Group of Five 2018-19 Bowl Day 1 Recap & Highlights

On December 16, 2018By Kent Schmidt

Georgia Southern placekicker Tyler Bass celebrates after kicking the game winning field goal as time runs out to defeat Eastern Michigan in the Camellia Bowl in Montgomery, Ala. Courtesy of Mickey Welsh (Montgomery Advertiser)

Five bowl games involving Group of Five schools kicked off the bowl season on Dec. 15. Mountain West champion Fresno State and Sun Belt champion Appalachian State were both in action and both won their games rather easily.

Utah State and Tulane were big winners in their games.

But the game of the day was the Camellia Bowl with Georgia Southern winning on a last second field goal over Eastern Michigan.

The following are link to recaps and video highlights from each of the games.

Cure Bowl (Orlando, Fla.)
Tulane 41 Louisiana-Lafayette 24

New Mexico Bowl (Albuquerque, N.M.)
Utah State 52 North Texas 13

Las Vegas Bowl (Las Vegas, Nev.)
Fresno State 31 Arizona State 20

Camellia Bowl (Montgomery, Ala.)
Georgia Southern 23 Eastern Michigan 21

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJS1Ghg7V6U

New Orleans Bowl (New Orleans, La.)
Appalachian State 45 Middle Tennessee State 13

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqzbyb4kGdw

Kent Schmidt

Originally from LaMoure, North Dakota, Kent is a 1996 graduate of North Dakota State University. His prior writing experience is over 15 years having previously worked with D2football.com, I-AA.org, and College Sporting News before coming to College Sports Journal in 2016. His main focus is college football is the Missouri Valley Football Conference within the Division I FCS. And in 2017, he began also to look at the FBS Group of Five conferences of the American Athletic, Conference USA, Mid-American, Mountain West, and Sun Belt.
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