(11-20-2019 09:09 AM)stever20 Wrote:  

(11-20-2019 08:53 AM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(11-19-2019 11:15 PM)stever20 Wrote:  updated with Tuesday night MACTION!!!!

E Michigan becomes bowl eligible
Northern Illinois picks up loss #7.
Bowling Green gets loss #8 and is out.

IIRC, the MAC has 5 bowl tie-ins and now has 5 bowl-eligible teams. So if any other MAC teams become eligible, and it appears that two or even three could, the MAC will be scrambling and some might get left out. The MAC does have a conditional spot in the Detroit bowl if the B1G or ACC don't fill their spots.

IIRC, the MAC is vulnerable to this, e.g., last year Miami-Ohio was eligible but did not play a bowl game.

WE have 26 teams right now with 6 losses.... So very possible we're going to need some 7 loss teams(meaning ALL MAC teams would get in that are bowl eligible).

Yes, it could tip that way. For a long time I've thought it would, that for the first time since 2016 we will have more bowl slots than we have formally-eligible teams, such that we would be dipping in to the 7-loss pool.

But now I'm not so sure. Seems like things have tightened up a bit, more teams are becoming eligible than it appeared a few weeks ago. So we will just have to see.