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KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
Wed Nov 18, 2015, 03:28 PM Nov 2015

Some really bad teams will play in bowl games this year

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nbc-yahoo-sports/mad-dash--some-really-bad-teams-will-play-in-bowl-games-this-year-162520847.html

There will be 41 college football bowl games played this year, which is a record, and while that means we'll all be treated to more postseason football, it turns out that football won't necessarily be all that good. Traditionally, teams have become bowl eligible once they get to six wins, but according to a report by ESPN's Brett McMurphy, there may not be enough six-win teams to go around with 82 needed to fill the games. To make matters worse, nobody is sure how the 5-7 teams left will be selected, so it appears the NCAA yet again as some explaining to do on behalf of a messy situation it has created itself.
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Some really bad teams will play in bowl games this year (Original Post) KamaAina Nov 2015 OP
That Happens Every Year ProfessorGAC Nov 2015 #1

ProfessorGAC

(65,076 posts)
1. That Happens Every Year
Thu Nov 19, 2015, 08:33 AM
Nov 2015

Doesn't it? 41 bowl games, 82 teams. Some of those 82 have to be little better than a good HS team.

It's minor league, minor league football.

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