We’re less than a week away from the 2024 Scotter’s Coffee Frisco Bowl matchup between the Memphis Tigers and the West Virginia Mountaineers. The Tigers look to close the season with an 11th win over a Power Four opponent. Since the announcement of the bowl matchup with West Virginia, the Tigers have focused on sending Seth Henigan and others out with a bang as Tiger Nation prepares for life after a few legends depart the program for the next step in their professional life. Some might go on to play in the NFL; others will go on to do amazing things in their respective career paths. Tuesday night is the last chance for those guys to wear the Memphis Football uniform as student-athletes.

Memphis comes into the matchup with West Virginia fresh off a massive road win against Tulane on Thanksgiving night, riding the high of a three-game winning streak into the bowl matchup. Had the Tigers not lost UTSA or Navy, Memphis would have been playing for a potential College Football Playoff bid last week against Army in the American Athletic Championship game. Still, the two conference losses kept Coach Silverfield and the Tigers from contention.

Despite the name, the 2024 Memphis Football team is a dang good football team loaded with talent and out to prove a point that the two losses to UTSA and Navy were flukes and the 2024 Memphis Football team is good enough to finish the season inside of the College Football Playoff top-25 as Coach Silverfield turns the attention to the 2025 season using the momentum from an 11-win season in the favor of Memphis.

For Coach Silverfield and his group of seniors, the West Virginia game is an opportunity to do what no Memphis Football program has ever done: play and win three straight bowl games. A win over West Virginia would be the third bowl win in a row, the fourth overall, and had it not been for a weird incident with Hawaii in the Hawaii Bowl in 2021, a fifth for Coach Silverfield. That level of sustained success is unheard of for a program like Memphis. What Coach Silverfield has been able to do with Memphis Football is something many around Tiger Nation can’t seem to grasp as they long for more when a chance to win an 11th game is right there for the taking for the Tigers on Tuesday night against a depleted, unmotivated West Virginia team in the Scooter’s Coffee Frisco Bowl.