WKU Football: Bowl Projection Round Up Week 12
After their third consecutive loss, WKU is still one win away from being eligible for the seventh season in a row. Their record now stands…
After their third consecutive loss, WKU is still one win away from being eligible for the seventh season in a row. Their record now stands at 5–5 on the season with two games to play. Here are your Conference USA standings through eleven weeks:
Reminder, Conference USA has six primary bowl tie-ins and one secondary tie-in. Thus far UTEP, Charlotte & Rice have been eliminated from bowl contention, while ODU is one game away from joining them. C-USA could get 10 teams for seven spots but luckily for them, several P5 conferences may not fill their bowl allotment opening up destinations that weren’t on table when season began.
After last week there are now 59 teams that are eligible for 78 spots. WKU is among a group of 19 teams that are one win away from bowl eligibility. They probably won’t have the luxury of limping in at 5–7 (though I wouldn’t want that anyway) due to a poor APR score. Mike Sanford needs a win in the next two weeks to partially salvage the season. With that in mind, here’s the latest bowl projections across the internet post-Week 11.
Cure Bowl vs. Georgia State
or
Boca Raton Bowl vs.Temple
Bahamas Bowl vs. Central Michigan
Hawaii Bowl vs. Fresno State
Frisco Bowl vs. Houston
No Bowl
No Bowl
Cure Bowl vs. Georgia State
Birmingham Bowl vs. Temple
No Bowl
Cure Bowl vs. Arkansas State
Birmingham Bowl vs. Memphis
Bahamas Bowl vs. Akron
The three game losing streak has loomed large on the projections with three publications predicting that WKU will stay home for bowl season. WKU now has two games to get that elusive sixth win again two tough opponents (MTSU and FIU). While six wins should get them bowling, their destination could be up wind up being somewhere unexpected.
I think the athletic department would heavily push to not go back to the Bahamas for the second time in four years. They could wind up anywhere from Detroit to Albuquerque to Dallas to Florida. The next two weeks loom large on WKU’s bowl destination. We’ll continue to update you weekly on the projections moving forward.
What do you think about WKU’s projected destinations? Is the media completely off base with their predictions? Where do you want to see the Tops go? Let us know in a comment below, via Twitter at @TheTowelRackWKU or on our Facebook page.