Nebraska, Minnesota, even Illinios going to bowls as 5-7 teams
Weird gets weirder.
The number of teams with at least 6 wins won't fill the number of available bowl slots, so, some 5-7 teams will be going bowling, and it's based on the most recent APR scores.
That means:
Nebraska IS going bowling. Their streak (44 in 46 yrs) is "intact."
Minnesota IS going bowling.
Illinois might be going, depending on results this weekend.
http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/14262106/ncaa-announces-…
As the article says, Missouri passed, as they need a coach.
November 30th, 2015 at 9:32 PM ^
BIG TEHHHHN?
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November 30th, 2015 at 9:34 PM ^
More revenue sharing (insert Jim Delaney evil laught)
November 30th, 2015 at 9:36 PM ^
**mustache twist, pinky in corner of mouth, demand for $1 million and sharks with lasers**
November 30th, 2015 at 9:34 PM ^
Insufferable.
November 30th, 2015 at 11:11 PM ^
Irritable bowl disorder.
November 30th, 2015 at 9:34 PM ^
Good for them. Except for Nebraska. Fuck Nebraska.
November 30th, 2015 at 9:38 PM ^
They beat Staee so they deserve a bowl game this season
November 30th, 2015 at 9:55 PM ^
(though I'm in sympathy with your excellent sentiment). In fact even .500 records shouldn't go, in my internet tough guy opinion. It removes what little meaning there is from bowl games and makes them officially exhibitions, instead of test of good teams and rewards for good seasons. Yuck.
November 30th, 2015 at 10:19 PM ^
The Bullshit Bowl® floodgates have been open for over 25 years.
It's all free advertising for fly-ny-night corporations that get subsidised by "invited" schools.
If the schools are suckers enough to sign contracts pledging ticket quoatas and travel expenses it's their problem.
I say every team in the country should goto a bowl if they're enough eyeballs to make it worth somebody's while.
If the Gardner White bowl wants to host Eastern Michigan and SouthWestCentral Louisiana State, who am I to say no.
November 30th, 2015 at 10:36 PM ^
Since when does a streak have gaps?
The Cleveland Browns are on a 1 game championship streak since 1964. (Looking at you, MGoOld)
November 30th, 2015 at 10:38 PM ^
So if you're not watching the Nebraska bowl game then please enlighten me what shitty TV show you'd prefer to watch. Because I'd rather watch Nebraska in a bowl game if there's truly no 6-6 team available in their place
December 1st, 2015 at 7:59 AM ^
Who says he will make time to watch anything at all?
December 1st, 2015 at 10:10 AM ^
Re-run of the 1985 Fiesta Bowl. Or Hogan's Heros in a pinch.
December 1st, 2015 at 6:16 PM ^
Agreed. You should hve to have a winning record to go to a bowl game. Period.
November 30th, 2015 at 9:35 PM ^
giving participation trophies to the 14 non-bowl teams?
December 1st, 2015 at 4:53 AM ^
it's because someone, somewhere is making money off this crap so the NCAA is allllll over it.
If they could make money showing 0-12 UCF vs. 0-12 Kansas playing in Pyongyang I'm sure they would consider it
December 1st, 2015 at 10:32 AM ^
That's a bowl game I'd actually love to watch, especially if the losers didn't get to fly home.
November 30th, 2015 at 9:36 PM ^
I liked the way it was before - if you're not at least 6-6, you don't go bowling. As much as I like football, I don't particularly care to watch a 5-7 Nebraska play in some weird sponsor bowl.
I guess it is better for the team though since they get 15 extra practices...
November 30th, 2015 at 10:01 PM ^
You don't care to watch Nebraska in the Motel 6/Case IH Lodging/Farmers Bowl??
November 30th, 2015 at 10:12 PM ^
That's still the way it is... the problem is that there are so many bowls now that they're near the breaking point in which there just aren't enough teams that go 6-6 every year.
This year there had to be 5 exceptions.
November 30th, 2015 at 9:36 PM ^
I don't want to go back to one bowl team per conference how about at least having a winning record. Ridiculous
November 30th, 2015 at 9:36 PM ^
Personally, I think it's embarrassing to college football that a less than .500 team can go to a bowl game. Of course, solving this is easier said than done. I would have no problem if they got rid of some of the pre-Crhistmas bowls (or all of them) and basically cut the worst 20 teams in the past 20 years out of FBS. Those teams aren't going to consistently compete with a good team, anyway. Maybe I'm being a little extreme, but I don't see how a team could take pride in going to a bowl game when it could lose more than half of its games and still be considered "good enough" to play in a bowl game. It rewards subpar teams. Just my thoughts.
