Use this thread to talk about anything game-related. For away games, we'll have a separate travel thread.

Date: December 22nd, 2017 12:30 PM

Opponent: UAB  (8-4, 6-2 C-USA)

Site: Thomas A. Robinson National Stadium

TV: ESPN

Radio: Ohio Radio

Webcast: WatchESPN

UAB statistics, roster and media guide.

UAB Fan Site: BlazerTalk

Plus the fact this is UAB's chance to win their first ever bowl game, throw in the fact that a bowl victory would basically make the UAB story a made for tv movie, and taking into account Ohio's history, I think we can all guess how this game is gonna end up...

Same thought I had! This is the 2015 Camellia Bowl all over again, with Appalachian State getting their 1st ever bowl victory . Deja vu.

We have a bowl game we can't lose. I was at the UAB-Ball State game, enough said.

What’s the kickoff time?

Chris Rodgers may not win an Emmy but...

Get those swim trunks ready! @OhioFootball is headed to the Bahamas to take on @UAB_FB!! #BobcatsInBahamas pic.twitter.com/Sc9bM5tG9N

— OhioBobcatTV (@OhioBobcatTV) November 26, 2017

Ok so maybe going 8-4 has its perks.....trying to organize a bowl bus/boat over there for the day.....

We don't exactly deserve it after the last couple of games, but sometimes you need a little luck. Sure beats the other bowls we end up playing. Long range computer guidance shows a shift in the weather patterns coming around December 10th with some polar air locking in across much of the northern US (almost down to the Gulf Coast) and Europe. Something tells me there might be some last minute ticket sales if that should occur.

Also, I like the timing of the bowl (December 22) you can go and get back for Christmas. Not sure I can convince the better half about this trip, but who knows if Atlantis is having a special kids package (which I highly doubt) who knows?

http://www.mlive.com/eagles/index.ssf/2017/04/eastern_mic...

https://pilotonline.com/sports/college/old-dominion/footb...

Figured I'd get ahead of the Faculty Senate on this one. :)

Just bought our plane tickets, hope to see some of you in Nassau.

Ted:
Assume there will be a travel thread. Team hotel, bash time and place , and other Bowl activities.

Actually, it was really strange at the tailgate yesterday. We got win #8, remained undefeated at home, and were standing there speculating about which bowl we'd go to.

We were all looking around trying to figure out where the music from the Twilight Zone was coming from. This is the second bowl in team history, and the other one was the Hawaii Bowl in 2005, Roddy White's senior year.

It would really be nice to go to a bowl somewhere in the continental United States sometime...

Yeah, I read your board and saw some of the venting. I think we have a pretty good chance, actually, but I don't want to swagger in here all cocky and be "that guy".

Bill Clark should be National Coach of the Year, hands down. Most of the preseason publications picked us as #130 of 130, mostly because they had no idea what was going on. Las Vegas put the over/under on our wins at 2.5. CBS had us at #51 last time I looked. Do you know another coach who raised his team's position in the polls by 80 positions?

He looked at SMU coming back from the Death Penalty for what not to do. UAB got two years to hit reset and field a team, and the recruits were time stopped re eligibility without using a redshirt. Clark recruited good players who were quality people, whether they were Jucos, transfer players, players rehabbing injury, or players needing time to get their academics in order. He built a team that was heavy to older guys by the time they got back on the field. There are a couple of recruiting classes of true freshmen, but this first team is not full of 18 and 19 year olds. His plan worked perfectly.

It has really been a special year for us. There are not many fanbases who have had to endure the crap that the UAB fans have. Long history there, I won't bore you with the politics.