For some reason, this thread has me pondering the number of states that don't have bowl games.

Ford Field and the Big 14 basically kicked the Little Caesar's bowl out and replaced it with their own bowl. I think if they didn't have enough teams to fill that bowl slot and if the MAC is the backup agreement, I'd want NIU to tell that bowl to shove it. A-holes.

(12-28-2014 02:15 PM)HerdZoned Wrote:  

(12-27-2014 06:25 PM)lmckay92 Wrote:  

(12-27-2014 02:31 PM)UofMemphis Wrote:  'Murder City Bowl'

Classy...I had fun.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Motor_City_Bowl

Marshall owned the Motor City Bowl. Our only modern bowl loss (excluding our 1940s Tangerine Bowl with Catawba) came in the 1997 iteration.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_Motor_City_Bowl Ole Miss 34 MU 31
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_Motor_City_Bowl MU 48 UL 29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Motor_City_Bowl #11 MU 21 #25 BYU 3
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_Motor_City_Bowl MU 25 Cincinnati 14
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Little...Pizza_Bowl MU 21 OU 17

Sorry, Marshall lost the Ft. Worth Bowl in 2004 to Cincinnati. I think I blocked that game out.

Yeah we also lost to Cincy. This is Marshall's bowl record:

1948 Tangerine Bowl... Catawba 7 Marshall 0 (Cam Henderson who was the basketball and football coach at the time was busy winning the NAIB National Title in basketball)...Game not recognized by the NCAA

1997 Motor City Bowl... Ole Miss 34 Marshall 31
1998 Motor City Bowl... Louisville 29 Marshall 48
1999 Motor City Bowl... #25 BYU 3 #10 Marshall 21 (Marshall goes 13-0)
2000 Motor City Bowl... Cincy 15 Marshall 25
2001 GMAC Bowl... ECU 61 Marshall 64 2OT (Marshall down at the half 38-8)
2002 GMAC Bowl... Louisville 15 Marshall 38 (Lousiville coached by John L Smith 1/2 half and news broke of him taking the Michigan State job at half time, Louisville coach by Bobby Patrino in 2nd half)
2004 FT Worth Bowl... Cincy 32 Marshall 14
2009 Little Caesars Pizza Bowl... Ohio 17 Marshall 21 (Old Motor City Bowl, Marshall coached by Rick Minter in the bowl game, Mark Snyder had resigned)
2011 St. Petersburg Bowl... FIU 10 Marshall 20
2013 Military Bowl... Maryland 20 Marshall 31
2014 Boca Raton Bowl... NIU 23 Marshall 52

Our bowl record is 9-3 if you count the Tangerine Bowl which wasn't sanctioned or recognized by the NCAA. Or 9-2 with the sanctioned NCAA games.

Marshall has the best winning % at home for any IA program and the best record in bowls of teams playing 10 or more bowl games.

Wow did not realize Marshall missed out on a bowl for 4 straight years, what happened during this time period?