I'm happy as hell about this since I live here!! Lot of MI people live here, we should have a lot of support at the game. For all of your traveling, it will be a good time. Much better city to be in then Jacksonville.

Copper Bowl: still one of the best lost bowl names.

If they had started it today, and it didn't have a sponsor name, they'd have just called it the Arizona Bowl.  Place-named bowls, with one exception (Las Vegas) are almost as grating as corporate-named bowls.  They're boring and unimaginative.

At least it's not a Florida bowl game.

That's near home for Lewan. Should be easy for his family to see him play his last collegiate game.

I think its a matchup Michigan can win. And right now with varied opinions about Peppers and other recruits I'll take a winnable game over a sexy matchup resulting in another loss.

What a shitty draw. Beating Kansas State doesn't really gain any attention, and even if it is a good game (like last year's bowl game) nobody will be awake to see it. Not much to gain. I don't recall many recruiting battles with Kansas State, and I don't recall grabbing many recruits from the state of Arizona.

Little breath of fresh air not to be playing an SEC team in their own backyard.

Didn't the NFL Network use to cover this game?  I think they had to change networks because nobody had that channel in the early days and nobody watched the game.

So, is this rumor more reliable than previous rumor putting us in Gator Bowl? Hate the late start.

Boring.  We can easily lose yet another bowl game, yet we get credit for nothing if we win it.

Big letdown after talk about a matchup with Georgia or LSU and the Hat.

 

It's dumb. But virtually the entire season has been dumb so it fits perfectly.

I imagine there won't be too many takers for the Alumni Association's perpetually-overpriced bowl tours for this one. 

This is a great thing for us. After the 2011 season MSU went to the Outback and we go there the next year. After 2012 MSU goes to the BWW Bowl and then we go the next year. After 2013 MSU goes to the Rose Bowl and I think you are getting what I'm saying here. 

Not the most exciting, but at 7-5 you really can't complain.  Whatever, it's a new destination and I don't take bowls for granted any more.  

 

This seems like the perfect bowl for 7-5 Michigan. A bowl no one cares about, against a team no one cares about, on a day no one cares about. Thank you Al Borges.

Lame

It will be mid to low 40s with zero humidity, which feels much colder than the temperature suggests.

This game is poorly attended regardless of the teams so players/coaches yelling etc. is very audible for TV viewers.

Good avoids the embarassment of GERG beating us

Chances are it will go to at least 2 OTs so we can watch it end with the morning news.

Shit bowl. Shit opponent. Shut season

This will be Albert Borges's masterpiece ... and no one will notice it.

Lackluster matchup to finish a lackluster year. You do reap what you sow. 

Absolutely attending. Does anyone have any advice for buying tickets? Specifically, should I buy before arriving at the stadium?