AAC bowls and our bowl prospects

[businesslawyer]

I can't wait for the headline "APR Keeps UConn Out of Bowl Game"

Just more incentive to make sure we win another game.

 

[AACREIGNS]

The AAC bowls are already mediocre but what's even worse is most are played at noon or 11AM on a weekday. If I was UConn and you win one of your last two I'd be lobbying for that Hawaii bowl.

 

[HuskiesFan1014]

The AAC bowls are already mediocre but what's even worse is most are played at noon or 11AM on a weekday. If I was UConn and you win one of your last two I'd be lobbying for that Hawaii bowl.

ummm...you're not UConn. You're a douchey troll. Your own forum must be really boring for you to be trolling here during a bye week. Get a job, kid.

 

[SAMCRO]

Here's the latest from Wikipedia...

Number of bowl berths available: 80
Number of bowl-eligible teams: 62
Bowl-eligible teams

• ACC (8): Clemson, Duke, Florida State, Louisville, Miami, North Carolina, NC State, Pittsburgh
• The American (6): Cincinnati, Houston, Memphis, Navy, South Florida, Temple
• Big Ten (7): Iowa, Michigan, Michigan State, Northwestern, Ohio State, Penn State, Wisconsin
• Big 12 (5): Baylor, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, TCU, Texas Tech
• Conference USA (4): Louisiana Tech, Marshall, Southern Miss, Western Kentucky
• Independents (2): BYU, Notre Dame
• MAC (5): Bowling Green, Northern Illinois, Ohio, Toledo, Western Michigan
• Mountain West (5): Air Force, Boise State, Nevada, New Mexico, San Diego State
• Pac-12 (8): Arizona, California, Oregon, Stanford, UCLA, USC, Utah, Washington State
• SEC (9): Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, LSU, Mississippi State, Ole Miss, Tennessee, Texas A&M
• Sun Belt (3): Appalachian State, Arkansas State, Georgia Southern

Teams one win away from bowl eligibility

• The American (2): Connecticut, Tulsa
• ACC (1): Virginia Tech
• Big Ten (2): Illinois, Nebraska
• Big 12 (1): West Virginia
• Conference USA (3): FIU, Middle Tennessee, Old Dominion
• MAC (3): Akron, Buffalo, Central Michigan
• Mountain West (2): Colorado State,Utah State
• Pac-12 (1): Arizona State
• SEC (2): Auburn, Missouri
• Sun Belt (1): South Alabama

Number of teams one win from bowl eligibility: 18

Teams one loss away from bowl ineligibility

• The American (1): East Carolina
• ACC (0):
• Big Ten (3): Indiana, Minnesota, Nebraska
• Big 12 (2): Kansas State, Texas
• Conference USA (3): FIU, Rice, UTEP
• Mountain West (1): San Jose State
• Pac-12 (1): Washington
• SEC (2): Kentucky, Vanderbilt
• Sun Belt (1): Georgia State

Number of teams one loss from bowl ineligibility: 14

Bowl-ineligible teams

• The American (3): SMU, Tulane, UCF
• ACC (5): Boston College, Georgia Tech, Syracuse, Virginia, Wake Forest
• Big Ten (3): Maryland, Purdue, Rutgers
• Big 12 (2): Iowa State, Kansas
• Conference USA (4): Charlotte, Florida Atlantic, North Texas, UTSA
• Independent (1): Army
• MAC (5): Ball State, Eastern Michigan, Kent State, Miami (OH), UMass
• Mountain West (4): Fresno State, Hawaii, UNLV, Wyoming
• Pac-12 (2): Colorado, Oregon State
• SEC (1): South Carolina
• Sun Belt (5): Idaho, Louisiana-Monroe, New Mexico State, Texas State, Troy

Number of bowl-ineligible teams: 35

Note: Being bowl-ineligible does not, in itself, exclude a team from the chance to play in a bowl game. Tiebreaker procedures based on a school's Academic Progress Rate (APR) would allow for the possibility of 5–7 teams to play in bowl games if not enough teams qualify to fill all 80 spots with at least a 6–6 record.

Note: There are 128 teams in FBS.

 

[SAMCRO]

Updated APR rankings with teams that could still end up 5-7 that are ahead of UConn in APR.

Utah State 985 (5-4)
Vanderbilt 983 (4-6)
Indiana 977 (4-6)
Washington 977 (4-6)
VT 977 (5-5)
Kansas State 976 (3-6)
Missouri 976 (5-5)
San Jose State 975 (4-6)
Minnesota 975 (4-6)
Middle Tennessee State 973 (5-5)
Rice 973 (4-6)
Illinois 973 (5-5)
Auburn 968 (5-5)
UConn 960 (5-5)

 

[Slasher]

Very interesting article from ESPN -- NCAA and no one else knows how they're going to place the 5-7 teams into bowl games.

http://espn.go.com/blog/ncfnation/p...ols-bowls-not-sure-how-to-deal-with-5-7-teams

 

[Confident Carl]

Can Cincy and USF both lose their game?

I always forget about Tulsa because we haven't played them. 2 games AT Tulane and haven't played Tulsa yet. Way to go AAC.

and both away games at that!

 

[businesslawyer]

Very interesting article from ESPN -- NCAA and no one else knows how they're going to place the 5-7 teams into bowl games.

http://espn.go.com/blog/ncfnation/p...ols-bowls-not-sure-how-to-deal-with-5-7-teams

1. Even for the NCAA, this level of incompetence is beyond funny. And pathetic.

2. We need to take care of business and get to 6, but if we end on 5 it is very unlikely that one of the American's Bowls won't need a 5 win team. And it's likely that the Pinstripe will also.

 

[Jimdish255]

Updated APR rankings with teams that could still end up 5-7 that are ahead of UConn in APR.

Utah State 985 (5-4)
Vanderbilt 983 (4-6)
Indiana 977 (4-6)
Washington 977 (4-6)
VT 977 (5-5)
Kansas State 976 (3-6)
Missouri 976 (5-5)
San Jose State 975 (4-6)
Minnesota 975 (4-6)
Middle Tennessee State 973 (5-5)
Rice 973 (4-6)
Illinois 973 (5-5)
Auburn 968 (5-5)
UConn 960 (5-5)

I think the NCAA has spotted a couple of problems with this list.

 

[pepband99]

BUMP!!!

 

[warbler1055]

SAMCRO, please notice that we are now 6-5 and potentially 7-5. Where do you think we go bowling?