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...There is another route to a bowl, the one Mississippi State took on its way to winning the St. Petersburg Bowl last season: Going 5-7 and having a strong enough Academic Progress Rate score to fill in a vacant bowl slot.
The NCAA uses APR scores, in order, to award bowl bids to teams with losing records in years when the Football Bowl Subdivision runs out of teams with .500 or better records. In 2015, three 5-7 teams went to bowls, and the same thing happened in 2016.
But there is one fewer bowl game this year.....
and then there's this:
...Middle Tennessee (5-5, 983): How much would the Blue Raiders love knocking the Volunteers out of the bowl picture if MTSU finishes 5-7? ....
...There is another route to a bowl, the one Mississippi State took on its way to winning the St. Petersburg Bowl last season: Going 5-7 and having a strong enough Academic Progress Rate score to fill in a vacant bowl slot.
The NCAA uses APR scores, in order, to award bowl bids to teams with losing records in years when the Football Bowl Subdivision runs out of teams with .500 or better records. In 2015, three 5-7 teams went to bowls, and the same thing happened in 2016.
But there is one fewer bowl game this year.....
and then there's this:
...Middle Tennessee (5-5, 983): How much would the Blue Raiders love knocking the Volunteers out of the bowl picture if MTSU finishes 5-7? ....
