[Husker] Re: Not enough bowl-eligible teams?

[Bob Clouston]

By my count 54 teams are eligible to fill 28 bowls, not counting Clemson 
and S. Carolina.

The Hawaii-Northwestern winner will be eligible.  The loser will be 6-6, 
so B would be an option.  5 other schools still have a shot to qualify. 
  None is a sure thing to win another game.  TCU and Tulane play each 
other, but if Tulane wins, they also have to beat Louisville--not 
likely, so the NCAA is probably rooting for TCU.  Southern Miss over UAB 
is probably the next best shot.  South Florida needs to beat Pitt and 
Memphis, and Syracuse needs to beat BC, I don't think either will happen.

In its infinite wisdom, and reminiscent of when the NCAA had no tie 
breaker method for the #2 BCS spot until the last year or two, the NCAA 
makes no allowance for this that I've found in 
http://www.ncaa.org/library/handbooks/football/2004/d1a_postseason_handbook.pdf 
.  (That's a 353K .pdf file, btw).

Bob

> 
> Subject:
> [Husker] Not enough bowl-eligible teams?
> From:
> Mike Nolan <nolan at romaine.tssi.com>
> Date:
> Fri, 26 Nov 2004 17:33:49 -0600 (CST)
> To:
> husker at romaine.tssi.com
> 
> 
> ABC mentioned at one point today that at the moment there aren't enough
> bowl-eligible teams to fill all the bowl games.
> 
> What happens if that's still the case in a week?
> 
> Would the NCAA:
> 
> A.  Tell some bowl games they can't play?  (Yeah, right!)
> B.  Declare all 6-6 teams bowl-eligible?  (That might not be enough.)
> C.  Allow some teams with a losing record to be bowl-eligible?
> D.  Ask Clemson and S. Carolina to reconsider their decision to skip bowls?
> 
> If (C), how would they decide what teams got bowl bids?  Would they
> let the bowls without teams pick teams?
> --
> Mike Nolan
>