Tomorrow we find out our Bowl Fate
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I will be surprised if it Isn't the NM bowl. Wyoming gives us a better chance but if it is the Cowboys won't be much of an offensive game their offense is a lot like ours.
UTEP needs a bowl win, so I’ll take any game vs the weakest opposition.
To quote Jay from The 40 year old Virgin, “All you trying to do right now is bust off this first night.”
Voted for Fresno St since they beat Nevada, San Diego St and UCLA. If the Miners played and lost to Wyoming who had a 2-6 conference record, that would look really bad. Losing to Fresno St would be more acceptable and a win would look great.
Nope. Nobody will care who the opponent beat or lost to.
Wyoming beat the MAC champions and the MW champions. Anyone we play from the MW is going to be tough. I want Fresno too since they already lost their HC and starting qb. I think that's enough to even the odds a little bit.
Not so fast on Fresno St. No coach and lost starting QB! Could be a little different without the starting QB at least.
You chose to ignore "and a win would be great". I simply stated both possibilities. You chose to focus on the negative.
I didn’t choose to ignore anything. I just noticed “win” was absent when you mentioned Wyoming, but you mentioned loss to both teams. Just sayin’.
You're such an ass. jk
To any reader that is not an ass (jk again) it's implied that a win vs Wyoming would be viewed as not much of an accomplishment.
I don’t like the matchup, Fresno was ranked for a good part of the season. Fresno St by 28 points.
Ouch
By all means, continue counting me in the ass category because I think a win against Wyoming would be a huge first step. I think it’s the only afore mentioned matchup that we’ have a chance to win.
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Their QB1, head coach, and some of the assistants are going to Washington and won’t be there for the bowl game. Fully loaded Fresno beats us by 28, but now it should be a closer margin.
Since you don't pay attention to college football apparently, I'll help ya out. Fresno lost their all conference QB and will be starting a Freshman in the Bowl game and lost their coach!
This is better than Wyoming. Excited to see UTEP play a winning team that was ranked during the regular season. Big opportunity for Dimel to take advantage of their situation and turn it into his biggest win.
Alot of the times these Bowl games are about motivation. The talent factor would obviously go to Fresno, however just barely without their stud QB. Motivation can go either way. UTEP should be highly motivated to get the Schools first bowl win since Lyndon B. Johnson was president. Fresno may be motivated after QB and coach left to prove something or they may have a whatever attitude about the bowl game after not going to MWC Championship. It's fun to speculate and glad UTEP is still playing and hope they surprise some folks!
I guess it's official
UTEP Miners to play Fresno State Bulldogs in New Mexico Bowl
UTEP Miners will make third consecutive bowl trip to Albuquerque for the New Mexico Bowl to take on Fresno State.
www.elpasotimes.com
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If it is Fresno going to remind me of our Independence Bowl loss to Southern Miss a few years back. Stull was off to Missouri along with all the assistants. Rumor has it they didn't do much game prep and were spending time evaluating the Missouri game tapes. RB Harvey didn't play either. Don't know what the situation is in Fresno but losing a coach and QB could alter the dynamics of play.
No matter who UTEP plays will be dangerous. This can either motivate or hinder Fresno St, history has shown, UTEP struggles against teams who end up with a back up, and destroys the Miners lol. On paper it should be a good match up. I think the defense keeps the Miners in this one.
In reality this plays out as a good opportunity for us. A bowl we can travel to, and a match up which does give us a chance. Fresno is more of a defensive based team much like us and not an offensive power house like some of the others in MWC. IF we can get a W in this game it really sets up for us next season with a young team and some momentum.
They were definitely an Offensive Power house in the MWC with their great QB. However with him out, our chances went up substantially and they're offense takes a Big hit!
While I won’t disagree about them being a defensive team, 3rd fewest points surrendered in the MWC, their offense IS pretty stout too, also 3rd in the MWC at almost 34 points a game.
Yeah, you've got a Fresno State team that will either have already phoned in their season because the program is pushing reset or a team hungry to prove that they can win without those pieces.
Is 2 weeks enough time to get the interim HC and new QB ready? I like UTEP’s chances since their defense along with Cowing will be rested and they have 2 weeks to prepare without any distractions.
Curious to see what the line will be....In looking at the MWC there is so much parity in the top teams and the scores head to head for the most part are close. Hard to predict what the quality of Fresno is, they have some really nice wins against quality teams, which we don't have. A lot of this will give us a bit of insight into how strong MWC and CUSA is and how much different the quality of teams are. I do think that CUSA is a bit underrated as a football conference so this game will give us some insight in where we want to be if we ever get the chance to jump.
"But the fact is nobody really cares about a basement-tier bowl in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Frisco, Texas, or wherever the Bulldogs get dispatched to. Nobody, that is, besides local organizers and ESPN executives who create them out of thin air just to fill a few hours of holiday programming."
Ouch.
But then again, I've said the same thing. Meh.
To be expected when your team beat the conference champion and went on the road to beat UCLA. All of the MWC bowls would be a let down.
Ouch Fresno opens at -17 (largest point spread of any bowl game) and CUSA is only favored in 1 game (UTSA).
Yea long time ago....was at the game, we pretty much mailed it in. Did get to see Bret Farve.
All the "cards" say we are going to get embarrassed on national TV. What's new?
At least we have an opportunity to prove them wrong, let's see if we take advantage of said opportunity.
At least we have an opportunity to prove them wrong, let's see if we take advantage of said opportunity.
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