Liberty Bowl

**Cyclonic1** · 12-02-2012, 09:00 PM

Originally Posted by Tredici

If we win again in this bowl game, we should get the Conference USA championship trophy + the Liberty Bowl trophy.

I will email JP to make sure that happens. Can I tell him you will be attending to pick up both trophies?

**IsUaClone2** · 12-02-2012, 09:05 PM

Originally Posted by Cyclonic1

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I went to our first Liberty Bowl game back in 1972 and it was a lot of fun - good partying town. Drove down with 2 friends and after the close loss we started to drive back but the thought of turning left and going further South to warmer weather to too much temptation for 3 young Iowa boys. I seem to remember spending Christmas in Miami that year but maybe it was just New Years. Has the game always been on December 31?

I was at that Liberty Bowl game as well. Went on a charter. Setting aside the loss, I think I had a pretty good time but
there are were a few moments that I would have to rely on someone else's opinion.

**CyCope** · 12-02-2012, 09:22 PM

Do we know what side we're sitting on yet?

**Dryburn** · 12-02-2012, 09:55 PM

I went to the Liberty Bowl and the Peach Bowl in Atlanta....both on New Year's Eve day, and both losses....but still had a hell of a good time!

Another thing to note.......the Liberty Bowl has a bigger payout than the Independence, Heart of Dallas, or the the bowl game in Detroit........so there's that.

**swarthmoreCY** · 12-02-2012, 09:58 PM

Originally Posted by Dryburn

.the Liberty Bowl has a bigger payout than the Independance, Heart of Dallas, or the the bowl game in Detroit........so there's that.

Yes, but we were only going to go the HoD bowl if the Big 12 got an extra 6 million for another BCS team.

**bosco** · 12-02-2012, 10:16 PM

Originally Posted by Doctor

Are you serious?

Nevermind. Don't answer.

Are you a Cyclone fan? If so **** you. If not **** you.

**Cy4Lifer** · 12-02-2012, 10:18 PM

Originally Posted by Dryburn

I went to the Liberty Bowl and the Peach Bowl in Atlanta....both on New Year's Eve day, and both losses....but still had a hell of a good time!

Another thing to note.......the Liberty Bowl has a bigger payout than the Independence, Heart of Dallas, or the the bowl game in Detroit........so there's that.

So, we got that going for us...which is nice!

**SNEDDS3** · 12-02-2012, 10:37 PM

Anyone remember my name on tulsa's message board?

**Im4State** · 12-03-2012, 12:49 PM

I want to beat the livin' crap out of these guys. I hope Richardson plays like he did vs. Kansas. Bummed we're playing Tulsa AGAIN but happy for a nice bowl. Liberty Bowl sounds way cooler than the Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl or Little Casaers Bowl... Plus it's cool we've gone there before in the 70's.

Watson and Givens proved how much the D misses them during WVU.... Wish we had Knott coming back but I think AK and JG are starting to get better together.

**planofootball** · 12-08-2012, 10:24 AM

Originally Posted by TXCyclones

It's not Memphis or Liberty that's the problem. It's Tulsa. We played them to start the season, now we're playing them to end the season, and then we play them to start next season. Stupid matchup for a bowl. Marketing people are asleep at the wheel on this one.

It's not that it's bad marketing, it's that it's the only bowl we got picked for.. Because OU got knocked out of a bcs selection it bumped everyone down a notch and since we were last on the list we got bumped out of any big 12 bowl and this was about the best runner up you could find..

**Die4Cy** · 12-08-2012, 11:07 AM

The Liberty Bowl was a great landing spot for us, given how things played out. It really is too bad we just happened to have Tulsa on our schedule sandwiched on either side of this bowl game. If UTEP or Tulane was the CUSA team we thumped in the non conference this year and was returning to the schedule next year, no one would mind playing Tulsa in Memphis at all.