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Lobos shut out, hope for Fort Worth Bowl vacancy
Athletics director Rudy Davalos said the Lobos have unofficially been shut out the Mountain West Conference bowls -- Las Vegas, Emerald and Poinsettia -- and must wait to see if there is a vacancy in the Fort Worth Bowl.
New Mexico is one of four Mountain West teams with 6-5 records, but the league only has three official bowl contracts.
Conference champion TCU is expected to go to either the Liberty or Houston bowls. Las Vegas Bowl officials favor BYU and Utah seems to be a lock for the Emerald Bowl, which did not want the Lobos back for the second year in a row.
Davalos said San Diego Bowl officials told him they would take Colorado State over the Lobos because the Rams beat New Mexico this season and had a better conference mark at 5-3 compared to the Lobos' 4-4 finish.
The Mountain West Conference is slated to make all of its official bowl announcements by Wednesday.
A slot in the Fort Worth Bowl will open if the Big 12 Conference fails to field a bowl eligible team. The conference will fall short if Texas wins at Texas A&M and Iowa State wins at Kansas this weekend.
Davalos said the Lobos will be invited to the Fort Worth if the Big 12 does not have a team available.
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Posted by: GrayCoyote | November 23, 2005 10:36 PM
Why are people under the impression that a 6-5 team doesn't deserve to go to a bowl game?
Ask Mike Price if UAB deserves to go a bowl, or if the University of Houston should go? Both of these teams are 5-5 and need to win this week to be bowl eligible. UAB beat the Miners last week in El Paso to end their nine game home wining streak and knocked UTEP out of the top 25. Houston gave UTEP all they wanted, the Miners had to come back in the fourth quarter to win by 3. These are both good teams, just as the Lobos are a good team--all are 6-5 (assuming UAB and Houston win).
The Lobos deserve to go to a bowl and hopefully it will be the Ft. Worth Bowl against Houston or Tulsa!!!
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Posted by: GrayCoyote | November 23, 2005 10:12 PM