C-USA `Bowls' to No. 2 in Computers means cashola

[Harry]

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. Who says the college football bowl season is mostly filled with meaningless games?

Conference USA would beg to differ for a million reasons.

With a 4-1 record in the bowl season the .800 percentage was the best among the 10 FBS conferences C-USA jumped up one spot among the Group of 5 leagues in the final computer rankings.

It was a $1 million leap.

Six computer rankings are one vehicle used by the Group of 5 conferences to divide revenue from the College Football Playoff. Payouts are determined by final ranking for the season after the bowls.

That piece of the pie is $15 million, split on a $5-4-3-2-1 million basis, depending on final computer ranking, and the Mountain West got the $5 million top prize with four teams in the Group of 5 top six with the computers.

Read more: http://www.herdzone.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/011815aaa.html

[letsgiveacheer]

So, this same computer ranking system had us dead last in C-USA.

Ouch.