FOOTBALL Bowl Watch: Who gets left out

[blueraiderJT]

And now we play musical chairs. 83 teams are eligible and their are 82 spots.

If a 6-6 P5 with too much pride stays home, it's a non issue. If they bowl, then it's a G5 that gets sacrificed on the altar. Here's the list of 6-6 teams from G5...

Memphis - losing record in conference play but they are ESPN protected.

Tulsa - same as Memphis

ODU - Comeback kids. They finished above us. They deserve it.

MTSU -

UNT - They finished with a 5-3 conference record and just beat the best team in the conference to do it.

Miami (OH) -

Ball State -

Wyoming - 2-6 in conference play. Yikes

Hawaii is 6-7 - They should not even get a spot but because they host a bowl, they will.

BTW, I thought the Sunbelt was supposed to be the best G5 conference and all. They have 4 B.E. teams with 5 bowl slots. They basically have 3 good teams and a whole lot of dead weight.

 

[Noogaraider1]

Your SunBelt description is spot on. NOT A GOOD CONFRENCE.

Now, neither is CUSA, but people were acting like a Belt invite would be massive. Nope.

 

[MT Glenn]

Your SunBelt description is spot on. NOT A GOOD CONFRENCE.

Now, neither is CUSA, but people were acting like a Belt invite would be massive. Nope.

My desire to be in the Sun Belt is the same as it was before we left. More schools within driving distance. That doesn't really matter anymore though, because I don't know hoe many HOME games I'll attend if CRS is still roaming the sidelines.

 

[MTOleBlue]

My guess is Wyoming. That conference record is gonna hurt a lot

 

[blueraiderJT]

My guess is Wyoming. That conference record is gonna hurt a lot

That's what I'm thinking. I don't like our bowl spot but I get why we took it. It guaranteed us a bowl and we didn't need to be picky. ODU could get screwed too. There is a chance.

 

[crposton]

Your SunBelt description is spot on. NOT A GOOD CONFRENCE.

Now, neither is CUSA, but people were acting like a Belt invite would be massive. Nope.

Sun Belt with Marshall, ODU, and JMU will be better. Marshall already is a good program. JMU and ODU have the potential to be great. Tidewater area in Virginia (where ODU is) is an excellent area for recruiting.

 

[ewglenn]

Sun Belt with Marshall, ODU, and JMU will be better. Marshall already is a good program. JMU and ODU have the potential to be great. Tidewater area in Virginia (where ODU is) is an excellent area for recruiting.

Proximity is nice but the SBC has a lot of deadweight. Really outside of Troy, Arkansas St, App and Marshall I could care less. CCU will come back to earth after Chadwell leaves. Louisiana is a shot in the dark now. ULM is absolutely someone I have no desire to be associated with. Texas St is trash with like a third the support that UTEP gets. I genuinely believe SHSU will jump them right out of the gate. I like UTEP, Liberty, LT and obviously WKU. I just don’t think we’re in a terrible spot. I say give CUSA a couple of years before we jump ship. Maybe Judy isn’t as horrible as we think. The adds were about as good as they possibly could have been.

 

[BRaiderDave]

Proximity is nice but the SBC has a lot of deadweight. Really outside of Troy, Arkansas St, App and Marshall I could care less. CCU will come back to earth after Chadwell leaves. Louisiana is a shot in the dark now. ULM is absolutely someone I have no desire to be associated with. Texas St is trash with like a third the support that UTEP gets. I genuinely believe SHSU will jump them right out of the gate. I like UTEP, Liberty, LT and obviously WKU. I just don’t think we’re in a terrible spot. I say give CUSA a couple of years before we jump ship. Maybe Judy isn’t as horrible as we think. The adds were about as good as they possibly could have been.

Judy is pretty damn bad

 

[ewglenn]

Judy is pretty damn bad

Trying to be optimistic lol

 

[MT01]

There are no redeeming qualities about Judy as a commissioner. It was really difficult to support staying. You have no idea.

