I just read it. 6-6 might not make a bowl any longer
No offense to the city of Detroit but not many people want to go there in December.
I don’t mind going there in early December.
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29 years and a MAC team almost every year, and we never went. Kind of amazing.
Always thought it kind of sucked to have a bowl game at the same site as the conference title game, and have it be Detroit, in December.
The economics of some of these bowls probably means we start seeing more of this, or maybe scaled down versions of minor bowls where they aren’t community events.
It was usually the day after Christmas. Not the best time on the schedule to draw a big crowd.
Didn’t Miami play in the Motor City Bowl back in 98 vs Louisville?
The first of many bowl games folding, I expect.
Kind of sucks, but I guess that means no Midwest bowl games anymore or probably in the future. That’s a big number of schools that were in decent driving distance that have lost that opportunity now.
Gmac bowl against Louisville not motor city bowl
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This is a bummer all the way around. MACTION still needs bowl tie-ins, and the folks in Detroit were willing to partner with the league when others weren’t. It was probably never anyone’s first choice as a destination, but having one less option for our teams makes coaching and recruiting in this league a little bit harder than it was already.
Should have had a bowl that year (10-1), but no bowl appearances between the Sun Bowl in 1986 and the GMAC Bowl in 2003.
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1986 was the California Bowl
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I think that last time we played in the Sun Bowl, or was called the Salad Bowl 
We played in both the Sun Bowl in El Paso vs Texas Tech and the Salad Bowl in Phoenix vs Arizona State
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Yeah the Salad Bowl was a separate, short lived (3-4 years??) bowl in Phoenix where we beat Arizona State w a Woody Hayes coached team. We played in the Sun Bowl a few years earlier (1948) and beat Texas Tech when Ara P was our star running back.
That bowl was significantly better attended – and viewed – than several of the other MAC tie-ins. Compare Detroit to Myrtle Beach or Boca Raton. The Snoop bowl is sort of its own thing, but most of the 37k people who show up for that are there for a Snoop-sponsored party with some affiliated football. (I’m totally fine with that; it’s just qualitatively different from other “minor” bowl games.)
And here I thought that the salad bowl was the sun bowl predecessor…. I wasn’t even in the right state!
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Fiesta Bowl predecessor.
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George Perles is turning over in his grave.