Southern Miss will be C-USA team in Birmingham bowl

[GarySJ]

...according to ESPN crawl.

[AndytheBull]

I want nothing to do with them or their fans EVER again.

There is still alot of bad blood but yeah, we are past them.

[theman123]

Thats the only team i would like to play if we went there.

[Grateful Dad]

Thats the only team i would like to play if we went there.

I really wish we would play a BCS team, but if we have to play a cusa team, Southern Miss is the one I would like us to stomp.

[TRUTH D. Antagonist]

Southern Piss is trash.

if we end up stack back in B'Ham, i hope we rip them 5 new a**holes.

[GarySJ]

Now that I think of it, why was this bowl game in such a screaming hurry to invite Southern Miss?

Whatever Big East team goes there, it will be at least the second-toughest toughest C-USA bowl opponent. And you can make a case for Cincinnati or USF being a stronger opponent than the 6th or 7th best team in the SEC, which the C-USA champion will face in the Liberty Bowl.

I thought for sure the Birmingham slot would go to Houston, or maybe the C-USA title game loser. UCF, Houston, and Tulsa are pretty clearly the top three teams in C-USA. (Seriously, look at some of the teams Memphis, USM, and East Carolina have lost to.)

For the pizza bowl to so quickly invite a mediocre-at-best Southern Miss team tells me they're not serious about making this game competitive. And that makes this bowl destination even less appealing for the Big East. I only hope there's some kind of deal going on to swap the Big East team from this game.

I realize that Southern Miss has a good-sized fan base that travels to the various bowl games they go to. But I guess what I'm saying is: when it comes to a bowl opponent, we want quality, not quantity.

[BullMedic]

Why all the bad blood between Southern Miss and USF?

[Orlando Bull]

Why all the bad blood between Southern Miss and USF?

Their fans are horrible, their team plays dirty, they kept us out of C-USA for an additional season (we went 9-2 and couldn't go to a C-USA bowl), it's in friggin Hattesburg Mississippi. I could go on, but mostly all stems from our brief time in C-USA and the season before.

[Bulls Are We]

Why all the bad blood between Southern Miss and USF?

Because we gouged one of their players eyes out and he is now blind.  True story, just ask the Southern Miss fans.  

[Bull Martin]

Southern Miss fans are pissed that we got invited to CDOA, and even more pissed when we stepped light years ahead of them into a BCS conference.