WMU Game thread

[h2oville rocket]

[our only hope is kent.[/quote]

Not a phrase you ever want to have to say!

[h2oville rocket]

Looks to me like Turdledo can kiss the MAC Championship game goodbye!!!

Sad thing is, we might now be counting on Kent State.

Darn! We will have to comfort ourselves with our victory over our closest rival and perhaps our annual bowl thrashing. What will you all be doing?

[Schadenfreude]

As I noted in an earlier thread, teams have applied for and been granted exceptions to play games at 6-6.

It is not going to happen. It cannot happen. The rules have changed from last year.

This is the main rule:

30.9.2 Contest Status. [I-A] A contest shall be certified only if it serves the purpose of providing a national contest between deserving winning teams. A “deserving winning team” shall be defined as one that has won a minimum of six games against Division I-A opponents and that has more wins than losses. Tie games do not count in determining a team’s won-lost record. Further, when forfeiture of a regular-season football victory is required by the Committee on Infractions, a conference or self-imposed by an institution as a result of a violation of NCAA rules, neither of the competing institutions may count that contest in satisfying the definition of a “deserving winning team.” (Revised: 10/18/89, 10/12/93, 4/20/99)


And this is the only exception:

30.9.2.2 Waiver for Conference Champion. [I-A] The Management Council, by a two-thirds majority of its members present and voting, or a committee designated by the Management Council, may approve a waiver of the six-victory requirement to enable a conference champion to participate in a bowl game when the conference champion is scheduled contractually to participate in the game. (Adopted: 1/12/93, Revised: 10/28/97)

Plainly and simply: 6-6 does not cut it.

In past years, the NCAA let 6-6 teams go bowling if the conference had a contract to supply a team to a bowl game and no other qualified teams were available to send. That rule no longer exists -- and even if it did, the MAC would have teams with better records to send.

My own view is that a division winner ought to get some benefit of the doubt when being considered for a bowl game. But taking a 6-6 Akron or Bowling Green over one of the better West Division teams would be taking this way too far, even if it were permissible.

[1987alum]

Schade is spot on.

[NWLB]

Well at least UT isn't going to win any titles this year. I'm sure they'll get throttled in any bowl were it to happen. Seems odd they'd hold a loss in a post-season title game against Akron.

[h2oville rocket]

Aside from the Western title tie, we'll have to settle for the best record in the regular season. After all those years when we were "third or fourth best team in the league" and went to the championship game I guess its only fair.