Does this team make a bowl at 5-7?

UNIGuy4Cy

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Interesting conversation on College Gameday today. There is a petition for 5-7 teams to go to a bowl. There might not be enough 6-6 teams to fill all the bowl slots. If this comes to pass, I see no way we would be skipped over with the #1 schedule in the country.
 

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Doubtful. We probably don't deserve to. It depends on who else is sitting at 5-6 though, I guess.
 

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Interesting conversation on College Gameday today. There is a petition for 5-7 teams to go to a bowl. There might not be enough 6-6 teams to fill all the bowl slots. If this comes to pass, I see no way we would be skipped over with the #1 schedule in the country.

NO....though I would like it only for the 15 extra practices
 

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No, and quite frankly I think it's ridiculous teams with 6 wins go to bowl games. Like the days when you had to win at least 7 or 8 games to go to post-season.
 

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I'm sure computers would say we're the best or nearly the best of the 5-7 teams, we'll be ranked above plenty of 6-6 and even 7-5 teams from BCS AQ leagues.

Not that I'm giddy about the ideas of teams with losing records in bowls, but if a 5-7 team plays in a bowl, better a 5-7 team that played ranked teams almost every week than a 5-7 team with an average or bad schedule.
 

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I'm sure computers would say we're the best or nearly the best of the 5-7 teams, we'll be ranked above plenty of 6-6 and even 7-5 teams from BCS AQ leagues.

Not that I'm giddy about the ideas of teams with losing records in bowls, but if a 5-7 team plays in a bowl, better a 5-7 team that played ranked teams almost every week than a 5-7 team with an average or bad schedule.

Bowl games aren't about merit.
 

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I hope like hell 6-6 teams fill all the slots. There is no reason 5-7 should get you into a bowl. 6-6 shouldn't get you into a bowl.
 

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If Texas loses next week, a 5-7 Longhorns team would get selected for a bowl over a 5-7 Iowa State team.

Should have won a 6th game. That would have left no doubt. But they couldn't do it.

There's your should have, could have, would have.
 

IcSyU

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Were you saying this a year ago?

Yep. Said it when we were in Tempe. "Glad we're here...but 6-6 teams shouldn't be playing bowl games." It used to be an accomplishment to make it to a bowl game, and especially New Years Day bowls. Now? Yippee. You went .500. Here's a crappy bowl just because we want your money.