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McMurphy: "strong support" to change bowl eligibility to 7 wins

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They can barely get enough bowl teams with 6 wins.....I hardly doubt they'll go to 7
 
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Not sure what this means - nmost years you need 6 win teams just to fill out bowls. Does this mean a 7-5 MAC team goes ahead of a 6-6 SEC team?

Is winning 7 games really that difficult? If we are going to act like a big boy, and demand we be treated like a BCS team are we really going to advocate "protecting" our young men by scheduling Fordham on an annual basis rather than a BCS team?
 

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It means somewhere around 8-12 bowl games would be gone.
 
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This may be certain for bowl eligibility, but to get to a BCS game, strength of schedule will be key, so the whole cupcake schedule would work against that thought process.
 
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Well at least the article mentions that possibly all teams could have the extra practice time bowl eligable or not
 

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Guess who would lose their bowl tie-ins?

I don't think this happens with a 9-game conference schedule. You'd need to go 3-0 OOC and 4-5 in conference.

Plus, doesn't ESPN run a quarter of the non-BCS bowls?

I think this was put out there as a threat to stop the ridiculous ticket policies for these games.

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This idea sux.. For the true college football fan... Seems like they're trying to make college football like college basketball ( creating a play off system... akin to the field of now 68 in collge bball ) ... Sux... Keep the bowl games... It keeps the excitement alive for a school's followers... Gives them something else to look forward to once the regular season is over if that at least finish with 6 wins ( and at or over a .500 record )...
 
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Not sure what this means - nmost years you need 6 win teams just to fill out bowls. Does this mean a 7-5 MAC team goes ahead of a 6-6 SEC team?

Is winning 7 games really that difficult? If we are going to act like a big boy, and demand we be treated like a BCS team are we really going to advocate "protecting" our young men by scheduling Fordham on an annual basis rather than a BCS team?

We'll see. UConn plays Maryland & NC State next season. Let's see if they can improve on their record against ACC teams not named Duke. Then maybe we'll know.
 

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You might as we call this the grumpy old man rule. "Back in my day bowls use to me something! Now get off my lawn!!" *shakes fist*

Just let the kids play. It's just silly.
 
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I would be all for getting rid of some of the bowls and making the bowls mean something, and I am far from a grumpy old man. If we want to celebrate mediocrity (6-6) that is kind of sad.
 
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