Will There be 78 Bowl Eligible Teams

[NolePride]

You’re gonna watch 39 bowl games? That’s like 130-140 hours of football. Don’t have much else going on do you?

I do it every year.

I watch college football every Saturday from Noon to 2:30 am. And I peek in on every game
that is being played. Maybe have 2 or 3 prime games, I spend most of my time watching, but
I'll watch bits of the 12 or 13 different games that are on TV. Hell, this pass Saturday I watched
portions of Harvard-Yale. I always watch a good portion of those Thursday or Friday night
Ivy League games that are on NBCSports.

Competitive football games are good football games to me. I watch HS games on Friday nights.
Many have already said it. College Football has the longest off-season of any of the major sports.
I watch it when it is on, because it won't be on for 9 months of the year. And when I am not watching
I read about College Football.

When I was young and growing up College Football on the tube was the ABC Game of the week.
November was always exciting because they would show a double-header. Teams were limited
in how many times they could appear on TV. I believe it was 1 National Appearance and 2 Regional
Games. The Notre Dame-Mich St game of 1966, the first game of the century, wasn't allowed
to be broadcasted live because both unbeatens were over the limit. They showed it on a tape delay
basis. January 1st got its rep because there would be 4 or 5 games on TV the same day. Totally
unheard of. That's where the "tradition" of having multiple tv sets came about. The Cotton and the
the Orange Bowl were played basically at the same time and then the Rose and Sugar Bowls were
on an hour apart. Somewhere in the middle the Gator Bowl was on.

Nah...if it's football and tv will show it...I'll be there.

 

[WizardHawk]

I'm in favor or MAYBE 10 or 12. Shit, cut it in half at least. Or raise the minimum win to 7 so we can at least guarantee that teams with above .500 records compete in a bowl game. Bowl games SHOULD and used to be prestigious but now a 6-6 team that might of gone 2-6 in their conference will be rewarded with a bowl game. It's completely ridiculous.

If you raise it to 7 then a whole lot of teams will simply drop any half way decent OOC they are already scheduling and add another Mercer to their slate. Even some of the power elite teams add at least two given cupcakes so all they have to do is go 4-5 in conference (or 3 cupcakes 3-5 in conference) to be bowl eligible.

Do away with that stupid 'requirement' to begin with and let the bowls invite the most attractive teams. They are exhibition games anyway. Record should pretty much only matter for the playoffs.

Drop it back to at most 20 and let the bowls fight over the 40 teams they want. Shift to that and maybe a few more would up their OOC to look more attractive to bigger bowls. The risk of not qualifying wouldn't be what prevents them from taking them.

 

[WizardHawk]

I mean technically you don't even have to reach 6 wins anymore as it is. If you are high on the APR (weird requirement) and finish 5-7 and there aren't enough 6+ win teams to fill in the slots, then you can get an invite with a losing record.

They point where they had to add that exception is the point where they had already added too many games as it is. You reach 6-6 and there isn't a slot open? Too bad. Get better.

Reduce the number of bowls and stop with the weird rules. I mean you are required to reach 6 wins. You can get in with a record of 6-7 for example which is again below .500. You are allowed to count an FCS win (just one) in that total so really you only need 5 actual real wins and you can make as many as you like against the worst mid majors you can find outside of your conference schedule.

The whole process is a complete joke.

 

[NolePride]

I mean technically you don't even have to reach 6 wins anymore as it is. If you are high on the APR (weird requirement) and finish 5-7 and there aren't enough 6+ win teams to fill in the slots, then you can get an invite with a losing record.

They point where they had to add that exception is the point where they had already added too many games as it is. You reach 6-6 and there isn't a slot open? Too bad. Get better.

Reduce the number of bowls and stop with the weird rules. I mean you are required to reach 6 wins. You can get in with a record of 6-7 for example which is again below .500. You are allowed to count an FCS win (just one) in that total so really you only need 5 actual real wins and you can make as many as you like against the worst mid majors you can find outside of your conference schedule.

The whole process is a complete joke.

You're correct that teams can only count 1 win vs an FCS school, unless there is a shortage of 6 win
teams. If that happens the team with 2 wins vs FCS schools that get it to 6 wins, goes before the
APR schools.

Also...teams are not punished if they play two FCS schools and lose to one of them. That happened
with Pitt a few years ago. They played 2 FCS schools. They beat Gardner-Webb but lost to Youngstown
State. Because they had the required 5 wins vs FBS schools they got in.

