Bowl Reps at Western Michigan Game

[Salsa]

According to the TV announcers, representatives from the Motor City Bowl were at the Western Michigan game.

I'm thinking our performance had them hoping that BG wins out. If so, I'd bet that BG will be Motor City Bound, regardless of what happens in the MACC.

Some possibilities for the Motor City Bowl----

A Northern Illinois-Northwestern matchup might be seen as tops.
I'd love to see a BG matchup against Purdue, Ohio State, or Michigan State. It's looking more likely, though, that Ohio State will go elsewhere (Sun Bowl) and that Michigan State won't be eligible. If Minnesota continues to falter, they might end up in the Motor City Bowl. If Northwestern gets invited to the Motor City Bowl, I think BG's chances there are less likely.

All this speculation is fun, but let's maintain our primary focus--a decisive victory against Marshall and a great road win against Toledo.

[rollalongFF0304]

Sort of off-topic, but did anyone else notice Paul Krebs walking around the stadium all day Saturday with the guy from Navy?

I'm wondering if this has anything to do with possible MAC expansion.

[Metz]

and that Michigan State won't be eligible.

The Staters only have one tough game left and that's next week against Wisconsin (Penn St and Hawaii follow). I'm of course praying for them to win so my Maize and Blue gets in the Rose Bowl. Unfortunately for BG, if State wins out, that's one less bowl game we could get in to.


<----Yay for me being the 1st to 1,000!!!!!

[1987alum]

rollalongFF0304: "Someone" who was on the sideline near the end of Saturday's game happened to have a chance to talk to Krebs Don't read anything into the Navy guy's appearance.

[NWLB]

Ohio State won't wind up in Detroit no matter what. MSU won't win-out. I don't see the Big Ten being able to fill the bowl, not having check their conference stats to know for sure.

Its going to be chaotic this year. There will be open bowl slots. I'm hoping Utah doesn't get slighted in the polls. I'm hoping we crack the top 25 next week. I hope we hand UT its butt on a platter the week afterwards.

Give me three more wins and ranking, and I can at least be content with a worthy NIU team winning the conference.

[huskiealum03]

Good luck to you guys getting a bowl. All the good teams in the MAC deserve to have a piece of the excitement

[NWLB]

I'm looking forward to next year, with the Toronto bowl, when worrying about a bowl is less of a concern.

A fourth bid in Indiana will be nice too, if they can make it happen.

The worry in my view, is how will the short-fall of teams to fill Bowls this year, impact the formation of new games?

[1987alum]

NWLB:

The latter is a valid point. There may be a lot less enthusiasm for new bowls if a lot of lower-profile teams gain bowl bids and generate paltry crowds.

Our bottom line is - keeping winning and developing the program so that concern over bowl bids becomes moot.

[BGSU33]

What we need to start happening is having bowl reps from bowl games "other" than the Motor City Bowl come to see us play as well. Don't get me wrong, it's great that we have MCB reps on hand, that's good. But if things happen the way we're afraid they could, we need a rep or two from some of these other potential bowls to be aware of what we can provide as a product to their bowl as well. If we start getting reps from outside of the MCB and GMAC bowls coming to see us too, it certainly won't hurt our chances at a possible at-large bid if there's one to be handed out if we don't land in either the MCB or GMAC.