Rocket Pirate
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RE: Pathetic-Too Many Bowls
(12-10-2015 02:30 PM)UofToledoFans Wrote: (12-10-2015 12:41 PM)Rocket Pirate Wrote: (12-09-2015 07:41 PM)perimeterpost Wrote: its not that there are too many bowls, its that the P5 has too many guaranteed bowl spots. Most of the bowls added in recent years are for G5 teams. It wasn't long ago when the MAC had 13 teams but only 3 bowl tie ins. Compare that to the P5 bowl tie ins-
ACC- 9 for 14 teams
BigXII- 7 for 10 teams
B1G- 8 for 14 teams
Pac12- 7 for 12
SEC- 10 for 14 teams
That's 41 guaranteed bowl spots for 64 teams. Does the 10th best team in the SEC really deserve a guaranteed bowl spot?
A 6-6 SEC team definitely deserves a spot over a 6-6 MAC team.
Hb 6-6 Illinois with no .500 wins and Toledo at home with 7 wins, 4 over bowl teams, and 3 losses to 10 win teams?
Those bottom spots for P5 kill contenders in G5 conferences with tough OOC schedules. If that 6-6 SEC team has 2 SEC wins over Vandy and Kentucky, then swept OOC vs Syracuse, Tulane, FIU and FCS what would you think???
Ok, 6-6 Auburn with its 87,000 fans per game or 7-5 Akron with its 9,000 fans per game. Are you seriously trying to say Akron is a better option than Auburn on and off the field?
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cnyrocketfan
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RE: Pathetic-Too Many Bowls
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eastisbest
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RE: Pathetic-Too Many Bowls
Just declare a 13 game season and be done with it.
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therockets046
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RE: Pathetic-Too Many Bowls
Y'know, I was actually having a series of thoughts earlier this week that had me concluding that it was preposterous that a team with our résumé did not finish with a top 25 ranking. I think one of the bigger reasons for that is once our bowl game happened, and a couple of weeks had passed and the season was still playing out, our game just kind of got lost in the shuffle of all those 'other' bowl games. I was thinking, how many bowl games can I actually remember? Not a whole lot of them. That's the only real downside, in my opinion, of too many bowl games, cause I sure don't mind watching most of them, and I selfishly would love the opportunity to add Austin and Charleston to the list of possible destinations I could make a trip to in December.
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