Updated ESPN College Football Bowl projections today has App State back in Alabama for either the Camellia Bowl on 12/15 or the Birmingham Bowl on 12/22. Both are being carried by ESPN. We had a great time at the Camellia Bowl, and will be there if we go, but I personally hope for a different bowl that we have not been to before if possible.

http://www.espn.com/college-football/st ... ons-week-9

Beat Coastal!!

I’ll take playing Memphis in Birmingham on 12/22. That extra day before Christmas makes all the difference

AppinVA wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 29, 2018 2:37 pm

I’ll take playing Memphis in Birmingham on 12/22. That extra day before Christmas makes all the difference

Totally agree with this and I'd love to play another conference's team besides the MAC..

Rick83 wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 29, 2018 2:40 pm

AppinVA wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 29, 2018 2:37 pm

I’ll take playing Memphis in Birmingham on 12/22. That extra day before Christmas makes all the difference

Totally agree with this and I'd love to play another conference's team besides the MAC..

Amen. I have nothing against the MAC, but I would like some variety, even if the game is still in Alabama.

Are we even eligible to play in the Birmingham Bowl? It is not one of our conference tie ins. He also has Liberty playing in the Cure bowl when the tie ins are the American and Sunbelt.

ESPN has the clout to make deals. As long as we get 6 teams eligible, it shouldn’t be a problem.

appbanker wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 29, 2018 3:20 pm

Are we even eligible to play in the Birmingham Bowl? It is not one of our conference tie ins. He also has Liberty playing in the Cure bowl when the tie ins are the American and Sunbelt.

I thought the same thing. CFN has the conference tie-ins as the AAC vs. SEC. South Florida & Texas Tech played in it last year. This is what I found below from Wikipedia. Looks like they can do what they want to.

Birmingham Bowl Conference tie-ins.

The bowl originally had a four-year agreement with Conference USA to match a representative of that conference against an opponent from the Big East Conference, but the bowl's officials later appealed to the NCAA for a recertification which was granted in late April 2008. In 2008 and 2009, the bowl featured the Southeastern Conference's ninth bowl-eligible team and a team from the Big East Conference.

The game currently features teams from the SEC and the American Athletic Conference. Should either of these conferences not fulfill their bowl commitments, a team from C-USA or the Mid-American Conference will take their place, provided it is bowl eligible. Otherwise, the game will choose an at-large team. This happened in 2008, when the SEC was unable to send a team; the bowl selected ACC team North Carolina State to face Rutgers from the Big East despite the fact that the bowl had an arrangement with the Sun Belt Conference at the time and it had at least one bowl-eligible team it could send.

The best gift I have gotten this season is to appreciate every week as a 1 game season.
5-2 or 0-7, get the win this week, don't look back, don't look forward. I used to be in such a hurry to figure out how it would
end. I discovered happiness is in the journey, not the destination. College football is by
far the best regular season of all sports.

TurfMonkey wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 30, 2018 4:22 pm

The best gift I have gotten this season is to appreciate every week as a 1 game season.
5-2 or 0-7, get the win this week, don't look back, don't look forward. I used to be in such a hurry to figure out how it would
end. I discovered happiness is in the journey, not the destination. College football is by
far the best regular season of all sports.

This is a brilliant post!