Quote:Not sure if this will come into play, but the NCAA has allowed 6-6 teams that lose their conference championship game to be bowl eligible too....that's certainly a possibility in a league like ours.
I believe that was UCLA or whomever a couple years ago or so. Due to USC not being post-season eligible, they were 6-6 going into the PAC12 champ game & lost, going 6-7 -- and they lobbied to go to a bowl game because they were 'forced' to go to the PAC12 champ game -- thus, they were allowed, to be treated as a 6-6 despite being under .500.
I believe all 6-6 teams are NOT put on a waiting list behind 7-5s or better. It's just IF they're on "the list" of teams to go. The MAC isn't affiliated with any other bowls besides the 5 that we're directly tied to. Thus, a 6th MAC team at 7-5 would only trump another 6-6 team to go to a bowl *IF* said bowl ran out of conference ties and had to look all around the country randomly. THEN and only then would the left-over 7-5 MAC team have to be chosen over, say, a 6-6 ACC/SEC/P12 team.
We shouldn't run into those problems, though. Is there really going to be *6* 7-5 teams or better this year in the MAC, where one's going to be left out? MAYBE.
Current-to-Likely-and-Possible:
- Toledo (4-3) --> 8-4/7-5 [UMass, @Kent, @NIU, BGSU, EMU]
- NIU (5-2) --> 8-4 [@EMU, @BSU, Toledo, @Ohio, @WMU]
- BGSU (5-3) --> 7-5 [@Akron, Kent, @Toledo, BSU]
- Akron (4-3) --> 7-5 [@BSU, BGSU, @Buff, UMass, @Kent]
- WMU (4-3) --> 7-5/6-6 [Ohio, @Miami, EMU, @CMU, NIU]
- CMU (4-4) --> 7-5 [@Buff, @EMU, Miami, WMU]
- Ohio (4-4) --> 6-6 [@WMU, Buff, NIU, @Miami]
If Ohio beats us, they very well may go 7-5, and us go 6-6. If we beat Ohio, we'll go 7-5 at least. So it looks like, unless Kent, BSU, Buff, and UMass start knocking people out (which may happen) -- we'll have *6* 7-5 teams.
The 6th left out could go to a bowl game IF there's a shortage of direct & in-direct conference tie-ins in other bowls *and* a shortage of 7-5 teams out there. Doubt it, though.