Sun Bowl fans want USF by large margin

Isn't it great when you can get blog ideas from your own blog comments? Thanks to "thebigcheeze" for pointing me to a great online poll at the Sun Bowl's official site, sunbowl.org, which asks visitors which Big East team they'd like to see in El Paso.

If the selection committee meeting as we speak is looking for another reason to pick the Bulls, how about public opinion: USF has 86.8 percent of more than 13,000 votes cast, well ahead of Cincinnati at 11.8 percent and largely-out-of-consideration Connecticut, which has a wishful 1.4 percent.

Can an online showing like this impact the committee's decision? It can't hurt things for the Bulls, and I imagine the results of this poll have come up at least as a curiosity in that committee meeting. The Sun Bowl expects the BCS to release the available teams at noon Tuesday and should be able to announce its choice shortly after.

Comments

[Florida Voter]

I won't make the typical Florida hanging chad joke, but obviously the ballot box was stuffed.

Nevertheless, it shows the overall effort and interest and insanity of USF fans in comparison to go that far to vote and revote and revote again.

[Amanda]

I wonder if that is a sign of a great turnout for the bowl game or merely USF fans just punching up the votes. I'd like to see the stadium sold out since it's going to be nationally televised.

[Dave W]

El Paso will sell out, for sure. This is one of the best pre-Jan. 1 bowls, and they support it.

The online poll shows that USF fans are far more fervent than the other schools and that the casual Sun Bowl attendee wants to see the former #2 over the others.

[Al]

Pre-January 1 games????

[Al]

Pre-January 1 games????