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Topic: RE: The Chase for Bowl Eligibility

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71 BOBCAT
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RE: The Chase for Bowl Eligibility

Posted: 11/29/2014 4:16:50 PM

There are about 11 games today with teams that need to win to get to 6 and bowl eligibility. So far 4 of the 11 have lost.
We need as many of these to loose to help our cause.

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RE: The Chase for Bowl Eligibility

Posted: 11/29/2014 4:48:17 PM

Through the early games today, there are 76 bowl eligible teams (not counting Ga Southern & Appy St, who need waivers). That means there are enough teams to fill all the slots, with eight more teams who could be eligible.

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RE: The Chase for Bowl Eligibility

Posted: 11/29/2014 5:41:11 PM

They key then is for the MAC backup plan Bowl Games not to have eligible teams...

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RE: The Chase for Bowl Eligibility

Posted: 11/29/2014 8:50:36 PM

Doesn't the MAC have six bowls this year?

1) The GoDaddy Bowl versus Sun Belt
2) The Bahamas Bowl versus C-USA
3) The Boca Raton Bowl versus C-USA
4) The Camellia Bowl versus Sun Belt
5) The Famous Idaho Potato Bowl versus Mountain West

And then the Armed Forces Bowl is C-USA vs. Army, but Army is 4-7 and they can't become eligible. MAC is a back-up for that bowl, right?

Last Edited: 11/29/2014 8:54:38 PM by flyguy51

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RE: The Chase for Bowl Eligibility

Posted: 11/29/2014 8:59:59 PM

flyguy51 wrote:

The Armed Forces Bowl is AAC vs. Big 12.

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RE: The Chase for Bowl Eligibility

Posted: 11/29/2014 9:06:47 PM

Tennessee and UAB became bowl eligible with wins this afternoon. Cal lost and finishes the season at 5-7.

Fresno State is up 28-0 over Hawaii early in the second half. Pitt is up 21-20 in Miami in the 3rd quarter.

Last Edited: 11/29/2014 9:07:47 PM by Tyler

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RE: The Chase for Bowl Eligibility

Posted: 11/29/2014 9:56:14 PM

Oregon State getting crushed by Oregon, will not be bowl eligible

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RE: The Chase for Bowl Eligibility

Posted: 11/29/2014 9:58:38 PM

Tyler wrote:

Pitt up 35-23 in the 4th

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RE: The Chase for Bowl Eligibility

Posted: 11/29/2014 10:27:25 PM

Seasons over. No chance of a bowl now.

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RE: The Chase for Bowl Eligibility

Posted: 11/29/2014 10:31:11 PM

bobcat28 wrote:

Seasons over. No chance of a bowl now.

There is nothing that prevents one of the 5 MAC affiliated bowls from picking Ohio over CMU

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RE: The Chase for Bowl Eligibility

Posted: 11/29/2014 10:33:33 PM

Help. Somebody make some sense out of all of this. I don't understand all these variables.

I know it would help if Temple lost to Tulane next week, but assuming that doesn't happen, do we have a chance of getting picked?

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RE: The Chase for Bowl Eligibility

Posted: 11/29/2014 10:35:23 PM

OUbobcat9092 wrote:

bobcat28 wrote:

Seasons over. No chance of a bowl now.

There is nothing that prevents one of the 5 MAC affiliated bowls from picking Ohio over CMU

Except reality and common sense.

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RE: The Chase for Bowl Eligibility

Posted: 11/29/2014 10:35:28 PM

May well come down to Temple. Assuming Temps wins, there would be 79 eligible teams for 76 slots.

One can assume 6-6 South Alabama is out from the Sun Belt. That leaves 3 teams for 1 slot out of the MAC/CUSA:

Ohio (6-6)
MTSU (6-6)
UAB (6-6)

Are we more attractive than those schools? Who knows. But that's the competition.

If Temple loses, only one of those 3 is odd man out. I'd have to think we are at least more attractive than UAB. They are a program on life support. MTSU seems like a dead heat.

This site does a good job breaking things down: http://www.collegesports-fans.com/bowls/bowl-breakdown.html

Last Edited: 11/29/2014 10:38:52 PM by catfan28

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RE: The Chase for Bowl Eligibility

Posted: 11/29/2014 10:44:00 PM

Monroe Slavin wrote:

OUbobcat9092 wrote:

bobcat28 wrote:

Seasons over. No chance of a bowl now.

There is nothing that prevents one of the 5 MAC affiliated bowls from picking Ohio over CMU

Except reality and common sense.

It all comes down to which team the Bowl thinks will generate more revenue for them, not records

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RE: The Chase for Bowl Eligibility

Posted: 11/29/2014 11:12:43 PM

Understood, but there's some, if not a lot of, overlap there....

