Saturday, November 29, 2008

Owls Win Again!

For the first time this season, the Rice Owls have defeated a team with a winning record, their cross-town rivals, the Houston Cougars.



But Tulsa held off Marshall, so Tulsa gets to go to the C-USA championship game versus East Carolina. The winner of that game will go to the Liberty Bowl against a middling-ranked SEC team. The loser of that game will probably go to the GMAC Bowl against #2 from the MAC or an upper WAC team.

Which leaves Rice playing in the Texas Bowl (I think) against the eighth-best Big-12 team. . . except that the Big-12 only has seven bowl-eligible teams this year.

The Texas Bowl also has an agreement with TCU (but no other Mountain West Conference teams), but TCU is #2 in the MWC, which would put them in the Poinsettia Bowl.

Well, I guess I'll let the bowl officials figure that all out and just sit back content that my alma mater's team will be playing football in late December.

Go Owls!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

You like Rice?? Shouldn't your blog be titled Royal rantings?
It will be when Rice loses to a sub 500 team in the Texas cow pasture bowl.

Sotosoroto said...

Do you realize that teams must have six wins to be bowl eligible? With a twelve-game schedule, that makes it rather unlikely for a team with a losing record to be in a bowl game. (Exception: North Texas won the Sunbelt Conference with an overall losing record a few years ago, and thus went to a bowl game without the requisite six wins.)