I don't think we're getting much information out of this year's Challenge: the bowl rosters are so different from the rosters during the season that there's not much predictive data available to the systems. It's starting to look like a dart throw. Fortunately I ran a few of these back when bowls were still bowls. Here's the first.
PHOENIX UNLV had a breakthrough in its inaugural season under Barry Odom, ending a long stretch of mediocrity with its first bowl appearance since 2014.
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UNLV had a breakthrough in its inaugural season under Barry Odom, ending a long stretch of mediocrity with its first bowl appearance since 2014. Once the laughingstock of Power Five football, Kansas has turned things around under third-year coach Lance Leopold with consecutive bowl appearances for the first time in 16 years. “Coach Leipold has done a terrific job of building that program in a short time,” Odom said.