PreGame 2011 New Orleans Bowl - Walking To New Orleans

[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

[cajunhawk]

COME ON MAN

It's possible...but highly unlikely.

[RCAJUN90]

On the Tech board they are batting around this long shot possibility. I'm torn. I would rather play a school we normally wouldn't get a chance to play. However think of the crowd and atmosphere! How many do you think we will realistically put in the Super Dome? I'm thinking close to 40,000.

[Turbine]

Fortunately we won't have to worry about that matchup, since there is no such thing as the NOLA Bowl

[The Antiwac]

Considering what Tech pulled in the Independance bowl choosing 6-6 NIU over both UL and ASU, there is a zero percent chance they play in NO in my opinion.

[SlappyCajun]

The New Orleans bowl doesn't care what happened to us in the Independence bowl. They care about $$. If they can get Tech they will definitely try to get them.

[njustice]

I think that it would be a good in-state rivalry game, but I just don't see it happening. I'm often seeing the prediction that we might be playing against UCF. We'd have a pretty decent chance of winning that one.

[RaginWaldo]

The New Orleans bowl doesn't care what happened to us in the Independence bowl. They care about $$. If they can get Tech they will definitely try to get them.

So the people of the Independence Bowl don't care about "$$"?

[suprcajun]

They will be in a WAC bowl tie-in just like Jay said on his show the other day. Plain and simple, this is not going to happen.