Bowl eligibility

[Cheywypoke]

Let me preface this question by saying I'm somewhat embarassed to bring this up after last Saturday's effort.

However, just for a point of clarification one of the Channel 5 "sportscasters" yesterday said that UW needed to win 7 games to be bowl eligible because one of their wins was against an fcs school. It used to be you could count an fcs win toward bowl eligibility something like once every three years or something like that. Has that rule changed and I missed it? Or, does the channel 5 guy not know what he's talking about?

 

[fromolwyoming]

If we played 2 FCS teams, then yes, we would have needed 7 wins. But since it was only 1, we do not need 7.

 

[McPeachy]

Let me preface this question by saying I'm somewhat embarassed to bring this up after last Saturday's effort.

However, just for a point of clarification one of the Channel 5 "sportscasters" yesterday said that UW needed to win 7 games to be bowl eligible because one of their wins was against an fcs school. It used to be you could count an fcs win toward bowl eligibility something like once every three years or something like that. Has that rule changed and I missed it? Or, does the channel 5 guy not know what he's talking about?

You can count 1 FCS win toward 6 wins / bowl eligibility from my understanding. There was a year in DC's tenure we played 2 FCS teams, and needed 7 wins as such, to become bowl eligible. Which I think happened in 2011 against Weber State and Texas State (when they were FCS). That was the year we "played" Temple in the NM Bowl and got curb stomped.

Kick that channel 5 guy in the taint with a steel toe boot.

 

[Triple-WY]

Let me preface this question by saying I'm somewhat embarassed to bring this up after last Saturday's effort.

However, just for a point of clarification one of the Channel 5 "sportscasters" yesterday said that UW needed to win 7 games to be bowl eligible because one of their wins was against an fcs school. It used to be you could count an fcs win toward bowl eligibility something like once every three years or something like that. Has that rule changed and I missed it? Or, does the channel 5 guy not know what he's talking about?

Perhaps he was referring to CSU? They do need to get to 7 wins because they are playing a 13 game schedule.

On the flip side- UCLA managed an exception last year (or perhaps two years ago?) and drew a bowl game with 5 wins...........ridiculous.

 

[Cheywypoke]

Let me preface this question by saying I'm somewhat embarassed to bring this up after last Saturday's effort.

However, just for a point of clarification one of the Channel 5 "sportscasters" yesterday said that UW needed to win 7 games to be bowl eligible because one of their wins was against an fcs school. It used to be you could count an fcs win toward bowl eligibility something like once every three years or something like that. Has that rule changed and I missed it? Or, does the channel 5 guy not know what he's talking about?

You can count 1 FCS win toward 6 wins / bowl eligibility from my understanding. There was a year in DC's tenure we played 2 FCS teams, and needed 7 wins as such, to become bowl eligible. Which I think happened in 2011 against Weber State and Texas State (when they were FCS). That was the year we "played" Temple in the NM Bowl and got curb stomped.

Kick that channel 5 guy in the taint with a steel toe boot.

Thanks Peachy that was my understanding but I wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something.

 

[seattlecowboy]

Channel 5 guy doesn't know what he is talking about. Tell him to learn to report better.

Bowl-eligibility contingency plan

As per 2010 and 2011, initial bowl eligibility would go to teams with no lower than a non-losing record (6-6) for the season. On August 2, 2012, the NCAA Division I Board of Directors approved a significant change to the process to determine bowl eligible teams, going so far as to potentially allow 5-7 teams to go to a bowl, in case there were not enough regular bowl-eligible teams to fill every game. If a bowl has one or more conferences/teams unable to meet their contractual commitments and there are no available bowl-eligible teams, the open spots can be filled – by the particular bowl's sponsoring agencies – as follows:

Teams finishing 6-6 with one win against a team from the lower Football Championship Subdivision (FCS), regardless of whether that FCS school meets NCAA scholarship requirements. Until now, an FCS win counted only if that opponent met the scholarship requirements—specifically, that school had to award at least 90% of the FCS maximum of 63 scholarship equivalents over a two-year period. In the 2012 season, programs in four FCS conferences cannot meet the 90% requirement (56.7 equivalents)—the Ivy League, which prohibits all athletic scholarships; the Patriot League and Pioneer Football League, which do not currently award football scholarships; and the Northeast Conference, which limits football scholarships to 38 equivalents.
6-6 teams with two wins over FCS schools.
Teams that finish 6-7 with loss number seven in their conference championship game.
6-7 teams that normally play a 13-team schedule, such as Hawaii's home opponents. Although Hawaii normally plays a 13-game schedule, it only played 12 games this season.
FCS teams who are in the final year of the two-year FBS transition process, if they have at least a 6-6 record.
Finally, 5-7 teams that have a top-5 Academic Progress Rate (APR) score. This was later adjusted to allow other 5-7 teams to be selected thereafter—in order of their APR.

 

[J-Rod]

Nope, just need 2 wins the rest of the way. I think we'll know after Saturday's game where this team is headed.....I don't think this team will play as well as it did against AFA maybe ever again with this group. But I don't think they will be as pathetic as they were against CSU either.....we'll see something more in the middle.

But the tasks ahead are difficult, no doubt. SJSU has Fales. Fresno has looked unstoppable at times. Boise has an overwhelming talent edge on Wyoming. Utah State plays lights out in the trenches. Hell, even Hawaii will be a test. UH sucks right now, but they haven't quit once this year (see rallies against Fresno/UNLV). This team will have a to buck up in the coming weeks to be New Mexico Bowl bound.

I think they can/will do it, but they won't win another game this year with the half-assed effort we saw on Saturday. The want has to be there.