Future bowl tie ins

[2speedy1]

3/4 agree. Not Independence. Been there, done that, not a good thing. Also would rather have Florida bowls than too many West coast Bowls. And yes, I know we have none now.

My reasoning for those was I was picking lower level bowls to replace our lower level bowls that would still be a P5 team rather than a G5, and I Like the idea of having bowls spread around not all in Texas and Florida, but that is the least of my issue really.

But I would take any bowl against another P5 school in place of one of our G5 bowls. Those were just examples.

 

[JP4CY]

3/4 agree. Not Independence. Been there, done that, not a good thing. Also would rather have Florida bowls than too many West coast Bowls. And yes, I know we have none now.

Shreveport is a dump.

 

[jdoggivjc]

The Alamo Bowl says "hi":

PULLMAN AND AMES aren’t exactly big TV markets, and Friday nights usually pull in smallish numbers of viewers. But viewership soared for the No. 12/13 Washington State’s thrilling win over No. 24 Iowa State in the Alamo Bowl.

WSU-Iowa State on Friday night scored 5.547 million viewers, according to Sports Media Watch – up a head-turning 28 percent from last year’s Alamo Bowl, (TCU-Stanford: 4.33 million).

It also represented a 22 percent climb from two years ago (Oklahoma State-Colorado: 4.55 million), and WSU-ISU pulled in the largest audience for the Alamo Bowl since the 2015-16 season (TCU-Oregon: 7.41M).

The ratings for the Dec. 31 and Jan. 1 bowl games aren’t in yet. As of press time, the Alamo Bowl was the most watched non-NY6 bowl game -- fourth out of 27 bowls -- behind the Peach (Florida-Michigan) and the two semifinal playoff games (Cotton: Clemson-Notre Dame) and (Orange: Alabama-Oklahoma).

The announced attendance for the Alamo Bowl was 60,675.

What it means is while Ames and Pullman are smallish college towns hosting "state universities" that have reputations as "little brothers" to the "larger" school in the state (yeah, ISU has a higher enrollment than Iowa - but does anyone not affiliated or a fan of ISU even know that?), both programs have developed strong, almost cult-like followings. Everyone is aware of the Cougar flag at every single Gameday, and those in the know understand that ISU's tailgate might be one of college football's best-kept secrets.

 

[2speedy1]

Shreveport is a dump.

Yeah, unfortunately I agree, Ive always like the Independence bowl, simply because its one of the ones that has kept its name, but really wish it was in a better location.
I only included it as a lower level bowl against a P5 instead of a G5. But yeah there are so many better locations, and I think there are a few locations that should have a bowl that don't and a few that have too many in the same spot.