Nebraska, Minnesota, even Illinios going to bowls as 5-7 teams

Submitted by superstringer on

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.

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wolverine1987

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. 

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jabberwock

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.

 

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Gentleman Squirrels

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...

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UMichStudent2019

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.

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JOHNNAVARREISMYHERO

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.

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snarling wolverine

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.

 

 

 

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snarling wolverine

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.

 

 

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Moonlight Graham

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. 

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UM Fan from Sydney

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.

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