On The Street: Seven Win Bowl Qualification Might Eliminate Some College Bowls - Bad or Good?

by Cobby on Jan 27, 2012 7:33 AM CST in Cobby - Humor

There is growing support for increasing the number of wins that would be required for a FBS college football team to make a bowl game. If a proposal is made and accepted, it would lead to the elimination of some of the college bowls simply because there wouldn't be enough eligible teams to fill them.

What Do You Think About A Proposal That FBS Football Teams Would Need To Have Seven Wins To Quality for a Bowl Game?

It's a slippery slope on what you're standing, that's what. Eliminate seven bowls in 2014, and next thing you know, they'll want to eliminate another seven in 2016. By 2020, we'll be back at 1960 when there were only eight bowl games. Nothing good happened in 1960, despite all those stories old people tell you.

Harold Cooper - Professional Headlight Cleaner

Think of the teams that would have a hard time makin' a bowl game were this to happen. What's Iowa State going to do? Or Iowa for that matter?

Think of all those kids from Iowa, never getting to travel to distant warm lands and discover that yes, there are states that ain't entirely populated by fat women.

Kari Grant - Snow Removal Technician

If they did that, ESPN wouldn't make as much money and if they don't, how they going to pay the settlement when Mike Leach wins his lawsuit against them?

Tim "Skeeter" Duncan - Budding Musician

They'd probably get rid of that one in Albuquerque. I've been to Albuquerque at least two or three times, two by accident, of course, one being because that's where I woke up after passing out and being put on a bus with only two dimes in my pocket back when you could still use a public telephone for 10 cents. I never did figure out what the other dime was for ‘ceptin' my friends being generous. The other by accident time was because that's where the aliens dropped me off after the kidnappin'.

They should keep the bowl in Albuquerque. Those were the best experiences in my life.

Jim Kearney - Late Night Talk Show Host

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ESPN will not allow it

They own about a third of the Bowls. If advertisers will pay to cover a game where no one attends or watches then ESPN will keep putting them out there.

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by Robsa on Jan 27, 2012 3:15 PM CST reply actions

If there are no teams available to play...

Who will play in the bowl game? Is ESPN just going to foot the cost of eighty billion bowl games just in case there’s more than enough 7 win teams?

Play for the love of the game. A Cornhusker through feast or famine. That's the Nebraska way.

by Salt Creek and Stadium on Jan 27, 2012 5:30 PM CST up reply actions

Schedule for the 7

If you aren’t a top 25 type then schedule for the 7 wins. Play 4 pre conference games against very weak teams. Then gut out a 3-5 conference schedule and that’s and easy 7. However, ESPN is paying the big money contracts with the conferences so they will have a say in how this plays out.

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by Robsa on Jan 27, 2012 8:11 PM CST up reply actions

When they added the additional bowls...

…the NCAA announced they would not relax their requirements.
This left the options of canceling the bowl, or finding an FCS opponent.
They gave UCLA a waiver, but UCLA could claim their losing record was a result of NCAA sanctions.

The teams usually lose money on the attendance fee, the belief being they make it up on increased booster donations. If the conferences are behind this change, I am guessing the conferences believe they have saturated the market dropping interest (and revenue) in all bowls.

I am not buying into ESPN blocking this change – their influence is financial advise – they have no influence when their desires run counter to the program revenues. Their conference broadcast agreements are set, the appearance fees for lower bowls doesn’t cover travel costs. ESPN is overly intrusive to the detriment of NCAAF (and themselves), but I don’t see this being 1 of those areas.

Proud proponent of the 52 team Uber Conference

by ProveIt on Jan 28, 2012 11:57 AM CST up reply actions

I am all for eliminating some of the shitty teams being in bowl games. There’s to many anyway.

Make it so that you have to win 7 games or if you play 2 FCS teams you have to win 8.

The other thing I would do is eliminate all the crappy bowls being played after January 1st.

My schedule would be: January 1st, 11 CST kickoff, Gator Bowl, Outback Bowl, Capital One Bowl, Cotton Bowl. 3:30 CST kickoff, Rose Bowl. 7 CST kickoff Fiesta Bowl

January 2nd 7 CST kickoff, Sugar Bowl

January 3rd 7 CST kickoff, Orange Bowl

January 4th 7 CST kickoff if played at Orange Bowl or Sugar Bowl if played at Rose Bowl or Fiesta Bowl 8 CST kickoff, BCS National Championship

by jack dein on Jan 29, 2012 11:11 AM CST reply actions

I don't

mind the “lower” bowls. they are still a lot better than a lot of the crap put on by the networks during the middle of the week between Christmas and New Year’s.

by Huzkerfan on Jan 29, 2012 2:16 PM CST reply actions