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

[Mike Nolan]

> The Hawaii-Northwestern winner will be eligible.  

Hawaii would also need to defeat Michigan State next week to become bowl-eligible.

> 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).

There's another section that gives them the authority to make exceptions to the Bylaws
for extraordinary circumstances.  I suspect that not having enough bowl-eligible teams
to populate all the bowls would qualify.

To compound matters, there will likely be another bowl game next year, the Toronto Bowl.
The 5th BCS game may be a new bowl game rather than contracted to an existing bowl game.  
(I suspect the Cotton Bowl folks aren't happy with that possibility, they got snubbed the 
last time around too.)
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Mike Nolan