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RE: The Chase for Bowl Eligibility

Posted: 11/29/2014 11:28:39 PM

Pitt and WKU wins hurt.

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RE: The Chase for Bowl Eligibility

Posted: 11/30/2014 12:38:41 AM

Updated CBS projections has us in the Armed Forces bowl vs Houston:

http://mweb.qa.cbssports.com/ncaaf/bowls/predictions

As someone already stated, it comes down to us, MTSU, UAB and Temple.

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RE: The Chase for Bowl Eligibility

Posted: 11/30/2014 12:49:57 AM

That link doesn't work, here it is: http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/bowls/predictions

What's interesting is that he projects 3 Big Ten teams in Selection Committee bowls. Not sure how realistic that is, but if that happens...then a spot opens in the Quick Lane Bowl that the MAC would be guaranteed to take. He has Stanford in there since he's probably not aware of the back-up agreement.

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RE: The Chase for Bowl Eligibility

Posted: 11/30/2014 8:41:10 AM

So with Temple we'd be at 80 eligible teams?

Teams that became bowl eligible
American (5) Cincinnati, East Carolina, Houston, Memphis, UCF
ACC (11) Boston College, Clemson, Duke, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Louisville, Miami, NC State, North Carolina, Pittsburgh, Virginia Tech
Big 12 (6) Baylor, Kansas State, Oklahoma, TCU, Texas, West Virginia
Big Ten (10) Illinois, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan State, Minnesota, Nebraska, Ohio State, Penn State, Rutgers, Wisconsin
Conference USA (7) Louisiana Tech, Marshall, Middle Tennessee State, Rice, UAB, UTEP, Western Kentucky
Independents (3) BYU, Navy, Notre Dame
MAC (6) Bowling Green, Central Michigan, Northern Illinois, Ohio, Toledo, Western Michigan
Mountain West (7) Air Force, Boise State, Colorado State, Fresno State, Nevada, San Diego State, Utah State
Pac-12 (8) Arizona, Arizona State, Oregon, Stanford, UCLA, USC, Utah, Washington
SEC (12) Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, LSU, Mississippi State, Missouri, Ole Miss, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas A&M
Sun Belt (4) Arkansas State, Louisiana�Lafayette, South Alabama, Texas State
Number of bowl berths available: 76
Number of teams bowl eligible: 79

Teams that might become bowl eligible
American (1) Temple
Big 12 (1) Oklahoma State
Number of teams that might become bowl eligible: 2

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RE: The Chase for Bowl Eligibility

Posted: 11/30/2014 10:54:31 AM

That site forgets that Miami-FL is eligible. So yes, 80 with a Temple win.

Beginning to think that 3 Big Ten teams in Selection Committee bowls and/or playoff is our best shot. Need Wisconsin to beat O$U and that seems likely.

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RE: The Chase for Bowl Eligibility

Posted: 11/30/2014 11:54:23 AM

catfan28 wrote:

I'd think we'd need OSU to win to see if they can squeeze into the playoff picture and take a Big Ten team out of the other bowls.

I noticed that even though CBS has us projected in a bowl, two ESPN projections do not have us in any (they have 5 MAC teams projected). ESPN has a near monopoly on bowls, so that is not a good sign.

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RE: The Chase for Bowl Eligibility

Posted: 11/30/2014 12:25:56 PM

Any MAC team that gets to a Bowl Game with a 6-6 record is a long shot at best.
Can anyone name one that did make it and what year was that?

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RE: The Chase for Bowl Eligibility

Posted: 11/30/2014 12:41:02 PM

I think it was 6-6 CMU, and I think it was last year, and I believe they won their game. I'm going from memory, please correct me if I'm wrong.

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RE: The Chase for Bowl Eligibility

Posted: 11/30/2014 12:44:19 PM

OhioCatFan wrote:

I think it was 6-6 CMU, and I think it was last year, and I believe they won their game. I'm going from memory, please correct me if I'm wrong.

I think it was in the Little Caeser's Pizza Bowl 2 years ago and they beat Western Kentucky.

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RE: The Chase for Bowl Eligibility

Posted: 11/30/2014 12:47:01 PM

Two regular posters on this site reported last week, before the Miami game, that they had "inside sources" in the Athletic Department who told them that we were not going to accept an invitation if offered. If that's the case, it would seem to me that's why ESPN does not have us projected for any bowls because they know the inside story, as they own many of these bowls, and the other sites are assuming we'd accept if offered. I personally hope these "insider sources" don't know what they are talking about and that we are offered and accept. However, I'm fearful they are correct.

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