Bowl Eligibility Watch

[UNT 90 Grad]

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In the East -
Florida Atlantic (6-1) –The Owls can win the East Division by winning against Southern Miss.  Florida Atlantic owns the tie-breaker over WKU.
 
Marshall (5-2) – the Thundering Herd can win the East Division by winning against FIU, if Florida Atlantic loses to Southern Miss.  Marshall owns the tie-breakers over Florida Atlantic and WKU and would win a two-way tie with Florida Atlantic at 6-2 and a three-way tie-breaker at 6-2.
 
WKU (5-2) –The Hilltoppers can finish in a tie for the East Division at 6-2, but lose the head-to-head tie-breaker with Florida Atlantic and a three-way tie-breaker with both schools based on head-to-head losses to each.
 
In the West –
Louisiana Tech (5-2) – the Bulldogs can win the West Division title with a win vs. UTSA and a UAB loss at North Texas. The Bulldogs will win the division at 6-2 in a tie with Southern Miss only, as the Bulldogs own the tie-breaker over the Golden Eagles).
 
Southern Miss (5-2) – the Golden Eagles can win the West Division by winning at Florida Atlantic, if LA Tech loses to UTSA.  Southern Miss owns the tie-breaker over UAB if both schools are 6-2.
 
UAB (5-2) – the Blazers can win the West Division by winning at North Texas, along with a Southern Miss loss at Florida Atlantic.  UAB would then win a head-to-head tie-breaker with LA Tech if both schools are 6-2.
 
If Louisiana Tech, Southern Miss and UAB each win their final regular season game and finish 6-2, the tie would not be broken through the first seven tie-breakers and it would go down to tie-breaker No. 8: “If still tied, the representative will be the team that has not participated in the championship game most recently.”  Southern Miss (2015) would win that tie-breaker ahead of Louisiana Tech (2016) and UAB (2018).
 
Regarding the host of the Conference USA Football Championship game  –
Florida Atlantic (6-1) – controls its destiny to host the C-USA Championship Game and will host with a win over Southern Miss in Boca Raton on Saturday. 
 
Marshall (5-2) remains a possibility to host the C-USA Championship from the East Division, while Louisiana Tech (5-2), Southern Miss (5-2) and UAB (5-2) remain possibilities to host the C-USA Championship from the West Division.
 
Head-to-head competition is the first tie-breaker if divisional champions have the same conference record.  If they did not play, the CFP ranking is the next tie-breaker. If neither team is in the top 25 of the CFP Rankings and wins on the final weekend, average computer ranking (Anderson and Hester, Billingsley, Colley Matrix, Massey, Sagarin and Wolfe) would be used to determine host.
 
As far as bowl eligibility is concerned:
 
There are six teams with at least seven wins and bowl eligibility – Florida Atlantic (8-3), Louisiana Tech (8-3), Marshall (7-4), Southern Miss (7-4), UAB (7-4) and WKU (7-4).
 
There are two teams with six wins and bowl eligibility – Charlotte (6-5) and FIU (6-5).
 
Conference USA will have eight bowl-eligible teams this season.
 
C-USA has six guaranteed bowl selections in 2019: Bad Boy Mowers Gasparilla Bowl (Tampa Bay, Fla.) the Makers Wanted Bahamas Bowl (Nassau, Bahamas), New Mexico Bowl (Albuquerque, N.M.), R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl and SERVPRO First Responder Bowl (Dallas, Texas), along with either the SoFi Hawai’i Bowl (Honolulu, Hawai’i), or the Tropical Smoothie Cafe Frisco Bowl (Frisco, Texas) .  The league has a secondary agreement with the Walk-On’s Independence Bowl (Shreveport, La.), should the ACC or SEC not be able to fill its spot in that game, and a secondary agreement with the Cheribundi Boca Raton Bowl.

http://www.conferenceusa.com/news/2019/11/24/fb-c-usa-football-scenarios.aspx?fbclid=IwAR0S6y_t5MQCDt8tpLVhdgi6T8O5WO1D5MhvF_9IcM72c-sTQyISuA87SGU

[Mean Green Matt]

4 hours ago, Jessica M Hall said:

RIP to this thread, @Mean Green Matt 🙃😭

Indeed. RIP. Hopefully we don’t even need one of these next year. 

[Greendylan]

10 minutes ago, Mean Green Matt said:

Indeed. RIP. Hopefully we don’t even need one of these next year. 

We won't.

[Arkstfan]

On ‎11‎/‎19‎/‎2019 at 8:35 PM, wardly said:

They took a 6&6 So. Miss team over a 9&3 UNT. Must be a reason.

Absolutely there is a reason.

You don't screw your partners.

Why on earth would a conference take its best teams away from the bowls who said we want to partner with you and send them to a bowl that wanted nothing to do with you until they came up short of one of their precious P5 teams and needed a warm body to stay open?

Only time you send people out is when ESPN asks for it and everyone does what they tell them to because they sort of run college football and especially the post-season.

[MeanGreenTexan]

23 minutes ago, Arkstfan said:

Absolutely there is a reason.

You don't screw your partners.

Why on earth would a conference take its best teams away from the bowls who said we want to partner with you and send them to a bowl that wanted nothing to do with you until they came up short of one of their precious P5 teams and needed a warm body to stay open?

Only time you send people out is when ESPN asks for it and everyone does what they tell them to because they sort of run college football and especially the post-season.

When your conference has a chance at a statement win against a down blue-blood program like FSU, and there is desire to go there from your conference runner-up, make it happen.  Put pressure on the Indy Bowl to invite an eager NT, right now.
I can guarantee you the New Orleans Bowl would rather have Southern Miss over North Texas 9 times out of 10, simply because of butts-in-seats money they'd bring in from So Miss fans travelling 1.5 hrs or less to get there.

Judy could have made both North Texas & Southern Miss, as well as the NO Bowl happy.   Instead, she chose to allow Indy/FSU to drag their feet & dictate who played there since all of the other invites had time constraints on them... which forced NT to take the NO Bowl.   Poor leadership.

[NorthTexasWeLove]

41 minutes ago, MeanGreenTexan said:

When your conference has a chance at a statement win against a down blue-blood program like FSU, and there is desire to go there from your conference runner-up, make it happen.  Put pressure on the Indy Bowl to invite an eager NT, right now.
I can guarantee you the New Orleans Bowl would rather have Southern Miss over North Texas 9 times out of 10, simply because of butts-in-seats money they'd bring in from So Miss fans travelling 1.5 hrs or less to get there.

Judy could have made both North Texas & Southern Miss, as well as the NO Bowl happy.   Instead, she chose to allow Indy/FSU to drag their feet & dictate who played there since all of the other invites had time constraints on them... which forced NT to take the NO Bowl.   Poor leadership.