Georgia Southern vs. Bowling Green, 2015 GoDaddy Bowl results: First bowl win in Eagles history

Team sports can be maddening, especially at the college level. When we see a team playing its best, we forget anything else is possible. We are seduced by brilliance. And then the next week, the team lays an egg.

Playing great, then playing poorly is something we’re used to in college football. But it’s still difficult to comprehend this: Boise State and Georgia Southern lost eight games this year. Boise State lost at home to New Mexico. Georgia Southern got run out of its own building by Georgia State.

With Bowling Green and Georgia Southern matching up MACtion and Fun Belt in the GoDaddy Bowl, there figured to be a lot of fun. And the game delivered.

But it was Georgia Southern that won the second half decisively, and pulled away for a blowout 58-27 triumph that doubles as the Eagles’ first bowl win in their first try.

The GoDaddy Bowl is a pretty clear reminder of the cost of mid-major success: Bowling Green and Georgia Southern have won a combined 35 games in the last two years, and now both have lost their respective head coaches and will take the field at Ladd-Peebles Stadium under interim head coaches. Hopefully both teams are ready to roll, however, because the option against the air raid could result in all sorts of entertainment.

Dec. 23, 8 p.m. ET, ESPN.

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After eight years as one of the last bowl games of the year, the GoDaddy Bowl is out of January and back to before Christmas for a matchup between the MAC and Sun Belt.

Last year’s game between the two conferences featured 107 combined points and more than 1,000 combined yards with Toledo of the MAC coming out on top with 63 points. The Camellia Bowl is the only other game that pits the two conferences against each other, and it has already had its fair share of fireworks in its young existence.