CUSA needs a prized, go-to bowl game for our champion. Well, things have changed from the days when every conference had THE bowl every team wanted to play in. The Big 10 and Pac 10 used to vie for a trip to the Rose Bowl. The SEC champ always went to the Sugar Bowl, and there were others. The playoffs have forever changed that for the "big" boys. And now CUSA would like to place a team in one of the New Year's Six Access Bowls every year! But, I'd like to see CUSA have a really, really nice bowl for our champion, one that every CUSA team would want to go to if falling short of an Access Bowl.
This year, for instance, there is speculation that FAU will go to this bowl or that one, and UNT is apparently locked in to a Texas-based bowl, win or lose today. I would prefer there to be a bowl, opposite a P5 team, where our champion goes to, again, if not getting an Access Bowl, in which case the other division winner would get the host spot.
Florida State won - at least 2 eligible teams staying home
UL-L is getting cruahed at App st, 35-7 halftime
NMSU plays S Alabama later (Go Jags)
App St 56 - ULoL 7 (That's 56 UNANSWERED points for App St, who spotted ULoL the game's first points).
Scoreless 1st quarter in Las Cruces. USA ball in the redzone to start the 2nd.
ULLLLLLL (U7L for short) with a garbage TD to make it 56-14 in Boone early in the 4th.
Jags score on the second play of the 2nd to take a 7-0 lead.
App St 63 - ULoL 14 FINAL
Congrats to ASU Sr walkon QB Curtis Fitch (son of LA Tech OC Todd Fitch) who scored the games final TD and his first career TD.
Two NMSU FGs make it 7-6 Jags midway through the 2nd.