(12-09-2019 06:17 PM)ETSUfan1 Wrote:  If they would’ve beat Georgia Southern, they’d be in the Cotton Bowl.

Even if they went undefeated they wouldn’t have jumped a 1 loss Memphis.

That said, if they keep doing what they are doing they will keep moving up. They have things rolling. Leaps and bounds ahead of us these days.

(12-09-2019 06:17 PM)ETSUfan1 Wrote:  If they would’ve beat Georgia Southern, they’d be in the Cotton Bowl.

You’re probably right but there seems to be belief on the App board that they would have been passed up by Memphis no matter what. I get all worked up for nothing every year about how these coaches have a good season and then abandon their players by springing for a better job before the bowl game. They have the right to better themselves but it’s a vicious cycle and unfair to the players and smaller schools when they jet out of town the day after winning a conference championship game.

(12-09-2019 06:41 PM)MTBuc Wrote:  

(12-09-2019 06:17 PM)ETSUfan1 Wrote:  If they would’ve beat Georgia Southern, they’d be in the Cotton Bowl.

You’re probably right but there seems to be belief on the App board that they would have been passed up by Memphis no matter what. I get all worked up for nothing every year about how these coaches have a good season and then abandon their players by springing for a better job before the bowl game. They have the right to better themselves but it’s a vicious cycle and unfair to the players and smaller schools when they jet out of town the day after winning a conference championship game.

Could be wrong here, but I believe the Sun Belt champ must go to the New Orleans Bowl - contractual agreements, conference rules, etc? Yea, this should have been the year App State played a Power Five opponent in a higher tiered bowl like the Cotton. They did finish #21 in the playoff rankings, whatever that ranking is called. These coaches abandoning their players each year for more money is the norm now and certainly adds to the argument of paying all players instead of this endorsement paying scheme the two-faced NCAA approved recently. As for App State, I can’t get that worked up since I am unable to work up much like for them. But, their success on the football field is unparalleled and often defies explanation. If they can maintain the momentum by cycling through young, aspiring coaches and even athletic directors — more power to em. But, their best solution is money. Likely, if they want to keep running with the big boys, they will have to find a way to raise many millions more in order to pay and retain coaches longer. The Jerry Moore types are no longer coaching college football. Interesting, on many of these socialist espousing campuses (not that App State is necessarily one), capitalism still owns and rules the successful athletic programs.

OK — you have three minutes to read this and five minutes to explain it to an “average college football fan”, while taking no questions about the other 34 bowls.


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New Year's Six

The New Year's Six (NY6) bowls are the top six major NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision bowl games: the Rose Bowl, Sugar Bowl, Orange Bowl, Cotton Bowl, Peach Bowl, and Fiesta Bowl. The New Year's Six represent six of the ten oldest bowl games currently played at the FBS level. These six top-tier bowl games rotate the hosting of the two College Football Playoff (CFP) semifinal games, which determine the teams that play in the final College Football Playoff National Championship game. The rotation is set on a three-year cycle with the following pairings: Rose/Sugar, Orange/Cotton, and Fiesta/Peach.

Using the final CFP rankings, the selection committee seeds and pairs the top four teams and determines the participants for the other four non-playoff New Year's Six bowls that are not hosting the semifinals that year. These four non-playoff bowls are also referred to as the Selection Committee bowl games. These six games focus on the top 12 teams in the rankings; to date during the College Football Playoff era (2014 to present) of the 60 teams to play in a New Year's Six game, only six have been ranked lower than 12th.

So, in all, twelve schools are selected for these major, top tier bowls. These are required to include the champions of the "Power Five" conferences (ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12, and SEC). In addition, the highest-ranked champion from the "Group of Five" conferences (The American, Conference USA, MAC, Mountain West, and Sun Belt) is guaranteed a berth if the group's top team is not in the playoff.

(12-22-2019 11:48 AM)Buc66 Wrote:  OK — you have three minutes to read this and five minutes to explain it to an “average college football fan”, while taking no questions about the other 34 bowls.


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New Year's Six

The New Year's Six (NY6) bowls are the top six major NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision bowl games: the Rose Bowl, Sugar Bowl, Orange Bowl, Cotton Bowl, Peach Bowl, and Fiesta Bowl. The New Year's Six represent six of the ten oldest bowl games currently played at the FBS level. These six top-tier bowl games rotate the hosting of the two College Football Playoff (CFP) semifinal games, which determine the teams that play in the final College Football Playoff National Championship game. The rotation is set on a three-year cycle with the following pairings: Rose/Sugar, Orange/Cotton, and Fiesta/Peach.

Using the final CFP rankings, the selection committee seeds and pairs the top four teams and determines the participants for the other four non-playoff New Year's Six bowls that are not hosting the semifinals that year. These four non-playoff bowls are also referred to as the Selection Committee bowl games. These six games focus on the top 12 teams in the rankings; to date during the College Football Playoff era (2014 to present) of the 60 teams to play in a New Year's Six game, only six have been ranked lower than 12th.

So, in all, twelve schools are selected for these major, top tier bowls. These are required to include the champions of the "Power Five" conferences (ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12, and SEC). In addition, the highest-ranked champion from the "Group of Five" conferences (The American, Conference USA, MAC, Mountain West, and Sun Belt) is guaranteed a berth if the group's top team is not in the playoff.

Hmmmm. All I can fathom is the rich get richer.....