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11-03-2007, 07:30 PM
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Re: OMG the Hoosiers are going to a bowl!
Can someone tell me who was the last team to be bowl eligible and not get invited to play in a Bowl game?
I think I might quit sports if Indiana finises bowl eligible and gets left out of the bowl picture. 
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#3
11-03-2007, 07:46 PM
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Re: OMG the Hoosiers are going to a bowl!
beatpurdue - there are usually a couple of 6 win teams every year that don't get invited. They are usually from the MAC or Sun Belt though but also a couple of BCS teams too.
Kent State, Arkansas State, ULL, SMU, PITT and Kansas last year were all 6-6 and all got left out. Edit - Wyoming, Arizona and Washington State were all eligible and didn't make it also. That's a lot of teams last year that were eligible and didn't get a bowl bid. I had no idea there were that many. Then there were the days when it was REALLY tough for a mid-major to get a bowl-bid if they didn't win their conference. Miami, OH went 10-1 in 1998 including an upset of #11 UNC in the opening week and their only loss coming against undefeated Marshall. But Miami got left out in the cold...while NC took their 6-5 record out to the Las Vegas Bowl. Now the MAC has 3 bowl bids so the days of a 10-1 team getting locked out have pretty much passed us by. Although the Sun Belt has only 1 bid I believe so it could still possibly happen in that conference I guess.
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#4
11-04-2007, 12:59 AM
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Re: OMG the Hoosiers are going to a bowl!
Northwestern doesn't travel well, if there are too many bowl eligible teams in the Big 10 NU will need 7 wins, which is why I was crushed they lost today. The last time NU got 6 wins in 2004 they were shut out.
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#5
11-04-2007, 01:03 AM
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Re: OMG the Hoosiers are going to a bowl!
Yes, I agree NW is likely to get left out if they only get 6 wins because there will probably be more attractive 6 win teams from the SEC to fill up any at-large type bids that might be left-over if CUSA and other don't fill their obligation.
In fact, it wouldn't completely surprise me to see them somehow get passed up for a 6 win SEC team even if NW got 7 wins.
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#6
11-04-2007, 01:43 AM
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Re: OMG the Hoosiers are going to a bowl!
[ QUOTE ]
Can someone tell me who was the last team to be bowl eligible and not get invited to play in a Bowl game? I think I might quit sports if Indiana finises bowl eligible and gets left out of the bowl picture. [/ QUOTE ] There is no way IU doesn't get into a bowl with their 6 wins. They should be able to roll off another one beating either NW or Purdue. Following Coach Hep's passing, I don't think anything could've been better, short of a Rose Bowl, which was obviously a freaking long shot to begin with.
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11-04-2007, 02:18 AM
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Re: OMG the Hoosiers are going to a bowl!
[ QUOTE ]
Can someone tell me who was the last team to be bowl eligible and not get invited to play in a Bowl game? I think I might quit sports if Indiana finises bowl eligible and gets left out of the bowl picture. [/ QUOTE ] I don't know who the last one was; but I do know seven or eight years ago Ole Miss finished 7-5 and didn't make a bowl because Alabama finished 6-6 and the Independence Bowl chose them because they travel well. If a 7-5 SEC team can get shafted then IU can definitely get stiffed. I'm pretty sure that the bowls that have tie-ins within the conference have preference in a certain order, at least that's the way the SEC works. That's why IU needs to be lobbying the lower tier Big 10 bowls now.
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#9
11-04-2007, 04:15 AM
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Re: OMG the Hoosiers are going to a bowl!
Indiana, Our Indiana,
Indiana, we're all for you! We will fight for the cream and crimson, For the glory of old IU Never daunted, we cannot falter In the battle, we're tried and true Indiana, Our Indiana, Indiana, we're all for you! [censored] finally, been waiting for this for a few years now. Cody
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#10
11-04-2007, 12:14 PM
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Re: OMG the Hoosiers are going to a bowl!
You guys are high if you think IU is getting left out.
Who do you think is going to fill the stands better at a random crappy bowl game? Team X: 6-5 in a 2nd/3rd teir conference and has been to 3 other toilet level bowls in the last 6 years. Indiana: Large School with a massive alumni base and the longest bowl drought in the big ten.
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