After Texas Tech (+8) beating Texas and Buffalo (+7) beating Ohio, it's looking like 6-6 in CUSA isn't going to be guaranteed for a bowl game.
IMO, there's too many bowls anyway and the cut off should be 7 wins, at least. Bowls used to be a lot more prestigious it seemed. Now you just gotta go .500 and you're rewarded with a bowl game. That really takes away from the allure that they once had. Unfortunate.
Anyway, with Texas & Buffalo winning, there are now only 2 open spots left with many more opportunities for other teams to be bowl eligible.
Teams that will likely fill those spots include Temple -3.5 @ Tulsa, ULL -6 hosting Ga. Southern, Florida State -5 @ Florida and then hosting ULM (Needs to win both), UNLV +3 @ Nevada, and La. Tech -1 hosting UTSA. Teams with decent chances include Tulane +8 @ SMU, and New Mexico State with games still to go against Idaho and South Alabama (Needs to win both), Duke +11 @ Wake Forest, Georgia Tech +11.5 @ Georgia, and Minnesota +18 hosting Wisconsin.
If 3 or more of these teams become bowl eligible, then 6 win teams are no longer guaranteed a spot in a bowl game. Teams potentially influenced by this in CUSA....the winner of the MT vs. ODU match up, WKU, La. Tech (if they win), UTSA (if they lose to La Tech). Could potentially have MT, WKU, La. Tech, and UTSA all with 6 wins. The more teams that win from the above scenarios, the more 6-6 teams that will be getting snubbed. I think we'll see at least 3, and probably 4 teams win their games.
That will leave two teams with 6 wins getting snubbed, with the snubs likely coming from CUSA because of the surplus of bowl eligible teams from the conference.. Will be interested to see who gets snubbed.
IMO, there's too many bowls anyway and the cut off should be 7 wins, at least. Bowls used to be a lot more prestigious it seemed. Now you just gotta go .500 and you're rewarded with a bowl game. That really takes away from the allure that they once had. Unfortunate.
Anyway, with Texas & Buffalo winning, there are now only 2 open spots left with many more opportunities for other teams to be bowl eligible.
Teams that will likely fill those spots include Temple -3.5 @ Tulsa, ULL -6 hosting Ga. Southern, Florida State -5 @ Florida and then hosting ULM (Needs to win both), UNLV +3 @ Nevada, and La. Tech -1 hosting UTSA. Teams with decent chances include Tulane +8 @ SMU, and New Mexico State with games still to go against Idaho and South Alabama (Needs to win both), Duke +11 @ Wake Forest, Georgia Tech +11.5 @ Georgia, and Minnesota +18 hosting Wisconsin.
If 3 or more of these teams become bowl eligible, then 6 win teams are no longer guaranteed a spot in a bowl game. Teams potentially influenced by this in CUSA....the winner of the MT vs. ODU match up, WKU, La. Tech (if they win), UTSA (if they lose to La Tech). Could potentially have MT, WKU, La. Tech, and UTSA all with 6 wins. The more teams that win from the above scenarios, the more 6-6 teams that will be getting snubbed. I think we'll see at least 3, and probably 4 teams win their games.
That will leave two teams with 6 wins getting snubbed, with the snubs likely coming from CUSA because of the surplus of bowl eligible teams from the conference.. Will be interested to see who gets snubbed.
