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brucecuth
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  Message Not Read  Yahoo. Sports columnist Pat Forde sez...
   Posted: 10/5/2013 5:13:25 PM 
MAC may have 3 quality teams in NIU, Ball and Ohio...
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Victory
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   Posted: 10/5/2013 6:36:25 PM 
Bowling Green, Toledo, Buffalo, Kent State then sadly the team we saw today is maybe still the 8th best team. 

We may have 6 or 7 bowl eligible teams because everyone gets to beat up on the other 6.  The odds of getting 6 or 7 MAC going bowling are pretty low so we need to win more than 6 or 7.  If we just beat CMU, EMU, Miami, and UMass we'd have 8.  Even 8 might not be enough.
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   Posted: 10/5/2013 7:09:25 PM 
Victory wrote:
Bowling Green, Toledo, Buffalo, Kent State then sadly the team we saw today is maybe still the 8th best team. 

We may have 6 or 7 bowl eligible teams because everyone gets to beat up on the other 6.  The odds of getting 6 or 7 MAC going bowling are pretty low so we need to win more than 6 or 7.  If we just beat CMU, EMU, Miami, and UMass we'd have 8.  Even 8 might not be enough.


You're right.  This year there aren't nearly as many teams that are bowl ineligible because of NCAA violations as there were last year, so there will be fewer unfilled spots than last year.  There are 70 bowl spots and there were 68 teams that were at least halfway to bowl eligibility by their fourth game, so they only have to win three of their last eight to be bowl eligible.  A MAC team might have to win nine games this year to have a real shot at a spot outside the three MAC bowls.

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L.C.
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   Posted: 10/5/2013 10:11:12 PM 
brucecuth wrote:
MAC may have 3 quality teams in NIU, Ball and Ohio...

Can't believe he missed BG on that list, considering they are one of the favorites to win the MAC. At the end of the season, Toledo will probably be bowl eligible too.

“We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.” ― Epictetus

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Brian Smith (No, not that one)
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   Posted: 10/5/2013 11:28:12 PM 
Forde pointed to BG gettting housed by IU in a subtweet as the reason he didn't include the Falcons. I still cannot believe BG lost by that many points in that game.
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   Posted: 10/6/2013 12:57:17 AM 
Brian Smith wrote:
Forde pointed to BG gettting housed by IU in a subtweet as the reason he didn't include the Falcons. I still cannot believe BG lost by that many points in that game.

It is surprising, I agree. Yet Ohio shouldn't have lost to Louisville by as much as they did, either. Ohio has improved a lot since then, and I do think they have a good shot at upsetting BG when they play.

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Victory
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   Posted: 10/6/2013 2:52:52 PM 
Pataskala wrote:
Victory wrote:
Bowling Green, Toledo, Buffalo, Kent State then sadly the team we saw today is maybe still the 8th best team. 

We may have 6 or 7 bowl eligible teams because everyone gets to beat up on the other 6.  The odds of getting 6 or 7 MAC going bowling are pretty low so we need to win more than 6 or 7.  If we just beat CMU, EMU, Miami, and UMass we'd have 8.  Even 8 might not be enough.


You're right.  This year there aren't nearly as many teams that are bowl ineligible because of NCAA violations as there were last year, so there will be fewer unfilled spots than last year.  There are 70 bowl spots and there were 68 teams that were at least halfway to bowl eligibility by their fourth game, so they only have to win three of their last eight to be bowl eligible.  A MAC team might have to win nine games this year to have a real shot at a spot outside the three MAC bowls.


Who is bowl ineligible besides Georgia State (and Appalachian State,, Georgia Southern, Old Dominion, and UNC-Charlotte who have not transitioned with a 1A schedule)?
 






 
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Victory
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   Posted: 10/6/2013 2:57:08 PM 
Victory wrote:
Pataskala wrote:
Victory wrote:
Bowling Green, Toledo, Buffalo, Kent State then sadly the team we saw today is maybe still the 8th best team. 

We may have 6 or 7 bowl eligible teams because everyone gets to beat up on the other 6.  The odds of getting 6 or 7 MAC going bowling are pretty low so we need to win more than 6 or 7.  If we just beat CMU, EMU, Miami, and UMass we'd have 8.  Even 8 might not be enough.


You're right.  This year there aren't nearly as many teams that are bowl ineligible because of NCAA violations as there were last year, so there will be fewer unfilled spots than last year.  There are 70 bowl spots and there were 68 teams that were at least halfway to bowl eligibility by their fourth game, so they only have to win three of their last eight to be bowl eligible.  A MAC team might have to win nine games this year to have a real shot at a spot outside the three MAC bowls.


Who is bowl ineligible besides Georgia State (and Appalachian State,, Georgia Southern, Old Dominion, and UNC-Charlotte who have not transitioned with a 1A schedule)?
 

I think its just Penn State.  There will probably be 74 or 75 eligible teams in the end.  That's bad for the MAC until some new bowls get added and some tie-ins get rearranged to relate better to the strengths of the realigned conferences.

 
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