current bowl picture

[bgsufalcon24]

Ive looked up all the teams that are currently bowl eligible, and there are 58 teams that have at least 6 wins. (With one more team, Conneticuit, having a shot to get there if they beat Louisville on Saturday, fat chance) There are 28 bowls. This means that there will only be 2 teams that get shut out of bowls this year. Given this, Im thinking that BG's chances are pretty darn good. Here's our competition (Im assuming all the major conference teams that are eligible will make it)

C-USA - Houston (6-5), Memphis (6-5), Southern Mississippi (6-5)
Mountain West - BYU (6-5), New Mexico (6-5), Colorado State (6-5), Utah (6-5)
Sun-Belt - Louisiana-Lafayette (6-5)
WAC - Louisiana Tech (6-4)
MAC - Akron (6-5), Central Michigan (6-5), Miami (7-4), Western Mich (7-4)

If Akron loses the MAC title game, we have it made, because Akron will get snubbed, and so will Louisiana-Lafayette. We wouldnt even need to beat out BYU, New Mexico, or Houston to get there. Those are all teams that I feel we are better than anyway.

Anyway, what are your thoughts on this?

[Falconboy]

Ive looked up all the teams that are currently bowl eligible, and there are 58 teams that have at least 6 wins. (With one more team, Conneticuit, having a shot to get there if they beat Louisville on Saturday, fat chance) There are 28 bowls. This means that there will only be 2 teams that get shut out of bowls this year. Given this, Im thinking that BG's chances are pretty darn good. Here's our competition (Im assuming all the major conference teams that are eligible will make it)

C-USA - Houston (6-5), Memphis (6-5), Southern Mississippi (6-5)
Mountain West - BYU (6-5), New Mexico (6-5), Colorado State (6-5), Utah (6-5)
Sun-Belt - Louisiana-Lafayette (6-5)
WAC - Louisiana Tech (6-4)
MAC - Akron (6-5), Central Michigan (6-5), Miami (7-4), Western Mich (7-4)

If Akron loses the MAC title game, we have it made, because Akron will get snubbed, and so will Louisiana-Lafayette. We wouldnt even need to beat out BYU, New Mexico, or Houston to get there. Those are all teams that I feel we are better than anyway.

Anyway, what are your thoughts on this?

Listen to me very carefully. WE ARE NOT GOING TO A BOWL PERIOD!
We had our chance and blew it and thats all there is too it. Sorry to rag on ya but no amount of deciphering a ton of stats on other teams is going to give us a bowl bid with or without an Akron loss and they will lose.

[BGGrad01]

I don't know where you got 58 eligible. There are 64 eligible (including 2 Sun Belt teams) and UConn can still get eligible. 5 MAC teams will be left out, 1 from the Sun Belt, 1 from CUSA, and probably 1 from the WAC.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/standings

[jerzyboy247]

you can have more than bowl tie-ins with conferences. I think four teams will represent the MAC this year and I am iffy about BG's chances. Keep in mind that bowls are headed by committees and losing Omar for basically three games will be a factor.

[transfer2BGSU]

I think your wrong there jerzeyboy, but if you are right - '87 and Flipper will eat a bug.

[1987alum]

I think your wrong there jerzeyboy, but if you are right - '87 and Flipper will eat a bug.

[irs]

There are 64 bowl eligible (possible Connecticut for 65 but they have to pley Louisville). See ESPN link:
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=2200571

Look at ESPN bowl prediction:
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=2194032

The 8 being left out of the 56 bowl slots are:

WAC - Louisiana Tech
Sun Belt - Louisiana-Lafayette
Mountain West - New Mexico
Mid-American - Akron, Bowling Green, Central Michigan, Miami, and Western Michigan

Looking at who they having going who also have 6-5 reocrds they all deserve it more than BG:

ACC: NC State and Virginia
Big 12: Kansas and Missouri (both bowl tie-ins)
Conference USA: Houston, Memphis, and Southern Miss (2 of 3 bowl tie-ins)
Mountain West: BYU, Colorado State, and Utah (2 of 3 bowl tie-ins)
Pac-10: Arizona State (bowl tie-in)
Sun Belt - Arkansas State (bowl tie-in)

There is no chance that BG will go as there are two teams in MAC with better records (Miami and Western Michigan) with Western having beaten BG.

We are graduates of BGSU and attended all home games and 3 away (Boise, Wisconsin, and Ball State). BG does not deserve to go to a Bowl game this year.

[JWEIII]

C-USA - Houston (6-5), Memphis (6-5), Southern Mississippi (6-5)
Mountain West - BYU (6-5), New Mexico (6-5), Colorado State (6-5), Utah (6-5)
Sun-Belt - Louisiana-Lafayette (6-5)
WAC - Louisiana Tech (6-4)
MAC - Akron (6-5), Central Michigan (6-5), Miami (7-4), Western Mich (7-4)

BG/Omar are very entertaining to watch. But, as most of us have been saying, bowls are about CASH! BG just won't sell tickets. Although I don't have time to do the research (get on it '87), I would be willing to bet 10 of the 13 teams you identified had better home attendance than us (although I don't know if I would eat a bug). And it would probably be 12 of 13 but for Hurricane Katrina (we out drew Akron, right?).

I could be wrong, but again, BG can't get anyone to come to games IN Bowling Green, let alone travel to a bowl game. Anyone....

[JohnnySwoop '85]

On behalf of some of the faithful, I resent that last remark!

Detroit, Athens, Mobile Alabama, and Buffalo, NY are some of the whistle stops in the past two years and that doesn't count every home game...and some others have ventured to some even more obscure outposts across the greater midwest and beyond the plain states (Boise).

[BGGrad01]

I think our fan support on the road is up there with the best in the MAC. Our true fans are pretty hardcore. We struggle with the townies that are only mildly interested in the team. Thus, home attendance is generally pretty lousy. Our road attendance, however, is pretty good when you combine the diehards with the number of parents and family members that attend.

[jerzyboy247]

I have a thread that has BG playing Memphis in the Motor City Bowl. Yep, and remember the MAC Champ does not necessarily has the automatic bowl bid because you must be invited to a bowl game and a bowl committee can turn down a mac champion if they want to. I see this prediction kind of funny because they only list two MAC schools and the other school is Toldeo and I can see a few other teams slipping into the post season like WMU and NIU.

[jerzyboy247]

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/ ... /bowls.htm

[JWEIII]

Please don't be offended. I am not knocking the diehards. BG has a great and loyal fan BASE.

But the bowls are going to look at attendance/ticket sales before they look at football merit. And our attendance is, well, bad. That is not an attack on anyone, that's just the way it is.

[BGGrad01]

I have a thread that has BG playing Memphis in the Motor City Bowl. Yep, and remember the MAC Champ does not necessarily has the automatic bowl bid because you must be invited to a bowl game and a bowl committee can turn down a mac champion if they want to. I see this prediction kind of funny because they only list two MAC schools and the other school is Toldeo and I can see a few other teams slipping into the post season like WMU and NIU.

I believe the Motor City Bowl is required to take the MAC champion if the GMAC Bowl does not. Since we won't be the MAC champion, we aren't bowling.

[Spart43]

If my memory serves me right, didn't we have very good attendance at the Motor City Bowl in 2003 and also at GMAC in 2004?

I know someone on here has the figures but I thought the attendance actually improved for those bowls when we were there as opposed to the year before.