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So they'll pick some nobody G5 team over say Nebraska..... ?

That sounds like a poor choice.
 

Don't see what's different. 5-7 teams only got in because they ran out of 6+ win teams
 

bemidjigopher said:
Don't see what's different. 5-7 teams only got in because they ran out of 6+ win teams
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It's different because now the more prestigious bowl will have to select the 6-6 team first. And the 5-7 team will go to the less prestigious bowl. The same teams make a bowl, this is just WHICH bowl they go to.
 

A_Slab_of_Bacon said:
So they'll pick some nobody G5 team over say Nebraska..... ?
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That's how I'm interpreting it.

Last year, Conference USA had four teams finish 5-7: Rice, UTEP, Florida International and Old Dominion. As a result, C-USA did not fill its spots in the New Mexico Bowl or Arizona Bowl. Under this rule, if all of those teams had gotten to six wins, the two teams left out would have been placed in the Foster Farms Bowl and Quick Lane Bowl ahead of 5-7 Nebraska and Minnesota.
 


Jike Spingleton said:
That's how I'm interpreting it.

Last year, Conference USA had four teams finish 5-7: Rice, UTEP, Florida International and Old Dominion. As a result, C-USA did not fill its spots in the New Mexico Bowl or Arizona Bowl. Under this rule, if all of those teams had gotten to six wins, the two teams left out would have been placed in the Foster Farms Bowl and Quick Lane Bowl ahead of 5-7 Nebraska and Minnesota.
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Man that's kinda sad. I mean I get that G5 and P5 teams are in some way supposed to be on the same level... but seeding bowl games that way seems silly.
 

WinLoseOrTy said:
It's different because now the more prestigious bowl will have to select the 6-6 team first. And the 5-7 team will go to the less prestigious bowl. The same teams make a bowl, this is just WHICH bowl they go to.
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So instead of the vomit bowl will go to the diarrhea bowl?
 


The article is not very helpful. It mostly talks about what will happen going forward, which sounds an awful lot like what happened last year. But it does say this:

Last year, only 77 teams finished 6-6 or better, leaving three spots in college football’s bloated postseason for 5-7 teams. This created several unfortunate issues, including 5-7 Nebraska playing in the Foster Farms Bowl against UCLA due to the game’s contractual affiliation with the Big Ten, 5-7 San Jose State being shipped across the country to play in the Cure Bowl in Orlando, Fla., and two Mountain West teams playing each other in the Arizona Bowl.
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So how will this work? In the future, the Foster Farms Bowl CAN select a team from outside their contractual agreement. But MUST they? And who decides which is better between the Cure Bowl and Arizona Bowl, as well as the pecking order among other bowls? Who thinks it's unfortunate that Nebraska and UCLA played in the Foster Farms Bowl? The Foster Farms people? ESPN? UCLA?
 



I for one will sleep much better knowing the NCAA is focused on such an important issue.
 


Hates Monikers said:
The article is not very helpful. It mostly talks about what will happen going forward, which sounds an awful lot like what happened last year. But it does say this:



So how will this work? In the future, the Foster Farms Bowl CAN select a team from outside their contractual agreement. But MUST they? And who decides which is better between the Cure Bowl and Arizona Bowl, as well as the pecking order among other bowls? Who thinks it's unfortunate that Nebraska and UCLA played in the Foster Farms Bowl? The Foster Farms people? ESPN? UCLA?
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The difference is that last year three 5-7 teams were deemed "eligible". At that point, they were equal to 6-6 teams (or any eligible team really), so the Bowl Games (say Foster Farms, for example) could (and had to) select Nebraska because of the B1G contract over a non B1G 6-6 team. Next year, whatever Bowl Games have open slots will have to offer to non-contractually committed 6-6 teams first (so say a MWC team was 6-6, they would receive an offer from Foster Farms). Basically they'd be free agents and get to choose where they go. Once all those teams are signed then the highest APR 5-7 team would get to choose which Bowl they go to and so on.

From the example of last year, under the new rules Foster Farm and Quick Lane Bowls would have had to offer to the 6-6 G5 teams (I'm assuming all the 6-6+ P5 teams had offers), one of them would certainly had taken the higher payout and after it was all said and done MN would have ended up in the worst bowl available, which was probably a mid to early December game.
 

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