NCAA: 2016 Bowl watch (Non NY6/Playoff)

[HisIceness]

Where will all the 6,7,and 8 win teams go?

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[rangerssharks414]

North Texas and Mississippi State are going bowling despite having 5-7 records.

 

[HisIceness]

Looks like Arkansas and Virginia Tech will be in the Belk Bowl.

 

[rangerssharks414]

My brother is telling me that the bowl committee passed on a potential Pittsburgh/West Virginia bowl matchup.

How lame.

 

[GKJ]

 

[HisIceness]

Looks like Tennessee and Nebraska will play in Nashville for the Music City Bowl.

My brother is telling me that the bowl committee passed on a potential Pittsburgh/West Virginia bowl matchup.

How lame.

Same thing happened w/ Texas and Texas A&M in the Houston bowl IIRC about 3 years ago.

They did have BYU/Utah in Vegas last year though.

 

[Quid Pro Clowe]

Byu/Wyoming in the Poinsetta bowl on Dec 21st.

 

[HisIceness]

UNC/Stanford in the Sun Bowl.

NC State/Vanderbilt in the Independence Bowl.

Wake Forest/Temple Military Bowl.

 

[HisIceness]

West Virginia/Miami in the Russell Athletic Bowl. A throwback to the old days of the Big East.

 

[snowden]

USF vs South Carolina in Birmingham Bowl

 

[Reality Check]

Very happy for Western Michigan. But thought it was a bit lame to schedule them against Wisconsin.

Would have been nice to see them compete outside a conference they play regularly.

 

[DoyleG]

 

[What the Faulk]

We're playing Toledo in the who gives a **** bowl. No not that one, the other one.

 

[Gene Parmesan]

USF vs South Carolina in Birmingham Bowl

That will be ugly.

 

[rangerssharks414]

Colorado vs. Oklahoma State is the highest ranked vs. ranked non-New Year's Six bowl.

 

[DaveG]

Same thing happened w/ Texas and Texas A&M in the Houston bowl IIRC about 3 years ago.

That one was a matter of the two teams involved wanting nothing to do with playing eachother. Pitt & WVU have already schedule future games against eachother so I can't see that being the case here. Glad to see the committee not totally **** things up and at least give us 1 of the 3 possible OBE matchups that were out there. It's just that between the possibility of WVU-Pitt, WVU-VT, and WVU-Miami this is probably the least sexy of the 3 from a TV perspective.

 

[Rocko604]

Colorado vs. Oklahoma State is the highest ranked vs. ranked non-New Year's Six bowl.

That should be a good one. Hopeuflly Liufau is 100%.

 

[Big Poppa Puck]

North Texas and Mississippi State are going bowling despite having 5-7 records.

Because they need to stop adding freaking bowl games. There's 40! games, 41 if you include the National Title game.

There's at least 10 too many.

They've added 7 (well 6 really since apparently, officially, the Motor City Bowl folded and Quick Lane Bowl replaced it, even though they're essentially the same thing.) since 2014 alone and 9 this decade. And they have another 9 games/sites proposed for the future, but I think adding any more games has been put on hold for at least 2-3 years. I think they're realizing it's getting out of hand.


And I say this as someone who likes the bowls too.

 

[member 51464]

Didn't the Big 10 used to have a no back-to-back rule about the Rose Bowl and a Rose Bowl or bust rule? Classier times.

 

[SpookyTsuki]

Didn't the Big 10 used to have a no back-to-back rule about the Rose Bowl and a Rose Bowl or bust rule? Classier times.

Probably before the bcs

 

[Rocko604]

I'm working on the 17th, so at least I'll have two Nobody Cares Bowl games to watch and make parlay bets on to pass the time. Plus there's two college hoops games and I think maybe an afternoon hockey game. Should be a good shift.

 

[Uncle Rotter]

Didn't the Big 10 used to have a no back-to-back rule about the Rose Bowl and a Rose Bowl or bust rule? Classier times.

Changed in the early 70s

 

[Uncle Rotter]

North Texas and Mississippi State are going bowling despite having 5-7 records.

Notre Dame was only 4-8, where's their bowl game?

 

[snowden]

That will be ugly.

I can only hope USF blows em out. Would be a nice way to end the year.

 

[rangerssharks414]

Notre Dame was only 4-8, where's their bowl game?

Only 5-7 (or 6-7) teams can make a bowl if you are under .500. They award the schools with the highest APR an invitation first.