{"id":1976,"date":"2022-12-17T13:56:54","date_gmt":"2022-12-17T13:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/ncaacollegefootball\/?p=1976"},"modified":"2022-12-19T14:31:09","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T14:31:09","slug":"troy-gets-power-five-bragging-rights-after-exciting-cure-bowl-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/ncaacollegefootball\/troy-gets-power-five-bragging-rights-after-exciting-cure-bowl-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Troy Gets Power Five Bragging Rights After Cure Bowl Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2022 Cure Bowl was one of our <a title=\"Our Twelve Must Watch 2022 College Bowl Games\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/ncaacollegefootball\/our-twelve-must-watch-2022-college-bowl-games\/\">top 12 bowls<\/a> to watch. and despite the low score, it didn&#8217;t disappoint. Well unless you are a UTSA fan of course and then it sucked big time. The game was one of two halves to be sure with UTSA getting off to a 12-0 lead and dominating.\u00a0 In fact, the Roadrunners dominated both through the air and on the ground. They finished with 345 yards of offense to the Trojans&#8217; 194.<\/p>\n<p>However, they lost the turnover battle big time as Troy did what they do best, lean on their defense when the going gets tough. This was Troy&#8217;s 11th consecutive win and of these six have been one-score games. They forced five turnovers and also held UTSA on 1st and goal in the fourth quarter. The pick of their defensive plays was Linebacker <a href=\"https:\/\/troytrojans.com\/sports\/football\/roster\/kj-robertson\/9781\">K.J. Robertson&#8217;s<\/a> goal-line interception which he return for 61 yards.<\/p>\n<p>The highlights are below for you to enjoy.<\/p>\n<h2>2022 Cure Bowl Highlights<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n3bnRTyKwCI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Whatever this was a great advert for both conferences, Troy will almost undoubtedly finish the season ranked in the top 25 while UTSA still finished with double-digit wins. With the playoffs set to expand to 12 teams soon, there may be a chance that we will see teams such as these two playing on an even bigger stage.<\/p>\n<h2>The Bahamas Bowl<\/h2>\n<p><strong>UAB 24 Miami Ohio 20<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We didn&#8217;t expect too much from the Bahamas Bowl but were pleasantly surprised this year. Given the stadium was empty it had the atmosphere of a practice game. However, the players didn&#8217;t seem to mind and they put on a decent display with a thrilling ending. We won&#8217;t give away any spoilers as the highlights are below, but this was another good advert for the Group of Five conferences. The honours went to C-USA and just goes to show that two 6-6 teams can put on a game.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Xu4dovX7aPI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2022 Cure Bowl was one of our top 12 bowls to watch. and despite the low score, it didn&#8217;t disappoint. Well unless you are a UTSA fan of course and then it sucked big time. The game was one of two halves to be sure with UTSA getting off to a 12-0 lead and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,15,25,14],"tags":[215,213,65],"class_list":["post-1976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conference-usa","category-college-bowls","category-group-of-five","category-sun-belt-conference","tag-2022-bowl-games","tag-2022-college-bowls","tag-cure-bowl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/ncaacollegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/ncaacollegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/ncaacollegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/ncaacollegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/ncaacollegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1976"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/ncaacollegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1981,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/ncaacollegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976\/revisions\/1981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/ncaacollegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/ncaacollegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/ncaacollegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/ncaacollegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}