Don’t let the fact that it’s one of the first games of the bowl season fool you, this has potential to be one of the best. Both teams enter at 9-3 and have never met on the field before. The Camellia Bowl is in its third year of pitting two conferences that like to play on weeknights against each other, and the games have been quite good in that span.
Bowling Green defeated South Alabama 33-28 in 2014, and Ohio nearly upset this same Appalachian State team last year, losing 31-29 loss. For the MAC to take a 2-1 lead in the Camellia Bowl series, the Rockets will have to best a Mountaineer team that won the Sun Belt and has just one loss in its previous nine games.