 

[DisgruntledAlum]

Everybody gets a trophy.

https://www.espn.com/college-footba...ate-all-84-bowl-deserving-teams-document-says

 

[JohnDavidBlue]

Just like everything else. The pageantry of bowls have been watered down.

For our program, it meets our goal. .500 6-6 Bowl Eligible Mission Accomplished! We did it!

 

[DisgruntledAlum]

Just like everything else. The pageantry of bowls have been watered down.

For our program, it meets our goal. .500 6-6 Bowl Eligible Mission Accomplished! We did it!

Very sad and true. MT's aspirations are far below what they should be.

Athletics are a school's front door. That's what everyone sees first as a kid. Ours is a trailer with broken refrigerators and deep freezes on the porch and rusty cars littering in the front yard.

We took our kids to Floyd Stadium first, not the business and aerospace business building where we went to class.

 

[MT Glenn]

Everybody gets a trophy.

https://www.espn.com/college-footba...ate-all-84-bowl-deserving-teams-document-says

I like how the writer use quotation marks for "deserving team"

 

[DisgruntledAlum]

Anyone think they should look at raising the W's requirement to 7? I understand the money aspect of it all and implications for some schools.

Has MT ever lost money on a bowl game? Just curious if there was ever a point that it was not fiscally responsible to go, on paper.

 

[MT Glenn]

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Has MT ever lost money on a bowl game? Just curious if there was ever a point that it was not fiscally responsible to go, on paper.

I've wondered the same thing. Especially when you have an expensive trip to a destination like Nassau, and virtually zero tickets will be sold.

 

[ewglenn]

If they upped it to 7 wins the bowl eligible teams would drop from 84 to 62. I don’t think it is a terrible idea.

 

[MT Glenn]

They'll never up it to 7 though. If they did that, there wouldn't be 13 $EC teams going to bowls.

 

[BlueSioux]

I've wondered the same thing. Especially when you have an expensive trip to a destination like Nassau, and virtually zero tickets will be sold.

According to wiki, the 2019 Payout for Bahamas bowl was $225,000 per school, but that money also covers travel cost.

 

[MidTennMtneer]

There were 42 bowls earlier. One was canned in July so the new one replaces it. Still, it is too many.

I've always felt it should be 7 wins for a bowl, but ESPN owns all but maybe 2 or 3 of the bowls. So no way they will lose the inventory.

 

[DisgruntledAlum]

According to wiki, the 2019 Payout for Bahamas bowl was $225,000 per school, but that money also covers travel cost.

Pretty close to breaking even after lodging, per diem, and incidentals I'd imagine.

 

[MT01]

That's not how the payouts work. The payouts go to the league. C-USA pools the revenue generated and distributes it back to the schools as part of the annual distribution. The bowls C-USA get invited to don't really generate a lot of revenue (and often is predicated on ticket sales), so it's kind of a moot point. But this is where staying instead of going to the MAC comes into play. All of that pooled money whether from the NCAA or a bowl games or whatever is going to go to the five left for the next two years.

 

[ewglenn]

That's not how the payouts work. The payouts go to the league. C-USA pools the revenue generated and distributes it back to the schools as part of the annual distribution. The bowls C-USA get invited to don't really generate a lot of revenue (and often is predicated on ticket sales), so it's kind of a moot point. But this is where staying instead of going to the MAC comes into play. All of that pooled money whether from the NCAA or a bowl games or whatever is going to go to the five left for the next two years.

Isn’t it a portion goes to the school that played and a portion goes to the conference? For example 100k goes to MTSU 125k goes to the CUSA pool. I thought I read that about the ACC a while back.

 

[MT01]

Isn’t it a portion goes to the school that played and a portion goes to the conference? For example 100k goes to MTSU 125k goes to the CUSA pool. I thought I read that about the ACC a while back.

Don't know about AAC but it's not how C-USA has traditionally done it.

 

[ewglenn]

Don't know about AAC but it's not how C-USA has traditionally done it.

That’s pretty stupid

 

[DisgruntledAlum]

I knew some, like SEC, put everything in a pool and disburse it. I thought I heard some do it as team gets what they earn bowl wise. I do not know how C-USA does it.