Playing Miami Ohio in the St. Petersburg Bowl?

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Originally Posted by msudawg1200

ESPN got this matchup. This isn't a bowl game to get big attendance, it is Holiday time filler for ESPN. Having an SEC team slotted there is the best for ESPN. They'll get more people to watch because we are a P5 team. Nobody would watch Miami of Ohio vs say, Memphis or Tulsa. They basically sent an American Conference team, Houston, to Vegas and placed us here. I like the matchup for us. I'm happy. At 5-7 I'm just glad for more practices and an extra game. The major downside is if we were somehow to lose. That'd kill some of the Egg Bowl momentum. I'd also say it'd embarrass the SEC, but screw the rest of them. I don't care what they think.

I don't know. If I was ESPN and worried about match ups I would have MSU playing USM in the New Orleans Bowl. We would be the marquee match up on a light football day.