(10-25-2013 10:10 PM)CollegeCard Wrote:  

(10-25-2013 08:30 PM)oakland steve Wrote:  We hate Loserville but they earned the ACC invite, throwing us under the bus in 03 most likely cost us our chance but it was RC's job to get us in not Jurich.

That's half right. It was RC's job to advance Memphis. It was also his failure that was to blame on not being selected in 2003. Anyone in Memphis placing that blame on UofL should look to an AD's office much closer to home that treated football as the red-headed step child at the time.

True. We didn't start coming to our senses about this until 2008, and putting big money into football until 2010-11.

(10-25-2013 09:57 AM)CougarRed Wrote:  So the Pinstripe picks 7th (or 8th if the Big 12 gets an at-large BCS bid).

Currently, here are the Big 12 standings:

Tech 7-0
Baylor 6-0
Oklahoma 6-1
Okla St 5-1
Texas 4-2

TCU 3-4
West Va 3-4
Kansas St 2-4
Kansas 2-4
Iowa St 1-5

The Big 12 might get 6 bowl teams. It's highly unlikely they get 7.

To update after yesterday's action:

OU moved to 10th in the BCS with the win over Texas Tech, but I still doubt they get 2 BCS bids. Even if we assume they get a single BCS bid, I'd say it's still less than 50% that the league fills the Pinstripe.

Bowl eligible: Baylor, OU, Texas Tech, Ok St [Texas at 5-2 is a near lock]

No one is ineligible yet, but 1-6 ISU and 2-5 KU need a miracle. That means to fill the Pinstripe, the Big 12 needs 2 of these 3 to make 6-6:

3-4 KSU (ISU, @ TX Tech, TCU, OU, @ KU)
3-5 WVU (@ TCU, TX, @ KU, ISU)
3-5 TCU (WVU, @ ISU, @ KSU, Baylor)

They're probably all projected in the 5-7/6-6 range. If the spot is left empty and filled by Notre Dame, great for an AAC team. If it's filled by anyone else, probably bad news in terms of interest in the opponent.

The MAC will have available teams.

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