Bowl Eligible?

[bigdaddyg]

I guess that ultimately the real upside for the so-so young teams that earn a bid (even to a lower tier bowl) is that they gain extra practice time and can use it to work in the younger kids who will move up the depth chart in the following season. The downside for a school not rolling in the dough would be what I would image to be a tremendous amout of expense to fly to say, California or Idaho (ugh) to spend nearly a week preparing for a bowl game that will be poorly attended.

[firemoose]

Personally I'm not even thinking about this. I just want us to finish strong and have a good showing in our remaining games. We have to play A-State and UL-L away back to back. I think that's a tough enough task for us right now and something Southern doesn't face since they don't play either one of them. Wondering if we can become bowl eligible or not in a season where we're not supposed to be bowl eligible is really a moot point. Let's just worry about finishing as strong as possible, winning the last two home games, playing hard in our last two road games, and the rest will take care of itself.

[EastHallApp]

Agree Moose, in all likelihood this is purely a hypothetical discussion.

I'm actually hoping there ARE enough teams to fill all the bowls, as any shortage would be much more likely to benefit Ga. Southern than App.

[firemoose]

Agree Moose, in all likelihood this is purely a hypothetical discussion.

I'm actually hoping there ARE enough teams to fill all the bowls, as any shortage would be much more likely to benefit Ga. Southern than App.

Me too. Especially since this type of "stuff" is starting to pop up.

The George-Anne ‏@TheGeorgeAnne
GSU student starts petition for the NCAA to allow GSU to play in the postseason.

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[NewApp]

If there are not enough teams to fill the bowls I think that tells you something right there.

Yup. RP.

[97APP]

The only way that GS could get a bowl invite is if there is not enough 6-6 teams to fill bowl games, then transitional teams with winning records would get invite before 5-7 teams. However App would have to win out to be eligible even in the transitional rule due to App playing two FCS schools in the same year. If a school plays two FCS school then they have to have 7 wins to be bowl eligible instead of 6 wins.

Not sure about this, but I think we'd be bowl-eligible at 6 wins because only one of them was over an FCS team. Thought the rule was that you could only count one win against an FCS team, but we only have one such win.

Not that it really matters, but, I don't believe Campbell would count towards bowl eligibility since they are non-scholarship.