Utah State was 11-2 last year and they played in the New Mexico Bowl to 968K viewers.
Boise State was 10-3 and their game was cancelled to weather
U of Houston was 8-5 last year and played to 2.57 million viewers
U of Cincinnati was 11-2 and played to over 2.7 million viewers
UCF was 12-1 and played to 8.57 million viewers
Looks like AAC is able to get their teams in better bowl games than the MWC.