San Diego State has a much better football pedigree than Ohio does. And SDSU beat two ranked teams this (or at least were ranked at the time). Ohio can’t say that. I would argue that if Ohio wins this game, and they sure can, it would be their biggest win over a “name” team since Penn State in 2012.
Cue the "this says a lot about our program crowd" in 3,2,1...
I will agree that San Diego State is better than Troy or Florida International. I may have preferred the BYU matchup from a recruiting standpoint. My original point was the whole conference (in general) really had uninspiring matchups.
Why should the MAC expect any better? It’s only bowl win the last 2 years was Ohio last year. The MAC hasn’t even been able to beat Sun Belt teams in bowl games lately for Heaven’s sake.
Hopefully the MAC shows up this year.
I thought it was interesting to note that Ohio is only one of 3 conferences along with the Big Ten and ACC that plays its conference championship in an NFL stadium and NFL arena. PAC-12 (Las Vegas), Big XII (Kansas City) and SEC (Nashville) don't play their championships in NBA arenas. The AAC, MWC, CUSA and SBC all play their football championship all on the home teams turf.
With respect to the bowls, only the SEC, Big Ten and MAC do not host a bowl game from a home stadium. I would much rather be a MAC team having to go to Florida or Alabama for a bowl than having to host a MAC school in your own stadium and call it a bowl game. Case in point; if Ohio left the MAC for CUSA it would have to play MAC schools in bowl games.