They explained the rule in kind of a confusing way when they instituted it. They implied that
anybody playing 2 FCS schools would have to win 7 games. They were assuming that the team
would beat the 2 1-AA's. That's not the case.

 

[TheDayMan]

Quality over quantity.

That's the dumbest shit I've ever heard. Quality is there regardless. Might as well add the quantity so you can turn on a fake at almost any time through December.

 

[Justin Tyme]

Hell I might drive to that. Shreveport is only 2 hours away for me. .

That sounds like a good idea. Shreveport is about three hours away. I haven't been to an Indy Bowl since 79 or 80. I need to get out a little more often.

If it's FSU and Mizzu.

 

[Cave_Johnson]

4-6 New Mexico State vs Idaho and vs South Alabama. They've got a good shot at winning both.

Just a shot to win against Idaho? That might be the understatement of the year.

 

[NolePride]

Just a shot to win against Idaho? That might be the understatement of the year.

Not really an understatement.

Now I don't read up on Idaho every week but they have loss some close games to good
opponents. Lost to W Mich by 9...to Lafayette by 5...to Appy St by 2...to Troy by 3.

Last week was a close loss, but they should have beaten Coastal Carolina.

Big come down from last year, but they've been competitive this season.

NMSU has been some what underachieving. They were picked to finish 6th in the 12-team
Sun Belt. They opened losing close to Ariz St and then beat New Mexico. Troy game was close
but they've lost to some teams they should have won.

NMSU isn't a lock against anybody

 

[Sgt Brutus]

There should be.

Tons of cupcakes were had this year. Kansas and Baylor would be negative in the win column if you took their cupcakes away and Kansas didn't even play a P5 OOC. LOL! What pussies!

Kansas should have never gotten rid of Mangino

 

[Sgt Brutus]

You can get in with a record of 6-7

Isn't the schedule 12 games though? I think the only way to get to 6-7 is to lose your bowl game or win it as a 5-7 team

 

[WizardHawk]

Isn't the schedule 12 games though? I think the only way to get to 6-7 is to lose your bowl game or win it as a 5-7 team

Naw, the people who travel to a game at hawaii get an extra regular season game.

 

[Sgt Brutus]

Naw, the people who travel to a game at hawaii get an extra regular season game.

Hmm that is interesting

Hawaii Exemption

The addition of the 13th game, usually a home game, means extra revenue for those teams which can be used to offset the travel costs. However, teams can also schedule an extra off-week if they desire

 

[WizardHawk]

You get the extra game as compensation for the travel costs for going to the Hawaiian islands.

 

[WizardHawk]

UW has taken that extra game a few times.

 

[BigAppleBadger]

That's the dumbest shit I've ever heard. Quality is there regardless. Might as well add the quantity so you can turn on a fake at almost any time through December.

Disagree.

 

[Cave_Johnson]

Not really an understatement.

Now I don't read up on Idaho every week but they have loss some close games to good
opponents. Lost to W Mich by 9...to Lafayette by 5...to Appy St by 2...to Troy by 3.

Last week was a close loss, but they should have beaten Coastal Carolina.

Big come down from last year, but they've been competitive this season.

NMSU has been some what underachieving. They were picked to finish 6th in the 12-team
Sun Belt. They opened losing close to Ariz St and then beat New Mexico. Troy game was close
but they've lost to some teams they should have won.

NMSU isn't a lock against anybody

They were competitive with Matt Linehan at QB. He's done for the year and the new kid makes Russ Wilson look like Andre the Giant.

They won't score more than 10 in the remaining two games. Coaches are too worried about not burning a redshirt instead of putting a QB on the field that might be able to crack the two deep at an NAIA program.

 

[Yo Tee]

The whole process is a complete joke.

I think we have a winner of the thread.

 

[NolePride]

They were competitive with Matt Linehan at QB. He's done for the year and the new kid makes Russ Wilson look like Andre the Giant.

They won't score more than 10 in the remaining two games. Coaches are too worried about not burning a redshirt instead of putting a QB on the field that might be able to crack the two deep at an NAIA program.

I didn't know about their QB being out. I don't think I have a problem with Coaches not burning a redshirt.
Numerous reasons for that. One would be, in this type of instance, it's kinduva unfair to the player to have
sat him all year and then cost him a full year of eligibility at the end.

 

[Lance Armstrong]

Who are the 3 opponents you speak of?

Off the top of my head I think it was Northwestern, Iowa and Michigan.

 

[outofyourmind]

Why do so many people hate for young men, who work hard, pursuing their dreams, to participate in a Bowl Game as a reward for said hard work and dedication??