[NU Sports] Bowl hopes

[hakirsch at aol.com]

Perhaps there is "bowl inflation" but having gone to NU when winning 2 games a year was cause for  celebration and  the chant of "Rose Bowl" every time we got a 1st down was all that we had to look forward to,I'm happy when we go to a bowl game.

Harry  
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Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 19:53:53 
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Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Bowl hopes

I think this bowl-for-everybody trend has become a pathetic  illustration 
of the game's commercialization and media obsession that  in a sense is one 
source of the horrific scandal at PSU (and lesser ones  elsewhere).  "Going 
to a bowl" becomes a measure of success even  if a majority of FBS schools do 
it.  I'm sorry, but who  cares?  And if Cats end up in Detroit or in 
something called the Pinstripe  Bowl in NYC (which I did not know even existed), 
then we are supposed to get  excited and beat our chests in pride??  Let's 
take a deep breath.  And  let's hope the Cats come out ready to play on 
Saturday against the Gophers or  we're headed to a losing season.  But then maybe 
we may still go to a  bowl.  Oh, aren't we great???
 
 
In a message dated 11/17/2011 6:13:45 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
cherron604 at aol.com writes:

Several  things that I discovered while researching Bowls this season:

- Some  good news - there are 35 bowl games scheduled.  Therefore, 70 teams 
(out  of 120 in FBS) must play in those bowls.

- Some more good news - there  are currently 57 teams 'bowl-eligible' (6 or 
more wins).  One of them  cannot play in the post-season, USC

- that leaves 56 bowl-eligible  teams in FBS - 14 short of the number 
required.

- 21 teams, including  ours, have 5 victories.  Theses teams need at least 
one victory.  If  I had to guess, 4 of those teams will not get one victory. 
 They  are:

South Florida - must face Miami (Florida), Louisville, and West  Virginia
Syracuse - must face Cincinnati and Pittsburgh
Iowa State -  must face Oklahoma State, Oklahoma, and Kansas State
Texas Tech - must face  Missouri and Baylor

- That leaves 17 teams that could/should win at  least one more game.  
56+17=73, just barely more than the 70 teams  needed.

- There are 14 teams with 4 victories - they need to win two  more games.  
Two of them, Miami (Ohio) and Bowling Green, have only one  more game 
scheduled, so they cannot reach 6.  Marshall, East Carolina and  Central Florida 
all play one another down the stretch, so all three cannot  'win out'  Maybe 
Tennessee (with Vanderbilt and Kentucky), and Navy (with  San Jose State and 
Army) can reach 6.  That would make 75 teams  bowl-eligible, 5 more than 
needed.

- Take out C-USA, the Sun Belt, the  WAC, the MAC and the Mountain West, 
and we should be able to land  somewhere.  That's why Jim Delaney makes the 
big bucks.

- Or just  go ahead and beat Michigan State - that would greatly simplify  
things.

Chuck Herron, Tech '85  
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