Bowl Schedule Announced

The Bowl Schedule is out, and it is pretty much status quo. The MAC has three bowl tie-ins, with the GMAC Bowl now featuring the MAC against the #9 ACC team.

You have to think that the ACC doesn't always get 9 Bowl eligible teams, so we might see more at-large teams than ACC teams.

It is humorous and telling that when I read that the ACC had entered the GMAC Bowl, I just assumed the MAC had been bumped out. Turns out not to be true. Doh!

The bowl thing has changed so much in the past few years. There was a time when the MAC struggled for one bowl bid. There are now so many games, that half of the FBS plays in a bowl game. We beat EMU (or Miami, or Buffalo) , and there's a very good chance we're in a bowl game even last year.

Rick Chryst always trumpeted our bowl games as a MAC accomplishment, but it is a lot easier now than it used to be.

I guess the point is that bowl tie-ins might be less important than in the past. Only 2-3 bowl eligible teams stayed home last year, and some years none of them do. As long as the number of games stays the same and the rules stay the same, MAC teams are going to go to bowls, if only because the bowls don't have a choice.

Just for the record, the MAC has lost its last 8 bowl games.