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Wow!!! This isn't good news......for BC or BG for that matter.

LET'S GO ORANGE!!!!!!!!!!!!

It will be cool for BG, comin into today there were still only 54 bowl eligible teams (56 have to eligibe for 28 games) , and USF lost to Memphis so that takes them out. Northwestern still has to play at Hawaii, Arkansas and Nebraska lost, and so on. With 8 wins, I'd say there is still at 90% change BGSU gets a bowl bid. There are teams who are more nervous about it than BG right now, I can say that much. SYRACUSE ROCKS!!!!!

Well, until BG gets a bid (hopefully), teams like Syracuse winning (SU is now up 27-10) can only hurt, not help, BG's chances of making a bowl. It's amazing that this same Syrcuse team that lost to Temple just a couple weeks ago, is now most likely on its way to a win on the road.

Well, this what happens we you don't take care of business during the regular season.

Exactly. Syracuse takes away another spot.

I'm pretty sure the Nebraska, Arkansas and South Florida losses locked up a bid somewhere for us.

I think the net result of the Syracuse win is to cost Marshall or Akron a bowl game.

But for you nervous nellies out there -- and I'm among them -- we may want to hope that Hawaii beats Northwestern tonight (at 11 p.m. EST). Hawaii could still lose the following weekend to Michigan State and be eliminated from bowl eligibility that way.

What I *think* that would do is put Minnesota in the Music City Bowl and leave the other end of the Motor City Bowl open for the Big East, which would have to send Syracuse, Connecticut or Pittsburgh to Detroit.

That would leave one less Big East team out there competing for a bid the MAC could fill. That only helps the MAC.

On the other hand, I'm not sure Bowling Green needs this help -- and a Northwestern loss would be a downer for whichever MAC team is selected for Detroit. They'd get UConn or something instead of Minnesota.

Bottom line: Feel free to step in and correct me, but I think we have our bowl bid. The only question is where -- an important question, as plane tickets get very expensive within three weeks of a flight.

Schadenfreude wrote:Bottom line: Feel free to step in and correct me, but I think we have our bowl bid. The only question is where -- an important question, as plane tickets get very expensive within three weeks of a flight.

I've thought this for two weeks now. With the way things were shaping up with other conferences, and our convincing win over Marshall, I didn't think the UT game meant anything as long as we didn't show up and score 3 points on the night. While the second half of that game might have definitely been a "whoa! hold the phone!" moment, I've been in the "we're in, but where?" mode for awhile now.

Well, there could still be 59 bowl eligible teams, which could theoretically take Akron, Marshall and then us out of the mix. I think we are looking pretty good, though.

TG1996 wrote:I didn't think the UT game meant anything as long as we didn't show up and score 3 points on the night. While the second half of that game might have definitely been a "whoa! hold the phone!" moment, I've been in the "we're in, but where?" mode for awhile now.

Maybe so, though if we won we'd KNOW!

TG1996 wrote:I've thought this for two weeks now. With the way things were shaping up with other conferences, and our convincing win over Marshall, I didn't think the UT game meant anything as long as we didn't show up and score 3 points on the night.

Actually, the key was the decision by Clemson and South Carolina not to enter the postseason. Had that not happened, we might have been the last school left out. It would have come down to us and Troy State -- and Troy State is located a whole lot closer to a lot of bowls.

Schadenfreude wrote: Actually, the key was the decision by Clemson and South Carolina not to enter the postseason. Had that not happened, we might have been the last school left out. It would have come down to us and Troy State -- and Troy State is located a whole lot closer to a lot of bowls.

You're right, that was huge, but I still felt fairly confident regardless. Though looking back, I should have realized a loss meant NIU was in the MACC AND UT had head to head over us, but sometimes blinders are a good thing to keep on! 8)

orangeandbrown wrote:Well, there could still be 59 bowl eligible teams, which could theoretically take Akron, Marshall and then us out of the mix. I think we are looking pretty good, though.

Check out the other thread. I've corrected my original post. I no longer think that's possible. The maximum eligible number of teams now appears to be 58.

It was 54 eligible for 56 spots heading into today. This is what happened:

-- Syracuse beat Boston College to become eligible (55)
-- Southern Mississippi beat Alabama-Birmingham to become eligible (56)
-- Texas Christian is beating Tulane right now. Let's assume they win (57)
-- Let's assume Northwestern or Hawaii qualify. Only one can. (58).
-- South Florida lost. They are out.

That's it. I don't see anything else that can happen. We have 58 eligible teams -- and unless Marshall or Akron find a way to take the bowl bid we covet (extremely unlikely), we will play in a bowl game.

Does anyone disagree?

TCU gets beat to Tulane!

hows this for a funny. From the big east the 2 teams up for their bcs spot are now syracuse and pitt. both are the lamest bcs teams ever. Pitt beat temple unimpressively, and syracuse lost to them. BG put 42 on them in the first half on the way to 70 pts. gimme a break! BCS < pathetic.

truth wrote:hows this for a funny. From the big east the 2 teams up for their bcs spot are now syracuse and pitt. both are the lamest bcs teams ever. Pitt beat temple unimpressively, and syracuse lost to them. BG put 42 on them in the first half on the way to 70 pts. gimme a break! BCS < pathetic.

I hope this gets people talking about stripping the Big East of its automatic berth.

Again: I'd leave two bids (out of ten) reserved for the best non BCS teams. Let the Big East compete in that pool.

That league isn't going to get better.