Quote:As I read it the Access Bowl GO5 team must be a conference champion. So lose the CCG and you are out of consideration. The AAC doesnt have one until next year so they are helped in that aspect BUT do get slightly hurt on SOS with not having a 13th game.
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Okay, so NIU, CMU, Akron, and Boise would need to win their championship game in order to go. That adds a little mixture to it. It's a required win to go, even if it's your only loss.
So a 1-loss NIU to, say, BGSU or Akron in MACC -- will not put NIU into consideration, even if BYU, Boise, and all the others have 2+ losses.
I think the MACC game notably helps if there's a ranked or roughly-ranked Mac East team playing. But against Cinci/ECU/UCF schedule, an unranked Mac East team won't be enough to break a regular season record tie for NIU, given NIU's schedule.
Quote:I just want to make sure this would never happen. If CMU and NIU were undefeated (I know it wont happen) would Gameday consider it?
A lot of luck would be needed from now, for those other games on Oct 11th not to sound so hot. So no, right now as it stands, it wouldn't. A shift would be needed, as:
- No. 2 Oregon at No. 12 UCLA
- No. 6 Georgia at No. 20 Missouri
- No. 14 Ole Miss at No. 7 Texas A&M
- TCU at No. 8 Baylor (Improved TCU?)
- No. 10 LSU at Florida (Florida come back from the dead to be a power?)
- No. 21 Louisville at No. 23 Clemson
COULD be, though. If there's no other undefeated teams for some reason playing in that mix alongside anyone reasonably ranked -- then yeah, technically could happen.
I think in the Year of the MAC (2003), we had it on GameDay because that year the MAC beat the sh!t out of other conferences in non-conf. We'd need to start doing that ASAP to help that cause.