OT: FSU technically ineligible for Independence Bowl
Credit to u/baconydraco, one of the mods on r/cfb for researching this.
Apparently by NCAA rules, a win against an FCS team only counts if the opponent is using at least 90% of the 63 scholarship limit, which Deleware State did not.
This rule would have also made WMU ineligible (win vs. Wagner) and Buffalo ineligible (win vs. Colgate); however, UTSA would be eligible meaning they wouldn't need to go to teams that were 5-7 like in previous years.
Seems like its too late to put UTSA in the Independence Bowl (12/27), but it's interesting because FSU has the longest bowl streak. I wonder if ESPN catches wind of this if whenever they bring up the streak, they will say something like "FSU has the longest bowl streak, but not the longest streak of bowl eligibility".
Anyways, seems like a cool piece of trivia.
December 21st, 2017 at 12:57 PM ^
This is possibly the most Stanford fan thing one could do.
December 21st, 2017 at 12:58 PM ^
December 21st, 2017 at 1:00 PM ^
I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here
December 21st, 2017 at 1:14 PM ^
Yeah, Chuck, you must be new here...
Or maybe you were just too busy cutting through a hot knife with butter
December 21st, 2017 at 1:58 PM ^
But he's not as tough as Charles Nelson Reilly. Did Chuck Norris ever win the Tour de France with two flat tires and a missing chain? Did he ever make Gene Rayburn give him a 2 hour piggy back ride?
Talkin' bout CNR.
December 21st, 2017 at 2:16 PM ^
to Bill Brasky. I mean that guy punched a hole in a cow and wore a rattlesnake for a condom.
December 21st, 2017 at 5:08 PM ^
And I am 47 years old. That show is like the Simpsons, should have been canceled a LONG time ago.
December 21st, 2017 at 6:54 PM ^
I don't care much for SNL either but it's still popular so I don't go around shitting on people. If you can't remember it being funny it sounds like you never thought it was funny. Great, why come here to point out that you don't like something someone else just referenced? Do people like this walk around in the real world just telling people what they hate and what to do about it? Hi Betty, your sweather is ugly. You should wear a blouse. Hey Mike, your dog sucks, it should be put down so you can get a german shepherd. Anyway, have a great day!
December 21st, 2017 at 8:30 PM ^
December 21st, 2017 at 3:35 PM ^
He was cutting through a knife with hot butter.
December 21st, 2017 at 1:01 PM ^
I would think schools would have to submit a list of everyone on scholarship to show they are at or below the limit. I would think it'd be pretty easy to throw up a red flag if an FCS team was under that 90% threshold.
December 21st, 2017 at 1:05 PM ^
before sending them an invite you would think the NCAA would've stepped in and declared them ineligible for a bowl game. Sucks they are keeping their streak alive when in reality it should be over.
December 21st, 2017 at 1:09 PM ^
December 21st, 2017 at 1:59 PM ^
More like escape clauses to facilitate punishing whomever we wish, whenever we wish.
A school of our caliber has to have a very skillfully and expensively staffed compliance department. I understand that at FSU they don't care two hills of beans. But if Michigan was still scheduling FCS, you can bet Harbaugh would have someone on staff, part of whose job it would be to esnure any FCS school we play to stay above the 90% threshold, maybe even recruiting lower level players to those schools for them...
December 21st, 2017 at 1:25 PM ^
It didn't affect Michigan under harbaugh, so they let it slide.
December 21st, 2017 at 4:16 PM ^
It is the NCAA we are talking about here...
December 21st, 2017 at 1:02 PM ^
That program must be one heck of a ride to follow.
December 21st, 2017 at 1:05 PM ^
My favorite piece of trivia about the bowl streak is that Virginia Tech is the 2nd longest streak.
December 21st, 2017 at 1:05 PM ^
Regarding FSU having the longest bowl streak, isn't it technically only 11 because they had a season vacated for cheating?
December 21st, 2017 at 1:34 PM ^
December 21st, 2017 at 1:57 PM ^
Actually, two seasons were tainted. FSU had to vacate all 7 of their wins in 2007, and 5 of their 7 victories in 2006. Good memory.
December 21st, 2017 at 1:11 PM ^
Fuck FSU and all their delusional Jimbo Fisher loving fans!
Or something...
December 21st, 2017 at 3:13 PM ^
December 21st, 2017 at 1:26 PM ^
Does the NCAA not verify bowl eligibility?
December 21st, 2017 at 5:16 PM ^
December 21st, 2017 at 1:28 PM ^
December 21st, 2017 at 1:28 PM ^
December 21st, 2017 at 1:31 PM ^
Out of the teams with 5 wins, the teams with the best academic progress rate (APR) are offered first. The APR is a gauge of how well the student athletes are doing in the classroom.
Needless to say, FSU would not get in based on APR. There were several segments on BTN saying that Minnesota would have the highest APR of the 5 win teams if it came down to that.
December 21st, 2017 at 2:00 PM ^
Yes indeed. In fact, I believe Minnesota was one of the three teams in the 2015-16 bowl season to be awarded a bowl based on this very rule, as well as San Jose Sate and Nebraska, if I am not mistaken. As I recall, this was also the year that the Arizona Bowl ended up featuring members of the same conference because neither of their conference tie-ins could produce enough eligible teams.
Having 40 bowls is such fun....
December 21st, 2017 at 1:32 PM ^
Longest bowl streak.....I remember that. Thanks, Richard.
December 21st, 2017 at 2:10 PM ^
I don't think FSU has the longest bowl streak. I think it's this guy:
December 21st, 2017 at 2:10 PM ^
I hate FSU as much as anyone else here, but I don't think it's very uncommon for college's to stretch the truth pretty thin to claim things. Who has the longest streak of 100,000+ fans in attendance?
December 21st, 2017 at 3:46 PM ^
December 21st, 2017 at 4:33 PM ^
I'm pretty sure it was a rhetorical question. But congratulations on hitting 39 MGoPoints!
December 21st, 2017 at 3:24 PM ^
December 21st, 2017 at 4:42 PM ^
"Florida versus Southern Cal"
I seen it with me own two eyes.
December 21st, 2017 at 3:56 PM ^
December 21st, 2017 at 4:45 PM ^
This or making millions like Clemson does and yet still having crappy facilities that chase away a National Championship coach.
What they hell are they thinking?
December 21st, 2017 at 4:47 PM ^
Isn't playing Southern Miss in the Independence technically the same thing as being bowl ineligible?