Bowl Eligible Teams

After last week's games, 72 teams were eligible for the 82 postseason slots. An additional 20 teams were sitting at 5 wins, needing a win this week to become bowl eligible. Of those teams, 8 are matched up with each other (Florida v. Florida St., Maryland v. Rutgers, Middle Tennessee State v. Florida Atlantic, Charlotte at Old Dominion) and will contribute a bowl-eligible team, bringing the guaranteed total up to 76. Ignoring those, this week features 12 teams seeking to fill the 6 remaining slots. Four of those teams have already played, with 3 losing.

• San Jose State -- L
• TCU -- L
• South Alabama -- L
• Ball State -- W

Thus, going into today, there are 8 teams playing for 5 slots (all times Eastern):

• Troy (at Georgia State, 2:00)
• North Texas (hosts #22 UTSA at 2:00)
• Virginia Tech (at Virginia, 3:45)
  
• Tulsa (at SMU, 4:00)
• LSU (hosts #15 Texas A&M at 7:00)
• West Virginia (at Kansas, 7:00)
• Memphis (hosts Tulane, 7:30)
• Syracuse (hosts #17 Pitt, 7:30)

Also, if USC or Cal gets win #5 this week, they play next week and could get to 6.

If there aren't enough eligible teams, the tiebreaker is APR ranking. I haven't looked at where we stand this year, but we tend to be towards the top (but not AT the top) on that list. Thus, we probably need there to be more than one open slot.

It doesn't look good for Texas to make a bowl game. Of course, some see that as a positive and some see it as a negative.

 

Man I hope we don’t have another conversation like this for a long time. Or ever again.

Hope we get lucky and get into a bowl game for multiple reasons, but hate the fact that we’re having this discussion.

 

I’d gladly plop down to watch Texas play another game.

 

I am against going to a bowl game. I don't want this team to show the nation, again, how bad we are. Maybe if we go, TH could come be guest-coach?

 

Looking for the OUCH button.

 

It’s down to 6 teams competing for 4 spots because:

North Texas — W
Troy lost — L

Games in progress:

VA Tech — tied, early 4Q
Tulsa — winning by 4, mid 3Q

 

• Troy Lost
• North Texas Won
• Virginia Tech Won
  
• Tulsa Won
• LSU Winning
• West Virginia Tied
• Memphis Winning
• Syracuse Losing

 

I guess as of now down to two spots.

 

Link to story about the situation.

Could Texas make a bowl game

APR from the article

1. Washington 999

18. Middle Tennessee 985

31. Rutgers 979

38. California 977

43t. Texas 974

43t. Florida 974

 

At least we no longer have a conflict of interest in the A&M game. Geaux Tigers!

 

• Troy Lost
• North Texas Won
• Virginia Tech Won
  
• Tulsa Won
• LSU Won
• West Virginia Won
• Memphis Won
• Syracuse Lost

 

So are there enough 6 wins teams to fill all the bowl slots?

 

Would prefer Sark focus on the portal. Next year will be as good as quick reinforcements are found.

 

• Troy Lost
• North Texas Won
• Virginia Tech Won
  
• Tulsa Won
• LSU Won
• West Virginia Won
• Memphis Won
• Syracuse Lost

So there are now 83 bowl-eligible teams and 82 slots. USC and Cal are both losing, so if that holds there will be exactly one eligible team that gets left out.