Originally Posted by LindenCy 
I hate these 12 game schedules, because it is just another excuse for a team to get 6 wins (6-6 should in no way get you in a bowl game). Money talks.
It only gets you in currently if your conference has tie-ins that have to be filled, and there are no 7 win or better teams to fill them. It's actually a fairly limited circumstance that 6 wins will get you in a bowl. It obviously favors big conference 6 win teams, but it's a lot harder to win 6 games in a BCS conference than a mid-major, IMO, so I think that's somewhat equitable.
Originally Posted by balken Are you suggesting that there should not be a PappaJohns.com Bowl or a Meineke Car Care Bowl? How dare you, sir, defame the integrity of such pillars of NCAA College Football, and I might add, our culture. These icons such not face such baseless attacks.
The NCAA does NOT run the bowl games. They just declare which teams are eligible to play in bowl games. It's up to the free market from there. I personally watched most of those "crappy" bowl games, and many of them were quite exciting.
Originally Posted by ripvdub I may be wrong, ok im probably wrong, but I don't think any 6-6 teams made a Bowl game last year. Iowa wouldve been the 1st 6-6 team snatched up so the hillbillies in black n gold could spend their unemployment on Gaylord Hotels Bowl hat and tshirts.
There were quite a few, I'm sure. I'd say there were probably fewer 6 win teams that DIDN'T make it to bowl games than did.
It works like this:
1. Conferences fill their bowl tie-ins with 7 win (or better) teams. If there are more 7 win or better teams than bowl tie-ins, the 7 win teams go into a D-1A "pool"
2. If there are conference tie-ins remaining after all 7 win or better teams have been selected, they can be filled with 6 win teams.
3. If there are no conference tie-ins remaining, all remaining 6 win teams go into a D-1A "pool"
4. Any bowl games that do not have teams to play, either because they do not have tie-ins, or their tied-in conference does not have enough eligible (6 win or better) teams, they must choose from the 7 win or better pool until all 7 win teams are gone, then they can choose from the 6 win pool.
I don't think it's all that bad of a system, IMO. Obviously, more popular teams get snapped up first in the 7 and 6 win "pools", but it rewards teams for having a winning record as opposed to just a 6 win one, and it also ensures that the best teams (7 win or more) go to the better bowls.
As far as Iowa's schedule for next year, I think the best case is pretty much right on, and the worst case could be the other way 'round (i.e. 10-2 on the highly delusional side, and 2-10 on the "it's not outside the realm of possibility" side). It's pretty much the same as it was last year for Iowa, and I wouldn't be surprised to see the same results. I'm guessing they'll get 5-7 wins, but I would not be totally surprised to see them tank BADLY this year.
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