Bowl Outlook

lo country said:
Husker67 said:
lo country said:
The Maudfather said:
Well, this is....humbling
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Yep. Stalking a bunch of loser programs hoping they lose so we can get in at 5-7. Then realize that we are currently a loser program........
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This is freaking hilarious. Here we sit, scoreboard watching, not to see if we can win the B1G West, not to see if we can move up in the rankings with some well-placed losses above us. No, we are sweating out trying to be one of the top 80, yes 80 teams will get a bowl invite. Almost 2/3 of every university playing football will receive an invitation to play in an exhibition game in front of a handful of friends and family. And, we are scoreboard watching the Old Dominion's, Georgia State's, South Alabama's of the world.

Talk about having this baby going in the right direction.
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Your common sense comments alone should send even the most ardent Riley supporters into convulsions. Thinking some teams need to lose for us to get "N" and then seeing it in writing makes it almost unbearable.

This staff.............

Hip, hip, hooray!
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Its like we are vultures waiting for the prey to die because we don't have the skill set to take the prey on our own.

 
Husker67 said:
lo country said:
The Maudfather said:
Well, this is....humbling
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Yep. Stalking a bunch of loser programs hoping they lose so we can get in at 5-7. Then realize that we are currently a loser program........
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This is freaking hilarious. Here we sit, scoreboard watching, not to see if we can win the B1G West, not to see if we can move up in the rankings with some well-placed losses above us. No, we are sweating out trying to be one of the top 80, yes 80 teams will get a bowl invite. Almost 2/3 of every university playing football will receive an invitation to play in an exhibition game in front of a handful of friends and family. And, we are scoreboard watching the Old Dominion's, Georgia State's, South Alabama's of the world.

Talk about having this baby going in the right direction.
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You realize this is all Bo's fault, don't you?????

If he didn't graduate so many players, we wouldn't be at the top of the APR list and this whole situation would be moot.

 
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Had to google Foster Farms Bowl. Here is a little info:

The 2015 Foster Farms Bowl, featuring teams from two of college football’s ‘Power 5’ conferences, will be played at Levi’s Stadium on Saturday evening, December 26th. Kickoff time is 6:15 p.m. [PST]/9:15 p.m. [EST]. The contest will be televised live on ESPN and matches the 4th Pac-12 selection against an upper- echelon Big Ten team.

I'll take it.

 
This is the type of story I was looking at when I said that the APR rating wasn't a done deal for Nebraska getting the first 5-7 spot.

http://www.usnews.com/news/sports/articles/2015/11/23/ncaa-committee-to-provide-procedures-for-filling-bowl-games

In 2012, the NCAA was asked to come up with a safety net plan to fill all the bowls if there were not enough teams that met the minimum requirements. The protocol allows 5-7 teams to play in the postseason if they are among the top five schools in the NCAA's Academic Progress Report for the most recent season recorded. Those teams (Wisconsin, Northwestern, Duke, Michigan and Stanford) are already bowl eligible
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There's an oversight committee that has to decide how to determine who gets in. They may apply the APR record, they may just let bowls pick from the pool of 5-7 teams, or they may decide something else.

Really seems questionable that they wouldn't cover this possibility earlier before, and now they have to make what should be an impartial decision, but knowing which schools are directly impacted. For example, they could be thinking of requiring 5 FBS wins, but someone on the committee lobbying for Missouri could nix that since they have an FCS win.

 
So who is fourth in the Pac 12? Ucla/Washington State/Utah or one of the Arizona schools. None of them would be an easy draw for us. But better taking a shot at that level than Anaconda Stat School Crosswalk Guard Academy in Gooney Flats, Arkansas. A loss there would be hard to take.

 
SB Nation just came out with their Bowl Predictions.

If they are correct that Illinois has a crack at the Foster Farms Bowl ($2,212,500 payout), then I think that is the best that Nebraska could hope for, as far as payouts are concerned. Nebraska has a better conference record than Illinois and their fans travel, so I think.. they would be more attractive to a bowl than Illinois.

Nebraska vs USC would have been an attractive sounding matchup, a couple decades ago San Francisco is certainly a more interesting bowl destination for the players and fans than Detroit.

 
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