Can't find an opponent to play Georgia Southern. I don't know if it's possible, but they should put in Alabama State which had a 10 win season.
Birmingham Bowl
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Teams that have opted out of bowl season:
Notre Dame (10-2)
Iowa State (8–4)
Kansas State (6-6)
Florida State (5-7)
Auburn (5-7)
UCF (5-7)
Baylor (5-7)
Kansas (5-7)
Rutgers (5-7)
Temple (5-7)
Notre Dame (10-2)
Iowa State (8–4)
Kansas State (6-6)
Florida State (5-7)
Auburn (5-7)
UCF (5-7)
Baylor (5-7)
Kansas (5-7)
Rutgers (5-7)
Temple (5-7)
Appalachian State are Georgia Southern are both in the Sun Belt Conference and played each other this season already. The rematch should be epic!
All the teams that opted out this year should be forced to play each other next year in a royal rumble cage match for the 12th playoff spot
I'm trying to imagine what that looks like. I don't drink, but maybe I need to.
I think, unless you had a coaching change, you should have to play the bowl game or you forfeit the following year chance at a bowl too.
You do a lottery and assign each team a number.
Teams one and two start off, one on offense, one on defense. If the offensive team scores, the defensive team is eliminated. If the defensive team stops the score by getting a turnover or a turnover on downs, the offensive team is eliminated.
A countdown timer starts and at zero the next team comes out and the process starts again. The team that won the previous series gets to pick offense or defense.
The process repeats until all teams have been involved in a series and all but one are eliminated. The winner gets the 12 seed in the CFP.
This also fits. The first two rounds of the playoffs aren't actually the playoffs.
I think this is why we go to the bowl game if invited.
"The total includes $790.7 million distributed directly from the conference office, and an additional $17.7 million retained by universities that participated in 2023-24 football bowl games."
SEC announces 2023-24 revenue distribution | Mississippi State University
"The total includes $790.7 million distributed directly from the conference office, and an additional $17.7 million retained by universities that participated in 2023-24 football bowl games."
SEC announces 2023-24 revenue distribution | Mississippi State University
And make them play on a neutral field….in Buffalo or Green Bay.
I think some teams are fined by their conference, if they do not accept a bowl invitation.
I think you're going to see the conferences get heavy handed at some point. Too much money to just shat on bowl sponsors like that. Not sure that will be the case going forward though. You'd have to think bowl sponsors are going to want to cut back their payouts when the current contracts runout, and if that happens there may not be enough money for the conferences to care about forcing teams to play.
Do the 5-7 teams get fined for opting out of a bowl, since they're not really qualified anyway?
It seems to me like bottom of the barrel bowls, like Birmingham and Montgomery, have gotten worse since their inception. Not sure how they hang on.
I haven’t seen anything announced, but it’s kind of crazy that 5 of the 10 opt outs come from one Power conference. From what I can find (though it’s anecdotal and not as black & white as the SEC’s bylaws), the Big 12 splits bowl revenue equally after travel expenses, so individual teams are less incentivized to participate in their own bowls.
The current top 2 non-CFP bowls for the Big 12 are the Alamo and Pop-Tart Bowls.
So, disregarding travel expenses,
Alamo Bowl’s $4 Million payout would net the participating team $2.4 Million in the SEC, in the Big 12 it would net 1/16th of $4 Million… or $250,000.
Pop-Tart Bowl’s $3 Million payout would net the participating team $2.1 Million in the SEC, in the Big 12 it would net 1/16th of the $3 Million… or $187,500.
In all honesty, even paying a $500,000 fine… those teams are not suffering that bad financially by not participating. They are, however, kind of screwing over the rest of the conference when you take into account the total payouts for 5 bowls.
I think it can actually end up costing some schools money to travel and play. Notre Dame on the other hand just seems to be being whiney.
I think it only is for the schools that were bowl eligible and declined. The 5-7 teams weren’t bowl eligible anyway and only would’ve gotten in because others declined. So they aren’t getting penalized for declining something they didn’t earn anyway.