5-7 bowl
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Currently, there are 71 teams with 6 wins making them eligible for one of the 80 bowl invitations. There are 13 teams that currently have 5 wins and one more remaining game to be played. It is a very real possibility that a team with only 5 wins will get a bowl invite, because there will most likely not be 80 teams with 6 wins. Missouri, Kentucky, Nebraska, Illinois, and Washington are the Power Conference teams that are sitting on 5 wins with one week left. These are the schools that have the best chance to get invited to a bowl with only 5 wins. Hopefully, we beat little brother and this becomes moot.
Missouri plays Ark. Loss IMO.
Nebraska plays Iowa...don't be surprised if they win. I'd still go with Iowa though in a close one.
Illinois plays NW...doubt they beat NW.
Indiana plays Purdue...decent chance IU wins IMO.
Washington plays WSU. Washington is at home so I'd say a toss up type game despite WSU's very good season so far.
If it gets this team 15-20 more practices, then I don't care if it's the tidy bowl.
ODU (FAU_),Buffalo (UMass), Tulsa (Tulane), ECU (Cincy) should all be in.
VT( UVA), Indiana (Purdue) should be in.
After that, there's a few under dogs in the P5 and one or two in the mid major that might hit.
I think VT's in no matter what, BTW. HOF's last year, great fanbase, 22 year bowl streak. They're getting a 5-7 bid if there's one to be given and they're not 6-6
VT( UVA), Indiana (Purdue) should be in.
After that, there's a few under dogs in the P5 and one or two in the mid major that might hit.
I think VT's in no matter what, BTW. HOF's last year, great fanbase, 22 year bowl streak. They're getting a 5-7 bid if there's one to be given and they're not 6-6
I did some research and math, and some of the figures above are wrong. Sorry guys. There are 474 teams eligible for the 250 bowl games this year that are scheduled to be played between Dec. 18 and June 3rd.
Good point. One could argue it's nothing more than football welfare and will just disincentivize the will or desire to get better.
[eyeroll]
Sure thing. Guys are going to quit striving to win due to the opportunity to prolong a losing season by playing in some non-descript bowl in a crappy venue vs a crappy team.
Good Lord. Hell, if you want to stick with this idiotic generalization you might as well go with the conspiracy theory that these freeloaders will lose on purpose in order to avoid an extra months worth of work.
Not gonna lie, it would be almost a smack in the face to go 5-7 in a bowl, but at this point the team needs more practice time. Those extra practices could help boatloads. Also I'd like to see how they respond with time off. Really liked having the bye week vs Louisville last year but playing a tune up might be just as beneficial.
If we did go to a bowl at 5-7 I wouldn't be shocked if Stoops gave the team 2 weeks off of practice to physically heal..... Be on par with host of his head coaching decisions.
I'll happily take a bowl game, but I have difficulty envisioning us being one of the 5-7 teams that gets one.
If we're 5-7, the invite (if there is one) will be based on being a Power 5 conference member, amount of fans who would travel, etc. In other words......to the bowl committee (if there is one....I can see some of these so-called bowls being run by a guy with a computer out of his house) it's all about the $$$$.
Mark Schlabach @Mark_Schlabach 5m5 minutes ago
Texas, Kansas St., Nebraska, Washington, UK and San Jose State would need upset wins for 5-7 teams not to go
He has 2 5-7 teams bowling.
Texas, Kansas St., Nebraska, Washington, UK and San Jose State would need upset wins for 5-7 teams not to go
He has 2 5-7 teams bowling.
What is really the damns shame of it all is, if we punch in a TD from inside the 5 against Vandy none of this talk is happening. If they had used Hyde to wipe out some defenders instead of running up the middle all of the time, we might have scored easily. Or if we had play faked into the middle and run around the end or used misdirection etc. Dawson has no imagination..What a damn shame we gave Auburn and Vandy games away. What momentum this program would have right now..Had we won those 2 and beat UL we are looking at 8-4 and probably the Peach or Gator Bowl....Just wow..
UK must win Saturday to get invited to a bowl game.
The 5-7 teams that get to go to bowl games will be decided by APR score. The NCAA rule that governs this is that any of the top 5 APR schools can be selected for a bowl game with a 5-7 record. There is still some confusion about how to apply this rule, but it is expected to be cleared up this week.
If APR is used, Kentucky would not be one of the 5-7 teams picked, because they are ranked 100th out of 128 in APR score with a 945.
But they didn't. It's playing Claiborne's old iffin' game. Teams with losing traditions have to learn how to win. It's all about making plays.
Doubt they use APR...they are meeting today - will probably decide how to do it by getting the fanbases with the most $
Just have to SMH at the logic here. You can't just focus on half of the narrative. We also could have lost to SC, EKU and ULL. The law of averages has worked out pretty evenly for this team (which is not that good).
UKWildcats#8, and Schwump, but we did make the plays in the EKU game and the other two. Leaving just Auburn out of it and we had way too many chances inside the 5 to beat Vandy and didnt execute or coaches didnt put us in good position.. I know what you are saying but we flat out gift wrapped the Vandy game to them..
Latest news on 5-7 teams making bowls:
Report: NCAA to decide Monday on best course of action to fill bowl slots
If it comes down to Missouri and Kentucky at 5-7 in the SEC, Mizzou has the advantage over UK in APR ranking, yet we have the head-to-head win over them. I still think the bottom-line will be the same it always has been -- $$$$. Who brings the most fans to the bowl.
Report: NCAA to decide Monday on best course of action to fill bowl slots
If it comes down to Missouri and Kentucky at 5-7 in the SEC, Mizzou has the advantage over UK in APR ranking, yet we have the head-to-head win over them. I still think the bottom-line will be the same it always has been -- $$$$. Who brings the most fans to the bowl.
Instinctively, I would agree that the extra practice time that going to a bowl would afford is a great benefit, even at 5-7.
But then again, if a team has already been practicing all season long and only managed a 5-7 record as a result, then maybe more practices are not really what it needs.
But then again, if a team has already been practicing all season long and only managed a 5-7 record as a result, then maybe more practices are not really what it needs.