Bowl Projections

Men's Sports Football
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No, they are below 6-6 teams if they go 6-7. However, they are above 5-7 teams.

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Thanks MooreHawk. You are correct. They are kind of in a notch between the two groups. That provision apparently applies to any team that gets a 13th game because it plays at Hawaii, too.

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63

Tulsa winning, North Texas won…V-Tech ahead…look for there to be a couple extra 6-6 teams than expected and Miami will be left home.

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Virginia Tech wins to get to 6-6.

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65

Some teams will turn down bowls, I would think.

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They’re up to 79 teams now of 82. Memphis, Tulsa, Syracuse, West Virginia, and LSU go tonight. USC and Cal could also become eligible depending on the next 2 weeks.

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Tulsa kicks FG to go up by 10 over SMU w 4 minutes to play…Miami’s chances going down by the minute …

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Is that 79 total including the FAU / MTSU game?

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69

West Virginia almost a guaranteed win vs. Kansas.

70

7-6 with a bowl win isn’t a disaster, but I wouldn’t call it a “productive” season. We lost to a bad OU team and didn’t win the East.

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71

…if we get a bowl bid…w our small fan base and lack of proximity to almost every bowl, we’ll be one of the first out if they have extra 6-6 bowl eligible teams…even the Quick Lane bowl would prefer EMU over us…

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72

Tulsa wins.

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73

I count 79 eligible without the MTSU -FAU winner. We better become really big Texas A&M, Kansas and Pitt fans this evening!

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74

and Tulane!

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75

According to this article, Hawaii would only be bowl eligible if there are not enough 6-6 teams:

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76

Yep. We need Tulane to upset Memphis. They’d be a popular bowl invite. We’re not getting any help from Texas AM.

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Looking like perfect storm of upsets to keep us home.

78

The worst we were ever treated was in 1998 in Randy Walker’s last year. We opened the season with a win at UNC and went 10-1, losing only at Marshall. We informally accepted a bid to the Las Vegas Bowl but when UNC became eligible, they disinvited us and invited them - even though we’d beaten them earlier. I think that was the catalyst that sent Randy to Northwestern.

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79

Well…the players don’t deserve being at home, but can’t say Chuck and Miami deserve a bowl…we’re a perpetual 500 team, who’s not won a game vs a FBS team in 8 years.

Unless some opponent lobbies for us…

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Yep but in those days we actually had a decent fan base as well…now we could see the likes of Eastern Michigan get a bowl bid ahead of us…let that sink in a little. (Probably Ball State too).

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