Per DMN, SMU Must Win Out To Go To Bowl

[shadowman]

http://collegesportsblog.dallasnews.com ... ardy.html/

Something about too many teams are going to be bowl eligible this year. I cannot remember the exact rule, but maybe a 6-6 team can only go to a bowl game as long as no 7-5 teams or better have been shut out?

Would be a bummer to upset either Houston or UCF and still get shut out if this guy knows what he is talking about.

[Stallion]

First you look at Conference bids though. I thought we had 5 bowls + BCS. Last time I looked AAC wasn't going to be able to fill bowl quota even if Rutgers, as expected, becomes bowl eligible. That would leave one more spot I thought

[MustangStealth]

Yes, we have 5 + BCS.

New York
Charlotte
Birmingham
Orlando
St. Petersburg
BCS

We should be fine if we win 6.

[Stallion]

I'm pretty sure it is

No. 1-BCS
No. 2 Russell
No. 3 Belk
No. 4 Pinstripe
No. 5 BBVA Compass
No. 6 Beef O Brady

alternative Liberty

[Pony ^]

UCF and UH will slaughter us

[GRGB]

no, there just may be too many eligible BCS teams to fill all of the BCS league allocations.

usually, most BCS leagues are over-bowled (not enough teams to fill their slots). So a few of those become available to the non-BCS better teams.

6-6 may not guarantee us a bid to an AAC bowl, and there will be 7-5+ teams any BCS leftovers would take over us...

RIGHT NOW, there are 5 teams in the AAC above us.
The AAC has 6 bowls available.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_ ... Conference

If we go 6-6 and beat USF, that knocks them out, we have tie vs. Memphis, but don't think that matters.

Right now, I think 6-6 gets us a bid.

American Athletic Standings
TEAM CONF OVERALL
* - UCF 4-0 7-1
* - Louisville 4-1 8-1
* - Cincinnati 4-1 7-2
* - Houston 4-1 7-2
Rutgers 2-2 5-3
Southern Methodist 2-2 3-5
South Florida 2-2 2-6
Memphis 0-4 2-6
x - Connecticut 0-4 0-8
x - Temple 0-5 1-8

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_ ... Conference

Big12 will likely fill all their slots (7)

Big10 has 8 slots with 7 eligible, and 4 still alive. Probably fills them.

SEC has 10 slots, and 8 eligible, with 4 still alive. Might lose 1 bowl here.

Pac12 has 7 slots, and 8 eligible, with 2 alive. Might steal a slot.

MWC has 6 slots, with 3 eligible, and 6 alive. Probably lose a slot or two.

CUSA has 7 slots, with 6 eligible, and 3 alive (3-6, 5-5, 4-5). Might lose one slot.

ACC has 9 slots, with 6 eligible, and 7 alive. Probably fill their slots.

MAC has 3 slots, and 6 eligible, with 1 alive. Fill their slots. Ex: A 9-3 Mac team may look better than a 6-6 SMU for an "unfilled" slot.

I didn't go into whether each conferences "alive" team(s) plays each other and cross-eliminates, etc.

Example: Illiniois is alive at 3-6, but plays Ohio State this weekend. So they aren't alive for long.

[ponyboy]

UCF and UH will slaughter us

I simply cannot understand this mentality. Don't get it.

[Stallion]

Texas St is an example of a team which might lose a bowl opportunity because of the number of bowl eligible teams. Sun Belt has only 2 bowl spots. CUSA has 7 spots so for example UTSA would be better off than Texas St even if both were bowl eligible with same record

[feelthehorsepower]

UCF and UH will slaughter us

I simply cannot understand this mentality. Don't get it.

We play UCF and Houston each year...it's not like Rutgers and Cincy which we had never played against before and we almost beat them.
UCF and Houston can be wins.

[LHS81]

UCF and UH will slaughter us

I simply cannot understand this mentality. Don't get it.

We play UCF and Houston each year...it's not like Rutgers and Cincy which we had never played against before and we almost beat them.
UCF and Houston can be wins.

Pass the Kush

[Stallion]

UCF and UH will slaughter us

I simply cannot understand this mentality. Don't get it.

We play UCF and Houston each year...it's not like Rutgers and Cincy which we had never played against before and we almost beat them.
UCF and Houston can be wins.

OK you just said yesterday that I was "crazy" if I thought we could beat either UCF or UH and our season was over.

[Stallion]

FTH does 360 in 48 hours:

Re: Blame for poor season
by feelthehorsepower » Mon Nov 11, 2013 4:44 pm

Stallion wrote:
Speaks for itself as everyone else-except you- noted above.
Season isn't over anyway. We are in the exact same position we were in last year. Have to beat 1 decent team to go to a bowl and then 2 teams about 130 and 140 in Sagarin

feelthehorsepower wrote:
If you think we can beat Coog High or UCF, after seeing our performance versus mediocre Cincy, TCU and Rutgers...then you my friend are more deluded than I thought I was.

[Nacho]

if we lose to uconn our bowl hopes are not good.

[ponyinNC]

poor guy has multiple personalities...leave him alone. And with Obamacare, he can now get the mental health care he needs...LOL

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[S....M....U]

yiikes, he's right