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7 Wins for Bowl Eligibility

Postby billybud » Wed Jan 25, 2012 3:10 pm

Seven win criteria being discussed...there will be push back since a tier of lesser bowls would have to fold.

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Re: 7 Wins for Bowl Eligibility

Postby Spence » Wed Jan 25, 2012 5:14 pm

I think seven wins is reasonable. A team that is 6-6 doesn't deserve to go to a bowl. Ohio State went 6-6 this year and if that is what a 6-6 team looks like I can testify that a 6-6 team should never go to a bowl.
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Re: 7 Wins for Bowl Eligibility

Postby billybud » Wed Jan 25, 2012 7:51 pm

6-6 FSU looked OK against 9 win WVU in the 2010 Gator.
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Re: 7 Wins for Bowl Eligibility

Postby Spence » Wed Jan 25, 2012 9:29 pm

I just think if you can't win the majority of your games you have no business being in a bowl.
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Re: 7 Wins for Bowl Eligibility

Postby Dossenator » Thu Jan 26, 2012 12:50 am

I am with you on this one Spence.
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Re: 7 Wins for Bowl Eligibility

Postby Eric » Thu Jan 26, 2012 3:24 am

They would probably have to trim 4 or 5 bowl games in order to make this work. I understand that we want some accomplishments to accompany a bowl team, but I think I side with the "the more football, the better" approach.
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Re: 7 Wins for Bowl Eligibility

Postby Spence » Thu Jan 26, 2012 9:40 am

I'm not against more football, but 6-6 shouldn't be in a bowl. I don't care if they are a "good" 6-6 or a bad 6-6.
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Re: 7 Wins for Bowl Eligibility

Postby GoBoilers » Sat Jan 28, 2012 9:47 am

I agree! :!:
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Re: 7 Wins for Bowl Eligibility

Postby Grayghost » Mon Jan 30, 2012 1:46 pm

I'm gonna have to go with Spence on this one. 6-6 does not rate a bowl and if a few bowls have to fold because of that then so be it. I honestly believe that if you have 120 teams and more than half go to bowls it actually takes away from the bowl experience as opposed to enhancing it. Also, do not give exceptions to losing teams just because they played in a conference championship game. Allowing UCLA to go to a bowl after going 6-7 was a joke. The other time a losing team went to a bowl was when the NCAA allowed North Texas to go to a bowl with a 5-6 record in the inaugural season of the sun belt because the tied for first place but beat Middle Tenn head to head. Mid. Tenn. was 8-3 that year but the NCAA made an exception. Mid. Tenn. did not go to a bowl. I understand the argument of winning the head to head meeting, but if you cant produce a winning record you stay home and be happy with your co-championship.
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Re: 7 Wins for Bowl Eligibility

Postby Spence » Mon Jan 30, 2012 8:57 pm

I agree. How pathetic is it to even be in a conference championship game with a 6-6 record.
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Re: 7 Wins for Bowl Eligibility

Postby billybud » Tue Jan 31, 2012 11:31 am

Make it so you have to have at least one win over a year end top 30 team to go bowling...

At least basketball uses RPI...
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Re: 7 Wins for Bowl Eligibility

Postby Spence » Tue Jan 31, 2012 12:52 pm

billybud wrote:Make it so you have to have at least one win over a year end top 30 team to go bowling...

At least basketball uses RPI...

I don't have a problem with that either, except their are only 30 year end top 30 teams and how do you go about trying to schedule that if you are a middie that is trying go bowling?
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Re: 7 Wins for Bowl Eligibility

Postby billybud » Tue Jan 31, 2012 4:02 pm

Schedule a few decent teams...rather than play fodder and bowl.

Four CUSA teams had a win over a top 30 team...

Four ACC teams...

Five BE teams..

Seven Big Ten teams..

Seven SEC teams...

No MAC team did...no bowls for you today!

Four Pac 12 teams would bowl

Two teams in the MWC would bowl

No WAC

No Sun Belt, no WAC, no Army, no Navy, no BYU

That would be 33 teams eligible this year....enough for a scaled down 16 bowls...15 after the NC game
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Re: 7 Wins for Bowl Eligibility

Postby Spence » Tue Jan 31, 2012 4:22 pm

I would think if you took it to top 50 it would be fair. Top 30 makes it tough. Every conference has to play so many in conference teams, that only leaves four games for the top 30 to spread around. Even then, if you guess wrong and the team you schedule didn't make it into the top 30 you would be screwed. If you start taking bowls away from them, they have nothing to sell.
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Re: 7 Wins for Bowl Eligibility

Postby WoVeU » Tue Feb 07, 2012 12:34 am

I like 1 Top 40...or 2 Top 50 wins.
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