Big Red’s Reads: Cure Bowl Rankings, White To Senior Bowl & AP Poll Votes
Happy Tuesday WKU fans. After a busy few weeks of basketball, football and volleyball, we’ve now hit a dead week of WKU athletics while…
Happy Tuesday WKU fans. After a busy few weeks of basketball, football and volleyball, we’ve now hit a dead week of WKU athletics while finals are ongoing. While we’ll have to wait until Sunday to see our beloved Tops in action again, don’t worry we’ve got everything you might have missed across the internet over the past few days.
The Tops are in the Cure Bowl against Georgia State, While we are all happy that they’re in a bowl, the match-up isn’t too highly thought of by the national media, here are various rankings of the game
Yahoo ranks the game as the 38th (out of 39th) best match-up
The Washington post ranks the game dead last at 39th
CBS Sports give the game slightly higher praise with it being ranked 35th in their rankings.
SB Nation puts the game at 34th in its “diamonds in the rough” portion of their bowl watchability guide.
Here’s the opening spread for next Saturday’s game
Chad Bishop from WBKO relives WKU’s first and only meeting with Georgia State back in 2013.
Mike White follows Forrest Lamp and Taywan Taylor’s footsteps by being selected for the Senior Bowl
Tyler Mansfield (formerly of The Towel Rack) discusses White getting to close out his Hilltopper career in his home state for The Courier Journal.
Deon Yelder and Chris Johnson will also play in post-season all-star games as they prepare for the NFL draft.
Chad Bishop examines WKU’s disappointing 2017 season and says that a bowl win can somewhat save the season.
Sports Illustrated ranks WKU as the 63rd best bowl team. Georgia State is the 77th.
Lady Tops freshman forward Raneem Elgedawy earned C-USA freshman of the week honors for the second time this season.
3-star Alabama defensive end Devin Bell recommitted to WKU last night
Mid-Major Madness finally put WKU in their weekly mid-major power rankings. The Tops come in at #24.
The Tops received two votes in the men’s AP Poll, the first time since 2009.
It’s early but both the men’s and women’s basketball teams both have strong resumes thus far
The Cincinnati Enquirer has noticed local product, Jake Ohmer’s impressive transition to Division 1 Basketball.
Chad Bishop examines Rick Stansbury’s dogged pursuit of 2019 Hopkinsville four-star guard KyKy Tandy.
If you missed volleyball coach Travis Hudson’s emotional reaction to Saturday’s heartbreaking loss, it’s worth your time
WKU’s indoor track & field team had a strong showing at the Vanderbilt Indoor opening meeting.
With the game conflicting with The Cure Bowl, the Tops moved up their December 16 game against Indiana State
We discussed why the Tops need Josh Anderson & Moustapha Diagne in order to take the team to the next level.
Conference USA sent a record nine teams to bowl games this December.
UTSA was the lone Conference USA squad snubbed from postseason play, Underdog Dynasty examines what happened.
Florida Atlantic isn’t happy about being forced to stay in Boca Raton for their bowl game. This puts in perspective how good of a job Todd Stewart has done with WKU the past two years.
Former WKU QB and Head Coach Willie Taggart could be on the move from Oregon to Florida State.
WKU Redzone Radio discussed the Cure Bowl bid, recaps the heartbreaking volleyball loss and talks more basketball developments during their weekly show.
We’re looking for new writers to help us fill some breaking news and recruiting coverage needs.
Here is your end of the regular season college football imperialism map, only FAU & MTSU secured territory for C-USA
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