[NU Sports] Purdue keeps the bucket, is bowl eligible

[Herman Wang]

Arizona State last year was ineligible for a bowl because although it finished 6-6, two of its wins were over FCS schools, and the NCAA only lets you count one of those wins towards bowl eligibility.
For UCLA, I think the relevant clause is this-  Conditions that will be considered in such a waiver include whether or not all other conference teams under consideration have 6-6 records  and there are not a sufficient number of eligible teams to meet the conference's bowl commitments.
With only six currently bowl eligible-teams and seven bowl tie-ins, the Pac-12 is short of the teams necessary to fulfill its bowl commitments.  Thus, UCLA being eligible at 6-7 would ensure that the fulfillment is met.



> Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Purdue keeps the bucket, is bowl eligible
> To: herms at hotmail.com
> Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2011 00:26:00 -0600
> CC: eschoeman at sbcglobal.net; nolan at tssi.com; hakirsch at aol.com; nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com; nwu-sports at tssi.com
> From: nolan at tssi.com
> 
> > UCLA is likely in a bowl.  Here is the relevant NCAA rule- 2. A conference 
> > team that is 6-6 and plays in a conference championship game and
> > loses to finish with a record of 6-7 may apply for a waiver to allow that 
> > team to be considered for a postseason bowl. 
> 
> Arizona State applied for a waiver last year (under different
> circumstances) and got turned down, so those waivers are far from
> automatic.
> --
> Mike Nolan