Bowl games are better in the Bahamas, and if there’s one thing the Ohio Bobcats and UAB Blazers will be thankful for over the holiday season, it’s being selected to play in perhaps the most interesting bowl locale in the college football landscape.
Even beside the exotic backdrop, the 2017 rendition of the Bahamas Bowl (which, sadly, is no longer sponsored by Popeyes) looks to be a fantastic matchup between two teams with similar ambitions and styles of play.
Ohio will be the first non-directional Michigan school to play in Thomas A. Robinson National Stadium as the MAC representative after an 8-4 (5-3 MAC) season and will look to put a positive end on a disappointing season, while UAB comes in to Nassau at 8-4 (6-2 CUSA) after a fairytale first season back from the graveyard of college football.