November 30th, 2015 at 9:37 PM ^
I think it should be the top four teams in each conference. These bowls are just depressing.
November 30th, 2015 at 9:37 PM ^
What a joke.
November 30th, 2015 at 9:37 PM ^
Hmmmmm, is it possible that there are too many bowl games?
December 1st, 2015 at 6:20 PM ^
TIING!!
We don't need more teams to fill up the bowls. We need less bowls.
November 30th, 2015 at 9:38 PM ^
The only reason I don't mind is because that's more football for me to watch and I love watching CFB.
November 30th, 2015 at 9:41 PM ^
I agree, but I'd rather just watch the FCS playoffs or replays of top games from the regular season. It's not like you can watch every game during the regular season, so December serves as a time to watch EVERYTHING.
November 30th, 2015 at 9:40 PM ^
Minnesota's greasy fingered fat fuck coach gets to say he made a bowl.
What a joke.
November 30th, 2015 at 9:45 PM ^
I'm not going to ask how you know he has greasy fingers.
November 30th, 2015 at 9:52 PM ^
Hopefully they just shook hands...
November 30th, 2015 at 10:12 PM ^
Do you have a teddy bear so I can show you where he touched me?
November 30th, 2015 at 10:40 PM ^
You CANNOT get greasy fingers from Dilly Bars.
November 30th, 2015 at 10:48 PM ^
DAMN. Bringing the wood over from the premium boards.
November 30th, 2015 at 9:40 PM ^
How about teams like Illinois and Minnesota go out and spend their Big Ten money by hiring real fucking coaches.
November 30th, 2015 at 9:49 PM ^
It is more difficult than you make it seem. Schools like that don't have the pedigree (and other things) to just hire a great coach.
November 30th, 2015 at 9:41 PM ^
For Minnesota I don't really have an issue. This year they played TCU and Colorado State out of conference, and then their B1G crossover opponents were Michigan and OSU. That was probably the toughest schedule in the league.
November 30th, 2015 at 9:42 PM ^
Maybe in their division, but I'd say our schedule was tougher overall.
November 30th, 2015 at 9:50 PM ^
Well, they played Iowa (12-0), OSU (11-1), TCU (10-2), Northwestern (10-2), Michigan (9-3) and Wisconsin (9-3). They also took on Colorado State (7-5) on the road. There are a lot of teams that scheduled four crap opponents and scraped their way to 6-6. They put together a tough nonconference slate and then got the worst crossover draw in the league. They also lost their coach to health problems. Given all the circumstances, I'm okay with them getting a shot at a bowl.
November 30th, 2015 at 9:50 PM ^
True, but I think that Utah would definitely give Iowa a game, might even win it in Utah. We'd beat Wisconsin easily IMO, especially in the big house. I'd say Wisconsin is comparable to BYU. TCU is basically MSU, except much worse.
November 30th, 2015 at 9:54 PM ^
Well, maybe ours was tougher, but we're not really in competition with Minnesota for a crap December bowl. Compared to probably all the other .500-level teams out there, they went through a lot more.
November 30th, 2015 at 9:59 PM ^
But that doesn't qualify them for a bowl. Maybe they were better than their record, but they still didn't go 6-6
November 30th, 2015 at 10:04 PM ^
I think we want to be encouraging teams to play legitimate non-conference schedules. They did that. They could have made it easier on themselves by playing a MAC team instead of TCU, but they didn't. I'm OK rewarding them for that.
November 30th, 2015 at 9:41 PM ^
That's just embarrassing
November 30th, 2015 at 9:43 PM ^
an extra game. Are there enough stadiums and cities in the south to host 60 or 70 "post season" games? Just match up 5-7 teams, 4-8 teams, 3-9 teams ... Wouldn't anyone be interested in seeing what would happen if 0-12 UCF played 0-12 Kansas (sidenote: wtf didn't realize Kansas was winless ... sheesh)? That game could probably just be @ UCF or at a high school field in Plano TX.
I no longer care much about the NFL and gravitate to CFB because the pro game is so soul-less. Then along comes bowl season and CFB takes on that same soul-less-ness.
November 30th, 2015 at 9:58 PM ^
Teams playing. We could do a playoff. Lose and advance. We will find the worst team in the land!!
December 1st, 2015 at 1:50 AM ^
Kansas vs. Ucf.....I like it. At least can finish on a high note.
November 30th, 2015 at 9:47 PM ^
Too many bowl games. It used to be special going to a bowl game, but there are just too many now. It should be something like the top 40 or so teams get to go to a bowl.
November 30th, 2015 at 9:47 PM ^
but I don't think I can bear to watch them.