Springs last year when the conference hotel, off limits to ALL Sun Belt teams, suddenly had a WKU team staying there ... accident?

[shof]

Thankfully the bowl committee picks who they want, not WW. Not saying influence wouldn't be applied; but its about money, and the Cajuns would bring a LOT more to New Orleans than WKU!

[CrazyCajun]

If stAte wins Saturday [and they should] they will clinch a share of the SBC title, and they hold the tiebreaker. That being the case, the NO Bowl can invite us, knowing that GoDaddy will HAVE to take stAte [who they want anyway]. The only problem we might have is if stAte loses out.

if arkansas state loses out and WKU drops on more, we are co-champs

[Cajunologist]

It doesnt matter what wku does. Hopefully they find another spot for them but its not going to be new orleans. Remember a few years ago, FAU was picked for a bowl above us even though they finished below us in the standings. Same thing may happen to wku.

[cajunhawk]

It doesn't matter what happens...we are going to New Orleans regardless. If WKU wins the tiebreakers or ASU wins the tiebreaker...New Orleans has the first choice...and as long as the winner of the tiebreaker gets slotted somewhere, anywhere, then New Orleans picks us. It's only a matter of when the invite comes.

Look at last year...FIU won the tiebreaker...where did they go? Little Caesars Bowl. Godaddy.com wanted MTSU and New Orleans wanted Troy. These bowls will get who they want. And lucky for us...New Orleans has the first choice and we are the apple of their eye.

[TuffGuy84]

It doesn't matter what happens...we are going to New Orleans regardless. If WKU wins the tiebreakers or ASU wins the tiebreaker...New Orleans has the first choice...and as long as the winner of the tiebreaker gets slotted somewhere, anywhere, then New Orleans picks us. It's only a matter of when the invite comes.

Look at last year...FIU won the tiebreaker...where did they go? Little Caesars Bowl. Godaddy.com wanted MTSU and New Orleans wanted Troy. These bowls will get who they want. And lucky for us...New Orleans has the first choice and we are the apple of their eye.

Bingo! Its getting old seeing these projections having UL going to all these different bowls, but truth be told, we are going to New Orleans, so we need to stop worrying. ASU (barring some ridiculous miracle) are going to the Godaddy bowl. WKU, FIU and maybe UNT will be fighting for atlarge Bids, I think that one of the 3, or maybe 2 of those 3 will get bowl bids.

The bigger question in all of this becomes who will we play. NO is scheduled to take the #5 team from CUSA, but with Boise losing and Houston still undefeated, there is a good chance that Houston ends up in a BCS bowl which would mean that NO would Essentially be taking the #6 seed from CUSA. Right now, CUSA has 4 bowl eligible team, they have 3 teams a 4-6 and 1 team at 5-5 and one of those 4-6 teams will fall to 4-7 this weekend as ECU and UCF play each other. They would need a lot of things to go right to have 6 eligible teams, so New Orleans may be in the mix for an atlarge team. Best Case Scenario is if we can nab a team from one of the AQ conferences that misses a slot, that would be really awesome. More likely though, we may end up playing one of the bowl eligible MAC teams. It will be interesting to see how this plays out.

[cajuns67]

if arkansas state loses out and WKU drops on more, we are co-champs

COME ON MAN